Satara Hawk
Singing Mountain Ma'tra
Name: Nadie, Herd Mother of the Singing Mountain Clan rancors
Loyalties: Satara Hawk, Singing Mountain Clan (Witches of Dathomir)
Role: Satara Hawk's companion & Herd mother
Development Threads:
- The Game of Life (Nadie plays babysitter to little Elayne)
- A Wrong Days Journey into Right (Nadie acts as a bodyguard to the young Witches)
- No Place Like Home (Pg2, Satara explains her origins)
- A Journey has to start someplace (Nadie and Satara attended Aston's trial by Fire)
- Nadie makes an appearance in additional threads but mostly small mentions of her here and there
Species: Gnarled rancor
Force-Sensitive: No
Appearance: Nadie is eight meters tall, with a mass at about 2,640 kilograms with a light brown skin covering her entire body.
Personality: For a rancor, Nadie is incredibly calm but who also lets out occasional growls with strangers to warn them of her presence when one of the ones she protects are around. Generally, those she is closest to, starting with Satara, she is a gently creature despite her massive size and seemingly terrifying outlook. She takes some time to warming to a person, even someone from a clan but once she accepts a human, she will protect them to end. If someone was to lose her trust, gaining it back would be almost impossible.
Weapon of Choice: Long claws and teeth
Wealth: N/A
Combat Function: General combat function of Nadie is that of a transport and protection. She has the strength, claws and teeth and even loud roar to be combat ready but she will never attack first and without cause. She is a Semi-Sentinent and can understand humanoids to a degree even if most can't understand her and therefor can be reasoned with. In rare situation, if her herd (which includes her rancors and humans of the Clan) is in danger, she can be lethal and even kill.
Notable Possessions: N/A
Other Notes: Nadie is the herd mother of the Singing Mountain Clan rancors. This means that she is the leader of all rancors in her territory and protector of them and the members of her clan. Her first loyalty is always towards Satara to whom she shares a bond and in human terms described, her own offspring and apprentices are that of nieces and nephews.
Many decades ago, Satara bonded with a male rancor who was a member of the clan's herd and when that rancor found his mate and Nadie was born, he died and left the two females on their own. They weren't part of the clan. Satara kept an eye on the two though kept her distance since they outsiders and not trusting towards her. But when a Bull Rancor killed Nadie's mother, Satara reached out to her and earned her trust the hard way. After that, Satara ensured the clan accepted Nadie as one of their own which involved a lot of chanting and actually communicating with the herd through their minds. Years later, when Nadie was strong enough, she fought the then herd mother for the position she now holds and came out victorious.
As herd mother, Nadie is leader to all the rancors of the clan and as such interacts more with other Witches than the younglings. As such, she works closer with the Clan Mother and the clan's council, especially during Trials of the Witches which require the use of rancors.
