Boti

Boti

Also known as	The Timeless Bard
Affiliation	The Merry Bunch
People	Goblin
Patron	The dragon Ko Arto

Boti is a goblin bard of The Merry Bunch - the Timeless Bard, kept young across a century by a dragon’s blessing, and the grandmother of the group.

Biography

Born small and quiet, probably in Ostagaria, Boti was smuggled as an infant onto a trading caravan and raised among its workers - never quite one of them, the goblin stowaway. Her one true possession was a humble wooden flute from the market in Haymerkate, crafted by the famed Molinda Timber of the Cinder Wolves. When the great cobalt dragon Ko Arto burned down the caravan, he spared Boti for the somber requiem she played him, and took her to his lair as his bard, teaching her letters, magic, history, and craft. He became the truest parent she had known - and when he sickened beyond any cure, he refused her comfort and instead commanded her to go and live, granting her, sixty years past, a dragon’s agelessness. She left him to his kobold worshippers and set out as the Timeless Bard.

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See Also

• The Merry Bunch
• Ko Arto - the dragon who blessed her · Goblin

Sources & Attribution

• Primary lore: content/NPC/The Merry Bunch.md (moved to content/private/_originals/NPC/), author TrueMichato.