Milna
Milna is a girl of some fourteen years from Honeyville, of the Orpal line - and so marked by the golden hair and violet eyes of an old Child-of-the-Empire bloodline. Daughter of Arlena and Mikol, she dreamed from childhood of the adventuring life, and made a derelict house at the edge of town into her hideout, fortress, and workshop - armed with a little knife she calls Sting, a blowgun that fires bee-stinger darts, and a patchwork of improvised leather.
When disaster fell upon Honeyville and its people, her mother bid her flee, and Milna alone survived, holed up in her trap-laden hideout. Over years of listening at doors she had gathered a rare store of knowledge about the great hive: that its “queen” must remain queen or be killed by her own bees, that an undying magical guardian still wards it, and the half-forgotten steps of the imprint that binds a new queen to the colony. In the end it was Milna herself who volunteered to take up that perilous crown.
Known to the party
It was the Cobalt Shadows who came to Honeyville in answer to its silence, won Milna’s trust, and helped her take up the hive’s perilous crown as its new queen.