If you were simply told, when advised that the Kingdom had discovered a new continent, the Temple had sent Mother Tabitha to proselytize, you might imagine Mother Tabitha as a kindly if venerable woman who had served the Temple for decades. Or you might imagine her as some old wizened shrew who the Temple was more than happy to ship off to a group of unsuspecting heathens.
Neither of these imaginings would come close to reality.
Tabitha had been born from the union of the local lord and the most attractive fille de joie in the district. She was a happy child who caught the eye of the local ecclesiastic, which allowed Tabitha to enter the local order of chaste female warriors.
By the time Tabitha was eighteen, she was the premier fighter in her chapter, earning her the right to be called Sister Tabitha.
Sister Tabitha had also blossomed into a beautiful woman, just like her mother. This in turn earned her attention of the local lord's son (who was her half-brother! Eeew!).
As a battling nun, Tabitha was off-limits to the young lordling. So the lord-in-waiting tried to use threats and bribes to get Tabitha transferred to the order of the priestesses who dealt with fertility rites, which would allow the young noble the opportunity to fertilize her.
Tabitha resisted the move, even invoking an ancient ritual which allowed her to battle her half-brother with wooden swords. Tabitha took the opportunity to beat her half-brother senseless.
The whole thing was an embarrassment to the Temple, so when the Kingdom made a request for a missionary, the Temple happily promoted now twenty-year old Tabitha to the rank of Mother and sent her on her way.
Point of fact, the Kingdom didn't need a missionary for the new continent.
There was an island halfway between Atore and the new continent. The natural features of the island made it too costly to assail, not if diplomatic measures could secure a base there. And the Kingdom needed a base on the island to explore the new continent.
So Mother Tabitha was sent to accompany the Kingdom's mission to an island whose denizens were
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