Nastjenka races barefoot across the crags of the Scarlet Vale. Among those she targets in the near distance are young members of her own Riscernos family. The trials of adulthood are utterly ruthless, as every nine out of ten come to meet their end. Beyond the weak and inadequate, there are those cowardly few who seek refuge, trying to cheat their way to survival. Their final moments are punctuated mercilessly by this arbiter.
For eighty years, Nastjenka has served as the family arbiter. An enormous scythe at her side, she carries out her acts ruthlessly, without mercy. When it comes to the Riscernos' tempering of the flesh and their pursuit, she cannot be bested within the Vale. Nastjenka is as strict with herself as she is with her kin.
Nastjenka seldom steps into the outer world at large, for her role in the trials of adulthood and other family matters keep her occupied. The arbiter resides alone atop the Scarlet Vale crags, leading an ascetic life. The secular world is one far removed from Nastjenka. All that pursuit of truth swells within her heart. Too many has she seen, even her own flesh and blood among them, pass away in pursuit of the truth.