Alchemist ❀ Pastry & Baking
Bladedancer ❀ Line Cook
Wanderer ❀ Waffle House
Scout ❀ Grandma’s Cooking
Guardian ❀ Baker
This is Jortz VanDeen. On Earth, she could get into any restaurant as a poorly-paid line or swing cook, but bad luck kept her from ever getting a permanent placing. More than one offer was broken by losing an apartment, a badly-timed illness, or the restaurant closing. So she moved from place to place, learning from the best, but never finding the next step up the ladder she desperately desired. Even on Earth, her co-workers admired her ability to take the heat, whether 10 hours at the grilling station or standing up to a harassing sous-chef with her Look of Death. On her last day on Earth, she had just gotten a new position at an up-and-coming restaurant when the delivery truck backed up too far, and she stood in front of the God of Cookery. She was reincarnated in a remote mountain village of the Skylandic tradition, on the edge of the Archipelago, where orphans of rare potential are trained as assassins to help maintain their political independence in addition to their crops of Mountain Vegetables. She came to Nonpareil to serve as her island's counselor's spy and bodyguard.