Madora

Madora is a terrible listener. This single fact explains the bamboo, the scar, and the salmon. Tasked with delivering rare bamboo shoots to a reclusive wizard in a fortress of midnight-dark rock, they were promised a 'salm-on-the-stone' as payment. Madora, seeing the wizard's lunch—a large fish resting on a stone platter—assumed this was the eccentric reward and cheerfully took it. The scar came from a rogue levitation experiment on the way out, an incident they barely noticed. These days, Madora explores the highlands with a fish on their head, convinced it's a secret sign of trust among the local mages. The wizards are too baffled to correct them, and Madora has never been happier.