Nokama Hazelglow

Nokama Hazelglow is a Sin'dorei hedge witch with a deep affinity for nature. Her definitions of Hedge included an in depth process called the "Call" through which one develops, and uses various magics and reagents to foster a bond with creatures of the wild.

Known as "the Unhinged", Nokama seems a bit off, perhaps from excessive time spend away from civilization, though she's highly intelligent if prompted in the right direction, and her understanding of nature and magic proved an asset during House Firesong's Ghostlands Campaign and Nokama continues to work with Lord Entilzha Firesong on the vast task of restoring the tainted regions of the kingdom.

Magic & Nature
Nokama's definition of hedge is a broad one, and her description of having developed her skills mostly on her own, though among a small, reclusive coven suggest her group may be a branch of the elusive Everwarden community.

Nokama describes being "called" to a creature, and performing a ritual often impacting each of the senses, to serve as a focus, binding it to herself. She's often with a creature resembling a small ancient, claiming to have been called its seedlings by the treants of Quel'Thalas, which with Nokama works extensively in her work. Finding the seed yet unhatched, it was bound using the husk of the shell casing as a foci, with various rtuals impacting sight, sense, smell, the natural and arcane selves among the rituals performed in binding the odd Gybolg to herself.

Nokama has stated that how many creatures can be bound in this fashion is limited, though having stated the bond allows for both communication of thought and emotion, and that while strongest in close proximity, the bond is present and accessible over great range. Save a harpy bound with the feather of a Matriarch, its unclear what else if anything she has bound to herself, as the eccentric Gybolg is oft at her side, and an odd wooden mask adorns her face.

Nokama states the mask is part of Hedge tradition, though is likely something unique to the coven she was trained within, having explained a system of fostering. Troll magics may influence the use of masks, though this is uncertain.

Nokama was able to communicate with Everwarden Fandralen Sunglow in a language unintelligible to other Sin'dorei, likely the nature-based language known as Terran. Nokama refers to herself as a naturalist and hedge witch, not an Everwarden, though the reclusive nature and coven-style training of deep nature magic suggests a connection if one severed for thousands of years.

Everything Nokama wears, carries, or uses, is made from the wild, with wooden adornments, pendants and foci originate in the forests of Quel'Thalas. Nokama doesn't speak of those in her coven, and its presumed she's the only somewhat sane one remaining after the defilement of Quel'Thalas destroyed the bond with Thas'alah and with it the minds of many deeply linked to the wild heart of Quel'Thalas.

While she'd prefer to work with plants and seeds, Nokama's understanding of nature is the balance of arcane and nature Thas'alah provided, and she's moderately skilled in frost and fire magics, seeming to call to them in more of an elemental fashion. Nokama rarely channels arcane directly, and allows her magics to be guided by magic and the elements.

Activities
Nokama was unknown before the Third War, and after the restoration of the Sunwell and the launch of the House Firesong-led Ghostlands Campaign, the odd woman offered her services to the effort. Her lack of social graces and seemingly being partially absent half the time raised eyebrows, and she was not assigned a combat role, but rather worked with Veleryn Sunblossom on efforts to establish new treant colonies, and on efforts to halt or revert the plague.

Though she made few friends, Nokama's skill with herbs was apparent, with odd concoctions she brewed up saving the lives of more than one soldier infected with a necrotic element or some other tonic. A small building outside Goldenmist Village was restored to serve as Nokama's workshop, with her test gardens outside; the aroma of freshly grown plants and flowers near Nokama's small hut is a noted shift from much of the Ghostlands, and the small patch of land on which her garden sits are guarded fiercely by a colony of treants Nokama established.

After the Ghostlands Campaign, Nokama returned to her reclusive lifestyle, though she remained bound to newly established treants of the Ghostlands in a way the others were not, and likely continued her work in plague research and seed design, while nurturing the creatures and doing what she can to protect them in the harsh lands.

Nokama kept in occasional contact with Entilzha Firesong and refers to him using the old-style formality, "Patriarch". Entilzha is believed to have a renewed interest in the Ghostlands, though one focused on the support, skill, devotion, and raw numbers to do more than the small dent the grueling Ghostlands Campaign led to. Nokama has been seen recently with Entilzha, and casually described her hedge practice outside Tyr's Hand at an informal gathering. They're likely working together in the Ghostlands, though with whom or to what near term goal remains unclear.

What is clear is that Nokama shares a deep magical bond with some number of creatures, making her commitment to the Ghostlands' healing a far deeper thing than even others whom lived their whole pre-invasion lives on the now defiled lands. She shares a part of herself with the wilds, and though much about her is shrouded in mystery, her commitment to the defense of the wilds of Quel'Thalas is a fundamental part of whom she is.