Fisher Gesha

Fisher Gesha
General information
Path	Path of the Fishers
Rank	Truegold
Faction	Fishers Clan
First Appearance	Soulsmith - Cradle book 2
Origin	Desolate Wilds - Ashwind Continent
Family

Bio

Fisher Gesha is an old master soulsmith of the Fisher Clan. She first met Wei Shi Lindon Arelius in the Desolate Wilds in Soulsmith, book 2. Eithan employed her to join his party and become Lindon's Soulsmithing tutor. Eventually her family left the Desolate Wilds behind to join her.

Descriptions

Fisher Gesha is an ancient, miniature woman, her face a mask of wrinkles, gray hair pulled back in a tight bun. She is short and tiny. She has purple spider legs of forged madra stretched out from beneath her, raising her to ordinary height. These also serve as her drudge. She has a hooked blade of gleaming goldsteel hung on her back. She is energetic, curious, industrious despite her age, snappish, bossy, but also kind.

Because Lindon has an interest in becoming a Soulsmith, he greatly admired Fisher Gesha's skill, and asked her for work. She taught him how to produce pure madra scales, and although she acted gruffly towards him, she begrudgingly began to feel some attachment for him. When Lindon and Yerin were captured by the Long clan after an ill-conceived attempted scale heist, Fisher Gesha at first tried to coax Jai Long into releasing them, claiming that they were only children. Jai Long told her that their actions would be seen as undermining the Five Faction Alliance, Fisher Gesha ultimately chose to abandon both Yerin and Lindon to the Long clan.

Fisher Gesha is the matriarch of the Fishers, and although she is strict with her younger family members, she is extremely devoted to them. She joined Eithan's expedition to the Blackflame Empire stating that she wanted to see the world, although she had initially refused, not wanting to leave her family behind. After going ahead of them to scout the situation, Fisher Gesha decided that the Blackflame Empire held great opportunity for the Fisher clan, and the rest of her family joined her to open a Soulsmithing shop. When she gained the favor of Emperor Naru Huan, she was gifted with a box of materials that would advance her to Truegold. Not wanting power only for herself, Fisher Gesha asked if the materials in the box could be distributed to her younger family members for their advancement, upon which Emperor Naru gifted her with a second box of treasured materials for her family.

Actions

• gudgingly accepted Lindon as general dogsbody in the Desolate Wilds, at the Transcendent Ruins Labyrinth (Soulsmith)
• tutored Lindon in Soulsmithing, hired by Eithan Arelius (Blackflame)
• created a prosthetic arm for Lindon, made of hunger madra from the Ancestor’s Spear (Skysworn)
• earned the favor of Emperor Naru Huan when she constructed a bomb to defeat enemies from the Dreadgod cult Redmoon Hall (book 4, Skysworn)
• constructed a mobile soulsmith workshop in Night Wheel Valley (Underlord, ch 7)
• With help from Dross, improved Lindon's prosthetic using the Archstone, to withstand soulfire advancement (Underlord)
• created advanced munitions with help from Dross and Lindon, and by feeding Dross the House Arelius library (see Underlord)