not to be obsessive on main but i saw a recent perennialknight post tagged susannah, is this a new character in the flowerverse?
susannah is a character i'm fleshing out right now, who serves as astera's high priestess after the god takes off just a little bit. caleb is astera's first sworn paladin, but susannah is their first real religious devotee.
at first, caleb doesn't get along with susannah well at all; both of them have such enormously disparate and discordant views of astera, and it makes them clash hard. but the honest truth is that while caleb is devoted, a common and not particularly charismatic knight who was gearing up to go pledge his sword to the king wasn't a very strategic choice for a nature god to pick. obviously he means more than that to them, but objectively speaking, he was a bad choice.
so astera needs someone like susannah. they're a magic, cool-headed, diplomatic true believer who can spin the story well as it unfolds. so caleb has to accept them. astera chose them too.
susannah is also nonbinary & genderfluid, something that drew them to astera in the first place. their body shifts and changes with the flow of their magic and mood, something that caleb can grudgingly admit he admires after he figures out how to stop resenting them.
basically, susannah is PR and caleb is on the front lines. and together they drag astera's story into the public consciousness (and therefore keep astera alive).
