I am very interested in meeting this wise, older woman with a "steam-powered kick."
@Tallyfire has indicate they are willing to discuss ideas about how we might introduce Saran into the story
I suggested she might become like a surrogate mother to our orphaned novice-monk Shan. Perhaps, they can meet on the road. Saran seems a person of the solid earth, and Shan, as we know, is the embodiment of "Great Earth"
But what other ideas might you all have? Should Saran first meet up with a different character? Who? And how?
Let's brainstorm