Althaia Leto

"It's scary, isn't it? An incredibly frightening thing it is, to brace for the unforeseen and the unknown. But as does the sun trek across the skies, so must we forward, lest we risk our spark drowned by our fears."

Althaia Leto (better recognized as simply Leto), the founder and former owner of The Matron's Rest, is an herbalist by trade and the assigned mascot of the Adventurer's Guild under Yamaoka Fukuda.

After surviving a deadly struggle against her fated aetheric decomposition, Althaia made for a sudden and miraculous recovery that had taxed her with inexplicable amnesia.

Biography
Althaia is the only child of Wihmo'ya Nheli and S'sisne Duyah. Being blessed from birth with an etherial beauty adorned with features a rarity to be found within the lands of Thavnair, Althaia grew pampered and self-centered with nary a voice of reason to mend her increasing egocentrism.

Life before Eorzea
Not much is known about Althaia's childhood or time before her eventual arrival on Eorzean soil, save for the precious few information she had shared with friends prior to her amnesia: Althaia, the name itself having been granted by her then-husband back in their homeland of Thavnair, hinted of her forcible isolation prior to meeting the man, the process of which had rendered her both homeless and without family.

It was shared that the couple eventually sailed for Eorzea to find Althaia a new life, though the details behind Zirnblaet's sudden disappearance from her chapter is unknown.

Founding of The Matron's Rest
After years of meticulous saving, Althaia purchased a small run-down inn in the heart of the Goblet that she had later repurposed into an adventurer's guild.

Though business boomed at start and its members inseparable, The Matron's Rest soon faced hardships in the form of many ill-fated tragedies and financial shortcomings, forcing its doors shut for good... if not for the intervention from a most unlikely investor. Now bedridden from a mysterious illness, Althaia signed over the ownership of the guild to the stranger from foreign lands in her last ditch hopes to protect the few adventurers that remained under its banner.

Passing of the Torch
Her condition having taken a turn for the absolute worst, Althaia awoke after long months of slumber under the care of Doman physicians employed by the new owner of The Matron's Rest, Yamaoka Fukuda, the information of which she could not remember, alongside any lucid memories of the years past.

Now assigned the mascot by the new owner, Althaia works hard to provide good food and smiles for the ever growing ranks of the adventurer's guild.

Trivia

 * Althaia's name is derived from Althaea, which is the Latin rendering of Greek Ἀλθαία Althaia, which may be related to Greek ἀλθος althos "healing".