Seraphina Saphiremoon - Looking for Luck
"Luck is not only random. Sometimes you have to fight for it. I do with my magic!", Seraphina herself.
"Luck is not only random. Sometimes you have to fight for it. I do with my magic!", Seraphina herself.
Appearance
A young woman enters your sight field. A slender and willowy figure of 1,70. Which doesn't harm her charisma though. She is a beautyful sight to those who look at her.
Thick nut-brown hair is tied to a complicated bun, but some loose waves are falling around her face openly. Her slightly pointed ears peek through, part a of elven heritage. Sky blue eyes look intothe world brightly. The face they adorn, has a light coppery coloring. Some freckles cover her nose and high cheek bones.
A very sensual scent of Tuberose, Sandalwood and Vanilla accompanies her.
She mostly wears robes and light clothes of fine quality, but no spellbook with her. A weird combination of a sword or staff or both is often carried on her back instead. She also owns quite a collection of pockets and little bags, hanging on her belt.
A silver coins is worn around her neck and always well polished.
Race: Half-elf
Age: 28
Height: 1m70
Weight: 56 kg
Eyes: Sky blue
Hair: nut brown
Hair Style: finely cared, often tied up
Skin: light coppery, rosy touch
General Health:Slender and willowy, still female.
Deity: Tymora
Initial Alignment: neutral good
Profession: Freelance magical support, always searching for adventures.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Sorcerer
Habits/Hobbies: Often wears blue or violet clothes, also a burgundy red is welcome.
Languages: common, elven, draconic
Relationships: A mystery
Best characteristics: relieable, loyal, proud
Worst characteristics: sceptical, proud
Goals:
Nothing much is to say yet about the young half-elf. Seraphina's first goal is to keep an eye on the right use of magic in these lands. Whatever this means, one would have to ask herself. She is often seen around the Friendly arm Inn, searching for adverntures.
Weapon of choice: Longsword & staff
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
Seraphina is interested in everything that has to do with magic and every chance to pratcise her magical abilities as long as it doesn't object her faith or harms innocents. Everything else...time will tell.
Background
Seraphina was born in Waterdeep, her parents Iluin and Alastair, both half-elves always have been aware of their mixed heritage and what it means not to belong to both races really. As former adventurers they had their experiences with racism and prejudice on their journeys to some places. So they taught their son Baelir and daughter Seraphina that it's nothing bad or dangerous. They could even combine the best of both inside themselves, from the human and elven parts. Appropriate as it was, they grew up bilingual and with the knowlegde of elven and human deities, they could give them on their way.
A good part of their education also was good manners and ethics as well. Still they had saves many coins to grant their children a better life than they had. They never lacked of anything they needed, never knew hate or hungery or poverty. But still they learned that there are other people who don't have such a good life. Never beeing alone was the best teacher for them to be considerate of others, also to assert oneself if it needs to be.
Whilst her brother chose to join the city watch, serving Helm, Seraphina was born with the gift of arcane magic. In that young age it often comes to a first outbreak if strong feelings awake.
How magic found its way
The only 14 year old girl stood admist all the smoke, curtains and clothes and other fabrics in her room burned or singed. Only ashes left just like something else she thought could last forever. They wanted it, from the first moment till the end, with everything that belongs to it. He was handsome and charming and in his way good to her. He had that rogueish twinkle in his eyes that had drawn her to him.
That young man was well, a little dubious, but as young girl often hink, she believed she could change him for the better. But she couldn't. His name was Melchior and he was part of some thieves gang. She knew it, but she believed when he told her he would end that life for her. It seemd to work out, he had looked at a house in town even...
... if there wouldn't have been Izanja, she was the leader of his gang, some thieves gang as it later turned out. He told her that she felt something for him but he would just use that for their advantage. The young half-elf believed it, because if beeing young and in life also sometimes meand beeing naiive. But the tables had turned one day. It seemed his leader could convince him, to give Seraphina up or she would die. There were people in the underground, who wouldn't like to see him together with her.
So she stood there, his words still like an echo in her mind:
"I can't be with you love, it's too dangerous. Either i have to end this or they will kill you. i'm sorry..."
Sorry for what? For having stolen her heart? For making promises he didn't keep? For having destroyed her self-confidence. The first cut is the deepest, they say. And so the strong painful feelings she felt, also caused a first greater outbreak of magic. She didn't know where the flames in her hands came from. That way it often happens with young sorcerers who discover their magic for the first time. Strong feelings are often part of letting the magic in their blood find its way. With Seraphina the magic simply came from her elven heritage.
Only her mother Iluin, also a half-elf could reach her. She knew immediately what happend to her daughter. She knew how hard it was for her when she was at her age. Beeing afraid of oneself, not knowing how to control those things. That was another part of the terrible feelings also Seraphina felt now.
Her mother could help her, reassure her and tell her that other mothers have handsome sons, too. But they were not him, not the first man she ever loved. Her mothers voice and careful hands could calm her down, but not yet make her forget. Her thoughts and feelings lingered where they shouldn't but she was too young and her will not yet strong enough to get through this heartbreak alone. Too young to judge really, what is right or wrong.
So they also looked for a way to push her into another, better direction together with her father. He trusted his wife, as she was the spellcaster in the family and had experienced the same in her younger years.
Luckily her mother could help with her experience. She could teach her part of what she had to know. She should learn what she can and also should do with her new powers or what not. Everything still felt unreal and her heart refused to believe it. But her mind slowly remembered. Emotion and logic, two things that her elven ancestors often have to deal with. Heart and mind standing against eachother at times.
The following years, she had more relationships, but was not very lucky at finding the right one that lasted. The young half-elf had enough of the heartbreaks for now. So she decided for herself to concentrate on learning, to not let anyone get so close to her again so soon. She could as a young sorceres best learn from experience. Also she wanted to see something of the world. So she joined some adventurers on their journeys.
Her parents always left the decision to her, which deity to follow, trusting it wouldn't be a bad one. As many adventurers do, she came to follow Tymora. She learned for herself, that luck is not only random. Tymora also helps those who help thenselves - and Seraphina did. Then one day she parted ways whit her adventuring group, just wanting to gather new experiences on her own. She stood in front of the friendly arms inn and thought "If i would be lucky here? Tymora will know!"
She took bad experiences with her and has grown very careful, not to let certain things happen again.
So those who might think she is a spoiled little girl, would be mistaken...
