Race:Moonelf
Initial Alginment:Chaotic good
Profession: Wandering Bard, and adventurer, also partime merchant.
Habits/Hobbies Performing, writing, dancing, cooking, hoarding instruments and at times tales.
Deity:First and foremost Mystra, also Angharradh as the patron of Moonelves, and Erevan for the adventuring aspect.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Use your imagination.
Mentality:
"Music is Mystery. Each song and Bard has their own kind of magic. Fear not magic itself, only those who would use it for the wrong purpose."
Nature:
Allthough she had a little of everything in her life: Joy, love, success, pain, political intrigue, being cheated on and loss of loved ones, loyalty to friends and family has a high priority for Tiawyn. Which might explain why she sometimes disappears allof a sudden for a while. She does not just give in the typical moonelven wanderlust, no. There might be something or someone in need for her attention sometimes. Also she is very protective about those she really loves, guarding them from harm and even from themselves if needed.
Though she may not just have hatched out of the epiphanies, most elves experience at the age of a little more than a century, Tiawyn seems to be an open minded elf. She does not lock herself away from the world in elven settlements all the time. Nor does she overlook other goodly races, but still is careful yet friendly to most. But she is convinced, that it's important to have an open heart. Otherwise her folks just weaken themselves if they would be too exclusive. As typical for Moonelves, she would more so, try to bring some understanding about her folks to the short living races. Still she has some typical elven traits left with a great love of arts, artisans and beauty. A tasteless fecal joke is abhorrent to her, but a fine sense of humor is to be found.
All in all she can call a great confidence her own. She wouldn't let herself get lectured by someone younger or less experienced than her. At insults she normally reacts with humor rather than wrath. Only if someone really would hurt her, she wouldn't shy away from standing up and fight for what she believes in. If anyone gets to know her better, they may realize that this elf is above-average intelligent and not your typical bard. She merely would not let her education shine all the time. In fact she's quite well read and in certain situations she would merely use formulations such as "According to tales and telllings..." or maybe an "I heard, that...", which mirrors, that she draws much of her knowledge from that source.
Short Biography:
Loudwater is a City, where all kinds of folks live nowadays, elves, half-elves, humans and few others. Once built around part of the Ruins of Earlann, it changed in time an not elves welcomed to coming of more and more humans. Tiawyn was of those who did...and changed with that City. Her origins are colorfully mixed for an elven family. Some have been travelled to far places as moon elves would naturally do. Some have remained in Loudwater in the traditional way, like it's more typical for sun elves.
Her father is a sun elf and taught her about the trade of the family business. They trade with all kinds of magical things like wands, scrolls and other magical items. She learned from him about calculation, and how to do it in a way it still contributes to the society and helps The People. Her mother is a moon elf, and bardess, arts and a bit of diplomacy is what she got from her.
Also Tiawyn has two elder brothers who are also sun elves and only few decades older. The eldest travelled to Cormyr to remain there and expand the business. The younger one remained in Loudwater, helping to protect the poeple with magic. A „little“ sister came verylate, a pretty young moonelf. She is different and known for travelling the High Forest ever so often.
In her younger years, Tiawyn herself tried many things to see what suits her best for her way of living. She had quite some experience and partner, but from none of those relationships children ever were born. One lover died his battle against his self chosen nemesis, a male drow. Both found a tragic ending by killing each other. It took quite some time for the moon elf to recover from that severe loss.
So she had quite a life before the Sword Coast. There once was a sun elf in it, a Bladesinger. One day he disappeared and teh search remained without a result. Tiawyn came back alone.
Best characteristics: open minded, creative, unconditionally family- and friends-loyal, tolerant - for an elf.
Worst characteristics:: different - sometimes missunderstood, complete incapability to recognize authorities by their rank or title
Tiawyn can be seen wearing a light elven armor, and to be covered in solid fabrics in times of battle or adventure, that is non-restricting of her abilities.
She often wears a silver necklace with a blue rose made of saphire lamellas, along with rings and earrings with moon- and star-symbols. A little secret may be a twisted bracelett she wears around her right wrist. A tiny mosiac is held in its center. Only those who get close enough, to take a look may have a chance to recognize a blue-white star with eight spikes enclosed in a silver circle.
Over her shoulder, she sometimes keeps a bow with her, with symbols of the Seldarine carved into it, along with a few allies of theirs. On her belt, there's also Longsword of elven craftmanship, or a rapier and a mace. They're accpompanies by a few bags for trinkets, a scrollcase and a songbook. If the weapons disappear, an instrument may be seen instead. Either it's mostly a harp, made of Black wood, with silver Moonflowers, or some other stringed Instrument or a mysterious looking Horn, that has the shape of a Bellflower.
Bardess:
Despite she rarely gets to perform, she loves the stage and the mysteries, music holds. She seems to have a deep and special realtionship to her music, not everyone understands. What exactly it is, one might have to ask her. But given the time she has spent on Toril, she learned to play quite a number of instruments as well. She seems to have mastered the art of singing in battle, at times in spite of injury and pain. Up to a degree, one may still feel a reverb of it at least if close enough, to profit from the benefits it brings. Her goal: Become well known as an artist and be booked for performances.
Merchant:
Tiawyn has a travelling business, that looks like she has just stomped it out of the ground. It may be moons, up to a year ago, she might have seen adventuring and collecting many magic items, adveturerers can buy. She also offers various services along with it. But she seems to have reasons to chose well, who, where or what she trades with, or not. As in life, all has consequuences and limits. Her goal, to build up her business and make it well known,
Background:
For those who speak elven, her first name means somethign like "Magic Singer". The name of her House or family Aleaneldeth means "Traders in the Arcane". Her childhood and youth seem far in the past those who are still young. But she seems to know what hardship and crime against humanity, respectively elvenkind is. She experienced many thing in her life. She may have seen many places in the world, Kingdoms rise and Monarchs fall. Mostly she is an artist of overplaying all that she was witnessed. Still a bard can be also an actor. She would only tell more if she feels she can trust the listener.
Goals and Plot Hooks:
There's various rumors, that can be heard and infornmations, that can be gathered with a little investigation:
- She travels a lot at times. Not just at the Sword Coast, but other places as well. Sometimes she mentions "family business" as the reason for her temporary absences. Sometime she merly retreats to write a new song, tale or poem for a while. But all of a sudden, she also always comes back to where she left.
- She sometimes can be seen going in and out of the Mystran temple in Baldur's Gate. If one may wonder or dare to judge her faith in Mystra, she may openly say, that not everyone can choose who to serve. It seems she had an epiphanies, and the Mother of all Magic picked her, instead of the other way around.
- She sometimes also resides in an elven village in the North, admidst of mostly wood- and wild elves, why ever. One may ask her, why she chose so.
- She collects tales, poems and songs, that seem worthwhile to her and also writes them herself at times. Most of all, it's the true sort of tales.
- She sporadically seems to hire people, as escort to travel to dangerous places she can't reach by herself. It's a part of her appraisal services.
- She's a quite the baker and cook actually and loves it truely. If one wouldn't know better, she could be a perfect housewife.
- She also is a member of the Phoeninx Company, but hasn't visited its lodge for a time, for whatever reasons...
Also I want to avoid too much metagaming on the deeper parts and her past . Thanks for the understanding. If a DM would care to review a full version of this, please get back to me via PM. I'd be happy to obliege. 
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