The Cold Gospel - biography of Irini

[Carbondk]

So, I suppose it is finally time to make a formal bio of the old woman. She has been around for years, and also has a journal, but as for the bio facts, here goes:

First Name: Irini
Last Name: Valkyrian

Appearance: Snow-white hair, piercing colourless eyes, sleek features, slightly faerie in appearance, but twisted into a cruel and harsh version.
Race: Aasimar (Irini is originally a human, but in times past, she was infused with the divine stuff of Auril, making her a native outsider [see journal for explanation]. Auril, being an original archfae before her rise as a deity, naturally spawns faetouched (aasimars). [see the 4th ed. and the Stormstar Requiem story for the tale of Auril's original shape as the archfae Aurilandür and her rise as an evil deity]).
Age: Who knows? She appears to be perpetually in her late 20's/early 30's. But her faetouched appearance makes it hard to tell.
Height: Average
Weight: Average
Eyes: Colourless, and as piercing and cold as icicles.
Hair: The bluish-white of newly fallen snow.

Personality Profile: Please refer to the journal for more information.
General Health: Good. Irini is also impervious to all non-magical fellings of cold, due to her divine patroness.
Deity: Auril
Initial Alignment: NE
Profession: Irini is the High Hand of Ice in the Sword Coast area (highest ranking cleric). She also sometimes serves as a guide in the Cloud Peaks, since no one knows those cold mountains beter than she.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Cleric all the way
Habits/Hobbies: Has an icy personality and oftentimes treats others very coldly, just to spite them.
Languages: Common and Celestial. She only uses the latter when communing with her goddess
Weapon of Choice: Her warhammer, but mostly her wide array of deadly spells

Background: please refer to the journal.

Goals: To spread the cold gospel far into the Sword Coast area. Recruit more followers into the faith.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: Irini has already obtained the immensely powerful Codicil of White, the most holy book in Auril's faith. In it one will find all the rituals connected with Auril's faith, as well as a wide array of cold-based arcane spells.

Due to her cold nature and her even colder faith, Irini is bound to have conflicts with the druidic people - which she has had in the past - as well as priests and clerics of various churches, most notably the ones of the Triad and Lathander. Irini has a sort of mixed relationship with many of these churches. They see her as an enemy to their faiths, but they cannot outlaw her, and she has proven herself very useful to the people of the Coast in the past, no least when she aided in the siege of Bhaal's temple.

Irini has a rather strange relationship with Candlekeep. Serving there for a long time as a gate guard, and even as the Gatewarden for a time. She has had frequent contact with the bard Arivain, who in the past dwelled a time in Candlekeep.

With the new temple to Auril near Nashkel, who knows where the cold faith of Auril might spread under the icy guidance of the newly-returned High Hand of Ice?

[Gottmoerder]

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