Ardulafae Oreb'le'i

[Storm Munin]

First Name: Ardulafae (Blessed Executioner)
Last Name: Oreb'le'i (Ravenkin)

Appearance:
Race: Drow
Age: about 250 yrs
Height: about 5'7"
Weight: 150 lbs
Eyes: Mistgray with an outer darkgray border.
Hair: Long stark white hair, normally carefully groomed to a shine and swept to the sides.
Facial Hair style: none

Personality Profile:
General Health: Pretty average, tempered by her divine affinity and years in the wilds.
Deity: Eilistraee, the lady of dance.
Initial alignment: Chaotic Good, not likely to change in a hurry.
Profession: Favored Soul of Eilistraee leaning towards the martial aspects of the goddess portfolio. Current matron of her ancient merchant household.
Base Class & Proposed development: Favored Soul & Warpriest
Habits & Hobbies: A tendency to socialize more by body language than with the spoken word. Does nothing to hide her divine association to the dismay of her family members who tends to have to draw steel and pick up the pieces once all is said and done. Helps any drow she thinks needs it and how she think they need it in one way or another. Her desire to find the location of ancient ilythiiri strongholds on the surface in order to explore them and if viable eventually resurrect a drow city in the realms above has dominated her rule. Thus sshamath has the pleasure of entertaining her and her entourage.
Languages: Common, drow, elven, orc, gnome, goblin
Weapon of choice: The family heirloom moonblade, occasional use of a longbow and daggers.

Goals: Her final goal is to resurrect a drow city on the surface and to that end her current goal is to research what knowledge there are in sshamath of the crown war era cities in order to pay any uncovered site a visit. To aid her in this quest her shortterm goals are to make political contacts in Sshamath and if possible use any willing drow of the city's chapter to bolster the ranks of the family in preparation for a much later exodus as a House.

Plothooks: Political manouvering, divine bickering (to the amuzement of the conclave), site exploration, knowledge questing, library raids and so on.

Background: Born by a sworddancer and raised as the heir apparent in a drow family stronghold located in one of the misty forest dales deep within the heartlands. The latter part of her formative years she spent in servitude to the lady of dance at the promenade, and the occasional excursion into the undermountain and skullport made a huge impact on how she views the world and what she believes must be done in order to save the ilythiiri. Less cuddling, more steel one might say. After that she spent years wandering the wilds of faerun searching for the lost places of the ilythiiri in the world above while discreetly and carefully making contacts with various nonpeople of the realm above. This included meeting and in the end soulbonding to her darthiir mate about a century ago and shortly thereafter the birthing of her two sons. Her firstborns birth brought her back to family stronghold and she remained in the vicinity of the stronghold until the death of her mother a few decades back when rule of the family was passed over to her after an intense but brief powerstruggle with the other side of the family tree. Recent and ongoing events concerning the family's trading and the stronghold itself has brought her to sshamath in order to learn more of the past of the people and to forge alliances and make business arrangements in the city.

House Ravenkin:
Motto: "Vel'klar udos raph, natha venoch zhah zhaunus ulu flohlu"
(Where we stride, a murder is sure to follow.)
History: The family is the remains of an ancient House who mainly hunted the wilds, curiously it was still not entirely in Lolth's fold by the time of the descent. As the ilythiiri as a whole regrouped in the underdark, the divinely torn family could not follow completely as that would inevitably have led to the destruction of the family members following the ways of Eilistraee and in the long run also the annihilation of the family entire as the remaining family could not hope to survive alone in the ensuing chaos. Thus a compact was struck when the family found a suitable location serving the needs of both the family's followers of Eilistraee and the family's servants of Lolth.
As a family can only have one matron it was decided that the rule of the family entire should go forth and back between the two faction every turn of a century and that the family members are only expected to follow the commands of the ruler in a way that does not interfere with his or hers beliefs. The precarious situation the geographic and social positioning of the family put them in also made the compact include the blood oath of not shedding blood of the family or else face eternal expulsion. The wary lawmaker should upon reading the declaration note that nothing is mentioned about death by proxy. The divinely attuned might also read something into how the compact serves the chaotic mother and daughter equally well, one being in touch with the realm above, the other gaining access to the drow of the underdark. In the intervening centuries since the descent the family hasnt exactly thrived at their stronghold, but they have endured and survived. In part this is due to the occasional trickle of adoptions of drow from the underdark and the very few darthiir and almost unheard of nonpeople accepted into the family. After all millenias is a long timeframe in the business of genealogy.

[DM RabidBadger]

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