Nëa the Dancer
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:55 am
First Name: Nëa (a name she gave herself)
Last Name: She doesn't know.
Appearance:
Race: Moon elf
Age: 109
Height 5ft
Weight: 97lbs
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Long and silvery white
Facial Hair Style: None
Personality Profile:
General Health: Healthy and athletic.
Deity: Eilistraee, but also worships Corellon and most of the rest of the Seldarine, and won't admit to worshipping Eilistraee to anyone she doesn't trust fully.
Initial Alignment: Chaotic Good
Profession: Dancer
Base Class & Proposed Development: Fighter4/Rogue6/Whirling Dervish10/Shadowdancer10
Habits/Hobbies: Dancing, staring at the moon, she gets easily fascinated by everything she hasn't seen before and so might stare at things for a while before realizing what she's doing.
Languages: Common and Elven (two more pending approval of this bio)
Weapon of Choice: Two short swords.
Background:
Nëa's parents were elves living in an elven village in a forest of the Dalelands. When Nëa was just seven years old, the village was raided by drow of Lolth at night, and her parents were killed. She never saw any of the attackers, except for some symbols of spiders and the holy symbol of Lolth that were lying on the ground after the raid. With her somewhat natural talent for hiding and staying quiet, she had hidden as her parents told her to and with all the noise and screaming around her, she was so terrified that despite her curiosity, she dared not look out of her hiding place.
Some hours later, when the noise had gone and the sun was starting to rise, she finally got out of her hiding place and found her parents killed on the ground. She sat there crying for hours until a priestess of Eilistraee looking for survivors she could help, as a way of atoning for her kins' actions, found her. Nëa, having no idea what a drow was, but having seen wood elves and wild elves, just saw an elf with darker skin than her own and trusted the priestess as she was carried away to safety by her. She is still traumatized by these events.
The priestess took Nëa to an Eilistraeen sanctuary in the Underdark. There she was taught about Eilistraee and the Seldarine, as well as dancing. She often joined the priestesses to dance in the moonlight and even after such occasions, she spent a lot of time practicing dancing on her own. She was also taught about Lolth and to never expect strange drow to be Eilistraeen. The priestesses told her that even mentioning Eilistraee to other elves might cause trouble, and warned her to never do so without properly knowing the other person's views on such. They also often talked about the raids Lolthites used to go on, as a way of preparing Nëa to talk about her past and trying to spark memories. After some years, she started to remember.
Years later, the priestesses moved close to Skullport and Waterdeep. Nëa was often tasked with going up to Waterdeep on various errands for the priestesses and thus learned to sneak her way into the city without letting anyone know where she came from. Over a few years of running such errands she got more and more curious about the rest of the world. She talked with the priestesses and suggested she find an elven village somewhere to learn about her own kin and somewhere to practice her dancing.
Goals:
- Find an elven village and learn about her kin.
- Kill Lolthites.
- Find somewhere to perform and practice her dancing.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
- She still loves dancing in the moonlight.
- She seeks revenge on those who killed her parents, although she doesn't know which particular drow they were, other than that they were Lolthites.
- Becomes lost in thoughts or fascination with something new.
- She's quite uneducated about anything other than aforementioned religions, which she mostly summarizes as Eilistraee and the Seldarine are good and Lolth is bad. This doesn't mean she's stupid. She usually understands things quite easily, just lacks the knowledge.
Last Name: She doesn't know.
Appearance:
Race: Moon elf
Age: 109
Height 5ft
Weight: 97lbs
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Long and silvery white
Facial Hair Style: None
Personality Profile:
General Health: Healthy and athletic.
Deity: Eilistraee, but also worships Corellon and most of the rest of the Seldarine, and won't admit to worshipping Eilistraee to anyone she doesn't trust fully.
Initial Alignment: Chaotic Good
Profession: Dancer
Base Class & Proposed Development: Fighter4/Rogue6/Whirling Dervish10/Shadowdancer10
Habits/Hobbies: Dancing, staring at the moon, she gets easily fascinated by everything she hasn't seen before and so might stare at things for a while before realizing what she's doing.
Languages: Common and Elven (two more pending approval of this bio)
Weapon of Choice: Two short swords.
Background:
Nëa's parents were elves living in an elven village in a forest of the Dalelands. When Nëa was just seven years old, the village was raided by drow of Lolth at night, and her parents were killed. She never saw any of the attackers, except for some symbols of spiders and the holy symbol of Lolth that were lying on the ground after the raid. With her somewhat natural talent for hiding and staying quiet, she had hidden as her parents told her to and with all the noise and screaming around her, she was so terrified that despite her curiosity, she dared not look out of her hiding place.
Some hours later, when the noise had gone and the sun was starting to rise, she finally got out of her hiding place and found her parents killed on the ground. She sat there crying for hours until a priestess of Eilistraee looking for survivors she could help, as a way of atoning for her kins' actions, found her. Nëa, having no idea what a drow was, but having seen wood elves and wild elves, just saw an elf with darker skin than her own and trusted the priestess as she was carried away to safety by her. She is still traumatized by these events.
The priestess took Nëa to an Eilistraeen sanctuary in the Underdark. There she was taught about Eilistraee and the Seldarine, as well as dancing. She often joined the priestesses to dance in the moonlight and even after such occasions, she spent a lot of time practicing dancing on her own. She was also taught about Lolth and to never expect strange drow to be Eilistraeen. The priestesses told her that even mentioning Eilistraee to other elves might cause trouble, and warned her to never do so without properly knowing the other person's views on such. They also often talked about the raids Lolthites used to go on, as a way of preparing Nëa to talk about her past and trying to spark memories. After some years, she started to remember.
Years later, the priestesses moved close to Skullport and Waterdeep. Nëa was often tasked with going up to Waterdeep on various errands for the priestesses and thus learned to sneak her way into the city without letting anyone know where she came from. Over a few years of running such errands she got more and more curious about the rest of the world. She talked with the priestesses and suggested she find an elven village somewhere to learn about her own kin and somewhere to practice her dancing.
Goals:
- Find an elven village and learn about her kin.
- Kill Lolthites.
- Find somewhere to perform and practice her dancing.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
- She still loves dancing in the moonlight.
- She seeks revenge on those who killed her parents, although she doesn't know which particular drow they were, other than that they were Lolthites.
- Becomes lost in thoughts or fascination with something new.
- She's quite uneducated about anything other than aforementioned religions, which she mostly summarizes as Eilistraee and the Seldarine are good and Lolth is bad. This doesn't mean she's stupid. She usually understands things quite easily, just lacks the knowledge.