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Vanya Erudessa

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Prolog:

First Name: Vanya
Last Name: Erudessa

Appearance:
Race: wood elf
Age: 120
Height: 4' 9''
Weight: 110
Eyes: Pink
Hair: golden
Facial Hair Style: no face hair lol

Personality Profile:
General Health: scared heavily from orc bondage at wrists
Deity: Hanali Celanil ( at later time , none now )
Initial Alignment: nuet
Profession: fighter / weapon master / dw
Base Class & Proposed Development: figther, weapon master / dw
Habits/Hobbies: collects odd items ( her treasures ) such as mundane stone, odd colored forks etc
Languages:mostly orc but some elf, common, slyvan, animal
Weapon of Choice: rapier

Background:
Vanya was born in an elf village , a tiny one in theforest of wyrms set within the trees itself called tyailnya ( means peace ). She was but 7 when a warband of orcs with many shammans attacked her tiny village. Her mother leena was struck down with many arrows and died, Vanya saw this but is convinced her mother is merely sleeping. The orcs slew all the adults and took the children as slaves. They kept the slaves for menial labor and entertainment. Also when said slaves ever became sick for more then 2 days , they would be marked with eye for a feast for gruumsh.

Vanya grew up in an orc cave, never being let outside of it. She was made to prepare food, this food sometimes being other elfs, dwarfs, humans , kobolds, goblins or whatnot. They feed her dwarf feet at times not liking this part of the dwarfs. She also cleaned up refuse and orc droppings. She was beaten severely and often , mostly for sport. She only knew a few elf words and was taught a few common words by a human slave, and a few sylvan words as well by a captive pixie whos wings were cut off by the orcs. When she speaks it is often a jumble of many tongues or incomplete sentences or complete non sense as she mixs up what little words she knows at times that are not orc.

If the slaves did not work well enough or became sick for to long they were marked with a brand and a tattoo of one eye, that of gruumsh and thus marked as a feast meal for the next holy day. One day vanya became very ill, and was marked for a feast. One half orc was nice to her, a half orc orc whom had pressed relations on her. This half orc let her chains off one night before the feast and used a spell to make her invisible so that she might escape. This act was probably the only good act this half orc ever committed in his life.

After escaping she found herself on the road outside baulders gate days later and met a mean cleric who made her work for him , telling her she would be killed or hurt if she didn't obey. Being used to holy men meting out horrid punishments and an intense fear of anything holy or divine she did as bid. After a time she was let go by the evil priest. She then met Thalandon and spent a long time trying to tell him what had happened. He took pity on her and brought her to doron amar where she might be looked after and taught civil ways.

She has an intense fear of holy men and things. She now also has a moderate fear of elfs now after meeting an elf named emeron who threatened her harm after she bravely ventured into baulders gate to trade some of her special treasures such as her orange fork, a dead mouse , a dead rat , a kobold head with one eye missing, an up rooted fancy blue flower, a fancy brown stone, a red glass bead, a stolen wizard hat and a orc ear necklace she had made herself. This elf demanded she sell all her treasures to him for round yellow metal bits or she would be hurt. She is now terrified of unknown male elfs who wear any metal.

She believes people can be taken and owned as if it were a normal thing, for whatever reason they wish to own a person. She liked one half elf named Kimberly and claimed her as her very own, marking Kimberly with an eye. While vanya would most likely not try to make her new slave work she thinks she "owns" her friend kimberly, all though this "ownership" is more like a territorial friendship.

She has a taste for dwarf feet and struggles seeing dwarfs as anything other then food at times, although now through much trial with new found friends shes accepted the fact that they are not supposed to be eaten, even if still still craves their feet.

She lacks civility, and will often snarl and hiss at anything she is afraid of, which is many things and people. She is fearful of the night sky thinking the blinking stars are foul magik out to get her. Trees making noise in the wind scare her, strange animal noises such as frogs scare her.

She refers to orcs as "tusks" and not orcs as it was forbidden to the slaves to call them orcs. She at the present time still views orcs as powerful , stronger then any race or being, and considers it mere luck the orcs her friends killed around her died.

She desperately wants to learn to be better then who she is, but struggles hard trying to comprehend even simple things and customs others take for granted. She still see's herself as sub standard and refuse as the slaves were conditioned to seeing themselves as such.

Goals:
To learn , live , love , find a home to belong to and friends to love and to cherish, to protect said friends and eventually become a champion for those who need someone strong. At some point her weakness's will become her strength when she overcomes her past.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas : I have several and would welcome any DM to PM me asking me of such, i do not want to post these publicly, but i like the bio posted publicly.

Misc Facts: Is liable to trade a valuable object for something retarded like an orange fork or something sparkly even if it is worthless junk. Note she will not part with weapons or clothing. Has a penchant for eating digusting things. Has no sense of modesty or manners and is quite wild.

Friends:
Kimberly
Liasren
alcarin
Laya
celduil
tyeresse ( her brother )
thergal
eletineth
rhys
sywyn

Enemys:
( cleric who i forgot his name will update when i see him next )
Emeron the elf
slamdurol
Any orc, most half orcs.
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Vanyas doodles ( since she cant read or write she has a old tattered blank book she doodles in )

* a crude picture of a tree village set afire can be seen *

* a crude picture of a pile of moss with a girl sleeping in chains with bats flying around can be seen, along with an orc with a spear and a shammen orc *

* a crude picture of a girl tied to a stone being whiped can be seen *

* a crude drawing of a priest in a cemetary waving a mace at a girl figure can be seen. The girl figure is cowering *

* a crude picture of a girl figure flowing a priest and picking up objects can be seen *

* crude picture of a girl with elfs can be seen , with a heart over each elfs head in a prettty outdoor fest area can be seen *

* A crude picture of a elf playing a flute with 3 hearts flowing above his head can be seen with a girl elf near him also with a broken heart and a flowing tear can be seen, as well as a tiny whole heart behind the broken one can be seen *

* a crude picture of a girl in a market fair can be seen with her cowering before an elf with a bag can be seen , the bag is open and the elf is pointing to the girls wares *
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Image

Vanya's appearance.
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Vanyas doodles ( since she cant read or write she has a old tattered blank book she doodles in )

* a crude picture of a small wild elf can be seen in a crudely drawn version of doron amar , sleeping in a tent *

* a crude picture of many people marked with a black V can be seen with a elf girl atop a rock with them surrounding her *

* a crude squirrel can be seen *

* A dead man on a road with vanya waving her swords at the corpse can be seen *

* a crude picture of a dwarf can be seen giving her an object with her smiling can be seen *

* a crude picture of a forest can be seen with vanya crouched low and sneaky in it can be seen *
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* vanyas first writen words appear *

no more victim. grow past. journey far. hate what am, hate past, sad. happy to.

* she draws a few pictures as well *


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To learn . . .

Vanya met a strange man who spoke kindly to her on the road, after some difficulty's in conversing with him it was apparent her speech was off. " come we shall teach ye " with that she followed the man to a modest home and began the task of learning speech. It was hard for her and she gave up after a few days, annoyed with the chastising given to her when she would mess up, but she left 3 days later with a higher understanding of common and elven, albeit not precise or anything close to perfect, indeed her speech had improved slightly enough to not have to pantomime so much.
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The bargain. . .

Vanya heard of an old man rumored to have gifts, gifts with a cost. After some time she found this old man and begged to be given the gift of comprehension and to lessen her horrid scars, she was sick of being taunted for speaking mostly orc and looked at with disgust by so many that nearly any cost she would pay. She didnt exactly know what she was agreeing to just that this man offered what she desired above all else.

She agreed to pay the price, and the price was high but she knows it not yet. The man put her into a coma for 1 day, when she awoke she awoke with no scars save those around her wrists, and a good understanding of elven speech and writing. The old man left a glowing mark on her to symbolize the pact forged with blood magic and true name magic to make the changes happen.


However the cost of this is yet to be seen, but it is coming weather she likes it or not. Who can say what the toll will be except when the time comes to anty up.


(( charisma is no longer in the red or negative :)
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Love Lorn & A New Seed . . .

*Vanya sat alone on the shore looking over a cliff. Sad and alone this elf sat thinking about life and the roads she has walked. *

" all I've known is a huge pool of empty, black hollowness. I am dusk, I am twilight, neither light nor dark but forever in the realm between the two it seems. I hate this life. Like a crevice in the ground near where children Play I catch a glimpse of the sun through the cracks but can never touch a single ray, for the sun doth not shine in this place, for I am the forsaken "

* She sat more and thought of her time among the Orcs. Of her own sister left behind in that horrid place, at her shame for leaving her behind, for Vanya was dying as it was and the Orc who freed her could not free both. She grimaced at her own cowardice. She thought to herself she should have choose to face the fate the gods had deemed her to face, to be an Orc's feast rather then live with the guilt of escaping and surviving when others of her kin languish in that deep dark place. *

" next time I am faced with such a choice I will not cave for my own sake "

* She thought then of Liasrens wedding. How she will never experience that which those two had, love. Such a thing is alien to her, eludes her, taunts her, escapes her, weighs her down. She then thought of the one she likes much *

" I must be content to just love my people and realize I am not like them and stay my course, I am the lone wolf, the huntress in the night, the blade ready to strike down those who would hurt those I love and who would kill love and all things good, sometimes that which is broken is needed to fight that which the universe deems broken "

* grimaces *

" love has no place for myself save the love I have for my people, though outsider forever may I be, apart from their ways, their state of grace they are my kin, my love flows though none see, but that which is most percious remains unseen by most. "

* nods to herself *

" Tis better that way "

* With that she looked once more to the sea and the stars, the cold crisp air bothered her not, in fact she welcomed the cold as a welcome relief to the fires that burn within, beneath the surface, beneath the facade she wears among others. With the cold she imagines wrapping herself in it like fine armor, and the ice of the cold night becomes her sword. *

" Tis better this way "

* With that she welcomes the cold and it starts to become part of her. Alone as usual she heads off into the dark of night a steadfast stern yet empty void look about her, a single wet tear does fall however as yet one of the last slivers of her innocence and purity are shed this night. Yes she is a walking contradiction this night *

* she thinks about the one she likes And sings *

" Everytime I close my eyes
It's like a dark paradise
there's no you, except in my dreams tonight,
There's no release, I feel you in my dreams
Telling me I'm fine
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side of these dreams
The only place your at my side . . .
Everytime I close my eyes
It's like a dark paradise "

* as the sun rises over the seascape she takes one last look and heads to doron *


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Just A Little Unwell . . .

* Vanya Makes her way slowly to doron amar, and looks around. She thinks to herself how far she has come from the day the human wizard Thaladon briught her to doron, she was but a scared, frightened elf then, almost child like in nature, and by far more savage then she is now. She laughed when she thought of the " feast " she cooked them and how polite they had been in eating her " stuffed lizardman " so as not to offend her. *

" These people are my friends and some do love me as a friend I can see that, I may never have the love like Laisren found, but it is enough I am loved as kin. "

* She thought of her prayer to Hanali at laisrens wedding and the strange glowing that happened after and the strange feelings it invoked. *

" Perhaps this is my sign of a calling, to be loves blade, to defend love, and all that I love "

* her gaze hardens when she thinks of the orcs who would destroy all she loves *

* She wispers *
" If I have to lay down my life so that which I love will go on so be it, if you ask this of me Hanali I will, I trust in you that whatever fate will come is the right one. I will do my best to protect those I love Hanali. Let me be your blade, and if it pleases you may your strength work through me even if but for a brief moment. And should I fall Hanali take me into your arms, take me home. I yearn for sweet surrender of death sometimes, away from all of this dark paradise I find myself in Hanali "

* One of the elven rangers notices her talking to herself and gives her an odd look, he was to far to overhear her thankfully. Vanya approachs him *

" Im not crazy, im just a little unwell I know right now right now you cant tell, but I am fine realy. "

* With that she walks off to find out what she can do to help the others and of course her mind drifts . . . *

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Death & Back To Square One . . .

Ive just received word of my brother's death. I do not accept this, they are wrong for he is merely sleeping. I shall awake him whatever it takes. And should it be the sleep of death then the heavens know not my fury nor a woman scorned, for he will come back . . .

Sis is mad at me so be it. She just don't understand the way of things is all . . .

So be it

Lone wolf as always , off to the night I go. . .

Everything is dark and gray

When your away

What I lost , is but a memory for which there is no remedy. . .

* Many tears flow when she is alone over her brother Tyes death, for when she is alone none can see the proud warrior in a state of weakness crying her soul out one drop of saline at a time. She's lost the only true thing she has. She then thought of her so called sister walking away from her *

You left me my so called sister . . . So be it.



* with the death of her brother , the 2nd dominate personality of Vanya slips away into the night, leaving behind only Rohan, and all of her sweet wrath, hate and vengeance. The young lady turns completely feral once more in this state, her mind rather fractured, yet a tiny slight bit aware of the now buried Vanya, but not much. Her eyes now would sparkle not with shattered innocence but of hurt, pain and wrath. *

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* The days had turned into weeks since her being forced from her new elven home. They forced her out because she was savage, different, because her ways were not their ways. She paid the price with her blood, then her heart.

Heart broken at betrayal and losing the only solid thing she had left in the world, she retreated back to the only other home she had ever known, the water tunnels she had found when she 1st arrived at Baldur's Gate.

Back among the homeless, the destitute, the lost, the forsaken, the unwanted she quickly settled into place. She had a life with these people, such as it was, for they would not judge her, nor turn her away. . . a kind of code amongst the outcasts of this place.

Yet as the days turned into weeks, her mind already damaged from from holding onto a certain object for quite some time and also from losing all that was good in her life . . . began to unravel.

She began to talk to herself, and write odd things at random times. Little by little the vanya that once was faded away, replaced by a world of her own making, and with new persona, ones that were above it all, that could not be hurt. *


" so sad the golden haired one lays dead , we must make a wrong right " Old gretrude said

" Yes the kingdom cannot let this go. This young one was one of ours, we shall put this right " Said Queen Broom Hilda.

An old witch looked at vanyas corpse " we must consume her corpse in the spiritual flames and free her from this shell, only then shall her spirit be free, and with the way she shall be with us and speak through me when needed in times of darkness her light can shine " said lexy the witch.

" The demons with pointed ears and horns and smoke . . . of the evil tree's did this thing . . . but we people of the kingdom know not of these demons . . we must seek out the knowledge and the means to set this right " said queen Broom Hilda.

* a murmur of agreement could be heard, different voices. . . but alone in the dark sewer tunnel there stood only one lone girl . . . *
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* this entry is of what was left of vanya one of the 7 distinct persona's named lexi *

Lexi was making her way in the world when she met a new friend. The new friend heard her words and together they talked and bonded. Lexi's life just became brighter . . in her eyes. And end was at last in sight.


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