Last Name: Tessele
Alyssa Tessele from Waterdeep
Race: human
Age: 23
Height: 5'19" ft
Weight: 110.23 lbs
Eyes: green
Hair: long, raven-black, straight
Facial Hair Style: none
Personality Profile: self-confident, sociable and generally brave. Despises boredom. Sometimes too straightforward or talkative.
General Health: mentally stable and very healthy. Rarely gets sick.
Deity: [secret]
Initial Alignment: [secret]
Profession: (past) patrician's daughter, scholar - (now) monster hunter for hire!
Base Class & Proposed Development: former pact mage
Hobbies/likes: books, travels, magic devices, fairy-tales, flowers, color purple, dresses, soup, red wine, outgoing personalities, candles
Dislikes: loneliness, authority, narrow-mindeds, boredom, undeads, honey, red wizards
Fears: demons, devils, scary diseases
Flaws: stubborness, sometimes vulgar, dislikes hard work
Languages: [secret]
Weapon of Choice: (in order of preference) knowledge and avoidance of contingent problems, tactical decisions, her daggers, a well-placed deadly blast!
Background: Alyssa is the daughter of a patrician wizardress (Elisea McMarent) and a rich merchant of magic devices established in Waterdeep (Irvin Tessele).
A young Irvin Tessele and his wife Elisea McMarent
Once a young and broke lad, Irvin found during his adventures an artifact capable of conjuring a powerful devil to this plane. From that happening he gained riches and a beautiful noble wife, but of course things weren't going to last this way forever, given that he traded with the devil Love, Wealth and Popularity for Death, Corruption and Misfortune. When he pledged this pact he had no idea about when, and how, the devil would have ask for its reward, so he just kept on with his life, enjoying the wonderful gifts he had earned.
Death occurred first. The beautiful wife of the merchant died while giving birth to their daughter Alyssa. That moment Irvin started to understand that the consequences of the pact might have been a danger greater than his power. For this reason, even if he was far away from being a good man, he tried to protect his daughter from the haunt of Corruption and Misfortune, that might have hit her one day or another. He granted his only daughter a well-rounded education, prohibiting her to become an adventurer (even if this was her hugest dream). This led the girl to boredom and wish to change her life, making her an unruly person always in opposition with her father. Nevertheless she loved him, and grew up smart, well cultured and healthy.
Misfortune occurred second. One day at the Tessele's a red wizard (Dhalmas) showed up, reclaiming for himself the artifact that Irvin had found during his youth (and that he was keeping under lock in a secret safe). Unfortunately the denial of the merchant caused the anger of the Thayan, whom threatened Irvin to take Alyssa (by that moment a good-looking 18 years old girl) in place of the artifact. So Irvin decided to cooperate, especially fearing that to lose his daughter for the artifact would have brought the step of Corruption. He commanded then Alyssa to go take the artifact in their basement. So she did, leaving her father and the wizard alone upstairs.
Once reached the secret safe of his father, she took the mysterious artifact, which was shaped like a horn.
The artifact containing Al'Alrgoth
I can see into your heart. The horn whispered in her mind. I can see you are a good girl. You just want your father to be safe. Well, I am the only reason that gathered that red wizard here into your place. Destroy my cage and I will leave, giving no reason to the Thayan to bother you more. Who is, anyway, going to kill the both of you to get me. Alyssa kept on going, yet considering carefully those words. Somehow they were making sense.
Alright then. Seems that your own safety is not a reason good enough to make you act wisely in this situation. I offer you more, helpless girl. I will give you the chance to grow strong. Stronger even than your dead mother, to be able to protect yourself and your family with your new power. Today you and your father will live. My word. This pact will be a thing between me and you only. Alyssa stopped, while in front of the stairs.
Don't you trust me? Well, I see, but really you just have to be brave and self-confident enough to see that from today on it will be you taking the lead. Flip a coin and choose your fate. Your soul in exchange of the power to keep safe your family or... Ok, if you prefer keep me imprisoned, go upstairs and enjoy a painful death in the Thayan way. Oh… Time has run out. He has come. Alyssa looked in front of her. The red wizard was looking at her from the darkened stairs. Seeing that the girl was holding the artifact, he reached with a hand his reagent pouch.
Alyssa broke the seal. A sudden red light. The wizard stopped. A terrible noise. Fade out.
Corruption.
A new pact mage is born... And well, a flippin' devil is unleashed
"Dad? What has happened, dad?"
"Our home is burning. But we are alive my daughter, I saved you from the flames and the wizard has fled. Nothing else matters. We are safe." He said her.
She smiled. The world around her was a charm of lights. Night has never been that much beautiful. A bit colorless, but bright and not scary at all. She frowned up, while realizing that it wasn't normal. She had never been able to discern darkness like that. She got freak.
"Dad? There is something I have to tell you."
Irvin stopped. No words were necessary.
From that day on, she has chosen to leave Waterdeep, telling everybody that her father was dead, to give him a chance to get a new life. Will she avoid to fall into darkness?
Personal Quote: "We should never be afraid to die"
Goals
Found her monster hunters guild
Learn more about her eldritch power and how to control it
Learn more about pacts and devils
Learn how to play a music instrument
Beat the priestess of the Temple of Tymora in Baldur's Gate at her bet game
Enter the library of Candlekeep
Become a renowned magic device seeker
Make people understand that not all the warlocks are hopelessly wicked
Get an awesome flying ship
Kill Defeat(??) the devil that is haunting her
(Once old) write a book of her memories
Learn more about pacts and devils
Learn how to play a music instrument
Beat the priestess of the Temple of Tymora in Baldur's Gate at her bet game
Enter the library of Candlekeep
Become a renowned magic device seeker
Make people understand that not all the warlocks are hopelessly wicked
Get an awesome flying ship
(Once old) write a book of her memories
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts
(in order of likelihood)
She might happen to learn more about her mother's past and her studies
The devil she has released might come back to properly haunt her
The thayan wizard she has pissed off might come to haunt her
Her father might look for her, needy for help
She might move toward becoming a better person, devoted to good, as a long-term event
Goodies!
(If Alyssa was a song)
(in order of likelihood)
She might happen to learn more about her mother's past and her studies
The devil she has released might come back to properly haunt her
The thayan wizard she has pissed off might come to haunt her
Her father might look for her, needy for help
She might move toward becoming a better person, devoted to good, as a long-term event
Goodies!
(If Alyssa was a song)