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Imaginations of the Fey - Eliza's Tale
Posted: 17 Sep 2007 04:18 PM |
First, about this character... This was the first D&D character of my girlfriend. In the original she was a half-elf with a touch of fey. She was raised by the fey, and she acted like the fey. The wisdom of the treant, the humor of the pixie, the lust of the satyr, anyway... Everyone in the group loved the fair Eliza, including myself, that after many years learned to like druids from her.
Also, I left some little things open. I will not say exactly WHERE she lived, or WHAT was the artifact that the undead were after. I leave these things open, imagining that maybe a dm might catch his/her eyes on it...
Ps 1: It's not like she has a subrace. It's more like just a little bloodline. No bonus, no game effects, very little rp effects.
Ps 2: The effects that I want to simulate (like having ease at charming men) I will get normally in game (ie: Putting above the average Car and Persuade).
Ps 3: I hope that the mention of her seducing young men does not offend...
Gamespy ID: Di Bastet
Character Name: Eliza
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 19.
Class: Druid
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Deity: Elbereth
Des: Eliza is a beautiful woman. She has yellow eyes like that of a wolf, and jet black long hair to the waist. Her body is perfect, with smooth, soft skin with a cute hue of pink, large breasts and a type that makes people believe that she is somewhat akin to a dryad or a nymph. This is not far from the truth as many thinks, Eliza indeed is touched be the fey. She moves around her forest home usualy with no or very little clothing, since she is one with the nature, but when the time is needed, or when she is among people who would be offended with her no-clothing, she uses some kind of leather-made tight-fitting leather armor that her mentor made from the skin of some unknow monstrousity a very long ago. It is very common to see her followed by her "little friend", a fierce dire wolf called Moju.
Bio: Note - With "High Forest" I mention any big, magical forest or woods that exist in the world (there MUST be one, at least, right?), the kind with mushrooms, lakes, fey, etc. I'm not into the geo of Vives yet, so I'm sorry.
She was born of a happy love affair, to the extent she knows. A half wood elf named Valderion, one the best archers and rangers of the forest, met his mother, Adelia, a fair human who lived in the outskirts of the High Forest, and from their union the beautiful "quarter-elf" (human with a little elven blood, not as much as a half-elf) was born. Eliza does not remember her parents, since that when she was young, with only six years, her mother was attacked by a horrible type of abomination that slew almost the whole forest-village before being driven out by the local rangers. Her father, Valderion, swore vengeance and left Eliza in the care of his older brother, Aldere, a wood-elf ranger of the High Forest, before he and the other rangers went to the caves where the abomination ran, deep into the Underdark. Valderion and the others were warned that fates far worse than death could await them in the depth of the Underdark, and as such they and the rampaging abomination, were never seen again...
Left in the care of a druid, Eliza grew in harmony with the forest. Animals flocked to her side, she felt attracted to the waters of the lakes, and as the animals, she feared the fire. Not only Aldere cared about her, but all the forest "people" too. The nature has many aspects, and she learned many of them with the creatures of the forest. She learned about the connection of everything that is alive, about the primal forces and the history of the alive world at the roots of Ents and at the feet of druids and elven sages. She learned what is to laugh and play with Pixies and their pranks, what is the feminility and seduction with Nymphs in the lakes and fey gardens, she met lust, pleasure and carnal love and at the arms of a Satyr and his brothers, warfare and community respect with the serious Centaurs, ways of the plants with Dryads, to swim with Nixies... in resume, she was treated as an equal by the creatures of the forest.
She even was like a fey at some times, swimming in the rivers with them, drinking and singing with satyrs and centaurs, going at night to the cities dressed in white silk and seducing young man to go to the lake and be together with her; in fact, many a young man of the surrounding villages knew love in her arms. For her, it was pretty easy to charm young men, after all, she was "like the nymphs".
The path of the druid came naturaly to her. It was not about entering in a meditative trance with the nature to her; it was just the way she was created. She did not need to meditate to attune herself: She simply WAS. When she was a teenager, she was educated by the druid who was the Branch of the High Forest, into the whole druidic society. She would spend her next years knowing about the druid's code and duties, but that proved to be nothing that she did not know already. She lived in balance, and in one way or another she did not knew another way to live, but she could understand that some people did not, so she would teach people about respecting the nature.
In the begining of her formal training, Aldere came to her with a pregnant dire wolf, and the three spoke about the wolf-mother letting Eliza care of the little wolf that was to be born. Aldere told the mother-wolf that her puppy was going to be raised by a druid, that he would acompny her and care about the nature, that he would be raised as an equal and as Eliza's blood brother. After much pondering, the wolf mother agreed, and two weeks later, Eliza helped her with the delivering of the puppy. She was tense, but she did it well. With some lickings and a howl, the mother wolf looked one last time to Eliza, and in that time it was like she said "Love him like I would", and then turned back to the forest.
Eliza called the young dire wolf of Moju, and she raised him like someone very close in all aspects. She got milk with wolfs and other high nourishing creatures, hunt for meat for him, spoke with, eat with, slept with, and learned the druid's way with him. To the others, the connection would be strange, but for the two, they could feel each other's feelings, desires and motives. The bond between the two grew to became of blood brother, and then more... The fair Eliza considers Moju as a brother, sometimes as a son, and sometimes when they run in the forest as wolves, as a lover too.
The time passed, and Eliza learned. It was like the trees and the forest opened for her, and she thanked the kindness. On a dark night, by the side of the lake, her elven mentor Aldere came to Eliza, that was sitting on the side of the lake, with her feet inside, looking far, at the stars. He asked why she was with such a heavy semblance, and she awsered that she couldn't calm her heart. That the music of the satyrs or the love of the men of the village could not confort that scar in her heart. She told that she felt as walking between two selves, two worlds. That the world of men was not good enought for her, that she longed for the nature and the waters, but that life among the fey seemed without purpose. She told him that none of the human or half-elf she had meet suffered so bad as herself, and that she was beggining to fear that there were something wrong with her...
Aldere breathed deeply, and started to tell her the truth. She was not even daughter of his brother. He did not even had a brother, ever. However, on one night very long ago, two villagers came to the forest, worried and scared, a half wood elf named Valderion and a woman called Adelia. They brought a young child with yellow eyes and black hair to the druid. They told that the child was their daughter, that they loved her, but since youth she was uncommon. Charming, followed by butterflies, the people of the village said that she was "fey", that the fey had touched her while in the womb of the mother, or that she was switched while baby. Since they loved her they could never believe them. But on the last week strange things happened on their house: Mushrooms grew by the side of the her bed, fairy dust was found lying on the floor, and the two of them received dreams where beautiful being resembling elves told that the two needed to "let her fly". Since they were two common people, and since the villages around this magical forest had this kind of tale, they understood that the child was to be "given" to Aldere. They left the girl with the druid, who would teach her the ways of the nature, and returned to their villages, never to be seen again... As such, for her not to feel abandoned, Aldere lied all those years, until she could be ready to understand what all that meant. She was indeed touched by the fae one way or another, and that marked her as a druid of birth. Her mentor feared her anger, but instead Eliza just cried with a smile. She now just understood all her passions, lusts, thoughts and desires. She understood that she was not wrong, she simply was different. She was special.
With that, in the end, she did become a standing druid, being a Leaf at the High Forest, and she would happily stay there to protect the place, since the fey and all in the forest liked her. She tried not to speak about her identity too much, as people would consider it strange. No one knew about "half-fey", after all. But Eliza was like the younger sister of everyone in the forest, because she was one with the fey, but also one with the world. She really kept the balance of the nature, in ways that most druids would never understand: Embracing the emotions of the fey, that are the children of nature.
But something did happen to make her leave her forest home and hit the world: One day a raid from the Underdark came, like one that her mentor told that came when she was just a little girl, and attacked the forest. Undead and strange monsters came from the somewhere and slew many forest creatures. They were in search of something of power within the forest. Many perished defending the place, including her mentor, Aldere. In the middle of a battle to protect a sacred grove holy to the druidic circle, a demon-blooded Tiefling woman attacked. Her name was Ariadne, and she was the dark knight leading the evil army. Aldere and Ariadne fought a long battle, and finaly the druid succeded at making her ran away, but not before receiving a cruel blow who would kill him. Eliza tried to help, to invoke the power of nature to heal her mentor, but her powers were not enough. She thought that it was unfair, that Aldere had used all his power to protect the place and now he did not have enough power to help himself, but with his last breath he said "The nature follows it's course. Just follow it Eliza. Don't let is stop flowing...", and died, with a smile on the face. With that Eliza buried her mentor with the help of Moju, and made what Aldere told her to do when that time come: She got her leather armor, some little weapons and decided to leave her forest behind. She was a part fey, that wanted to be in the forest, but her part mortal wanted to see the world. Also, more than that, she was a druid, and as such she had a duty with protecting the nature. She knew that many existed who defiled nature, and she needed to stop it. Also, true inner peace and ilumination would never come to her. She HAD to walk the two paths of her life.
The alive world needed her and Moju, and she needed the world. Her mentor's death would not be forgiveen. Vengeance is also part of nature, and the Fey are know to be cruel sometimes. As such, Ariadne will pay, someday, sometime. |
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