DM's Perspective: Eleni is a motherly druid who lost her child and husband due to a madness induced by nightmare magic. This moon elf druid continues to find reasons to live. Her ferret Alton, her owl Hoot, her bat Meep, and her dire wolf Silverback help provide some of this. She is caring and generous, and serves often as the peacemaker of the group. Her deep sadness surfaces only when she lets it, except being always visable in her eyes. After she found her husband, alive on the arm of the Red Wizardess Kizzie, she seemed to get worse. She got a little better after striking her down at Darious's wedding, but is still stressed. Especially now that her beloved husband, Einliess, is a vampire. She used to console herself with sex with Asgar, but now is spending that stress reducing "healing time:" with Hope's father Darvis, after he took over the body of Earl Molveki of Ostwick. Rough times are still ahead of her.
Keegan -
DM's Perspective: Keegan is a
human, mostly. A skilled sorcerer, he seems to embracing the
dragon blood flowing through his body. He also seems to be
embracing any male he can. Strongly homosexual, he only seeks to
be loved after being abused by many past lovers. He embraces the
theology of Finder, seeking new creations through his Art and
painting. He helped Ralga hid her mother,
and that has led him to join this strange party. He also seems to
be spending a lot of time conversing with Hope
using code, and watching Sparky's
manlyness. What else will be bring to the party?
Maia -
DM's Perspective: Main is a human
wizardess
who was unjustly accused of destruction caused by another. That
other,
a dwarf spellcaster, is her burning desire for revenge. She
travelled
with these heroes as the final part of her penance, but has found them
worthy to travel with, especially as they are in need of a powerful
spellcaster. Her past though caught up with her, learning that
the "father" who left her on a door step was really her creater, and
she is a clone. She knows she has 19 other sister (well, 18 now),
but only knows two of them. Tala, the bounty hunter of Mulmaster
was the eventual perfection of her "father's" work and is a good
person. However, the first clone, Adelphia, was without moral
guidance, and leads the Zhentarim on the Stone Tablelands against the
holdings of Lain's brother. She found and
killed an Ulrath, the dwarf who framed her, but found that he had
bought her father's cloning equipment after he stopped using it, and
now seeks out the other Ulraths.
Mak'cha -
Character's Perspective: "I called
Mak'cha. I heir to shaman of blood. Chieftain blood.
Sick of blood. Hate
how he killed mother, friend, any he not like. Hate them.
Gave
me to Drow. Shamil save me. I
give life for
her. She show war not needed. Other ways. I kill
those
who kill. I need no tool except self. I found peace in
justice.
Now I its tool. Also I Shamil's
tool.
Together, we strike for justice. We did, but not now. She
left me too. Now look for purpose with only friends."
DM's Perspective: Mak'cha, the NPC orc, was rotting in a drow encampment before they found some value in him. He was very young. He was rescued when the party raided the encampment to save Darious's sister. It was Shamil who opened the door, and who Mak'cha took to be his savior. He decided the owed her a life bond, and now exists to protect her. They party never gave him any equipment, but he stayed and learned to fight well with his fists. That, combined with the peace solitary confinement gives, led him to the path of monk. Being seemingly the only full orc monk, he's out to bring down his old tribe, responsable for much bloodshed throughout Cormyr and the Dalelands for years. When Shamil retired, and Lain left (being the only bond left back to his old half-orc friend Asgar), he felt adrift again, only staying with the group because he found no safer place. He trusts Hope and Eleni. Maybe someday he can reclaim his destiny.
Shaklyri (AKA Hope) -
DM's Perspective: This half-drow was
brought
up in an experimental above-ground drow settlement focusing on the
teachings
of Eilistraee. Being the rare half-elf, she's got the elven long
view of life, yet impatience at the same time. Now she seeks out
her father's race's understanding. She had her father at her back
(literally,
in the form of a bastard sword), seeking to understand human society,
and with it, a part of herself. She seeks her calling, and to
right
the wrongs of her race, and she needs help doing it. She even
continued slightly in his steps, becoming a Harper agent under Storm
Silverhand herself. Seeing Eleni as a
mother figure and the others as people she could help in their worthy
goals helped keep her with the party and alive. However, she's
been trough many trials, including torture, losing her home to drow
xenophobic ways, the beheading of her love Eastyn and later raising,
and other tribulations. Eilistraee guided her into the ministry
of being a sword dancer in her service. Her father, Darvis, was
forcibly removed from his sword into the body of the Earl of Ostwick,
the small holding he nows rules. Now if she can only figure out
how to deal with Eleni boffing her father...
DM's Perspective: Asgar is a half-orc
barbarian
who got kicked out of his tribe. Since that, he served with honor
in the Corymr army during the War of the Dragon, then quested north
with
the tracker Grunk to find his old tribe.
Since
then, he's faced drinking issues, random violence, pixie runes of
shame,
and random sex. It's been a strange journey, and then got
wierder,
as his past with Grunk is coming back to him and
he's
acting more fruity than any half-orc should ever be. It all
caught
up with him when he went on a gnome killing rampage in a misguided
attempt
to "rescue" Shamil. Mak'cha
made the killing strike, and it still haunts him. However, his
grave
was opened and the body taken, so who knows what's going on.
Status: Undead
(and leading an undead army against the other PC's)
Darious -
DM's Perspective:
Darious was a concieted, arrogant, and confused sun elf wizard that had
his life turned upside down. The drow of House Jaelra killed
nearly
his entire family, and travelling with this company served him well
towards
finding his revenge. He hasn't found it completely yet (not while
the drow carry his father's ancestral sword), but he continues to seek
it, now with the Planescape Forever campaign. However, his ties
to
the group are still strong, even as he passed through the fancies of
both
Eleni and Shaklyri, and
he
hopes to see them again.
Status:
Retired (married newlywed in Tangles Trees)
Dorn -
DM's Perspective: Dorn is a dwarf in
search
of himself. This fighter was trapped in an arrow for over 100
years,
when he was less than 100 when he became captured. Now he has
been
released (partially because of the "purity" of the party) and doesn't
see
the world he recognizes. Now he hunts a dragon who killed his
mother.
Hopefully, the gods are done fighting over him... Them seem to
be, and now he fights himself, trying to deal with the broken curse of
multiple personalities.
Status:
Retired (recovering in Tangled Trees)
Lain -
DM's Perspective: This human bow-fighting
specialist came hunting the abductors of Owen's Point, and found a
worthy
party to adventure with (after they accidentally release the dwarf Dorn
from his artifact Lain used to hunt his enemies). He is strangely
racist and horny, a bad combination for a human male with Maia
being the only human female with the party. No one is really sure
they can trust him, and he is unsure of them. However, he fell in
love with Shaklyri, and found himself being
told to sacrifice her to Bane to prove his loyalty. He didn't,
the the Dagger of Bane wouldn't let him off, turning his hand and arm
to iron. He was "rescued" by his friends by them cutting his arm
off in his drugged sleep. Then, he found a replacement arm, but
others thought that it too was trying to control him. They cut
that off, but he wanted it back, so they gave him to a dragon.
That made him even more bitter, and he quests now to be "whole"
again.
Status:
Active Retirement (Dragonhunting away from the party)
Grunk -
DM's Perspective: Grunk, the original
"flaming" half-orc, had a harsh past only known to Asgar,
with whom he travelled with a long time. His flamboyant style,
though
disconcerting, quickly endeared him to the group. However, his
eventual
movement from his ranger skills to the wizardly arts confused even his
friends. Now he lies dead, buried with honor at Tyr's temple in
Suzail.
He died defending the ransom for High Judge Hyko's son from a troll
before
being healed.
Status: Dead
(Buried in Cormyr)
DM's
Perspective: Shamil is a fun loving
rogue out to bring fun and justice (of a sort) to the world.
Fools
and jerks are easily parted from their valuables, and Shamil sees it as
her duty to do so. She rights wrongs when she finds them, but is
troubled in many ways. She searches for her brother, a gnome
seeking
to slay giants. She also has a deathly fear of spiders and bugs
in
general, finding common ground with Shaklyri.
She continues to have nightmares of her past as well. That, plus
the "pet" orc Mak'cha
makes things very interesting.
She continues to seek, but for more than just Zook...
Update: She found Zook, held by
giants in just northwest of the Border Forest and rescued him.
Figuring she saved him once, and not out to rescue him again, and while
fleeing from the death of her husband and the marrage to his brother,
she's decided to settle down and live quietly, and it'll be hell for
anyone who's out to break that.
Status: Retired (living in
Blackberry Briar, in the Border Forest)
Xilocent -
DM's Perspective: Xilocent is a half-elven
ranger with the sea in her vains. While traveling mostly around
land
locked areas these days, her family comes with some aquatic elf blood
she
wears well. After her time in the war with Asgar,
she and Ralga
journied with others, coming back together
only at Hykos's request. Joining this group, she seeks to help
right
wrongs. She hasn't openly dedicate herself to any objective, but
she hasn't shyed away from flirting with pretty much anything that
moves. That hurt her when she was seduced by a shapeshifter
who used her hormones to help enchant her. That experience left
her broken, and she left to find her true self.
Status: Unknown (last seen searching for Ralga)