Leuthil
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:22 pm
Hi everyone, this is my first post, so let me present first, my name's Luca and i'm a fan of rpgs, especially d&d and i play elven pcs very often. I come from Italy, so if i made some english mistakes don't be too harsh
that said, i'm beginning a new game and i'm planning to build a character who is a follower of Eilistraee and i come here to ask for some advices or suggestions about the background and to know better eilistraee and what mean being one of her followers.
My character is a female half drow half NG/CG sun elf level wizard/archmage. Here it is the part of the bg that i've already written.
My mother was a young beatiful sun elf noble that eventually fell in love with a Vhaeraun's drow and she fled with him and her little child, my half brother male full sun elf born from a previous relationship, in some vhaeraun's drows house inside the forest of Cormanthor, she was not particoulary skilled in weapons or magic, her only quality was her beauty, but the drow was an important figure in the house and so she lived relatively well. For some years she was happy, she even had a child from the drow (yeah, that's me), but at some point the drow begin to get tired of her and rejected her. My mother was despairing, she would have liked to coming back but her house would never accept her after her escape, she begun to live at the limits of drow house's society for some time doing the most unpleasent jobs but her hearth was broken, she lost little by little her will to continue living and pretended to be fell ill, to my half-brother Thael, that was still very young, was left the burdain to purchase food and water for our small family unit. That situation continued to exist for some years, practically i was raised by my brother that loved me much and try to spare from the pains of the life of the poors at the house, my mother do nothing but telling us stories of her youth or lament about her lost love. sooner or later we would have probably died if it Y'lea, a female drow wizard of the house offered to my brother a job as servant, she said the my brother could bring me with him but not my mother, we had to abandon her to her fate. My brother hated my mother but she still was his mother. Y'lea gave him three days to decide and then, in a full moon night, she come back to have an answer. It was an harsh decision, my mother beg for not being abandoned but Thael hardened his hearth and decided to follow Y'lea, in the end mother understood that Y'lea was our only hope to survive and remained silent. Thael, Then, took me and we went to live with Y'lea as servants. eventually y'lea discovered we had a gift for arcane magic and taught us wizardry. my brother adapt to the life of the house, he became an evil worshipper of vhaeraun and Y'lea took him as her lover, but he continued to "protetect" me, shielding me from the bad things of house's life as much as possible. I grow up introvert, i didnt' like the violent ways of the other drows, i spent almost all my time studying, the only people with i had relationship were my brother, that i deeply love and that despite he was became a "typical" evil drow of vhaeraun still was kind to me and Y'lea, that was my master and sometimes she took me as her lover, but she understood the feeling of my brother toward me and, being Thael useful to her, she allowed me not to take part in house's life and missions. But Y'lea had a plan, she took my brother and me with her not for pity, she was a rival of my father and she wanted my brother to kill him in order to humiliate him and additionaly, my brother had strong reason to take one's vengeance of his stepfather and so the murder would have seemed like a personal vendetta, not an assassination from a rival, so the the killing would have been thael's fault, not her (remember that my father was an important person of the house, someone that kill him probably will be then killed). Thael killed my father, he probably perceive Y'lea betrayal but, life his mother before him, i felt in love with the wrong person, and i did what was ordered by Y'lea. Y'lea eventually undestood that and she felt regret for what she has done, maybe my brother was toescape from his fate, maybe not (i want to keep the possibility open), but she told me he was dead. For the first time in her life, Y'lea show mercy to someone, she helped me to escape from the house and led me to an eilistraee priest... the story will go on (i have to justify 17 levels), but before i proceed i wanted to know better eilistraee's society (the forgotten realms setting don't say much) and i hope to find help here and if you want let me know what do you think of the part i've already written. i hope i've not made too much language's mistakes
yeah, i know there's a lot of drama in this story but, hey, it could have been much worse, my family could have been completely slain by a traitor friend and i could have grow up in hate&revenge
that said, i'm beginning a new game and i'm planning to build a character who is a follower of Eilistraee and i come here to ask for some advices or suggestions about the background and to know better eilistraee and what mean being one of her followers.
My character is a female half drow half NG/CG sun elf level wizard/archmage. Here it is the part of the bg that i've already written.
My mother was a young beatiful sun elf noble that eventually fell in love with a Vhaeraun's drow and she fled with him and her little child, my half brother male full sun elf born from a previous relationship, in some vhaeraun's drows house inside the forest of Cormanthor, she was not particoulary skilled in weapons or magic, her only quality was her beauty, but the drow was an important figure in the house and so she lived relatively well. For some years she was happy, she even had a child from the drow (yeah, that's me), but at some point the drow begin to get tired of her and rejected her. My mother was despairing, she would have liked to coming back but her house would never accept her after her escape, she begun to live at the limits of drow house's society for some time doing the most unpleasent jobs but her hearth was broken, she lost little by little her will to continue living and pretended to be fell ill, to my half-brother Thael, that was still very young, was left the burdain to purchase food and water for our small family unit. That situation continued to exist for some years, practically i was raised by my brother that loved me much and try to spare from the pains of the life of the poors at the house, my mother do nothing but telling us stories of her youth or lament about her lost love. sooner or later we would have probably died if it Y'lea, a female drow wizard of the house offered to my brother a job as servant, she said the my brother could bring me with him but not my mother, we had to abandon her to her fate. My brother hated my mother but she still was his mother. Y'lea gave him three days to decide and then, in a full moon night, she come back to have an answer. It was an harsh decision, my mother beg for not being abandoned but Thael hardened his hearth and decided to follow Y'lea, in the end mother understood that Y'lea was our only hope to survive and remained silent. Thael, Then, took me and we went to live with Y'lea as servants. eventually y'lea discovered we had a gift for arcane magic and taught us wizardry. my brother adapt to the life of the house, he became an evil worshipper of vhaeraun and Y'lea took him as her lover, but he continued to "protetect" me, shielding me from the bad things of house's life as much as possible. I grow up introvert, i didnt' like the violent ways of the other drows, i spent almost all my time studying, the only people with i had relationship were my brother, that i deeply love and that despite he was became a "typical" evil drow of vhaeraun still was kind to me and Y'lea, that was my master and sometimes she took me as her lover, but she understood the feeling of my brother toward me and, being Thael useful to her, she allowed me not to take part in house's life and missions. But Y'lea had a plan, she took my brother and me with her not for pity, she was a rival of my father and she wanted my brother to kill him in order to humiliate him and additionaly, my brother had strong reason to take one's vengeance of his stepfather and so the murder would have seemed like a personal vendetta, not an assassination from a rival, so the the killing would have been thael's fault, not her (remember that my father was an important person of the house, someone that kill him probably will be then killed). Thael killed my father, he probably perceive Y'lea betrayal but, life his mother before him, i felt in love with the wrong person, and i did what was ordered by Y'lea. Y'lea eventually undestood that and she felt regret for what she has done, maybe my brother was toescape from his fate, maybe not (i want to keep the possibility open), but she told me he was dead. For the first time in her life, Y'lea show mercy to someone, she helped me to escape from the house and led me to an eilistraee priest... the story will go on (i have to justify 17 levels), but before i proceed i wanted to know better eilistraee's society (the forgotten realms setting don't say much) and i hope to find help here and if you want let me know what do you think of the part i've already written. i hope i've not made too much language's mistakes
yeah, i know there's a lot of drama in this story but, hey, it could have been much worse, my family could have been completely slain by a traitor friend and i could have grow up in hate&revenge