Dragon Lance - PBeM Campaign
Simanuêla "Manu" DarkShadow
(torsten@steigner.de)
Ht:
1.60m (~5'3")
Wt:
45 kg (~90 lbs)
hair color: light blond
eye color: blue
Age:
65 (14-15 apparent in human terms)
Qualinesti-Elfen Fighter/Wizard of high Sorcery
Level: 6/5
Str:
18 / 86
Dex:
16
Con:
15
Int:
17
Wis:
12
Chr:
16
Qualinesti-Elven Fighter/Sorcerer
Level: 6/5 (11th)
HP: 88
XP: 62.865 (66.000)
Str:
22
Dex:
17
Con:
14
Int:
16
Wis:
12
Chr:
19
Saving Throws:
Fortitude:
+6
Reflex:
+3
Will:
+6
Racial Bonuses:
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| Heal |
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| Hide |
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| Ride |
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| Spot |
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Spells:
But this long awaited celebration turned to a very dark twist even in
this night, because of her mother went into a long
suffering labor from which she didn't recover and died closely after
she gave life to Simanuêla. Her father which was a
very forgiving man, could never forgive her for this tragedy and always
blamed her for taking away his wife while she
was too young too die.
Because of his calling and his obligation to the Speaker of the stars,
her father often left for long periods of time, to
ensure the safety of the Qualinesti borders against intruders, be they
wild animals or humans. Because of this lifestyle
the responsibility of rearing her were mostly up to her fathers sister,
which herself had 3 children closely to her age.
The oldest son Rherundan was just 10 years older as she us, but he
always treated her with just the barest hidden
contempt, which she never understood why. The second born was also
a male going by the name of Berginyon and he
was just the opposite of his older brother and the same age as Simanuêla.
The youngest children of her aunt was Jhemail
a very young elven maiden (~5 years younger as Simanuêla).
The relationship with her aunt and heir nieces and cousins were always
stressed and she often felt, that somehow she
was shunned from them, which she at that time couldn't understand why.
When the time came to start teaching her and
her cousins the basic skills to survive and to find out how to make
a living in later times, she came always up last when
it came down to who would become assigned to this great teacher or
that. So she got only the least training in fighting
and none at all at anything else.
By her own she discovered a wizard who was willing to take her on as
his apprentice to teach her the arts, after
discovering that she had the ability to wield the powers of magic.
Because this wizard going by the name of Karindon
the Pure was widely revered as a great wizard and person to know, her
family didn't approve of him teaching her and
not the as they thought clearly better suited Rherundan. Rherundan
himself was always jealous of this fact, not because
he couldn't find a good teacher; he had a very good one, but he wanted
the best, and Karindon was the best.
So when she was 55 years old (~10 years ago) one night when she was
together with Karindon in his study, they were
attacked by some unknown assailants and during the fight that happened
Karindon was killed and she was left bleeding
and barely hanging to life. They were found by her youngest cousin
and he brought her to the city's healer and he was
able to save her from dying. At the same time investigations were made
and some minor proof could be found that
linked her to the assailants. So as soon as she was able to be brought
before justice the court about this accident were
held. Her pleas that she didn't have anything to do with it went without
any appeal to the judges, who were so obsessed
with avenging the death of the great master, that they didn't wanted
to see the evidence before there eyes. Instead they
believed the evidence brought to them by Rherundan, but because of
the ethics of elves (never kill) they couldn't
sentence her to the edict Rherundan wanted to hear. They instead only
declared her an outlaw and banished her from
their lands never to return, if she wouldn't face the guards of the
woods on penalty of death (e.g. in game terms that
means she is a dark elf) and she had to leave Qualinost in the dark
of night without any possessions, but the clothes on
her and a dagger for protection against the wild animals.
When she left, she vowed to Rherundan that someway somehow she would
get even to him, but he only laughed at her
and said : "Right isn't always right. Power makes the right right".
This was the first slip via the dark side she took, but
not the last one.
After a cruelling trip through the forest of Qualinesti and a lot of
times she barely kept alive after fighting this or that
beast like Hobgoblins or Ogres she came to Solace looking for some
way to survive and to come to terms with the
cruelty dealt to her by her family. Here she met up with Deldarin the
Scholar a widely known and respected Wizard of
the 4th Order of High Sorcery of the white robes. This meeting took
place at the time of the weekly market, when
Simanuêla was so overcome with hunger, that she tried to pick
his money pouch, but got caught by him later, when he
figured out he had been robbed. He did admire the speed and dexterity
shown by someone that hadn't rightly be trained
in the arts and took her in as his apprentice to show her a way leading
into the light.
She trained hard under his tutelage to proof him, that he did the right
thing in taking her under and was content for the
very first time in her life. One day he sent her away to get some rare
herb that he needed for some spell he wanted to
cast, which could only be found in the woods surrounding haven. Here
she met up with Arcus Silverblade and he helped
her to aquiver the herb her master was looking for. When she was ready
to leave again she only did with great
relundance and promised Arcus to be back when she had time again, because
she really liked the time together with him.
With this parting she traveled back to Solace, to discover there that
in the meantime disaster had struck upon her life
once again.
When she had returned she learned, that her master had been attacked
while running some errands in the woods near
Solace by Hobgoblins and had been found dead by some farmers the next
day, when it was already too late to do
something else but bury him. The town marshals would tell her after
she asked them, that the only thing they could
discover were the dead body's of 2 Hobgoblins beside him. She wouldn't
believe that he was killed by just mere
Hobgoblins and went to the place were he was found to look if she could
discover any other clues. What she found,
didn't really satisfy her, because she discovered the broken shafts
of elven arrows beside the way were he had been
found. She couldn't proof it but she still believes to this day, that
somehow Rherundan found out what she was doing and
used his influence to get back to her another time, and neither wasn't
that the last time she heard anything about him.
After that grim discovery she returned again to her masters place to
find out she had left her as the sole benefactor of his
inheritance to use it as she saw fit. This included her Bracers of
Defense and her Ring of Protection which she still
wears. In addition to that he left her all of his accumulated spellbooks
which she used to increase her knowledge of the
arcane arts. She still has some of his old books, but now is unable
to understand most of the spells written down there,
because of her declaration to the black Robes. Also she found a letter
from him, were he thanked her for the time they
had spent together as master and pupil and tried to encourage her to
take the test for a Wizard. Also he told her in this
letter, that she had to get rid of all her anger, which she had thought
deep buried within her, or it would be boiling over
one day to spell her end.