Fox - at - Twilight The Fox - at - Twilight ( real name : Ilira ) was a swashbuckler and con artist , the moon elf called " Light " by her friends was an enigma at best . Description . Twilight was often described as having an athletic build , slight and lithe ( sensual ) with a kind of allure not entirely like that of an elf . Some found her beautiful , while others did not , but hers was not a forgettable face or frame . Human men who found themselves drawn to her seemed to do so for what they see as her “ elf ” nature . Elf men were drawn to her for much the same reason they were drawn to humans : her vibrancy did not seem entirely like other elf women ( like Yldar ) . Twilight did not exhibit the patience of elves and was as lusty as a human woman . Twilight had pale skin and raven blue - black hair that she usually wore in a tail to the small of her back . The color of her eyes depended upon the light and her mood , and she was often described as having " pale eyes " . She also has alabaster skin and delicate features . She wore several earrings and has at least two tattoos : a gold , eight - pointed , asymmetrical star on her lower back ( this was the symbol of Erevan Ilesere ) , which has been known to shock at a touch , as well as a small black - and - silver fox tattooed on her lower belly . Twilight ' s appearance had change slightly by 1479 DR : she had solid gold eyes like those of a wolf and had Gargan ’ s name tattooed across her breastbone . She was said to wear only black in mourning for a lost love , though she herself denied this . Possessions . Her favored garments seemed to be black breeches , a billowy white blouse , vest , a single scarlet glove ( as of a fencer ) , and a matching half - cape . She also carried a particular rapier ( shorter than most of its kind ) called " Neveren ' s Betrayal " , which was fashioned of Hizaghuur metal . In addition , Twilight was never found without " Erevan ' s shroud " , which is a star - sapphire amulet that could hide her from " scrying " . She had some sort of fixation on the device and fear of being ' visible ' without it . Abilities . She fought by trickery as much as by blade , luring her opponents into underestimating her by guile or plying her considerable charm to get what she wanted . Fox - at - Twilight was an accomplished duelist , extremely agile , and possesses powers akin to those of a divine seeker ( a holy spy / thief who can sense the location of certain objects and call upon divine providence to save herself from mortal wounds ) and a shadowdancer ( able to teleport / " dance " through shadows and animate her own shadow ) . Relationships . Twilight was the sometime lover of Yldar Nathalan . Though she had a long , bitter struggle with Cythara Nathalan ( Yldar ' s sister ) that ended in Cythara ' s death at Twilight ' s hands . Cythara ' s daughter — the fey ' ri warlock , Fayne — had sculpted herself to excel at Twilight ’ s strengths and finally gets her revenge in Downshadow , though she found it unsatisfying . In 1375 DR , Twilight became a close companion to Gargan Vathkelke , a goliath ranger who helped her escape the Depths of Madness . In 1479 DR , Gargan manifested as a tattoo of his name across Twilight ' s breastbone , and Twilight ' s sentient shadow ( which she can detach from her body and cause to fight on its own ) had a shape similar to his . This precise situation was still a mystery . In 1479 DR , Twilight ( as Lady Ilira ) had a close relationship with the Sune priestess Lorien that was rumored to be more than a mere friendship , but Lorien herself denied that their intimacy had ever been physical . This may have been due to Twilight ' s spellscar . Twilight mentioned two particular men that shared an unknown connection with her : Neveren and Lilten , who appears in 1479 as Fayne ’ s extremely handsome and charming patron ( also he claims to be her father ) . Whether these men are friends or foes to Twilight is unknown . History . In 1362 DR Fox - at - Twilight helped the sun elf Yldar Nathalan and his sister Cythara in their quest for Ynloeth ’ s Bracer , a powerful elven relic . Twilight proved herself to be far from trustworthy or dependable , and vanished rather than allow Yldar to grow close to her ( though she left him the bracer as a token of their time together ) . She tended to follow this pattern throughout her adventuring career : using deception to throw potential romantic interests off track and thus avoid intimacy . In 1375 DR , Twilight and a number of disparate adventurers were trapped in a dungeon controlled by a mad priest of Demogorgon named Gestal . She demonstrated her speed , physical prowess , and shadowdancing abilities , but was almost driven insane by the machinations of her tormentor . Only the timely intervention of Erevan Ilesere — the Seldarine deity of trickery — spared her , though this may have been just a hallucination . She escaped the Depths , along with the goliath Gargan Vathkelke . Twilight appeared a hundred years later 1479 DR in the novel " Downshadow " , in which she was living in the bustling city of Waterdeep in disguise as a silk merchant and fashion queen called Lady Ilira Nathalan ( Ilira was revealed in " Depths " as her real name — Nathalan is Yldar ’ s surname , suggesting a relationship with him in the intervening time ) . She was framed for the murder of her best friend Lorien ( a priestess of Sune ) and quickly took revenge through use of a spellscar that burned any flesh she touched like acid . She fled the scene rather than be arrested . This ( along with her shadowdancing abilities and her now entirely gold eyes ) has led to speculation that she is a shade agent , and evidence has been uncovered that sometime in the early fifteenth century , she may have been a Netherese assassin . It has been rumored that the " Silver Fox " series of chapbooks deals with her adventuring career . The latest volume ( Fox and the Blue Fire ) — would ostensibly deal with her life in and around the Spellplague . ( " Downshadow " ) Rumours . Twilight had made a variety of outrageous claims about her past , including being a former lover of her divine patron , Erevan Ilesere . Appendix . Notes . Twilight is particularly notable in that she is one of the few 1370s - era characters currently known to have survived the 3 . 5 / 4e transition to the Realms of the Year of the Ageless One ( 1479 ) . This is presumably due to her elven blood ( which allows her to live centuries ) , though her actual age is uncertain .