Nissa Atlock

Nissa Atlock is a bard currently working as part of MCVFD.
== Atlock Family History ==
Nissa grew up on the Telstaerr estate on the edge of the Yuirwood in Algarond.  The Atlocks and the Telstaerrs formed a bond during the Elven Territorial Wars of 1065 DR.  The clans banded together to protect the Telstaerrs' expansive farmlands and the Atlocks' adjacent pristine forestlands from the ravages of the war.
The families pledged to protect and support each other until the end of time, forming an alliance that continues to this day.  Since that time, the eldest Atlock of every generation bonds to the eldest Telstaerr, vowing to protect and guide each other throughout their lives. At her birth, Nissa, daughter of Yoshik Atlock, was bonded to the Lord Aelthas Telstaerr's son, Courynn.
==Early Life==
Nissa and the Telstaerr children were educated from birth by a rotating staff of tutors on the estate. Aelthas Telstaerr was wealthy, and a great lover of the sciences as well as the arts, and invited many he encountered on his travels to visit his home. Nissa endlessly questioned and mimicked every visitor until she had pumped them for all their knowledge. The estate even hosted such celebrity as the great Arliden the Bard, from whom Nissa learned her favorite instrument and weapon, the lute. 
Since there continued to be an ever-present danger of half-elf militia near the estates, Nissa and Courynn were also trained by swordsmen and martial artists Aelthas recruited, and as they trained together, they became a deadly team.  
==Adult Life==
After she came of age, Nissa took up the Atlock family duties of traveling the world with Courynn Telstaerr as he grew his family's fortunes. The two shared a love of knowledge, and a library was added to the estate to accommodate the crates of books and scrolls they shipped home.
Nissa never left Courynn's side until one midwinter festival, when Courynn returned home to visit his mother at Midwinter. Nissa traveled deep into the Yuirwood to perform a survey of the family territory and visit her cousins for a fortnight. When she returned from the forest, the estate and her beloved library was nothing but a smoldering ruin, the family and all of the estate's staff killed by a band of militant half-elves.
After the massacre, Nissa found herself the sole inheritor of the Telstaerr estate. Nissa left the estate in the care of the Atlock clan and fled Algarond, ashamed at having failed generations of Atlock and Telstaerrs. Seeking a place she had not traveled with Courynn, she traveled west to the Sword Coast, where she drifted aimlessly from library to library.
Soon afterwards, Nissa joined the MCVFD and has traveled with them since.
Nissa learned the identity of her family's killer from a sphinx guarding what is now the Drakeguard Barrier Peaks Valley Office [1] and has been silently plotting how to execute on revenge.
== Personality ==
Nissa doesn't talk about her past. She likes men of all sizes, races, and shapes, but never lets them get close. She loves a good fart joke.
She associates most strongly with the small but tenacious badger. [1]
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