Alanis Dirgesong

Alanis Dirgesong was a traveling bard who specialized in depressing and despondent songs in the mid-to-late 14 century DR.
==Description==
Alanis had long black hair and gray eyes. She dressed in a white blouse with a black leather bodice and leggings.
==Personality==
She had a constantly gloomy mood, and enjoyed wallowing in self-pity and woe in any circumstance. 
==Abilities==
Alanis had a variety of bardic magical abilities that she used to protect herself and enhance her performances. She adored portraying her spells as evidence of her futile struggle against her doomed fate.
==Possessions==
Alanis carried a short sword and wore enchanted +5 leather armor. Her tool of the trade was a black harp, and she also carried a ring of free action and an onyx dog figurine. She traveled about on a pony.
==Activities==
Alanis traveled the Realms and performed her music widely, gaining a significant following despite her depressing and pitiful persona. She wrote and performed songs about subjects such as doomed lovers, infants dying in the crib, futile struggles against fate, and adventurers that were lost and forgotten. He work was adored by Lord Rhyn Mournsoul in particular.
==History==
In the , she was traveling in eastern Cormyr and stayed overnight at the Journey's Rest inn. When the vampire innkeepers Ryanna and Moria attacked the other customers, she immediately accepted her death and began composing an epitaph. Fortunately for Alanis, the vampires did not consider her a target as she was too famous and her disappearance would draw too much attention to the inn.
==Appendix==
===Trivia===
Alanis Dirgesong is likely a reference to the real-life singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette, who is not quite as depressing.
===Appearances===
===References===
Category:Bards
Category:Bards (2e)
Category:Humans
Category:Poets
Category:Musicians
Category:Singers
Category:Inhabitants of Cormyr
Category:Inhabitants of Interior Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of the Eastern Heartlands
Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Toril
Category:Inhabitants of neutral alignment