Eri Relliq

Eri Relliq, Kobold Druid of the Moon and aspiring biologist

Eri never knew the clan of kobolds she was born into. She was kidnapped as an infant by a group of fey that were seeking to insult the dragons of Avalon by having a kobold servant of their own, for surely a dragon would find that a grievous insult.

However, they only kidnaped Eri and as an infant, she was rather useless as a servant and surely had no grasp of the ill conceived plot of which she was now a part. When her kidnappers realized their error, Eri was still less than a year old. They decided to raise her in their ways, ensuring she would never learn what kobolds revered as the holy tongue of draconic. She grew, learning the home speech of Sylvan as her primary language, but also picked up common as the fey used the language to commune with inhabitants of the material plane so they could be drawn into bargains and deals.

Eri was not raised as a slave, but rather shown compassion and love. Though this was still part of the ploy, as a kobold who loved the fey instead of dragons would be an affront to their entire culture and power structure. Though it rapidly became clear this was not to be the case.

When Eri reached 30 years of age, she was taken to accompany what she saw as her family at this point and brought before an ancient black dragon. "Behold!" said the fey "A kobold in service of not a dragon, but the denizens of the feywild!" The dragon looked at them, rather confused. He grasped what they were attempting to do, but motioned to the kobold horde as his back, numbering several hundred strong. Clearly not the reaction the fey wanted, they brought her before numerous dragons, both chromatic and metallic. The reaction was always the same. The metallic dragons didn't understand how they were to be jealous of servitude and the chromatic dragons simply didn't care that a single kobold wasn't worshipping them.

Realizing their rather shortsighted and fool hardy efforts were an abject failure, they abandoned Eri at the edge of a large swamp, having been rejected by the great green dragon that lived there. Eri didn't seek out the dragon, for she had seen that its attitude towards her meant she would likely be completely forgotten or killed. She ventured into the surrounding woods, looking to get away from any intelligent creature as her perceived family had abandoned her and the creatures she resembled seemingly wanted nothing to do with her either. It was in the woods that Eri began studying all manner of creatures inhabiting the ecosystem. There was clearly an established natural order, with cycles of life and death visible in all creatures she sought out. She lived as a hermit in these woods, simply because she didn't really have a concept of civilization.

This was the case, until she encountered a small hamlet inhabited mostly by humans who promptly chased her away when she attempted to greet them. The fey creatures that had taken her clearly had no understanding of the dragons, the dragons clearly didn't understand or care in regards to they fey, and humans clearly didn't understand who she was, otherwise they would not have run her out. Eri felt herself compelled that this friction between races and species was simply because they had limited to no ideas about each other. She had spent several years in the woods, studying the ecosystem's functions and biological relationships, so she resolved to expand her knowledge by understanding the ecosystem of the world. She had already become in tune with nature throughout this chapter of her life, and felt that she could help others understand the nature that they were a part of.

Eri acknowledged she was ignorant of the lands further out, and luckily found information regarding the Trista Vocational School for Adventuring. Seeing it as a way to expand her own understanding of the world and perhaps contact many of its other inhabitants, she eagerly enrolled.