Cassyt

Cassyt (Pre Booty Shorts)

## Description

### Appearance

Cassyt is tall and lean, standing at around 5'10" at full height. She tends to try to make herself seem smaller by hunching slightly, despite having generally good posture - corrected often at the graveyard. She has long blonde hair that through the adventure has gotten lighter to almost white, along with a pale almost pallid complexion thanks to spending many hours of her youth indoors or underground. Her eyes are a stormy blue/grey.

Since meeting the adventurerers, she has replaced her Kelemvorite robes with studded leather armour (though with a notable lack of leg protection) and has braided several strands of coloured thread into her hair to represent each of her new friends. Though seemingly a Half Elf on the material plane, since entering the Feywild Cassyt has developed a tendency to glow with a pearlescent light when dissociating - this is widely believed to be due to her being a Changeling.

### Personality

Before meeting the adventurers, Cassyt's pleasant nature was seen mostly as a soothing balm to the children who visited Valhingen Graveyard. She would be the guardian of the children so the aldults could mourn in peace, during this time she would explain to them the ways of Kelemvor and that the path their relations had taken was one of peace and love. Cassyt was seen as strange as she would let the children create gifts for the dead that were outside of tradition and expressed feelings rather than material wealth or status and promised to take the gifts into the crypts. These practices made Cassyt even more of an outcast amongst the clergy than she already was but she was beloved amongst the bereaved children of Phlan.

Not having many companions her own age, race, or gender she mostly kept to herself and to her books when she couldn't steal to the catacombs to talk to the remains of the bewitched deceased. Most adults who met her found her bubbly and bright personality in the face of so much death off putting, and her incessant recantation of 'fun facts' about the dead of Phlan disturbing at best.

Since meeting the adventurers, she has grown more confident in herself and in her role as protector of people's spirits. She is less bubbly, due to the events of the journey they've taken, but steadfastly loyal and protective. Ride or die.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cassyt was born in a village off the Phlan path between the Quivering Forest and the Twilight Marsh, she was lead to believe that her Elven mother had died when she was very young and she was left at Valhingen Graveyard at the age of 3 by her Human father, Bertrand de Raera, who died of mysterious circumstances shortly afterwards.

Though not common at the graveyard, Kelemvorite charges were not unheard of, so the already aging clergy maintaining the site took young Cassyt and raised her according to her father's wishes. She was not to go into the city of Phlan to live, nor to go East of the city towards the Forest upon pain of capture or death. The Clergy never saw need for her to leave the graveyard nor did Cassyt as she grew older sending for books and meeting all kinds of people through her work and so never informed her of her father's last warnings.

### Background: Acolyte

Having being raised with the teachings of Kelemvor and losing both of her parents at such a young age, Cassyt had been comforted by and provided comfort through her work with the bereaved and the deceased. She knew very early in her teenage years that she wished to follow the path of the church and continue to work for Kelemvor though did not wish to force her beliefs on anyone else. She studies her scriptures only to help and lift up others rather than to convert others to follow Kelemvor and He has never called on her to do more than that, as if he is happy with the path she has chosen.

### Changeling Discovery

When the party entered into the Lucid Dreaming Ball with Damh and Halen, Cassyt was unaffected by the memory magic designed to affect all non-fey creatures who's consciousnesses entered the space which gave pause to the hosts who inadvertently revealed that Cassyt was in fact a Changeling rather than a Half Elf raising questions around her lineage.

This discovery has been secretly rather difficult for Cassyt to deal with, she is used to not know who her parents were but now she does not know who they were, or what they were and now that brings in to question her whole sense of self.

## Relationships

### Anguish

Cassyt looks up to Anguish like an older sister, in the sense that she doesn't always think that together they make the *best* decisions, but that they will always be fun. She's not sure that she agrees with Anguigh that the shorts are the best look for her, nor the best for adventuring, but she wears them because she thinks that Anguish is incredibly beautiful and confident and wants to be more like her in that way. Anguish is the person that Cassyt would go to if she had emotional problems, she feels like her and Mardred are the only ones who really understand emotions but Anguish is the only one with any real people experience to offer advice.

Cassyt wishes that she could help more with the sadness that Anguish has inside - remembering the look on her face when she saw the bust of her wife in the oubilette under the labyrinth and hopes that one day they can talk things through.

### Creswinda

Creswinda is prickly and doesn't like to share. Cassyt loves her, obviously, she loves everyone in the group, but Cres doesn't open up much and she isn't sure if Creswinda likes her very much in return. Cassyt would love to win her approval, and tries to now and again but often gets it wrong - like in Phlan, she stole at the wrong time - apparently you can only steal from dead people rather than from living people.

Cassyt is also a little jealous of Creswinda for having parents that she knows and who presumably love her if Damh and Halen's visions were at all accurate. But Creswinda seems so in charge of herself all of the time which Cassyt wishes she could be, and apparently in charge of Hirsch? Or maybe he's in charge and she just plays the part?

### Elenya

Cassyt likes Elenya very much in a way she hasn't felt before. But she doesn't know how to express that, in the beginning of their journeying together she felt flushed and flustered whenever they would speak - and then felt a sense of possessiveness over Elenya that she couldn't explain which lead to her being insanely jealous over literally nothing. Then she and Elenya went to subtle flirting with hand holding etc but nothing seemed to move from there. Cassyt feels that this isn't how love is supposed to be - in her books it was all or nothing, not something then nothing then another breadcrumb then nothing. They protect each other but Cassyt thinks that maybe Elenya sees her in a similar way to how she sees Anguish and Mardred, in familial way or just a friendly way and just wanted to protect her for the sake of the party.

Then at the Lucid Dreaming Ball, Cassyt saw Elenya's past love - Cass - and it sank in. Cassyt obviously doesn't look like Cass, but they share a name, so of course the flirting made sense - it was remnants of that old love come back to life. She felt like a fool - she's only 19 and has lived in a graveyard her entire life, she should have known better than to think she would pique anyone's interest as she is at the moment.

### Hirsch

Cassyt. Loves. Hirsch. His silence reminds her of the Doomguide at the graveyard and she misses his stern looks and confusion by her entire being, it feels like having a father figure who doesn't know he's got a daughter. She's so pleased that he was happy when she got a bigger club and she thinks that he is ok when she sits beside him by the campfire. Hopefully one day, he'll teach her how to rear a chicken but she will have to actually ask him to teach her about plants and animals first - maybe some day soon when he seems a bit more chatty.

She thinks that he might be the one who actually is the most at ease with himself out of the whole group, once you take away everyone's posturing - Hirsch seems pretty content with his lot and Cassyt really likes that about him. Would love to be more in the moment like him.

### Iris

Iris is the newest member of the party and so Cassyt hasn't gotten a good read on her yet or a good bond with her yet, but she does see that Iris is a panicker which she can identify with. Cassyt almost wishes she were in a better place mentally to be able to help her deal with the whirlwind introduction to her little found family, but all she can seem to offer is that things will never be normal again and that things will be worse. Cassyt hopes that Iris won't hold it against her and that they will both find their footing soon.

### Mardred

Cassyt and Mardred are equally curious about almost opposite things, but they can both agree that life end when the final breath is drawn and there is an excellent first hirdle. Cassyt thinks of Mardred like a little sister who can turn into a giant bear and murder people but also who is incredibly warm and snuggly afterwards. But the fondness is very much sisterly and snuggly, the murder is mostly defensive. Cassyt feels that they are kind of kindred spirits in that they are outcasts from society at large, but have found family outside of it, Mardred with her wolf pack and Cassyt with her stories and her skulls - she likes to play with Mardred after they set up camp to give her a sense of home with the wolves though she's never sure she gets it right as Mardred always wins.

Cassyt isn't sure how Mardred feels about her, but she hopes that she loves her too as Cassyt would be fiercely protective in battle if Mardred weren't more often than not a bear, a giant snake or something else wildly difficult to maim or kill.