Leelah Heartfoot

Leelah is a wanderer by nature, but extremely helpful and playful. She decided to settle down in Sharn for a while, picking up a few adventuring gigs to pay the bills.

## Appearance

Leelah is a small gnome with hair the color of autumnal leaves. A single streak of grey hair comes from her temple. She tells people it is because she saw King Galifar's Ghost when she was younger and got so scared. Her eyes are the color of pale moss. She wears bright clothes to stand out from the crowd, her earrings always change with the day. You will never see this little lady without her lute and a smile.

As of "Rosemary and Time" The White-Grey streak in Leelah's hair has extended and thickened, from just a portion of her bangs, to a streak through her entire hair. She has taken to wearing her hair up in a braid or braided bun, as opposed to free flowing or just in a ponytail.

## History

Leelah loves stories, always has, but if the story is about herself, she will quickly change the topic. Preferring to live day-to-day, she will tell someone to stop dwelling on the past in the same breath as saying there's no use planning for the future.

### Early Life

Leelandrah Den Lonadar was born on the 2nd day of Aryth, under an ascendant Olarune, with full moons in Nymm, Sypheros, Rhaan, Olarune, Vult, and Lharvion. Now most would ask what this has to do with Leelandrah, she would attest the moons she was born under is of utmost importance to who she grew to be. Leelandrah was born to Vasillissa and Alistar Den Lonadar of Oskilor in what is now known as Zilargo, as their second child. Leelandrah was adored by her older brother Dackdanril, who fell in love with his sister the moment she came forth into the world. While her parents loved to do the typical Zil plotting, Leelandrah liked walking afield or wandering the forests near her home. It wasn't long before she had a bad falling out with her mother. Her mother confronted her one evening, hoping to rope her into a plot, Leelandrah could see through her mother's doting pretense. Leelandrah could see how the plotting would harm one of her own personal friends. Leelandrah’s Father sat by and tutted, saying that it would help the family in the long run. Leelandrah screamed, her mother tried to yell about the neighbors, the watch, how conspicuous her daughter was; how Leelandrah needed to plan for the future of their family and behave. Leelanhrah was 39 when she left home at with a distaste of "planning for the future" in her mouth, now she only occasionally writes to her brother Dackdandril (or Dack as she calls him). Dack was always good at the games their parents played, sometimes he enjoyed the plotting, the scheming. Dack understood that Leelandrah, did not. The way she cried when suddenly her friends couldn't come around because her mother had offended their parents during a plot made Dack realize that Leelandrah wasn't meant for this way of life. She still considers him the only thing tying her down to Zilargo.

#### Stories from Leelah's childhood

* When Leelah was VERY young, her parents had gotten her some adorable wool pantaloons for under her skirts to keep her warm during winter. They had Piglets on them. She was SO proud of these adorable woolen panties that instead of wearing them like she was supposed to, she'd keep them in her bag and ask every stranger she met, if they'd like to see them. It caused MUCH scandal, and she got several stern talking-tos about it
* Leelah has a small scar on the left side of her back. This is from a particularly tragic day from her childhood. She will tell anyone who asks that she recieved it when she was an infant from a giant flute-nosed Hummingbird that realized too late she was not one of it's ugly featherless hatchlings. After slurping from it's delicious nectar, and learning how to play the flute from it, it picked her up and tossed her from the nest, cutting her with it's beak.
	+ Anyone but the easily fooled will know there is no such thing as a giant flute-nosed Hummingbird, and if pressed on the matter Leelah will confess she was playing her flute in a tree when she was frightened by a squirrel and she fell, landing on the flute which stabbed her in the back. One broken half of the flute is one of the few items she still has from her childhood.

### Travels

The gnome Bard wandered for six years, letting her feet take her where her heart wandered, never staying in the same place long. Leelandrah was given her new name “Leelah Heartfoot” while visiting with some Brelish soldiers not long into her wandering. Leelah now lives in Center Bridge in Sharn. She spends her days listening to the adventurers of the Clifftop Guild tell their stories and occasionally going on treks with them herself, though never tying herself down to a particular group or guild.

A small group she often spoke with consisting of a Dwarf named Harribold d'Kundarrak (she wasn't convinced that was his real name, but she's never gotten the chance to find out), a Warforged with the title Trunk, and a Human Named Roie Gerremy. They asked for the Bard's assistance, a long-shot heist they'd been planning. Leelah thought it might be fun. Roie had gotten some intelligence from a Cannith Excoriate that warforged of certain make and model would stop working for a short time if subject to a specific frequency of "whistle tones". Leelah, unsure of what the plan actually was, went along with it. It wasn't until she found herself in a cage surrounded by followers of the Lord of Blades, did she realize she had "stepped into a cowpie" as some would say. She ended up in such a situation because her party members had sneaked around a group of followers of the Lord of Blades. The Followers were picking through some ruins from the Last War. Leelah sat cursing as she was deemed "look out". She found out that what the children say in Sharn is right, if you say the Lord of Blade's name three times his agents appear. She still isn’t sure why they didn’t kill her outright, as she had heard these followers were like to do. Needless to say, the "whistle tones" didn't work as intended. They worked enough to make the warforged around her cage angry enough to not notice Trunk infiltrate their group and unlock her cage.

Leelah would go on to delve the Mournlands several times, not for riches or fame, but because she walked through New Cyre one day. She braved the bleak landscape to find an old man's tools, passed from his father to him, as his last wish. She found them where he said they were, right where he'd dropped them as he escaped the Mourning. Next she went to a battle field for a young woman who begged her for a trinket from her fallen husband to give their son. Dodging the living spells and carrion eating beasts she found the soldier, carrying his armor and satchel back with her. It wasn't long before Leelah became known for being able to get things that were hard to find. With each item Leelah would write a story. the story of the item, where it had been, where it was going, how it got there.

Leelah found her way into the employ of several collectors, those who would have her find items with rich stories then sell them at auction for the highest bid. She was fine with it for the most part, she was never fully honest with the collectors and would sometimes say she couldn't find the item and return it to whom it truly belonged. She liked going to the auctions, it was here where she first found out about the Wayfinder Foundation.

### The Last War

Leelah did her best to stay out of the Last War, but she would often find herself going to the encampments of Brelish soldiers and singing songs. She hated how they all looked so dead, almost soulless. Leelah did her best on her trips, telling jokes and making haggard men and women smile and jeer. Sometimes she would escape Breland when the fronts were quiet, leaving her nation behind, only to find that it didn’t matter what music she played or how she lifted people’s spirits, she wasn’t welcome. She kept herself safe by roaming the hills of Breland, and what is now Zilargo. Once the war ended she took a few years just to roam the countries, still given stares and less than kind hospitality.

The year that Leelah turned 40 (993YK) the little wanderer stumbled into a Brelish encampment. She didn’t know where, as she hadn’t yet bothered to purchase a map or care about where her feet took her. She was tired and begged the officers to let her sleep next to their fires for the night in exchange for song and story. The Officers begrudgingly accepted, saying that she could not take their food and that they’d be watching her closely. Leelah made light work of rousing songs and bawdy jokes to entertain the few soldiers around. A young woman, Tolri Stoole, took to Leelah a great deal, speaking with her between the gnome’s songs. She had a fire in her eye that leelah didn’t quite understand. It was Tolri who told Leelah that “Leelandrah Den Lonadar” is a mouthful for a bardic name. The human soldier bestowed the pseudonym “Leelah Heartfoot”, which the gnome has used ever since.

Leelah's visits to encampments eventually stopped. She walked through a field to find arrows suddenly above her, sounds of battle around her. Caught in the middle of a fight. Leelah found her way to one side of the battlefield. She'd been with these soldiers less than a week before. Being killed in front of her, a small platoon of Brelish soldiers. She still has nightmares of the young boy she'd made laugh so hard ale streamed from his nose. His eyes without soul looking up at her, holding a letter and a locket to her hand. That is the only thing that be-stilled her feet. She didn't want to deliver the letter, so she kept hold of it.

### Invitation

The best place for a person who is known for getting things is an auction house. The amount of people looking for the pepper shaker that goes with the antique salt pot they purchased was astonishing. Once someone gets something that could have a pair, they will always want the other half of the collection. Leelah brought in a Leelah had picked it up while diving the depths of lake Cyre, her employer didn't think to donate it to a museum and was mostly interested in payout.

Leelah's latest employer, Beren Helmworth (a rather seedy sort of man, whom takes the airs of being rich and civilized, but owns many pawnshops and poorly maintained low-income housing) had her delving the depths of Lake Cyre, convinced that magic items imbued with magic from the Mournlands had drifted into the great lake. Leelah emerged with a stone axe covered carvings and paintings of beasts like those of the Talenta plains, as the light shifts on it the beasts move, chasing one another, flying, and eating. It was this item that brought Leelah into Shensari Damilek’s good graces. Leelah had always considered her an acquaintance, as she did with anyone that frequented the auction houses, but it seemed the Gnome had left more of an impression than she realized with this latest find. Leelah had heard of the Wayfinder Foundation, mostly in passing, and she mused what being a Wayfinder might mean. Shocked to find her new friend was not only a member, but had the ability invite her into this exclusive group. Leelah, gladly accepted Shensari’s invitation, excited for the next stories she would learn, and tell.

### Experience

While wandering the Halls of the Clifftop Guild, eavesdropping on tales of adventure Leelah got into a handful of adventures herself, finding herself to be good support for her teams. On top of her several trips to a place most people wouldn't dare step, the Mournlands, and her knack for finding things makes her valuable on expeditions. Leelah's multiple successful journeys into the cursed place gave her insights into how to avoid danger. Having to escape living spells while trying to lockpick the upper floor of a home to get an old doll left behind is no easy feat. Of course, not every journey was successful, and Leelah holds on to reminders of each failure. The ear of a warforged follower of the Lord of Blades, three gold stars taken from the jacket of a Cyran general, and more, all of which sit on what she calls “the shelf of failure” in her small apartment.

### Motivation

Leelah craves the open road, traveling far and wide, and learning new stories along the way. She is a dandelion, not an oak tree. She wants to ride the wind until it cannot anymore. Also gold. Gold is nice, and playing on the streets of Sharn isn't nearly as profitable as exploring and adventuring.

### Future Goals

To be the first person to step foot in an ancient place, to uncover a story lost to time, to hold an item that hasn't been held in a long time. These are Leelah's deepest hopes and wishes. One day hopes to write an opera, or a serial of operas, of her travels and the things she's learned. An opera that would travel across the lands, that everyone would see. Her songs stuck in the heads of everyone from queens to scullery maids.

#### Interesting stories from Leelah's past

* Leelah is not experienced in the realm of love despite how she pretends to be a love guru. The most awkward date she's been on is one where she didn't know she was on a date. The gentleman had asked her if she wanted to step out with him. She agreed, saying she wanted to go to the Sharn Petting Zoo. Thinking this an apropriate date place, the gentleman obliged and took her to the petting Zoo, purchasing snacks and trinkets throughout the day. This poor boy. Leelah's Frenemy was at the Zoo, performing for kiddos. Leelah decided it would be fun for her and her friend to get into a bard battle with the Capybara faced idiot. Of course, hilarity ensured from there, convincing chickens to lay eggs in his ukulele, getting an iced beverage spiled on her and her gentleman friend, kicked out of the Zoo. Leelah's Date said "despite how bad it was, I had a good time on our date." After walking Leelah home. She blushed, screamed, slamed the door in his face and never contacted him again.

### Secrets

* Leelah hates carrots.

* She carries an unopened letter and a locket belonging to a dead Brelish Soldier with her at all times. It has an address, but she dares not deliver it.
* She doesn't like to talk about her past, it carries too much pain with it.

### Enemies

* Roie Gerremy -- A human Fighter aged 37 who found himself in the rare predicament of being considered one of Leelah's enemies. After a particularly bad adventure where Leelah nearly met her demise at the hands of Agents of the Lord of Blades, Roie attempted to blacken her name. He said that she had gotten caught on purpose, and that she didn't really try to finish the mission properly. Leelah, normally very calm about things, sang bawdy songs about Roie and his choice of romantic companions in a very catchy tune. While Roie has never outright attempted to harm Leelah, she doubts that it is something he has the power to do.
* Daanvi -- After the events of Rosemary and Time, It was revealed in an epilogue that Leelah and her companion's actions have put the Wayfinders in the sights of Daanvi inevitables.

### Friends

* Dackdandril Den Lonadar -- Leelah's doting older brother. The two look and act similar, but Dack doesn't have the distaste of family politics that Leelah does.
* Trunk -- A warforged who works with the Clifftop Guild. They saved Leelah from certain demise and she's never forgotten. Leelah will occasionally seek them out to assist with jobs, or just to sit and have a nice conversation.
* Tolri Stoole -- A human Brelish soldier, aged 25-35. Leelah doesn't know her whereabouts or if she survived the Last War. Tolri's impact on Leelah is lasting, and sometimes she secretly hopes to see her again. Tolri was the one to give Leelah her new name.

### Frenemies

* Kevin Kepona -- Leelah often finds herself both working with and at odds with an odd halfling named Kevin Kepona. He fancies himself a "Tour Guide" of Sharn and wears a Capybara outfit while playing a ukulele. She finds his presence both incredibly irritating, but also very pleasant.

## Personality

**Personality Traits**

* "I love a good insult, even when directed at me."
* No one stays mad at her for long.
* She almost always have a story to tell.
* Leelah will occasionally sing off key if she thinks it will sound funny
* Leelah will often sing under her breath about the things she is doing or seeing at a given moment.

**Ideals**

* "When I play music, I make the word a better place."

**Bonds**

* Leelah's lute, whom she often calls Dack, was given to her by her older brother days before she left home.

**Strengths**

* Charismatic, outgoing.
* She's always willing to help someone in need.
* Seeks the truth no matter what.

**Flaws**

* She's a sucker for a pretty face.
* She's always willing to help someone in need, regardless of what she thinks of them or what they've done to her before.
* "I think everyone is a friend I haven't met yet."
* Leelah has a tendency to put her nose where it doesn't belong.
* Leelah is often more scared than she lets on.

**Likes**

* Big Poofy dresses with big bows and lace with pinks and whites and blues that hurt your eyes
* Pink Robins

### Important Belongings

#### Dack the Lute

Leelah carries with her a lute and a flute. The flute is something easily purchased from any purveyor of musical instruments. Her lute, however, is one-of-a-kind. This special item was given to her shortly before she left home. Days after telling her brother, Dackdandril, of her plans to leave Zilargo and never return, Dackdandril purchased, then modified this lute. Intricate scrawls of leaves and vines, a patterned oak tree. Lovingly carved by him. It is not an Item Leelah leaves home without. It is both a reminder of home, but also a constant companion on her travels.

As of "Rosemary and Time": Dack has some wear and tear on it. The lacquer not as shiny, and new-looking, the frets older and worn. That happens when time travel is involved.

#### Journal

Leelah carries a leather-bound notebook with her wherever she goes. She uses it to write notes, and keep her thoughts in one place. Sometimes it has songs, sometimes stories, sometimes doodles or nothing at all. Anyone who wishes to read her journal can do so here, as it may shed some light on her thoughts of her fellow Wayfinders.

#### Unsent Letter

As detailed several times above. Leelah has hidden in her belongings, a letter that she promised a dying boy she would deliver to someone named "Hattie Lanner" in Wroat. She is terrified of delivering this letter and facing her incompetence to save the boy's life.

## Completed Missions

### Rosemary and Time

Leelah thought it would be an interesting time to travel to the Tower of the Twelve for her first mission, and didn't expect that she'd have plenty of time, and no time at all. The lives of the students, the argument between Kerika and Hannelore. The hopeful notes in the edges of a book about conversation. All of it cumulated in her needing to save a boy again. She didn't fail this time. She saved him. Even after gong back through time... kind of? Did she go back through time, or did time come forward to her? Speaking with important people about things that will not pass for a LONG time, or perhaps tomorrow, or perhaps it already did? Time is confusing, and Leelah won't enjoy the scent of rosemary for a long time.

## XP & Gold Log

Total Gold Remaining: 100 gp - Downtime Remaining: 0 dots

### Inventory

* Backpack
* Bedroll
* Candles 5
* Costumes 2
* Dagger
* Flute
* Leather Armor
* Lute
* Rapier
* Rations 4 days
* Letter and locket from the Last War addressed to someone named "Hattie Lanner" in Wroat.
* Set of lockpicks
* Journal and quill

### Character Sheet

* https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2242434