Delseth Ildrenre

Delseth Ildenre is a tiefling hunter and main member of the Shardseekers party who first appeared in *Kobolds and Catacombs*. She is also a prominent member of D3, DDLC and D4C.

## Appearance

Delseth has a soft purple skin tone, getting darker on the ends of her arrowhead-shaped tail and curved horns. She stands at 5'7, and though she has a rounder face, she packs a good amount of muscle. She has golden eyes and currently sports shoulder length black hair, which has grown over the course of her time spent with the party.

Although she's quiet about appearances, Delseth's made a habit of wearing deep pink eye make-up. She's normally found wearing open blouses or button-ups, bell bottom pants, worn hunting boots, and her dark green cape, pinned with a silver brooch discovered in the Song of Silence arc.

## Personality

Delseth is a quiet and stoic individual — her actions speak louder than her words. Skilled in the art of hunting, she's quick to lay foes to rest, but quicker to tend to allies in need. She's efficient in her expertise, and becomes single minded when her work is called upon. Despite her perceived cool exterior, she's rather awkward in social settings, oft forgetting appropriate cues and relies on Darkness and others to carry the conversation. She seldom shows her true feelings, unsure of how to express them, however she does hold those close to her in fond regards.

## Abilities

Delseth is known as the party ranger for good reason. She specializes in the bow and can deal major damage to individual foes, and can do chip damage to multiple enemies at a time. She has the innate ability to use some magic, mostly assisting in terrain navigation and tracking, however she has healing magic and other medicinal knowledge as well. Delseth can also communicate with animals - most notably her companion dire wolf Hol Horse and emus Oingo and Boingo. She can call upon these three to assist her in and outside of combat to varying degrees, and can talk to other animals directly.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Delseth was born on the midsummer day of July 27th, 1094 DN, to the tieflings Darius and Varia Ildrenre. She remembers very little of her mother, as she had separated from her father and left them both when she was very young. She was instead raised by her woodsman father, living in a small log cabin that sat on a significant amount of forested acreage.

They lived almost entirely off of that land, entering town only to barter and trade. Instead of a formal education, Delseth was taught about the ins and outs of that forest, and about the respect she should hold for it. The life it holds, even in it's safe and providing nature, ultimately thrives off of death and decay. Though her main course was survival, Delseth was also given a very basic education of reading, writing, simple math and the like. When she wasn't working outside or around the house, which often folded into the night, she could be found rereading the same books she's always had.

Delseth's life remained mostly methodical and the same, until she turned twelve, as her father decided she was grown enough to enter town by herself. He still accompanied her when handling lumber, however she was sent entirely on her own to trade the game they produced. It was during these solo trips that she spent time looking further into her surroundings, and discovered something new. Most of these people lived a drastically different life than her - children her age laughing in groups, families spending casual time together. This disconnect left an ache in her heart - a feeling she could not begin to describe to her father. Their relationship had been built on physical hardship up until this point and something of this caliber had never happened until now. This created a quiet but painful rift between them, leaving both unable to communicate to each other as the years continued.

### Leaving Home

This rift grew and led to Delseth's decision to leave home at 17. She had been longing for something indescribable until this point, and it was clear she wouldn't be able to receive it at home. When she made this announcement, she was unable to read her father's reaction, which steeled her decision further. She left soon after, constantly travelling but continuing to live off of the land and barter as she had been taught. She stayed at inns and taverns on occasion, but found it more cost-efficient (and comfortable) to camp in the forest. If she needed any coin, she exchanged it for game she caught along the way. This is the way she lived, constantly moving, constantly searching, but never returning to her hometown. It remained this way until she was approached by the party, accepting their invitation on the account of having nothing to lose.

## Trivia

* Delseth was first created in 2017, and used as a character to throw into mostly short-lived campaigns.
* She does not know her emus are polymorphed men, as she does not use Speak to Animals on her own out of respect and to avoid strange power dynamics.
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