Elizana Nimblefoot

Elizana "Eli" Nimblefoot is a Player Character and a Halfling Rogue (Inquisitive). She was born and raised in Sirex as part of the Shadowhand crime family. Despite her family's background, Eli has always wanted to fight injustice and improve the world. At 18, she changed her name to Elizana Nimblefoot and became an investigative journalist for the Sirex Herald.

## Current Status

Eli has fulfilled her goal of finding her old friend and mentor Inazorwyn and has officially retired from the party and is heading home.

### Lingering Injuries

* **Large Skin Tumors** - Exposure to Red Sun's heat attack has caused Eli to develop several large, painful skin tumors. She has disadvantage on Charisma and Wisdom checks. Magic such as the regenerate spell cures her large skin tumors. If her large skin tumors are not cured within nine months, she develops Systemic Damage as per the poison table.
* **Magical Resonance** - In the Underflow, Eli discovers that she has magical resonance, likely due to giving up Eli the fae's power. She involuntarily channels ambient magic in the environment into uncontrollable spells. She is taking generic Savant medication to counter the effects of Magical Resonance
	+ The anti-magic medicine must be taken daily and will gradually become more and more effective. Once Eli hits the 2-week mark you won't be able to cast any spells by any means but you will also gain advantage on saving rolls against magic effects.

## Background

### Birth

Eli was born in Sirex, the capital city of the Sirex nation in 1683. Her family is the infamous Shadowhand crime family, which specializes in the illegal trade of magic and magical items and almost everyone in her close and extended family is heavily involved in the "family business". Her mother, Calla "Mother" Shadowhand, is the leader of the Shadowhand family. Eli's older sister Adalyn (Ada) is an assassin for hire while her older brother Haldon (Hal) helps their father Finzirick run the family pawn shop.

### Early Life and Family

Eli has always been morally conflicted about her family's criminal activities and at 18 decided to cut ties with her family background by changing her name from Shadowhand to Nimblefoot and becoming an investigative journalist. While some family members, like Hal and Mother, were supportive, others like Ada saw Eli as good-two-shoes and possible liability to the family and never fully accepted her decision. Eventually, they developed a mutually beneficial relationship where the Shadowhands give Eli information for her investigations while Eli tip them off when the authorities get too close for comfort.

### Career as an Investigative Journalist

Eli studied journalism at Sirex College of Journalism and worked at several magazine before ultimately landing a job at the Sirex Herald where she's worked every since. Her partner and mentor at the time was a female elf named Inazorwyn (Ina). Together, they uncovered and exposed the Bureau of Magic Defense (BMD) magical experiments on prisoners of war. It was a momentous story and prompted huge protests and riots throughout the protectorate, which led to the overthrow of then Chancellor Oddleif. The BMD was abolished under Chancellor Shahd and those involved were tried and convicted. Everyone considered the issue resolved. However, Ina was convinced that there was more to the story and became obsessed, digging more and more into the BMD over the next couple decades. At first her colleagues in the paper believed her and Eli helped her do research and pursue leads, but over time it was clear that she had become obsessed, making connections where there seemed to be none and refusing to listen to dissenting opinions. After publishing an article alleging war crime conspirators were still at large and active in the government, she was fired from the paper due to backlash to the largely speculative, unverified article. Eli feels betrayed by what she sees as a clear violation of the journalistic code of ethics. They have a falling out and part on bad terms. Eli goes off to investigate how the war ended.

Eli and Ina don't talk for years. Then very recently Eli receives a coded message from Ina saying that she had found something substantial and requesting that Eli come back and help. However, when Eli returns to Sirex, she finds Ina's apartment burned to the ground. Eli manages to salvage some stuff, including some a half-burned notebook written in a cipher that Eli doesn't recognize. Although Eli is skeptical of how substantial Ina's findings are, the apartment burning down is very suspicious

## As an Adventurer

### Norbury

Eli met the original party in Norbury, a small town in the Outerlands. She traveled there in order to interview Orc War veterans Soleste and Ivan about their experience of the war.

### Sirex

Eli sees a Free Peoples of Rayon protest and meets Pyrrah and Zara.