A'Jeth Shadak

Name is pronounced: AH-Jeth.

## **Appearance**

**Fantasy race:** Dark Elf

**Pronoun:** She/They

**Age:** 152 (adult)

**Voice accent:** Higher pitched, careful, thoughtful American

**Height:** 5'9"

**Weight:** 135

**Hair color:** Silver & Black

**Skin color:** White

**Eye color:** Ice Blue

**Example clothing outfit worn:** Scale Mail Armor with Silver & Black Cloak

## **Personality**

**Traits:** Has OCD, a talker, apologetic, a fixer. Occasionally accidentally evil. Trying to learn what "Good" is.

**Ideal / Dream / Goal:** To make amends for past mistakes. Bring freedom to all. To study "goodness".

**Flaw:** Gets hung up on details. Absent-minded & forgetful. Gets lost in information. Can become murderous about anything that remotely sounds like slavery.

**Pop culture influences:**  Lisbeth Salander / Noomi Rapace vibes. Looks like a silver-haired Emilia Clarke. Touches of Elsbeth Tascioni.

**Tics / mannerisms to help GMs portray them consistently:** Stutters, corrects herself, apologizes. Feels like an accountant. Watches quietly until bursts into long, charismatic speeches. Personality can switch on a dime from shrinking to explosive. Massively powerful in battle.

## **Social Connections**

**Family members:** Father Pendar, Brothers Geth and Kai-Geth. Hasn't seen any in a very long time.

Friends / People they know:

◦ **Cohd-Rak Ilthen** - A mentor who is one of the only people that knows her secrets, and occasionally gives her missions of amends.

**Social class:** Comfortable, but itinerant and lonely.

**Occupation:** Currently, an adventurer. In the past, a highly ranked bureaucrat and courtier.

**Combat class:** Warlock.

**Where do they sleep at night?:** She mainly travels and stays at inns, as she has as singular purpose. However, she does keep an apartment in the city with a few personal items.

## **Background / Personal history:**

**A'Jeth Shadak (152 y/o she/her)** was a government functionary in the plane of shadows, in the city of Bleakfold, overseeing the trafficking of enslaved people, prisoners from the planes of mortals and of fairies, who were brought in by companies with close ties and contracts to the governing nobles. A'Jeth worked for the nobles to make sure that the contracts were fulfilled, and that the peoples were distributed correctly throughout the city, eventually working her way up to reporting directly to Prince Gorham, and overseeing and directing the work of the companies.

A'Jeth was raised in a family of upper-middle-class Dark Elves within the city, and using her skillful abilities with speech and intuitive understanding of people, she secured a starting position within Gorham’s government and rose within the ranks, after 121 years receiving the rank of Chief Business Process Analyst and Inventory Control Specialist, consistently reporting directly to the Prince. She was very organized, a bit OCD, and extremely passionate, convincing and charismatic. Despite this, she had few friends, as she was a very serious person who sought fun very little.

Being of decidedly low intelligence, despite her intuitive graces, Jeth thought very little of that with which she was engaged, so much as she simply strived to do an excellent job. This would all change drastically over the course of a few months.

A'Jeth’s mother, **Karna Shadak**, was savagely torn apart by a pack of ravenous ghouls outside the city, and A'Jeth felt just a crack of emotion enter her heart: a sadness she had not truly felt before. And that crack began a spiderweb of emotion that left her confused and distraught.

That same month, just days after her mother’s funeral, she stood on a platform surveying the execution of a family of enslaved gentle woodland fairy beings that had attempted to escape rather than continue to work in construction. Executions had been commonplace to her, but as each one was cut down that day, with the family’s mother saved for last, A'Jeth became more and more incensed, becoming absolutely filled with both rage and sadness to the point that she experienced a sudden epiphany that boiled up in her, bringing pain to every ounce of her being.

This was… wrong! She had been engaging in pure evil for decades and contributing to the suffering of tens of thousands of people. It dawned on her in what could only be called a “grey-light experience.”

Surrounded by her fellows in bureaucracy, she fell to her knees, desperately imploring some power greater than her to lift her up from the Lawful Evil way she had been living, to show her how to rise above this horrible way of living she had been unaware of up until this moment.

A Neutral Evil Demon heard her call, a fox-headed creature named **Zonorak**, and in that moment he visited a vision upon her, transporting her to a nether-space within their minds where they spoke, discussed, commisserated and created a pact together. He would give her great power and guide her away from Evil and into Neutral and eventually Good. He would strengthen her understanding of morality, and provide her with the means to escape, if she would simply cause some chaos right where she stood.

She snapped back into her body to find the lords and ladies, slavers and captains, condemned and executed all staring at her as she knelt and screamed.

She felt a new power flow in, and… She rose from her knees laughing, for the first time in a century, laughing with tears streaming down her face as she began blasting those around her with outstretched hands, silver and black crackling, zapping energy flying from her hands and frying the astonished pasty faces of the soft, evil nobles who had felt so safe up until this exact moment.

She and the fox-headed demon cackled together as he opened up a portal for her to the mortal realms, where she could set her century of wrongs aright, study what Good or Neutral or Lack of Evil truly was, and gather power to one day return to Bleakfold to “fix” the place, ending the practice of slavery, moving it into Neutrality rather than Evil, and re-uniting with her father, **Pendar.**

**Family**

Pendar is a merchant who is extremely intelligent and has OCD. He made a good fortune buying and selling spices and fine cloth and secured himself a bit of an aristocratic bearing, though not noble of background himself. He was excited when his daughter started working for Prince Gorham. He is only evil in the sense that he does not ask any questions about where his products come from, and he cares not who he sells them too, and of course, he lives in evil Bleakfold. He has no evil motives though. His sins are more those of omission than commission. (He still lives in Bleakfold. Now alone.)

Geth Shadak is older than A'Jeth. He was a detective for many years. He got promoted to Grand Inquisitor, and led contingents of men in both investigations and in battle. He spent much effort tracking down escaped slaves and foiling abolitionist and liberationist organizations. During one botched raid in which many of his men died for his mistakes, he disappeared and was never heard from again.

Kai’Geth Shadak is the eldest sibling. He was a soldier for Prince Gorham for a long time and is extremely battle seasoned. He had an epiphany as well and was last heard of in the Forgotten Realms Plane of the Material Plane.

A'Jeth does not know what happened to Geth. The word is he just disappeared one day. Jeth disappeared after Geth but before Kai’Geth, so Jeth has no idea what happened to either. A'Jeth is the only sibling who has OCD.