Nora

**Nora** is a major character in season 4 of Welcome to the Show. Despite her young age, she is part of the rebellion that is trying to stop the war between Directian and Sabaton.

## Appearance

Nora is an average height human girl with long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a tan complexion. Like Jalerom, she wears green clothes and brown leather armor.

## Personality

Nora has an upbeat personality, tending to stay positive in most situations. She is also a serious sort of woman who stays focused on the task before her, and she is willing to work hard to accomplish her goals.

Nora can easily be described as a fangirl as well, as she absolutely idolizes Jalerom and does her best to emulate him. She will become wide-eyed and very enthusiastic when it comes to him, and is always eager to please.

## Early Life

When she was young, Nora was adopted into a loving family, but when she was a child her adoptive father joined the militia and died in battle and her mother was killed. On top of that, her brother Gareth joined sides with Sabaton, declaring that Directian was full of horrible people and refusing to heed any other possible line of thinking. The experiences have left a certain bitterness in her, but she does not allow it to rule her behavior outside of avoiding contact with her brother.

## Abilities

Nora is shown to be skilled with daggers in combat, and thanks to her ring of Glibness, she is also talented at deceit. She is also stronger than she looks, being capable of carrying Jalerom quickly back to camp when he is incapacitated. Nora is swift and agile, able to quickly close distances between herself and her opponent.

## Relationships

### Jalerom Tanlaial

Nora absolutely idolizes Jalerom, having grown to admire him from the stories Sylvester told her while training her. When she first meets him, she is unable to control her enthusiasm and asks for a lock of his hair. She later apologizes for going overboard, and gives Jalerom the space he needs while he's having trouble dealing with the onslaught of overwhelming emotions he is going through.

Later, Jalerom reaches out to Nora to try to make amends and start over, recounting to her the story of how he slew Albus Windbreath. She delighted in the tale, even making a point of writing it down so she can re-read it as she wishes and stating that she will treasure it. After this point, Jalerom becomes a sort of mentor to the girl, with them forming a bond strong enough that she recounts to him her own history and her relationship with her brother.

Nora later helps save Jalerom when Sorn attacks him, and helps him and the rest of the party search for Faerthurin when she is kidnapped.

When Nora learns that Jalerom was the one who killed her mother, she is devastated and at a complete loss about what to do. It is then also revealed that she is the one who killed Elinor in vengeance, knowing her to be the mother of her killer while being unaware that she was Jalerom's mother. The revelations are entirely overwhelming for the both of them, leaving Nora to flee and Jalerom at a loss.

Later, Jalerom and Nora are brought back together to speak about what happened between them. While it is initially awkward, they both express the wish to not lose each other. As a means of coping with how their losses have made them feel, they spend a long time talking about their mothers and how much they loved them. The conversation leaves them both feeling better, and Nora gives Jalerom something she had stolen when she killed Elinor; Jalerom's Dagger of Light uniform.

### Faerthurin

While initially confused by Nora's enthusiasm towards Jalerom, Fae grew to like Nora fairly quickly. When Jalerom manages to convince Nora to share her history with him, Fae eavesdrops on the pair and show a great deal of sympathy upon hearing what the girl has endured.

When the party later learns that Nora's adoptive mother was the succubus that Jalerom had killed years before, Fae feels a tremendous amount of guilt alongside Jalerom, and she accompanies him to tell her. After Nora flees due to the shock, Faerthurin takes it upon herself to take Gareth and search for her while the party goes to Laath Nalore. She holds the traumatized girl while she sobs helplessly, and starts to talk her through some of the pain she is dealing with. She advises her that there is one other person who will understand how she is feeling, and encourages Nora to reconcile with her brother. When she later brings the pair back to Directian, she receives a message from Elvana, as well as her cousin's finger, and Nora and Gareth both vow to help her rescue them, determined to not allow anyone else lose their family.

After successfully rescuing the Helegolar family, Nora is shown to have chosen to hide in Faerthurin's room, implying that she come to trust Fae a great deal. She also listens to Fae as she talks both her and Jalerom through what has happened, and takes her advice to share her feelings about her mother and how losing her affected her.

### Gareth

Nora is shown to have a poor relationship with her brother. He is initially her "persona non-Grata," though she does still love him enough to risk the fire elves' wrath to free him from imprisonment. Gareth seems to think Nora is either unintelligent of gullible, as he refuses point-blank to listen to anything she says and even accuses Jalerom and Faerthurin of brainwashing her. After he is rescued from Aryvandaar, the two are heard arguing intensely over "giving up" and "playing assassin."

After they learn the truth about who killed their mother, Gareth accompanies Faerthurin to look for the traumatized Nora. While he does show hesitance to approach his sister due to their strained relationship, Fae encourages them to start trying to reconcile now that everything is in the open. The siblings embrace, crying into each other and showing each other love for the first time in years, implying an improvement in their relationship.

After helping to save the Helegolar family, Gareth joins Nora in talking with Jalerom about their mother. When Nora briefly steps out of the room, Gareth notes that he had more time to come to terms than she had, showing that he had begun to understand Nora more after the conversation.

### Sylvester

Sylvester Volante is stated to have helped train Nora, and is the one who told her the tales of the Dishonor Brigade that lead to her admiration of Jalerom. However, the two have not been seen on-screen at the same time, so the depths of their relationship is unknown.

### Beleen

Beleen and Nora are friends, having met through the rebellion. Nora is often seen chiding or smacking Beleen for immature or childish behavior, but Beleen takes it in stride with only minor complaining. The two are seen to work well together.

### Sorn Maevalth

After Jalerom's encounter with Sorn, Nora reveals to him that Sorn gave her the ring of Glibness. Jalerom later is able to decipher from a variety of context clues that she sought out Sorn at a young age, seeking to become an assassin to avenge her mother's death. Sorn, in his hatred for Jalerom, guided the young girl to her killer's mother for her vengeance and helped her to carve Elinor's body to pieces, all while leaving her unaware of the actual name of her mother's killer. When Nora learns of the deception, she attempts to turn her blades on Sorn in hatred, only to be thwarted due to his not physically being there.

## Trivia

* While it could easily be interpreted as such, Nora does not have a crush on Jalerom. The DM was very clear that she was NOT intended to be a romantic rival for Faerthurin.
* It is later revealed that Nora is one of the children mentioned in passing by Jalerom's blacksmith friend, noted as asking how to become an assassin.