Lenore

## Characteristics

* Class: Wizard
* Subclass: School of Necromancy
* Lineage: Kalashtar/Reborn
* Faith: N/A
* Gender: Female
* Size/Height: Medium/4.8ft
* Weight: 52lb
* Age: Unknown, looks to be around 13.
* Hair: Silver
* Skin: Pale
* Eyes: Violet

### Personality

Lan is a bright and happy child going day to day with a sense of wonder at the world. Naive, she takes things mainly at face value, trusting of those she meets despite her past. Easily distracted she would rather be playing with her friends than fighting, and most often appears not all present in battle.

## Background

Possessed One (Haunted One)

Feature: Heart of Darkness

The Quori spirit within you has been ripped away, replaced with something else. The dead often treat you as one of their own, and the ones closest to you often aid you.

## Backstory

### Awakening

*She awakens in a darkened room. Pale lights flicker, forming striking shadows on the walls. The straps that held her down loosen, becoming untied. In the corner lays a body, withered, as if all the life had been sucked out of it. Fear strikes her. No name forms on her lips, for herself or the deceased.*

*Suddenly there came a tapping. As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the corner of her mind.*

*"Lenore..." A soft, cold caress on her cheek,*

*"We must leave."*

*"We must hurry."*

*Three voices speak almost in unison.*

*"Do not fear." "We will protect you." "We must flee.”*

### Lenore's Friends

Lenore awoke in a tower, her memory gone and little evidence pointing to her past. Disembodied voices came to her, leading her out of the tower and into the wild taking only an old Grimoire at their urging. Her friends. With their guidance she crosses the Shadow Watch rendered invisible by her friend's power. Her magic seems to be dependent on these incorporeal friends, her eyes shifting color, her posture and voice changing as spells are cast through her rather than by her own volition.

### Wandering

Lenore has no true sense of how long she wandered the world, paying little attention to the changing seasons. Her friends, constant companions, offering advice (often conflicting) on where to go. Despite living on the streets she always appeared to be clean and well-fed, often despite the weather or terrain.

In most places she visited she was treated an oddity, she girl who talks to thin air. The girl with imaginary friends. The strange things that happen around her often converted this to unease at the best times and fear at the worst. Due to her naive and carefree nature these feelings simply went over her head.

Many of the villages she came to had issues, hauntings, the unrestful dead. In each place she resolved these issues. Not by force, but again with her naivety and kindness. Putting ghosts to rest and helping them move on by sorting out unfinished business. Breaking curses that kept the dead from rest using her friend's advice.

Unknown to her, stories and folk tales began circling of The Wandering Child, The Urchin. A small girl who would come to town and bring peace to the dead, or take them away to her magical castle in the sky. Like most folk stories these tales are often heavily embellished retaining little truth. One feature in all these tales is that if a small girl comes to town, seemingly alone, treat her with kindness and prosperity will follow. Treat her with cruelty and only sorrow will befall you.

#### Known Tales of Lan

* The Girl and the Haunted Log
* The Banshee of Bluefly
* The Urchin and the Goblin King

### Meeting Scram

Lenore met Scram, as one would, in a graveyard. He had unwittingly angered a ghost by desecrating their grave, scrawling "BIGG MAN" on their tombstone and leaving a disgusting little offering. In her usual way Lan merely talked to the ghost and made Scram clean up his mess. As happens sometimes the villagers imagined something a lot more exciting. This became the tale of The Urchin and the Goblin King in which a young girl beats the Goblin King, who also happens to be a powerful necromancer, in a game of wits. Forcing him back to his mountain fortress.

Lan and Scram became fast friends. Her first corporeal one. Traveling to the Guild in Kingdom, Lan mainly just tagging along with the unruly goblin.