Isra Ssalla

* Present
* Youth

Isra Ssalla, born Enora, is a Dhampir Paladin involved in the early exploration of the continent of Ahlus, and a primary force working against the efforts of the The Onyx Shroud.

## Backstory

Enora was born in a Venari cult on the northern edge of the Ironfangs, the Onyx Shroud. With one vampire parent and one elf, she was one of several half-vampires in the cult, intent on spreading vampirism in any way they can, despite their limitations in doing so. As she grew older however, Enora began to form an interest in the thralls and captives of the cult. She would interact with them and eventually started talking with a captured cleric of Emes, Imra Ssalla. Hearing about the experiences of the thralls and especially her conversations with Imra showed her there is much more to the world than the young dhampyr previously thought and she began resenting her family, starting to see what they were doing as wrong. This also led to her deciding that she didn’t want to stay with the Onyx Shroud, as the simple disagreements turned worse and she felt an ever increasing tension.

Maybe what happened was the simple act of a rebellious teenager, maybe something more, it didn’t really matter, the end result was the same. When she got the chance, Enora freed Imra and left with her, escaping the direct influence of her vampire parent and the Shroud itself. After leaving, Imra led the young dhampir to Castle Jalzazhuss, where she has lived with the members of the den for the last few years. In honour of the tiefling who opened her eyes, Enora started going by a new name, Isra Ssalla and living within the den, she adopted their faith. Initiated as a Paladin of Emes, working to spread his light.

## Recent History

Isra was amongst a group of individuals gathered up by the satyr Gwynrir to aid him in his investigations into the occurrences taking place within the Feywild that ultimately proved to lead back to a pair of members of the Onyx Shroud. The pair, having met up with two others - that of the paladin Vlondril and the cleric Volantar - sought to gather information on the nature of the Spire of Beckoning, their companions within the Shadowfell, the two of them in the Timeless Vale itself.

It was here that Isra was encountered by an adventuring party made up predominantly of individuals from Amber Run, rescuing them from an attack by a number of gloomstalkers and sorrowsworn. After initial suspicion, given her few vampiric features, the party came to align themselves to Isra and Gwynrir, working together to assault it with aid called in from Erastus, Sir of Silverbell Keep. Holding back the defenders for numerous rounds with assistance from flocks of Kavouri thousands strong and a trio of Sokan, the party managed to buy enough time for the assumed Archfey to evoke an potent incantation of epic scale, seemingly siphoning off the last of his divine life force and energy to simultaneously reset the Timeless Vale and its surroundings to rid them of their corruption, destroy the Agony's Feast, and sever the connection to the Shadowfell in one blinding flash of light. With a particular focus on the members of the Onyx Shroud, Isra spent much of this battle hunting down Kristoph and Narcisa, slaying the former deftly and wounding the latter despite being under the effects of the spell *Power Word Pain*.

Isra, like the rest of the party instead found herself standing within the Timeless Vale restored, and shortly after departed with Gwynrir by means of a *Plane Shift*.

## Quotations

* *"There is only one of your kind for which I have felt any form of sorrow. And now, those tears have dried, and all I will offer you is the mercy of a long-expected finality."* (To Kristoph, just before cutting the vampire down with Ryme Caller.)