Elyria Rae

## Background

Elyria’s childhood was one filled with mystical wonder having been born in the Feywild. This was abruptly stopped when a trader who had visited her tribe's grove brought with him oddities in exchange for ointments and healing herbs which were grown and produced by the druids. This trader lured Elyria one day by convincing her that if she could use her magic to heal a friend of his, he would pay her by giving her a trinket that her father wanted from him. This trinket was always around the Jasmal’s neck and her father had been trying to obtain the trinket for the past year or two. Elyria at the age of 11 followed Jasmal and attempted to heal his friend, succeeding in a mildly curing the man, but before she could leave Jasmal grasped her and transported her to the material plane. With no escape, Jasmal had the upper hand and added her to his merchandise. Around two years passed before Jasmal tried to sell her for the first time at a slave market, it was there that Elyria took her chance and used her natural ability to turn invisible to escape when Jasmal removed her shackles. After successfully escaping from Jasmal’s grasp she tried to find a place that made her feel at home. She found out that there were groves even on this plane, spread about in areas were few would traverse. Elyria managed to make her way to one such grove where she requested aid from the dryad, aid which was granted. Over the next five years the dryad taught Elyria much but also requested small favours of her, most of these favours involved Elyria speaking to the ‘locals’ which resided in a village around a week’s journey from its grove. During these years Elyria resolved to aid the dryads of the forest for the aid they had granted her. When she turned eighteen, Elyria left the grove with the dryad's blessing in order find a grove in need of aid.

Along the way Elyria learned much, and gained a lot of experience in her druidic arts. One day she stumbled onto a grove wherein a dryad resided, the creature concerned by a magical barrier that sealed a nearby temple, had weakened. She sent Elyria inside to collect a black orb that was sealed within. Upon obtaining the orb, Elyria also found a relic a Staff of the Woodlands. Leaving the cave she met a mysterious who beat her in her weakened state from the fight to obtain the orb, and stole the orb from her, leaving her to die alone. She was found and protected while she recovered by a pack of sabre-toothed tigers, having completely recovered she decided to awaken the one who had found her using her newly acquired staff, naming her Syluri and teaching her the language of the Druids. She returned to the dryad, where she told the dryad what had transpired, the dryad asked Elyria to head west towards the fallen fortress, following in the dark magic’s wake. There she was told to find a dryad, who lived in a grove on a island in the middle of a lake.

The dryad then guided her another beleaguered part, who where fighting their way through the Wissenland Peninsula, drawn by the light of the fortress. There, Elyria furthered her skill and knowledge, and even found a glaive with the spirit of the Lunar Queen's Handmaiden, Thyshana, who helped her begrudgingly along her path. Throughout the months in Wissenland, Elyria fought beastmen, gnolls, orcs and worse, and unfortunately never managed to find who branded her, although they are very much still out there, goading and teasing her at the edges of her thoughts.

Elyria also lost Syluri, who was struck down by a beastman weapon, and the Elyria that entered the Fortress was a very bitter Firbolg, who sought the power to get back at all those who had wronged her.