Lorelei Oromae

**Lorelei Oromae** is a sea elf paladin of Deep Sashelas, or at least, that is how she appears to be. Truthfully, Lorelei was once a crab until a grieving father used his magic to wish his daughter back into existence when resurrection magic failed. Truthfully, Lorelei is not the original, but a crab turned into a sea-elf by the *wish* spell and joined with an elven soul that was deemed similar to the original. Wishing to make her father proud and follow in his original daughter's footsteps, she soon set out on being a paladin, as per her dad's wishes and instructions.

Lorelei Oromae was a player character in the one-shot *Breaking Umberlee's Resolve*, and might return for other modules in the Sea of Falling Stars.

## Description

Lorelei Oromae is a sea elf. She stands at 5'10" tall (1.78 meters) and weighs approximately 145 lbs (65.77 kg). Lorelei has pale blue skin and turquoise hair. Most notably, she wears armor fashioned from crab chitin most of the time as if it is her second skin. At all times, Lorelei can be seen carrying a trident that was enchanted by her father and wearing a aquamarine pendant carved into the shape of a dolphin. In combat, she often pulls out a shield made from the shell of a giant crab as well.

## History

Lorelei is not the first to bear her name or even the actual daughter of Theodemar Oromae, but to understand that we must back up a little. Theodemar Oromae was born in Lake Sember and studied wizardry in Myth Drannor. Surprisingly, despite the rarity of sea elves with arcane magic, Theodemar made quite a name for himself as a blossoming archmage. Eventually during his studies, he meets a sea elven woman from Myth Nantar named Lobelia, the two eventually marry and long after, have a daughter they named Lorelei.

As Lorelei grew, Myth Nantar proved not to be enough for her and she had little interest or talent for the arcane magic her father possessed or her mother attempted to emulate. Instead, it was in the preachings of Deep Sashelas that she found purpose. The stories of his twinkling light from afar leading his faithful to safety was something she wished to see for herself. To do so, Lorelei took to the surface with adventurers and made a name for herself as an explorer. However, even the greatest explorers find challenges they can't surmount. For Lorelei, this was at the hands of a sea hag coven. Her and her friends were lured in with the intent of being used as sacrifices to bind a young kraken to their service as a weapon against their enemies. Lorelei sacrificed herself in a last stand to save her friends, ensure their escape, and foil the hags' plans. With her valiant sacrifice and the support of her friends, the coven was destroyed, as was Lorelei. Though, for those she saved, they swear a twinkling light surrounded her before she went. Her friends brought the body back to her parents who immediately paid the Temple of Deep Sashelas to bring her back, but Lorelei refused. She believed her purpose was to ensure her friends were safe and the hag coven destroyed and by returning, she would be going against the path Deep Sashelas set out for her.

Unable to accept this, Theodemar isolated himself and refused to move on from the loss of his daughter. Between his isolation, mad ravings, and refusal to attempt to move on, Lobelia eventually left him. The Sea of Fallen Stars held nothing but heartbreak for her, and she went to find happier waters. This hardly mattered to Theodemar. After years of further study, he finally had enough experience to cast the *wish* spell. He made his way to his daughter's room (which he kept just the way she left it) and found a crab within it. Taking this as a sign, he used his wish to turn this crab into his daughter. Though weakened considerably by the effort, Theodemar believes he had the blessings of Deep Sashelas to do this as his ability to cast *wish* remained.

The effects of Theodemar's wish created the new Lorelei. Though, it wasn't quite as perfect as the father had hoped. An elven soul was ripped out of the afterlife by his spell and fused into the crab turned physical copy of his daughters. The memories of this creature are those of the crab and past lives of this soul, his actual daughter not being among them. Still, overjoyed to see his daughter again and more than willing to overlook her new curious nature and crablike tendencies, he raised her to be as close to the original as possible. He handed her the weapon he previously enchanted for the original Lorelei as well as armor and a shield he had commissioned from a giant crab after realizing the new Lorelei's comfort when surrounded by a shell.

After 15 years of intense training and studying the way of Deep Sashelas, Lorelei departed for the surface world, driven both by her own curiosity and at the urging of her father. From there, she hopped on a spice merchant's ship heading to Ayakar. After becoming comfortable in the coastal town and proving to be very helpful around the docks, Lorelei received a summons from Mezhar for help finding a missing person on behalf of the Deryan family. While most of those words meant nothing to her, Lorelei was all too excited to help somebody in need.