Candace

A theoretically very special girl. **Candace** is a paladin of Mystra, and a bard dedicated to the College of the Silver Silk. As the descendant of a celestial, she is seen as something of a paragon of law and goodness, which has its ups and downs: on one hand, everyone respects her word and looks to her for advice; on the other hand, the expectations are slowly killing her. She isn't *really* all that pure, particularly when it comes to being lawful, but she is certainly a paragon of good, and her mission is to bring love, life and light to all corners of the world, as well as spread knowledge of magic.

## Personality

A kind and lovely girl. Candace is just the sweetest and treats everyone politely. She can, intentionally or otherwise, be quite manipulative, using lies of omission and doublespeak to her advantage. She is otherwise fairly honorable though, adhering to all promises and deals, and rarely ever striking first in combat even if she has reason to. She can be quite grandiose in almost every circumstance, but particularly when she is fighting.

When hanging out with Nara, her closest friend, she displays a marginally more rebellious side, acting like most ordinary teenagers. She likes to have fun, which by her definition amounts to essentially mild acts of trolling, though she commonly objects to Nara's more harmful pranks and acts as a voice of reason between the two.

She likes playing the flute and dancing, and particularly step dancing as it allows her to play her flute at the same time. On the side, she is fond of linguistics, learning languages and language/symbol/rune-based magic.

## History

She was born on November 19 1996 to parents somewhere in Farauei. Recognized for her angelic nature, she was taken in by the College of the Silver Silk at an early age to practice with them alongside her formal education. She met Nara in her 9th year of school, where they did music together, and after a while, the College took in Nara as well. They trained together to become bards and paladins, but Nara dropped her training to pursue her own path, using some of her bardic techniques as the foundation for her Magus levels, and the martial training from being a paladin as the foundation for her Bloodrager levels. Candace on the other hand completed her training fully and was inducted into the ways of the College. Her prestige was great enough that she could keep Nara following behind her, and they both gained the most powerful boon of Mystra; Silver fire.

Not much has happened in her life that is of note, except for that she has been with Nara for quite a while, and they share many a fond memory.

## Relationships

### Nara

Candace and Nara are best friends. They talk to each other almost daily, exchange favors, fight together, do almost everything together. They sometimes go out for food together. Candace isn't aware of Nara's plan, nor her ability. They are close enough to be like siblings, or perhaps moirails.

### Charry

Candace knows Charry as Nara's friend, and Charry remembers a past iteration of Candace via their ability. They talk together when Nara can be bothered to set up a dream council. Candace thinks they're alright, while Charry expresses sorrow over Candace not remembering them like they remember her.

## Abilities & Skills

She is a fairly skillful girl. Candace is pretty intelligent and wise (in roughly equal proportions), She also has a very forceful personality, which is her most useful ability. She is quite dexterous, slightly less than Tsubaki, and her physical strength is decent for someone of her caliber. She has a very strong fortitude due to the presence of silver fire in her body. She is highly knowledgeable, particularly when it comes to religious lore, occult information and planar cosmology, but really, she's a bard, she knows a little bit about everything. She is also quite slippery and can perform great feats of acrobatics or escape from bindings fairly easily. She can identify spells of all sort and is able to sneak about, as some extraneous talents of hers. She is incredibly skillful at dancing and playing wind instruments, and can also sing decently well.

As a Bard//Paladin, Candace is a potent fighter specializing in bows, of which her skill is nearly unrivaled with as she emulates angelic techniques. She has access to a small amount of divine spells that heal injuries, dispel magic, enhance her combat prowess and other weird stuff, as well as a slightly larger pool of arcane spells that do... almost the same thing, really, but without the healing injuries part. She can inspire others to act with great skill via her music and words of encouragement, and can lend her power to others in times of need. She has a powerful aura that does various *things*, like make her immune to fear, or infuse her weapons with the power of good, or make her immune to magical compulsions. Additionally, her divine grace provides her protection from attacks that target her willpower, or require fortitude or sharp reflexes. She can call celestial spirits to aid her cause, particularly those that follow her deity, and can invite them into her holy symbols to empower her abilities. She can channel positive energy to heal the living or harm undead, and is in fact quite good at it. Blessed by Mystra, she can utilize silver fire for all of its worth.

As an aasimar, she has a spirit that is resistant to death magic, and she is immune to certain spells that can only affect mortal humanoids, as she is closer in nature to outsiders like celestials. She has glowing, jewel-like eyes that allow her to see in the dark. She also has some completely useless abilities, like being able to make halo appear over her head that sheds light, and being able to sense when people are pregnant if she's standing within 10 feet of them. Because of her nature as a cute young girl with ties to literal angels, nobody could ever think she would lie on purpose, so her ability to deceive others is exceptionally strong, even if she doesn't do it very often. She has very strange wings, both in terms of their construction as well as their material properties; the feathers are as strong as steel and can be as sharp as daggers, but she can also soften them and use them as actual wings to carry her body (admittedly she is quite light, but still, those are very tiny wings for her and if the bee movie has taught me anything its that she should not be able to fly). She uses these wings along with her sword to retaliate against enemies who get within her melee range, before retreating and flying to safety. As a blooded scion of Brenna's derivation, she has abilities that include drawing memories from ancestors, possessing an extended life, being able to magically heal people, and an aura that protects her and her allies from evil, including mind control magic and summoned evil creatures or evil attacks.

### Equipment

Candace is dressed in the garb of her college, which has been enchanted to provide comfort and resistance against dirt and filth, along with the ability to resurrect Candace from the brink of death once per day. It has many weird places to put things in, like a phone and a set of keys which she carries on her. For combat, her weapon of choice is a composite shortbow infused with the power of good, and a quiver full of silver arrows. She also carries around a silver flute which is her instrument of choice and not special in any way, and in fact was something she bought personally on a whim with her mother one day, and a silver split-blade sword handed down to her by her angelic patrons that she uses to attack in melee, a position she loathes to be in (although with d10 hit dice and full BAB, she actually isn't that bad as a front-liner)

## Trivia

* Her pre-Scratch counterpart would be Candace Kinyaku (pre-Scratch), although that is not a page that actually exists. It *is* known via the copy of Red Thread of Fate I have in my Google Drive that Candace Kinyaku *was* a character in Red Thread of Fate, and based on her surname (禁薬), she was one of the various incarnations of Candace who was completely immortal via having consumed the Hourai Elixir (or Elixir of Aja as it was known in that iteration.) Likely, she would've had the ability to manipulate life energy and mental energy or something to that extent.
* Along with Nara and Charry, Candace is one of my oldest characters, having come into existence on July 1 2019. Unlike the other two, Candace has no real inspirations.
* At 4'10", she is my `second` shortest character, just barely beaten out by Ayumu who is an inch shorter and probably has more reason to be 4'9" given that he hasn't even hit puberty yet. For reference, Candace sits around 16-17. Tsubaki, at 4'11 and several hundred years older, is my third shortest character.
* Her most iconic trait is her large eyes and incredibly small, low-set nose.