Lorelei Alloway

## Lorelei Grace Alloway

* Current Design
* Former Design

*"You will always have my forgiveness, even if you aren't asking for it."*

## Backstory

### Evermeadow

Lorelei Alloway was born in Evermeadow, Dandrid, where she lived with her parents and her close friend Brenton for 11 years. However, when she was 11 years old, Brenton was possessed by a demon and burned down the entire town, killing everyone except for Lorelei, who fell into a river trying to escape and was saved by Ceraphyl.

### Asphodel

After she came to, she spent a year or so wandering the country and fighting in various fighting temples, continuing to be turned away because she was too weak. Eventually, she arrived in the capital of Dandrid and found the fight club Asphodel, where she met Jazmyn. She introduced herself as Rory, and after some fighting they became best friends.

Rory began to be trained by Jazmyn's father, Iezak, from the time she was 12 to 14. However, that wasn't the only training she was doing- she was also learning magic with Ceraphyl, learning the rules and the power she could channel by following them. She kept taking fight after fight, using the shortsword and unarmed combat she'd been learning from Iezak.

One day, she entered a fight against what seemed like any other opponent, a half-elven boy a little older then herself, and the match went on for a while. They seemed evenly matched, with Rory's fists against the boy's dagger, until he managed to catch her arm and stab her in the back. As he twisted the dagger and mocked her, she acted by pure impulse and struck him with lightning using *Guiding Bolt.*

### Post-Asphodel

After that fight she ran away, and Ceraphyl taught her not to break her rule against any other magic than water in combat by giving Rory light blue lightning scars all over her body, similar to the damage that she had done with her carelessly-spent magic. With this, Lorelei discarded her old nickname and resolved to devote herself entirely to following Ceraphyl's teachings and wandered the country again.

Eventually, she joined Delva's pirate crew and adventured with them until she met the Somerlow party in the Clouded Kingdom.

### Memories

In Session 52, everyone discovered that sometime in her childhood in Evermeadow, Lorelei had *Modify Memory* powerfully cast on her- either the spell had been cast at a great level or it had been cast many times. After some pressing, she realized that she couldn't recall a single bad memory in her childhood aside from the night the town burned, and she couldn't recall anything at all from the two months leading up to that night. As of this writing, the caster is unknown and the spell continues to affect her.

## Character Description

### Physical Description

Lorelei stands at 5'3 with fair skin covered in lightning-like blue scars, and she has blue eyes and short purple hair. There is a short jagged scar in the small of her back that comes through to her front, just above her belly button, and it looks as if it has been there for years. She wears all black. Her crop top has short puffed lacy sleeves and the attached hood forms a diamond shaped key-hole, revealing a hot pink scar on her chest that glows whenever she's near Jazmyn. Her black leggings come all the way down to her boots, and she wears arm-length fingerless black gloves. She has a dark purplish-grey leg bag that sits around her waist, attached with various belts.

### Personality

Lorelei is very trusting, kind, and loyal to a fault. She's a passionate person, and that can lead to her having a temper. She cares very deeply about the whole party and will do her best to protect them in any situation.

## Trivia

* Lorelei was named after the two protagonists of TV show *Gilmore Girls,* Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.
* Lorelei's character was largely inspired by the question "How much of a person's identity is built on their memories?"
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## Spotify Playlists

"just relax, my friend" - Lorelei's main playlist. Encompasses her character as she currently is.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4o780ExNgjCSNpITE3fLTE?si=0b1fc096a2e54090

"water damaged memories" - Encompasses her character when she first joined the party.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29Cpkog5tua22LOs8QqV3Y?si=ff6797b5dd8d4c93

"the ballad of lorelei alloway - Explores how memory, or lack thereof, can affect a person's identity.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WduF6WBQOLBQbXoY4DL70?si=af0ada3fad2647ad

"an inconvenient truth can be easily erased" - For Evermeadow and everything that happened there.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XQr38xvzNeEzervx88Y32?si=339d869499374888

"where will you house your skeletons" - For Asphodel and everything that happened there.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zaV8VVz32neRtP49LeG5l?si=e461f8afb5a84d2a

"you burn like me" - For Brenton and Lorelei, childhood friends turned siblings.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nmx80kQLxfvin9VUvF6rF?si=48d899b92fcd4b80

"falling slowly, sing your melody" - For Jazmyn and Lorelei, lost and found again.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3verIJsose7C0ygDzgAg9t?si=963ac31bc33e4ce8