Kriswyn Withiniel

## Appearance

Kriswyn stands just over seven feet tall, her semi muscular form towering over most humanoids.  She wears a set of leather hide armor on her chest, with a deer pelt as a cloak.  She usually travels barefoot, with leather ankle wraps, unless she needs to be wearing boots due to adverse conditions.

## Biography

Born to a Firbolg tribe on the 3rd of Kythorn, 1392 DR,
under a strange astrological event.  Abandoned by her tribe, she was
found by a pair of Elven farmers near Myth Drannor, and taken in as an
infant.  Before she turned a year old, her family moved to Shadowdale.
The young child took to the forests, coasts, and farmlands, often
wandering about all day looking for animals and plants to speak to.  The
 farmers considered her to have a knack for plants life, and soon she
was inducted into the Circle of the Ashen Moon, a druid circle based
near Shadowdale.  While often heading back to Cormanthor to see her
family, she spent most of her time among the people of the Dales,
assisting farmers with small scale crops raising.  However, the young
druid found herself a part of an adventuring party, working her hardest
with a group of elves, humans, and halflings to bring peace to the small
 hamlets in the area.

Following the 'peaceful' seizure of
Featherdale, many local practices were cracked down upon by Sembian
authorities, working under the Netherese Empire.  Kriswyn found some of
her own friends and comrades under scrutiny by Sembian authorities,
including her lover, Ysilda, a Halfling Sorceress who took to the young
Firbolg.  The group named themselves the Red Briars, and they worked to
undermine the Netherese and Sembian authorities as best they could.
Ysilda, an educated ex-Noble, wrote a manifesto for the party,
advocating for new political principles to guide their revolutionary
movement forward. Following principals of equality, democracy, and
justice for the downtrodden, the group spent equal time helping the
locals and sabotaging the efforts of the occupiers. Unfortunately, the
group ran afoul of the authorities, and the Firbolg and her halfling
companion found themselves cut off from the group following a betrayal.
After
 helplessly watching her lover fall to the executioner's axe, the rescue
 party almost arrived too late to save the young Firbolg.  Revennir the
Mountain, the paladin of her party, broke the magic-suppressing bonds
around Kriswyn.  She altered her shape into that of an angry bear, and
she batted the head from the executioner's shoulders. The firbolg
managed to escape, but not before taking the hood of the one who
murdered her lover. She also recovered the unicorn horn brooch from her
love, one she fashioned for her herself. After a few hard months
underground, she located the traitor: A lieutenant under a Netherese
mage-general Corralax, who forsook his mortal form to become a lich.
Tracking the traitor down, she found him at a formal ball.  The druid
crashed through the window in the form of a sparrow, before shifting her
 form into a maned lioness, the momentum allowing her to fall against
the Lieutenant.  Unfortunately, General Corallax was present, and the
lich and his Vishtani guests quickly cast a spell to cast the druid into
 the Abyss.  However, the nature of her auspicious birth changed the
outcome of the spell, and she found herself pulled from the mists into
Barovia...

## Story So Far..

Kriswyn emerged from the mists, enraged but also very confused. She found a man attempting to drown a Vishtani child. She quietly rescued the child and drowned the man for his attempted atrocity.