Althea

**Althea,** nicknamed **Thea**, is an Eladrin Cleric of the Trickster god Garl Glittergold. She is a member of Placeholder\_Party\_Name. She is played by Natalie.

## Early life

Born and raised in The Feywild, Thea is the daughter of two noble and respected fey of the Ignisar Court. She and her best friend Amity, a fellow eladrin of lower social status Thea, escaped through a Fey Crossroad in 164AE after upsetting an Arch Fey Lord. Thea and Amity were always playing pranks on the Archfey of the Ignisar and Crionix Courts, but when they crossed The Prince of Frost, an Archfey of the Unseelie Court, they almost caused an all-out war. Althea was freed from blame thanks to the influence of her parents, but rather than let her friend take the fall for her and die, Althea freed Amity and they made their escape together.

## Crossing Planes

They then crossed into the Material Plane via the Enchanted Cherry Blossom Grove south of the High Elven city of Oeran-Nis. It was in this same city that the pair had their first run-in with law enforcement after an incident at the local market that stemmed from the Fey creatures not understanding the material plane's concept of currency. It was during this incident that Althea and Amity first encountered the Howling Peak Bandits and a seemingly loyal friend and ally in Fidel.

Fidel and the bandits provided shelter to Althea and Amity from the law enforcement and provided a safe haven for them in the Howling Peak Outpost. However not all was as it seemed. Despite the two Eladrin taking the human bandits' kindness at face value, ulterior motives were at play. Fidel used the kinship brewing between the three of them to manipulate Althea and her friend into using their powerful Fey powers to aid the bandits' "Cause". The bandits' true intentions were to train Althea and Amity to control their emotions and use them as human bio-weapons, committing acts of eco-terrorism and waging elemental warfare on the elves of Oeran-Nis.

It was only when an incident in which Althea and Amity helped a young elf boy who turned out to be the son of a city elder that Fidel showed his true colours in an aggressive outburst that Althea began to see through the deception. As she and Amity were progressing in their emotion control training with Fidel, Althea began to develop a sense of empathy native to the material plane and sympathised with the victims of their attacks.

## Escaping Howling Peak

Choosing to dig a little deeper into her so-called "friend" Fidel, Althea eavesdropped on a meeting between high level bandits in the Howling Peak Outpost and overheard Fidel's grand plan; a plot to use the two Eladrin girls to fire bomb a ceremony in a public square that would be populated entirely by innocent civilians, just to take out one member of the city council.

The night before the planned attack, Althea pleaded with Amity to run away with her, but her friend's loyalty to Fidel was unfailing and she refused. In a last ditch effort to ruin Fidel's plan, Althea sent an anonymous tip to a member of the city guard and fled through the mountains. The attack went wrong and Fidel intuited Althea's part in its undoing and pursued her.

On the run from both the Oeran-Nis City Guard and the Howling Peak Bandits, Althea had nowhere left to turn. This was until she saw a rainbow in the skies over the Great Plains on the other side of the mountain. Having heard from some of her former allies in the Howling Peak Bandits that rainbows were Feywild magic leaking over into this plane of existence, Althea raced to the end of the rainbow in hopes of a Fey Crossroad, a way home. What she found instead was solace in a small chapel, the church of Garl Glittergold. The lawful good gnome god's teachings intrigued Althea as his followers took her in, and soon she found herself indoctrinated, a cleric of the trickster domain and a loyal follower of the Church of Glittergold.

During her time in the chapel, Althea shed her naivety as she learned about dishonesty and trickery. She swore to never let anyone be deceived as she was ever again, to get vengeance against the Howling Peak Bandits, get her friend Amity out of their clutches, and always have the upper hand from then on.

## Personality, Ideals, Flaws and Bonds

**Personality traits:** Althea is always sceptical and suspicious. She is very observant, can be helpful and kind, but is cautious of people she doesn't know well.

**Ideals:** Thea's ideals are to help victims and other people being taken advantage of the same way she once was.

**Flaws:** Emotions can be unstable in situations out of battle

**Bonds:** Best friend Amity, Church of Garl Glittergold, Garl Glittergold, her family back home in the Feywild.

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