Tawny

## Description

Not many know her full name, preferring to simply introduce herself as "Tawny".

You are unlikely to see her without a hat. Whether a trilby, beret, tricorn, or a simple shawl, her head is always covered. Her face and paws are beguilingly patterned with red and black stripes, but the red quickly gives way to black with the hint of darker spots on the rest of her body. Around her neck hangs a simple necklace of a moonstone with silver inlay in the symbol of Eilistraee with an infinity sign. Her hand often unconsciously touches the moonstone, and sometimes she gets a far off look.

While often enjoying time on her own, she enjoys telling tales that she has heard, and she is rarely far from her lute, playing a tune to accompany her stories. Uncomfortable at times around the more common races, she recognises the more unusual, knowing that they get the same reaction as she, and will befriend them with more ease. She comes over as friendly, sometimes flirty, often using her smile to cover her discomfort. Unless you are an orc. She REALLY doesn't like orcs (long story, gnome friends, a lot of hunting). She comes over as caring, and has made friends with many of the children in town, carrying sweets and cookies for them, but underneath she has a hard side which comes from some previous experiences and she is not squeamish when it comes to death.

She often seems to have some bees with her, and some have commented that she smells of honey. If you stand very quietly by her you may even hear a slight buzzing sound.

## History

Where many have exciting and heroic backgrounds, Tawny feels she is rather non-descript. As many tabaxi, she left home to wander and explore. She spent a year with a clan of gnomes, learning their ways and helping them, then went on again. She has found a love of the coast, happily wandering along a shore picking up trinkets, or playing on the cliffs picking coastal flowers. She has made a life of hunting, providing meat and skins to small communities, or protecting them from marauding orcs and gnolls. Some may consider her life boring, she just thinks it happy.

## Daleos

Since arriving in Daleos, she has fallen in love with the cafe, and finds the place fascinating. With no connections back to where she came from, she looks forward to adventure.

Tawny started working for the Observe, making deliveries, finding Salira a good friend who she enjoys talking to, and bringing plum tarts for. She tried writing a story for the paper, and was very proud when it was published, and has since begun a series on the heroes and legends of town. She also performed some work forShortly after arriving she met a beautiful woman dancing in the street, and they got to talking. Tawny believes she has met her soul mate in Kes. Although from very different backgrounds, they appear to have similarities that bring them close, and Tawny believes deeply that they have always been connected over whatever distances there have been between them. And whatever distances will be between them again as Kes has announced she needs to leave to complete a bond. Kes gave her the moonstone necklace that hangs around her neck, and Tawny has given Kes a tiger eye necklace in return. Enna, guarding her shop at night, during which time she seemed to uncover some strange goings on and a gang working in secret. She passed the information on to the guard, and was invited to accompany them on a raid. She enjoyed herself so much that she joined the guard and, after a slightly shaky start, has settled in well.

When traveling to Sundry with Kes and Teth, they were kidnapped. Escaping, they fought and defeated the bandits. Entering their cave they explored and found a chained panther. They released the panther who has stayed with her since and has been named "Shadow". Shadow often goes on guard patrols with Tawny.