Trisanna Sandaviar

*"I'm mean, but not **that** mean."*

**Trisanna Sandaviar**, usually refered to as **Trisanna** or just **Tris**, is a high priestess and cleric of **Mystra**, and long time member of the Adventurer's Guild. She has been around since the early days, and seen many an adventurer come and go over the years.

She lives with her archmage husband **Voladrian** in a stone tower on a hill to the northeast of Phandalin. Nowadays she mostly stays in her tower or travels the planes, some times with her husband, though he is often busy with his magic experiments and other high level wizard business. Despite being mostly removed from the guild, she some times comes down to say hi, and is always ready to step in when the guild calls for help.

## Appearance

Trisanna is a young wood elf woman, about 5'5" (165 cm), with tan skin and dark copper hair. Her eyes have a vibrant hazel color with a slight magical shimmer, which turns to a silvery fire when she channels high level magic.

She is usually seen wearing either a black headband with silvery swirls or a witch style pointy hat.

From day to day, she has two outfits the tends to alternate between. One which consists of a loose tunic tied closely around the waist with a belt, and tight fitting dark pants. The other is a very short and form fitting dress, which has a color changing enchantment. She usually wears it black, but it was originally pink. Trisanna also has a pair of dark leather ankle boots that she wears almost all the time.

Additionally, Trisanna always wears an amulet with Mystra's holy symbol.

When the world needs saving, Trisanna puts on her suit of armor, which looks like black metal vines partially entangling her. On the chest, between the vines and leaves is the symbol of her goddess. Trisanna also wields a dark ebony shield with the same symbol, which she crafted herself.

## Personality

In contrast to the expectations one might have from her profession as a high priestess of Mystra, Trisanna is irreverent and careless. She loves joking and having fun messing with people, often by impressive feats of sleight of hand, or by talking about things they might be uncomfortable with, and some times acting a certain way to give people the wrong ideas. Trisanna feeds on awkwardness. Despite being kind of an asshole at times, Trisanna has a good heart, and genuine care for most people, and she is serious and sincere when she needs to.

## History

### Backstory

Trisanna was born in the High Forest, but does not remember much of it. Her family moved to an enclave in the Neverwinter Wood while she was still only a few years old. In her years of growing up there was very little interaction with other races, and she was taught to always be wary of outsiders, especially humans. In her late teenage years her family and a group of other elves moved north to the Lurkwood to form a small enclave there. The following year tensions grew between the newly formed enclave and local humans, and the enclave was ultimately wiped out in a raid from the surrounding tribes and villages.

Trisanna was the sole survivor of this incident and managed to escape, but while traveling alone on the road she was taken by marauders, who took her captive and eventually traded her to underground slavers in Luskan. She was then put into servitude for a fairly high ranking Luskan official, who used and abused her. It was around this time she got a knack for secretly playing pranks on people, and it became her favorite way to amuse herself in an otherwise miserable life. After a couple of years of servitude, she found an opening to escape, and hid in the Luskan slums.

While life on the streets was hard, and she had little knowledge of human customs and language, she learned bit by bit. She found out that not all humans were bad, and she found a growing sense of community with the other people in the slums. Trisanna spent the better half of a decade in this way of life until she caught the eye of another slaver and once again found herself in captivity. She was put to work in a brothel, and soon after was transfered to a related shady enterprise in Silverymoon. After a few months in Silverymoon she escaped and was living on the streets once more, with a new and wondrous city to explore.

No more than a tenday went by before underground agents eventually found her again and tried to capture her. This time however, a priest of Mystra heard her calls for help and felt great pity for her. He drove the agents away and took Trisanna under his wing. The cleric was a human man named Kaenon, and was about the same age as Trisanna (about 30 years at this point). In the years following, Trisanna joined the clergy of Mystra, with Kaenon as her mentor. Eventually they married and lived for 70 years together until Kaenon died of old age.

Seeing friends and family die of old age had a strong emotional impact on Trisanna, and drove her to seclude herself from society for a time before she decided to settle in the High Forest. For a year she tried to fit in, but ultimately gave up. Her faith and way of life was not unifiable with the wood elf culture that she had left behind so long ago.

As this was going on in Trisanna's life, other major events were going on in the world, the Second Sundering and the return of Mystra. As Mystra gained power, Trisanna felt magic stir within her. At the time, she didn't know why this was, but she understood it was time for something new. She packed her things, and started her life as an adventurer.

### AG History

It started out small, but gradually Trisanna got more and more powerful, taking on more and more important jobs. She was one of the adventurers that gave the guild access to the forge of spells, an implement that was instrumental in unlocking the secrets of magic item crafting for members of the guild.

One particularly memorable mission had Trisanna and a group of other adventurers (one of them being Voladrian) clear out a cave of demons. It was during this mission Voladrian entered a portal to the Abyss by himself, hoping to steal a powerful magic item. The portal was shut down, and Voladrian missing, assumed dead. A few days later, Voladrian returns in the form of an abyssal tiefling after going through unspeakable tortures by the Demon Prince Graz'zt. It was after this event Trisanna created the Forbiddance on the Phandalin guild tavern, hoping to ward off anything that might come after the guild.

Trisanna was instrumental in helping Voladrian recover from the horrors he had been through. She also helped him repent of his wicked past, and find faith in Mystra. They developed a strong friendship which eventually turned into something much more.

Trisanna also prevented the murder of the syl-pasha of Calimport together with her good friend Rodge. The plot orchestrated by several officials in the city, their leader being a powerful vampire mage. It was in this vampire's treasure chamber Trisanna found the Cubic Gate, which has been instrumental in her traveling the planes.

Since then, Trisanna has defeated many a powerful foe with other heroes of the Adventurer's Guild. Demons, devils, primordials, or great old ones, Trisanna is always ready to defend the realms from anything that would enslave or destroy it.

## Relationships

### Voladrian Sandaviar

Voladrian is Trisanna's husband. He is a tiefling (formerly human) archmage from Thay, who specializes in divination magic.

### Mesgralli

Mesgralli is a friend of Trisanna. She likes to embarrass him, and calls him her son as a joke.

## Magic Items

#### Trisanna has many items. Here are some significant ones:

* Shortsword +3, half-plate +3, and shield +2.
* Cubic Gate. A simple cube made of silver, linked to the prime material plane, plane of water, plane of earth, Bytopia, Shadowfell, and the Nine Hells.
* Rod of Security. This wand is made of brass, with a clockwork mechanism on the end. Lets Trisanna go to her (or someone else's) personal paradise once every tenday.
* Sue, the Freedom Key broom. Named after a witch Trisanna saved from the hells, who made this broom for her as a reward. It is faster than a regular Broom of Flying.
* Shield Guardian Amulets. Up to 4 levels of spells can be stored in these amulets, and any creature wearing one of the amulets can cast the stored spells as if from a Ring of Spell Storing. A permanent Warding Bond spell exists between the two amulets.
* Gloves of Thievery. When worn you can't feel them and they are invisible, but they make Trisanna extra good with her hands.
* Boots of Elvenkind. The boots Trisanna always wears make no sounds when she walks.
* Headband of Disguise. The black and silver headband Trisanna is often seen wearing lets her cast the Disguise Self spell as much as she wants. Mostly just used as illusory clothes.
* Ring of Alter Self. This ring has a shifting pattern of scales, fur, and skin engraved into it. It lets Trisanna cast the Alter Self spell an unlimited amount of times.
* Bag of Holding. A leather bag with a single big silver buckle on it. Holds all sorts of secrets.

## Other stuff

* Trisanna has truesight.
* Her original last name was Liakiir. She has a signet ring with the symbol of a gem with a frond wrapped around it, which represents her family name.
* Trisanna used to live in the room right above the Phandalin tavern's main entrance.
* The AG shrine was largely funded by Trisanna.
* Before the guild got its own teleportation services, Trisanna would offer to teleport people to Neverwinter for a price.
* There is a dead succubus stored in Trisanna's bag of holding.
* She and Voladrian are members of the Society of Sensation, based in Sigil.

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