Faya Selvas

## Background & Early Life

Born deep within the forest, while their father, Idris and their mother, Lilac, were setting up their homestead away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It was there that Faya developed a love for animals, as companions and as friends.

Idris and Lilac worked within the city for most of their lives. Idris was a simple merchant, travelling from town to town selling his wares, before he met Lilac. Lilac, as the name suggests, helped in her family’s flower store, adventuring into the forests to find exotic flowers for her father to sell. After meeting Lilac, Idris sold the rest of his wares and moved with Lilac into the very woods she used to collect flowers in.

Idris, scarred by the events of Faya’s childhood, moved out of the forest and into a nearby town. Lilac, however, was killed while walking with Faya to a deeper part of the woods. While they walked, they happened upon a small mossen arch, made of cobblestones and large stone bricks. Drawn toward it by the pitch black flowers, which surrounded the base, Lilac felt the air around her begin to get cooler. “Faya” she said with a pause “Turn around, run away from here—“. Suddenly, Lilacs eyes began to turn a bright white and her face began to lose colour. Behind her, from the cracks of the stone arch, blood began to slowly pool around the base, and in the centre, a spectral hand began stretch out toward Faya, piercing through their mother on its way. The spectral hand caressed Faya’s face, warm like the touch of a mother, before its pushed into Faya’s body, along with the rest of the spectral body which emerged from the unconscious body of Lilac. “Faya… I’m so sorry” their mother whispered, before falling backward through the arch, and fading from the view of Faya’s crying eyes.

After her childhood, doing their best to stay close to their father, Faya and Idris moved out of the forest, back to the town of ***Daggerford***. Within society Faya felt uneasy, not being used to the hordes of people that come with it. They spent their time studying, following their interests and decided to become a veterinarian. However, as they learned, they began to hear whispers of people long past, surrounding her consciousness, warning her of “the beast within”.

Soon after these messages began to occur, Faya said goodbye to her beloved Father, and left to discover what happened to her that day as a child, and what happened to her mother. However, she had not been trained in any martial disciplines, only learning to use a knife for cooking and as a utility tool, however it is the only weapon she could bring with her on her travels.

Leaving their father behind, Faya worries how he will do on his own. Sometimes Idris would wander into the forest on his own, visiting the site of Lilac’s death. Having left behind their broken father, the homestead which they grew up in, and their practices as a veterinarian, Faya is left to find herself through her adventures of the sword coast, worried about the fate of Idris.

Ultimately, Faya wants to figure out what happened that day, where their mother went, and what ‘The Beast Within’ actually is. They plan on making it up to their father, sending home a portion of their wares every month, so as to help stay close to Idris, and keep him healthy without being by his side.