Eirlys North

Eirlys during her exile within the Moonlit Lands.

Knight of the Twin Sols (Formerly)

Eirlys Stormborn

The Warden of Storms

Briarthorn

Eluned North - Mother

Vilaris Attilus - Uncle

### Connections

The WardensDestiny's ShadowThe Swordsman's LegionWells FargoThe Knights of the Twin Sols (Formerly)

### Profession

Archdruid, Noblewoman, Adventurer, Knight, General

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Greenlands: The Wardens of Tillagr'
The Greenlands: Destiny's Shadow

The Brink of the World

### Debut

The Cult of the Emerald Flame

Eirlys North is a recurring player character in the Tillagr' series. She got her start as a founding member of The Wardens.

## **Description**

During the course of her adventuring career Eirlys' physical appearance has changed drastically. However, she always takes care to maintain her fine clothing and appearance, even while on the road. Her saddlebags often contain two or three spare sets of garments.

Eirlys is a slender, elvish-appearing woman with auburn hair and a set of distinctive antlers growing from her head. She routinely wears finely crafted traveler's clothing and a druidic shawl of ancient design. She is also often heavily armed, with three swords on her belt and a longbow across her back.

At the start of her career she looked predominantly human, with darker hair and only very slightly pointed ears.

### **Personality**

Eirlys is a compassionate and honorable woman.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Eirlys grew up as the heiress of the North family in Aquatainia. In public she was expected to maintain proper decorum and only express interests in feminine pursuits, such as Calligraphy, but on her family's secluded estate at Hostel Norton her uncle Vilaris Attilus secretly trained her and her cousin Avina in the arts of combat. Eirlys took to the training and the skill she took the most pride in throughout her life was that of her swordplay.

Early in 199 Vilaris was publicly taken from the estate in chains, and Eirlys and Avina were imprisoned on the estate by Eirlys' father Melchor North. Eirlys was confined to her rooms for over three months with no outside contact. During this time Eirlys began to pray fervently, hoping that Saber would heed her pleas and deliver her and her cousin. The ideal never responded, and so she began to plead with the other Noble Truths. Then to the heathen gods of the Northlanders... then to anything that would help her. In that moment she truly gave up hope, priming her spirit to make a connection with the power of Seelie'Heim itself as a newly fledged Druid.

That very same night Avina's months of singleminded devotion to Eon paid off, bestowing her with the powers of a Cleric. With the aid of Alisha of Attan, one of Eirlys' personal servants, the two used their new powers to escape the North Estate and began to flee towards the distant border with Le Midia.

### **Early "Retirement"**

After the events of The Black Horizon of 202, Eirlys was left with a slowly advancing degradation of her Aether Tubes, likely due to the immense amount of power she channeled during the Wardens' final fight with the Titan Beast of Akrland. This affliction stripped her of many of her higher-tier magical abilities but also began to degrade her motor control. By late 203 her left arm had ceased functioning entirely and she had taken to wearing a sling for it. Her legs were also beginning to lose sensation at this time, though she was still able to walk.

During this period Eirlys dismissed the majority of her followers to return to Lakewatch Bastion, which was blossoming into a sizeable settlement for those looking to live life away from the strife of the larger kingdoms. She herself, however, did not yet return and elected to travel the slow path through her homeland of Aquatainia, hoping to find news about her estranged family or to take advantage of Warkeep's medical and magical advances. On these travels she took with her only Greythorn and Windy Day.

She did not succeed in finding a cure for her condition, but she did find news that her father, Melchor North, was involved in a espionage operation targeting the city of Meridona. Aiming to stop him, she introduced herself to Lord Koth Shadowfang and the rest of Destiny's Shadow and wound up remaining with their group for some time.

## **Character resources**

### **Notable items**

Throughout her adventuring career, Eirlys North carried many magical items. The vast majority of these were either passed on to her followers or lost on her final journey into hell. However, her artifacts survived and some items did manage to return with her.

#### The Book of Exalted Deeds

Eirlys is the current bearer of The Book of Exalted Deeds, a magical tome that was given to her by Avina of Eon in the year 202. It has many properties, including enhancing her magical abilities as well as bestowing her with a Halo that can help her navigate social situations. Supposedly only someone truly good of heart can attune to the book.

#### Durendal, The Blade of Ainurien

> I will not reject what I have done. I take responsibility for it!
>
> **Eirlys North**, "Back to Basics"

Eirlys also carries a Tighmavriel longsword known as Durendal, an Artifact that had passed through the hands of two other Wardens before her (most notably Gareth Hakeem). The weapon has several properties, including an inability to be damaged. Most of its properties were locked behind the activation of Runes on its surface, which would only light up when the wielder proved themself to live up to the ideals of the blade. Eirlys did not have access to any of these powers until the Wardens faced down their demon in the pits of Hell.

The Sword prefers wielders of a Lawful Good alignment.

#### **Claíomh**

Claíomh is a wooden sword that Eirlys used as a training weapon in her youth. In the early days of her explorations into her magic she developed a ritual that could enhance the weapon. A greater form of the Shillelagh cantrip. As her power grew, Eirlys sought aid from the mages of Soleolandra to imbue the ritual into the sword permanently, allowing her to activate it much more quickly when she needed the weapon. Aside from its property to contain the ritual, Claíomh has no magical properties in and of itself, but Eirlys rarely casts Ritual Shillelagh on other items due to the investment of time required and the spell's short duration.

### **Ancestry abilities**

Eirlys has abilities tied to her half-elven heritage and the deeper Fey Ancestry which was awoken by her heavy exposure to raw mana.

#### Fey Ancestry

Eirlys cannot be unwillingly sent to sleep by magic, and has innate resistance against effects that would charm her.

#### Fey Step

After being exposed to the waters of a Mana Well Eirlys gained the ability to teleport short distances.

### **Class abilities**

Eirlys is a powerful Druid and a Kensei Monk, having perfected her own abilities as well as training under skilled mentors in both disciplines. She is especially able with the Longsword and Longbow, though she has wielded many varieties of sword and bow throughout her career.

#### Druidic Abilities

Eirlys has access to powerful druidic magic, and through the use of her Druid Groves she can perform feats of magic that would otherwise be beyond her ability.

#### Monk Abilities

Eirlys is incredibly quick on her feet and can mix kicks and other unarmed strikes into her swordplay in order to keep her opponents off balance and to make herself harder to hit. She also had devastating precision with her longbow.

### Personal Abilities

Eirlys has a wide array of powers and abilities that are not directly tied to her class or ancestry. Some of these have been gained through gathering the boons and blessings of gods, others have been manifested directly as a result of her actions.