Marina Veash

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Marina is a Human rogue and a member of \_.

## **Description**

#### **Appearance -**

Marina is a 5'7 human who has brown hair and heterochromia. This has caused one of her eyes to be brown and the other blue. She wears light armour and tight clothing to enable her to remain stealthy. Her hood has two cat ears stitched onto it in order to hide her true nature.

#### **Personality -**

Marina is a mischievous individual who likes to play pranks and tricks on her friends and other random people around her. However, since she wanders alone, there is noone that she has been able to do this with. She is a caring bubbly individual and once attached to someone, she will go all out in order to protect or help them. As such, it is strongly advised to remain on her good side.

#### Group Relationships -

* Jethro - Slightly trusting, Like a father
* Gertrude - Trusts a little, Not had much interaction
* Bog - Distrusts
* Alys - Trusts with her life, VERY close, Romantic interest
* Sedan - Despises

## **Biography**

#### **Early Life -**

Marina was orphaned from birth in the harbour town of Vor-Kymer and never knew who her real parents were. She spent much of her life on the run. She knew she never fit in anywhere because of how she looked and she hides this secret which has meant she had to change how she looked and move from place to place. That is, until she met Krevlin a young Tabaxi. He was a male Tabaxi with grey fur and a white speck under his right eye who had always been like an older brother to Marina and had helped her get out of many situations when they were growing up.

Krevlin took her under his wing and looked after her when she was 7. He was only a few years older than her but together, the pair made quite the thieving duo. Always splitting their loot fairly and always having each other’s backs. These years working with Krevlin allowed her to hone her skills in stealth, deception and combat.

Growing up she would often borrow books from the local libraries to be returned later or “borrow” them from people at taverns or inns. She would never steal for ma library as she has a strong belief that knowledge should belong to everyone, and others should be able to learn about far off lands aswell in the same way she did. Though, the Library did end up finding it had more books than originally documented.

Through these books she learnt about the worlds around her, it’s history and about different religions. One of which she took a strong liking to was the god of mischief and trickery, Loki.

   Through him and his guidance, she would pull pranks on those around her and get into mischief. She also became fascinated by the stories of legendary thieves and assassins who stole to help others which reminded her of her current scenario and told her she was on the right path to do right in the world. She may be a rogue and thief, but she has a strong moral compass for right and wrong. She would never harm the innocent or the poor unless necessary and would use her skills to help those in need.

Whilst on the run, they hid on a boat in Vor-Kymer unknowing that it would set out to Yanzal. When they departed the ship, it was clear this was a place they would fit in.

They spent many years roaming the region of Shokuta and making a living stealing from others, sometimes visiting the great crater and fantasizing about life as they grow up. Hoping and dreaming of getting enough coin together for a better life somewhere in Yizuna. This far off land was a place where they had heard that many races such as theirs could live together and be at peace with each other. One big heist they would always tell themselves and they would be set for life.

#### **The Incident -**

16 years old

One day something terrible happened. Whilst stalking the streets of Kindor, A 16-year-old Marina stole an unknown item from the wrong people (The Devil’s Company) whilst disguised in her human form. The item she stole was among other trinkets and looked like a small pocket watch. ”An antique” she thought “nothing of any value”. But how wrong she was. When they inevitably caught up to her, her disguise or intimidating Tiefling form could not get her out of it. They beat her within an inch of her life. Like he had done so many times before, Krevlin turned up in the nick of time and was able to bargain with the group. Take him in her place.

Through her blurred, slowly darkening vision she saw him stood with the group. She could make out his figure and a couple of taller men glancing past him at her. She then lost consciousness for a brief moment. Like a blink. When she regained a moment to wake up, she barely saw what was happening from her place in the dirt, but she was able to catch a glimpse of Krevlin giving her a small salute as though to say goodbye. Then nothing but darkness.

When she awoke, Krevlin and the group were gone. Around her were the other trinkets she had stolen but the watch was gone. She purchased a hooded cloak from a nearby shop and later that day sewed some cat ears to it in order to better hide her horns from anyone who may treat her differently. She would tuck her tail around her leg and so it could not be seen. She was alone again like she had been all them years ago. She continued from town to town for a few months trying to find her lost "brother" or any trace of the group that took him but to no avail.

#### **Aftermath -**

One day when she was hiding out in the loft space above an Inn, she fell into a deep sleep. When she “opened” her eyes, she was in what she assumed to be another realm. Looking around, she was surrounded by wispy fog, and darkness and she wandered forward. Looking up into the sky she could see the entire cosmos, purple and blacks filled the sky along with dots of light. And she could hear voices around her. Audible whispers filled her ears. They were speaking in an ancient and forbidden language but yet, she understood them. She saw a giant hulking figure in front of her reaching out and then she woke up with a start. At the end of her bedroll was a black cat with orange eyes staring at her.

Now she travels with her cat Kecha (Ket-jya) by her side, still clinging to hope that things will start to look up for her. Her trusty daggers allow her to get out of most situations and get up close and personal whereas her bow allows her to attack from range or look for alternate, higher means of entering locations. Her innate ability to create a loud environment and alter flames boosts her effectiveness at intimidating those she wishes to get more information from.

She wandered the region of Shokuta and the surrounding areas for 7 years with no one by her side except her friend and close companion, Kecha. Whilst doing so, she began to learn more magic that would allow her to improve her skills as a thief and fulfil her goal of being a famous heroic outlaw.

### **Campaign -**

#### **Ep1 - The Meeting**

Whilst stalking the streets of Hallensur, Marina bumped into Alysane Aleron. Shortly after their meeting, ravens started dropping sending stones form the sky. One of these landed on an elderly woman's tray between Alysane and Marina. It informed them of the kings idea to bring together a group in order to solve the mystery of the murder of the queen.

The two journeyed to the castle where they were shoved in a room and met a couple of other people in there like them. They met Bogmaðr Helvig who quickly slunk away to the other side of the room and Jethro Darksnow, whom Marina claimed was exerting "big Richard energy". Gertrude Deschner Made her way toward the group after some initial introductions were made.

The group were then singled out by the guards who took them to another hallway which lead to the throne room.

Whilst investigating into the murder of the queen, Marina started getting close to Hallas, a member of elf nobility and the son of the current leader. She was also shoved out of a window in order to see if there was any possibility of someone climbing up and in through it. At the bottom of the slope, she found two sets of tracks suggesting two people had also slid down in the same way she had. She then made her way back up the hill after she was joined by Gertrude. Not being a very athletic person, she failed a few times before resorting to stabbing her daggers into the side of the hill in order to climb up it.

They then moved to investigate the queens chambers where Marina kept a dagger in case of evidence. They later found this was not in fact the dagger that was used to kill the queen but her own personal dagger. It had a ruby in the hilt and was a darkened blade. Marina subtly mentioned in Infernal that this was a waste of time and was surprised when Jethro spoke back to her in the same tongue. The group also found a will of the queen and gave it a read. Upon conducting more interviews with the staff, Marina was forced to intimidate the local Cleric to find out what she had seen. Thanks to this, they were able to get the truth that there had been three assailants the night the queen was murdered. One of which was a seemingly undead Minotaur. Marina and Gertrude had been told about an out of place stone in a wall within the west wing so they went to retrieve this. It was just a stone but Marina kept it nevertheless.

The group reported back to the king with their findings and Marina asked about the dagger. The king told them that this dagger would turn into a shortsword when the inscription was read. The inscription however, was in Fairy. A language Marina does not know.

#### **Ep2 - The Tree of Light**

The group awoke for breakfast. Gertrude and Marina ended up going to check on Alysane who had locked herself in her room. Eventually they convinced her to come out and the group shared breakfast with Alysane enjoying a "light" breakfast of five pieces of bacon, two slices of toast, two sausages and five eggs. Marina was impressed by this and proceeded to feed Kecha some of her breakfast before Jethro made a familiar appear in the form of a cat.

Marina was also served the heartlands first attempt at coffee, a drink from the east which gets the drinker up and ready to go for the day. After the group had finished their breakfast, they discussed the plan for the day. The priority for the group was learning what the dagger said and what was written at the bottom of the will. Jethro wrote out the will word for word on a seperate piece of paper ready for translating and upon seeing this, Marina traced over the Fairy text on the dagger to get this translated aswell, deciding it would be a bad idea to casually bring out the queens dagger in front of people.

Jethro disguised himself as a maid using a spell and decided to go and put the will back. Completely forgetting that she is good at disguises, Marina did not volunteer to do this causing Jethro to use one of his spells for the day. Alysane queried as to whether Marina was going to return the dagger as it was technically stealing. Jethro and Marina were able to convince her that they weren't stealing it, they were just borrowing it as it may prove useful on their journey. Marina then asked the Butler (Maximillion) where they could find someone who can speak Fairy. Upon being told that there may be someone to help at the Tree of Light, they decided this is where they should head.

Alysane was left in charge of driving the cart and despite having a terrible sense of direction, the group noticed the large tree in the distance which made finding a heading easy. In the few hours it took to ride there on their cart, the group spent some time getting to know each other. They learnt a little more about Bog but Marina was playing with Kecha so did not hear much of it. After the few hours was up, the group arrived at the bottom of the tree and saw how big it really was. There were different floors carved into it which each had a different purpose. The key ones that Marina was interested in were the library and orphanage. Marina spotted a fairy nearby and went to ask for his assistance. Using her charm she convinced him to help translate the etching she took and he told her it read the following: "Life Guide Me, Life love me". So now she knew how to activate the dagger, she signalled over to the group to come and get the will translated. Jethro decided this was a bad idea in case two and two were put together so the group headed up to the library. Whilst Jethro and Alysane struggled to find a book relevant to their task at hand, Marina went to the dragonborn librarian and purchased 4 adventure/story books and 5 educational books (form the same section as the others were looking in). When she was in this section, she saw that Bog had decided to help and had found the book they needed so Jethro started to transcribe. She took the 9 books she had purchased and went down to the orphanage and donated them to the mistress there stating that all children should have the opportunity to read and learn. She accepted nothing in return and returned to the group. When asked where she had gone, she simply responded that she was making a delivery.

After transcribing the will and finding that it read: "And above all else my son, do not venture to Orix", the group continued their journey into Illastria and to the city of Opportan in the hopes of discovering the origin of the undead Minotaur. After passing through the "Arch of Peace" the group was attacked by bandits. The attackers were easily and quickly dispatched with one fleeing and one being left alive for questioning. Gertrude and Alysane tried to peacefully come to a resolution but Jethro was needed in order to get more info. Marina perched on the rock nearby observing the process. She learnt that the bandit knew who Jethro was and that he was intimidated by him though she was unsure as to why. He was then let go by Jethro after stating that the bandits all had families to feed and look after back home with Jethro handing over 10 pieces of gold. The bandit left and Marina jumped down from the rock and questioned Jethro on what he had found out. Who had sent them? Who did they work for? But she got no answers. The group got to work digging the graves and Alysane was shook up after her first kill. Marina had also killed for the first time but was a lot more relaxed about it. She knew it was them or the bandits.

The group consoled Alysane saying they let one go because he had a family to look after. Marina chimed in stating that all the bandits had families and was silenced by a death glare from Jethro and a slap on the back of the head by Gertrude. Later on her watch, Marina noticed that Alysane was still awake and so went over to apologise. In her own way, she tried to cheer Alysane up and mentioned how well she had done in the combat. When it was time for Marina's watch to end, she went and alerted Gertrude before setting up her home alarm system and climbing into her own tent for the night.

#### **Ep3 - The Bonds That Bind Us**

The group awaken and Bog goes hunting for some food whilst Marina and Gertrude start a fire. A short while later, Bog calls for help bringing the food to camp. Gertrude goes and helps and the two manage to bring a deer carcass back. After Alysane Failed at trying to carve/skin the deer, Bog took over and breakfast was served for the group with Alysane taking more than her fair share.

With breakfast done, the group got on the cart and set off toward Nilmanas. The town itself was in disarray and falling apart. Some buildings had been rebuilt such as the tavern and bathhouse. The cart was approached by a Dwarf by the name of Galen Brimsgar who asked them if they had come to assist with repairs and rebuilding. The group promptly told him no and Alysane started to reel off that they were sent by the king before Marina and Jethro interjected and kept their business more hush hush. Jethro mentioned about the agreement and the Dwarf immediately jumped to the conclusion of the accords. With a little bit of persuasion from Marina, the dwarf was convinced he had misheard the mention of the accord.

After a short conversation, the group found out that there were some caves around which had seemed to be spawning creatures of an undead variety and fiends. Someone who may know more about these caves was Nutmig Treasuregrip, a Cartographer in Opportan, another dwarf and friend of Galen. Heading to Opportan was the next choice made. On the journey, Marina, Alysane and Getrude took an interest in the notches on Bog's belt. Marina tried to get a closer look while the rest discussed what the notches were and how many. He finally let on that they were a mark of honour to his people and he had many belts like this previously. He also tried to deceive them into thinking he was mentally stable but the group saw through his lie.

After a few hours travelling, they all arrived in Thylhethaes where their horse and cart were taken for safe keeping over night and they headed to the general goods 24/7 store to look for some supplies. They were able to buy some health potions in here though the pricing was a little steep for some of the groups liking, especially with how little gold they all had. As such, Bog tried to haggle while Marina stole a few potions. She ended up with two greater healing potions and two superior potions.

Once they had purchased a few potions, the group headed to the local tavern named "The Grey Goose" and ordered some drinks and rooms for the night. Gertrude requested some Whiskey whilst Alysane, Marina and Bog got some tankards of ale. Jethro sparked up a conversation about Marina's past as a thief and asked her what her most successful or valuable score was. She told them all the story about how she had once stolen a small pile of gold along with some books and jewels as her most successful, but her most valuable was when she stole a pocket watch among other trinkets whilst in Kindor. This had gone south and she was beaten within an inch of her life by a gang of thugs. Jethro pressed for more questions and told her he had sent the thugs but he did not know she had been beaten so much. Marina started crying and told him that that day had taken everything from her including her best friend, a Tabaxi by the name of Krevlin, whom Jethro recognised as the youngster that he and the Devil had taken under their wing. Marina fled the table to her room and was shortly followed by Alysane.

Alysane knocked on the door and was invited in by the still tearful Marina. Though when she entered the room, she saw a Lilac skinned Tiefling sitting on the bed with her tail curled around behind her. A little taken aback, Alysane asked if it was Marina to which she told her about how she had never fit in so adopted a more human like appearance in order to be treated the same as everyone else. Unknown to them both, Bog was stood at the door watching and listening before Marina used Thaumaturgy to shut the door in order to get some privacy. Alysane comforted Marina and was met with a "Thank you Alys".

This shocked her and she asked Marina to repeat but Marina told her not to dwell on it but of course they were friends. Alys started crying and picked Marina up in a bear hug. The two were interrupted by a knock on the door and a tavern worker (Jethro in disguise) entered and spoke about the situation saying that he was sure that Jethro had not intended to cause upset. The tavern worker left the two in peace and shortly returned downstairs shortly followed by Alys and Marina.

After some time relaxing downstairs, Marina, Gertrude and Alys formulated a plan to try steal Bog's belt. The trio snuck upstairs to the door where Marina peered through and saw Bog asleep. With this, she entered the room stealthily without him waking up and tried to peek at how many notches were on the belt but in the light was unable to properly perceive this so she tried to remove the belt. Bog awoke to this and saw Marina undoing his belt. She tried to convince him it wasn't what it looked like and that they just wanted to know how many notches were on the belt, this was backed up by a very drunk, 8 whiskeys deep Gertrude and a shy Alys. Marina tried to flee but Bog grabbed her cloak which stopped her dead in her tracks. He tried to bargain saying that they both forget what they saw and him saying that he had seen a tail. Marina's eyes flashed yellow, she swatted his hand away and in an angry tone she said to him through gritted teeth "Let go of my cloak. Nobody touches my cloak and the next time you do, will be the last". Bog let go of the cloak and Marina stormed off back to the room with Alys and Gertrude. The trio went to sleep and Marina set up her tent like curtains around the bed and drifted off.

The following morning she was rudely awakened by Alys having her head directly above her face. "You know, one day you'll do that and get hurt" Marina told her. She suggested giving her five to get sorted before Gertrude was awoken but Alys mistook this as 'five minutes then we'll go for breakfast' and woke Gertrude up immediately and got headbutted because she did it in a similar fashion to how she woke Marina up. After a while, the three girls of the group headed downstairs for breakfast and were joined by Bog and Jethro. Bog apologised for his behaviour and Jethro apologised for upsetting Marina to which she also apologised for reacting the way she did. After a hearty breakfast feast of 6 large breakfasts each for Marina and Alys and the rest having their fill, Marina pocketed eighteen rashers of bacon giving the group something to snack on on the journey ahead. They headed to the blacksmith of the town. Here, Marian helped Alys haggle for some new armour and in the process gained 3 new daggers and sixty crossbow bolts. She slotted the knives into her knife belt ready for future use and they made the decision to head off back to the cart to set out on the next leg of their journey.

#### **Ep4 - Disappearance**

When setting off for Opportan, Marina heard a voice calling to her. It seemed familiar, like the voice she had heard 7 years ago in her dream while sleeping in the loft space. She followed the voice leaving nothing but a note for the group to find her, though she didn't expect them to follow her anyway,

She made her way up the mountain and found herself in a cave. Carefully and stealthily, she made her way through the cave, looking for the source of the voice or any sign that she was meant to be here. She found nothing and before she could decide to leave, she was knocked unconscious. her last sight being some figures walking away from her and saying "Finally, fresh Blood".

#### **Ep5 - Family**

Marina had a heartfelt moment with the group when she realised they came for her when they could have just left her. This has helped her to understand more what a relationship with.... friends is. Similar to the bond she had with Krevlin but after 6 years alone, she had forgotten what it was like to have companions. A family even.

They rested for the night and Marina and Alys had a moment. Marina came out of her tent in her original form and helped get the arrow out of Alys' side and Alys told her that she had sworn an oath of vengeance against the people who had tried to sacrifice Marina. Marina patched the wound with a bit of her cloak before telling Alys that she shouldn't care what anyone thinks as it's her life and a family should respect decisions no matter what.

The next day, the group awoke and saw an airship crashing off the coast. They decided to investigate and it turned out to be the ships of "The Devils Company" which had crashed on the way to an expedition to recover something that The Devil wanted. Marina recognised one of the survivors as one of the people who had beaten her all them years ago. He did not recognise her but her vengeance was interrupted by Jethro. who requested five minutes with the man first. As soon as the five minutes were up, Marina threw one of her daggers at the man and pierced his eye, killing him instantly.

Jethro told them what the expedition was for and the group continued on toward Opportan.