Doric

Doric is a tiefling druid and a member of the Emerald Enclave based in the East Forest of the Kruven Empire. Born to human parents, Doric spent much of her life living among a community of wood elves of the East Forst

*"And I'll stay. The problem is bigger than our part of the forest. If you hide away, that's fine. I can be the emissary between you and the outside world. If we solve the issue out there, it'll protect you here." -* Doric, serving her people as a druid of the Emerald Enclave

## Description

Doric had red hair, horns, pointed ears, and a tail. She typically dressed in green-and-brown leather armor, pants, boots, and a traveler's cloak.

## Biography

Doric kept an emotional distance to protect herself from other people and her own powers. Her training in the Circle of the Moon meant she put her trust in her natural instincts, and these hardly ever failed her. She distrusted humans, believing them to selfish and hateful. While Doric was sometimes curt, and ever the stoic, she put great value in those friends who took the time to truly earn her trust. She battled tooth and claw for what she felt was a good cause or to protect her own

## History

Doric was born a tiefling to human parents in a village named Mudport, east of East Forest. But her parents shunned her for her demonic heritage, even to the point of locking her in the attic of their house. At the age of six, when her parents sired a second, entirely human child, Doric became increasingly bothered by their favoritism for her sibling. When Doric finally came face-to-face with her sibling, her parents drugged her and took her into East Forest and abandoned her, thinking she would die there.

Even at such a young age, Doric learned to fend for herself in the forest, foraging and hunting small game. It was there that she met her guardian nature spirit, a forest-dwelling snow owl. One day, a great storm wracked the East Forest, and Doric was swept up in a raging current. Fortunately, Doric was rescued by her future, elven guardian, Liavaris. Liavaris and her fellow wood elves offered Doric a home in their village. She found an adopted family and friends among them. However, her tiefling traits and growing druidic powers still set her apart from the wood elves and rangers of the village.

### From Elves to the Enclave

One day, Doric went with Torrieth and other elven rangers on a hunt in East Forest. After the group caught one deer, Torrieth and Doric were attacked by a bear. In a moment that surprised both friends, Doric rapidly developed an empathetic bond with the bear, and calmed it down enough that it left them in peace.

Liavaris and other senior elves thought it best that Doric was trained in the ways of the druid. She visited a glade that housed some belongings of the elven clan's previous druid―Liavaris's aunt Sunmuir―and prepared for a journey south to the Zillian Marshes, to meet with representatives of the Emerald Enclave. Doric, Torrieth, and the ranger Fenjor traveled south, stopping in the city of Blackeep, before the aspiring druid split off from her friends. During her travels, Doric met a young sorcerer named Simon and helped a village with their problematic well. He tried to court her, but she broke it off.

She finished the last leg of her going towards Clear water

### Training With the Enclave

When Doric arrived at the Clear Water, she immediately impressed the druids of the Enclave, and earned herself a place among a class of initiates. Together they learned wilderness survival skills—of which Doric was already quite proficient—and combat training and also began to tap into the primal magic of druidism. Doric learned she was quite advanced at transforming into animals, an ability known commonly as wild shape, and took on the form of a mighty bear, the same beast that she had bonded with some weeks prior. Though she advanced as a druid and in her powers, Doric faced conflict with fellow initiates and her own beliefs.

There was a call to action among all the Enclave druids when they heard reports of a large wildfire raging through the town of Clear Water. Doric and other druids that were naturally protected from flames made their way to the village.She and her fellow student Leander did their best to save some of the townspeople, but encountered a terrified and enraged owlbear. The fearsome monster killed young Leander, and Doric was forced to take action. Combining the bear form she had previously taken, along with that of her snow owl nature spirit, Doric wild shaped into a snowy owlbear herself and managed to truly empathize with the monstrous creature whose home was imperiled.

Doric was troubled by the encounter but remained dedicated to helping the druids in their continuing mission to maintain the balance of nature and civilization

### Return to Neverwinter

Shortly after the funeral for Leander, Doric received a letter from her elven family in the East Forest. They requested aid from Doric and other elves of the Enclave, to help turn away the growing logging operations that sprang up on the outskirts of the forest. The wood elves of East Forest resisted the rule of the corrupt new Lord of Redham, Forge Fitzwilliam, so he painted them as traitors and enemies of the city. He sent his forces to capture and execute them and destroy their homes. Abandoned sensible logging practices, he also dispatched loggers who cut ever deeper into the woods.

Doric and Jowenys made their way north, traveling via *portal*, to reach the wood elf village in East Forest. Doric received a warm welcome from her adoptive family, and quickly set out to scout the logging camps with elven rangers. Rather than merely scout, the druids and rangers harassed, harried, and disrupted the human logging camps. Doric even managed to save the glade that was home to her owl nature spirit guide, and met it one more time.

Doric returned to her home amongst the elves, and celebrated their victory with both her family and her new friends in the Enclave. Having learned so much of the world beyond the elves, Doric felt she had one more quest to complete, albeit one alone: to return to the house of her biological parents, for one last glimpse of the home she had left so long ago.

Soon, Doric was leading the fight against Lord Fitzwilliam's loggers and soldiers. In one incident in 3pp, one of the forest's wood elves was captured by Redham soldiers. Just as the soldiers threatened to execute the elf by quartering, Doric transformed from the form of a soldier's horse and into her snowy owlbear form. She handily defeated the soldiers and released the imperiled wood elf, before turning back to a tiefling and stealing a horse for them to make a getaway, and fired her sling from the saddle. This was witnessed by Edgin Darvis, Holga Kilgore, and Simon Aumar, who had suggested they recruit Doric to their cause.

*See main adventure: Honor Among Thieves*

After her escapades in Redham with Simon she began to have strange dreams of a higher power. After talking to Simon about theres dreams he identafied the being as The God of the Gods, the god that stands above them all.

Druing a hunting mission with Enclave she was approched by one of its members named Folmar. He said he knew about the dreams she was haveing and that he could help her get the ansores she seeks. So that night she and Folmar went to an Bemoaning Altar. At the Altar she was told by Folmar to confess her true complains with the world. If The God of the Gods agreed with her, she could become a disciple of him. She complained about the damage caused to the East Forest by Forge Fitzwilliam and how it had destroyed the wildlife in the forest. The God of the Gods lissioned and heard her complaints and revealed him self to be Folmar in descise.

She made a deal with him. She would become his disciple and his wife and him exchange he would not only increase her power but punish Forge Fitzwilliam and help the Emerald Enclave where he could with out breaking the Godly Oath.

## Relationships

Doric was born to human parents, and had one biological sister who was also human. Doric's parents locked her away in the attic after her sister was born.

Among the wood elves, Doric became fast friends with an older elven girl named Torrieth. The duo went on hunts together and developed a strong bond over the years.

Doric made several friends among her fellow initiates at the Emerald Enclave, a black-haired girl named Cassa; and her closest comrade, the firbolg Jowenys. A human boy Leander didn't take to Doric and became jealous of her abilities  She formed a close bond with the Enclave group's only other tiefling, Open, who served as the camp cook.

Simon Aumar tried to court Doric once, but she broke it off, claiming he made her feel sad, because of who he was rather than anything he did. However, he continued to be enamored with her and she was concerned by his low self-esteem and self-deprecation. Eventually, she allowed him to court her again.

Some time after this she was given power by The Gods of the Gods and became his wife. With his blessing she continued to let Simon court her

## Character Information

Doric was bequeathed a set of vambraces and a book of druidic lore that once belonged to the wood elf druid Sunmuir. She later acquired a slingshot, which she mounted on her left vambrace. She wore leather armor.