"When I left Menzoberranzan behind, I did not look back.. She must of known I'd escape. I only had one thing to say to her, before I left.. 'You'll never see me again.. So now who's going to cry for you?' "
Standing at 5'7", this Dark Elf was a loner straight from birth. Despite being born to a prominent House, she decided long before her Bitch of a Matron Mother desired her to become the Houses' next High Priestess that she wanted nothing to do with the political games and theological debates most of her kindred obsessed and even killed over. It was not that she was shy of killing, one did not survive long in the City of Spiders without a knack for that particular talent, rather it was the abhorrent distaste for the inefficiency such behavior fostered. She knew that staying within the Citys' walls was something she could not tolerate for the rest of her life, and so when the opporotunity arose for her to escape, she did so without a second thought. Being born a female within the Lolth's city afforded her the best in educations, both in the intellectual schools as well as the martial prowess notorious to the Drow Society. Proficiency in poisons came naturally to her, as well as a powerful resistance to even the most potent of concoctions. Many of her kin felt more than the occassional twinge of jealousy when in her presence on the battlefield, for while she could shoot the eyes out of a basilisk' long before it settled its gaze upon her with the Hand Crossbow, it was with her twin daggers that she was the most dangerous. Even seasoned Weaponmasters found it impossible to catch her unaware, a feat she used to her distinct advantage both on and off the battlefield. Many desired a union between her House and their own, yet she spurned almost every advance leveled her way.. Almost..
Upon her arrival to the surface world, it took her a few weeks to adjust to the vast differences in climate, not to mention shake off the blinding effects the sunlight had upon her subterranean-influenced eyes. But once she'd adjusted to the point of tolerance, she put as much distance between her and the Underdark as possible. Traveling between rather than through every village she came across, she would eventually find herself amidst the deepest forest she could of ever come across.. Years passed, and between being harassed by the indigenous wood elves and accosted by human and orcish slavers more than once, she emerged from the forest a different type of survivor.. a ruthlessly efficient hunter who carried the most potent of poisons that could take down even a mighty wyrm with but a drop. Never content to remain in one location for long, she soon ventured further across the great continent she had surfaced upon until she reached the widest sea she'd ever seen. Ships dotted the horizon for miles, and with a measure of excitement she had not felt since taking her first steps out of the City of her birth, she soon found passage aboard one of the many traders heading off to far away lands. Yet, these were lands she would never reach.. for the seas conspired against this voyage.. Amidst a terrible storm that blanketed the sky for miles with hurricane winds and torrential downpours, her chosen vessel was blown far off course and drifted for leagues at the mercy of the winds. Eventually the ship would run aground in a strange land, and while the crew stayed behind to salvage what they could of the ship; she would venture into this New Worlds' vibrant forest.
She later would return to discover not a single soul that had accompanied her on her journey across the ocean would survive their shipwreck; for this was a place of Predators who delighted in finding a group of stranded humanoids with meagre weapons to defend themselves. She watched with a morbid fascination as her traveling companions were torn to shreds, some even devoured whole; by the ravenous predators who called this place home. Despite knowing they would surely do the same to her, if they could ever find her, she watched them ravage the wrecked ship until no one remained who was not sloshing within someones' belly.. and then they would disperse. When she was alone, she could not hold back the shuddering breath that had wracked her body, for she had discovered something she couldn't of known she'd enjoyed.. until she saw it for herself.
(( Resident of Straangard ))
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