Kaelin Moonshade

Shadar-kai / Sorcerer

Submitted character story

You're the kind of hero who walks through the Blackfen because you know survival isn't loud. What brought you back wasn't one moment but three faces, each one a reason to keep moving forward despite the cost. You carry grief like a second shadow, the kind that makes intimacy dangerous and trust feel like betrayal waiting to happen. They'll remember you as the player who made loss into fuel instead of an ending.

Defining moment: It's more of a montage of moments that continue to build her. She sees the glowing lights of her home city, where she was raised with a silver spoon in her mouth, fade into the dark as she slips away unnoticed.

The darkness gives way to the broken flower shop. She walks through the remains of what looks like a terrible scuffle until she sees it. Sitting beside a pool of dried blood is the shining silver locket. The one she gave Rose, the woman who took her under her wing and showed her how to survive in this lawless city she ended up in. The woman she secretly loved, but couldn't find a way to express it except the locket. She picks up the locket and clutches it, tears filling her eyes. She knows her involvement got Rose killed, by a rival gang or possibly Rose's own crew. She turns and runs out of the shop.

She doesn't pay attention to her surroundings until all of a sudden, she is in the wilderness, in a wheat field, her wheat field, the one she settled down on with Toratha, the half giant she met when running from Rose's death. She sees the big burly frame of her husband standing on their simple cottage's porch. 

Suddenly, the sky flashes with lightning. She sees the face of the blue dracolich that trapped her, her husband, and other travelers on that tropical island (current campaign) in the sky. Lightning flashes from his maw and strikes Toratha. Toratha falls, but Kaelin swears she sees him smile and wink at her as his life leaves him.

Already paid the price