Nimue

Half-Elf / Cleric

Submitted character story

You are the cleric who measures devotion not in prayers spoken but in blood spent. The King's Road taught you that protection means walking beside the vulnerable, not charging ahead to glory. What brought you back wasn't faith in your god but the memory of his face as the light left your eyes, the certainty that your death bought his survival. Now you carry the hunger of what killed you, and every dawn you don't see is another reminder that saving him cost you the world you were sworn to protect. They'll remember you as the one who made holiness look like sacrifice, who proved that love can be both the most sacred thing and the most damning.

Defining moment: The night the mindflayers attacked Baldur's Gate, Nimue was helping bring people to safety in the underground tunnels beneath the city when she was snatched by the passing Nautiloid. The moment that made Nimue into who she is, her defining moment, is when she risked everything to help a man she met after being abducted. He too, was taken by the mindflayers, and was running from a vampire lord hell bent on getting him back to be sacrificed in a profane ritual. Nimue fell for this man, and in a last effort to protect him against this vampire lord, cast a powerful protection spell on him with the last of her strength as the vampire lord attacked. He tore into her neck and drained the life from her. As she was on the brink of death, the last thing she saw was the man she loved, safe at last, and holding her in his arms. After that, everything went black, and the next time she woke she was a vampire spawn just like him.

Gentle but fierce when needed