PLAYED BY: Arlene
CHARACTER NAME: Keeper Liora Evernight, Shade of the Knights of the Ebon Veil, Kinafae high priestess of Nythara
CLASS: Cleric
RACE: Io Larian syndar
OCCUPATION: Escort and companion
BIO:
Born in the secluded groves of the Kinafae, Liora follows the ways of her kind. Spending ones childhood traveling between the covens dedicated to the different spirits, to find one’s true place among them. After staying with each of the covens, none felt truly like a home. However choosing one was what Liora had to do. Not knowing which Spirit to dedicate oneself to, Liora took to wandering.
After wandering amongst the trees one moonless night, whispers seemed to float on the breeze around her. Liora tried to focus on them, to hear them better, but that only seemed to make them more distant. One tried walking in each direction hoping to find the one behind The whispers or at least to make The whispers louder but this failed to yield results. Frustrated, Liora decided to sit and close one’s eyes to meditate. In the quietness of meditation came a woman’s voice, “Is the young one ready to hear this one’s voice?”
Slowly a figure seemed to materialize in front of Liora but the more she tried to focus on the figure’s face the more obscure it became. Intrigued by this mysterious being Liora smiled, “Can this one do something for this lovely spirit?” In a flash the figure was now only inches from Liora’s face and for the split second before Liora’s eyes adjusted the facial features could be seen clearly. “Secrets. Can one find one secrets? They are not all here.”
Liora’s eyes popped open and she found herself laying on the ground in the dark near her campfire. Liora looked to the sky expecting to see only stars in a moonless night but instead saw that it was in fact a full moon. Confused Liora glanced around and quietly murmured, “Was it all just a dream.” But as a breeze blew through one’s hair Liora heard the sound of quiet whispers once more and found herself smiling. “One will find ones secrets.” And sleep found Liora once again. When she awoke with the sun the next day Liora found herself in a circle of black and green mushrooms each with a bed of purple moss. Having never seen the like before Liora knew they were special and after getting oneself reoriented. One knew that they were not far from the coven of Omeria. After thanking and banking the campfire, Liora ran to find her friend. One who could help preserve the mushrooms and moss. After praying and carefully performing a ritual to secure the moss and mushrooms with the guidance of one’s friend Liora now possessed what she would use to carefully remake the circle for her meditation.
Overtime Liora discovered many things about the spirit that visited one. One was a name.. Nythara. Upon realizing this was a spirit without an established coven Liora became a coven of one. Slowly some others joined her, but something from that first visit rang through one’s mind every once in a while ‘they are not all here’. Each time this came across Liora’s mind she became more and more restless. Liora told the rest of her little coven that there were more secrets to be found outside of the Kinafae and that she was going to find them.
So one set off and in doing so learned more about the other syndars and even humans of Faedrun. They seemed to live very differently from that of the Kinafae, but one thing always seems to stay the same. One would always spill many secrets during pillow talk.
As word spread more and more about the undead and the penitent taking more ground, word reached Liora about ships sailing to find a new home. After hearing this in passing one day the words, ‘they are not all here’ flashed in her mind once more.
Secrets were to be found on this new land, this new home…wherever that might be.