Played By: Bethany Peckham
Character Name: Lilith Nightriver
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Pronouns: She/Her
Class: Rogue
Race: Ulven
Trade: Alchemist, Laborer, Herbalist
Skills: Making delicious food and drink, Seeing the good in most situations, Rolling with the punches
(though not literally, please don’t punch me)
Bio:
Lilith was born in the year 235 to Rikart and Marla Nightriver. Rikart was a well known trade merchant and Marla the owner of a local tavern in Brattsholt. She was both brewer and chef of all the delicious cuisine. Growing up at the tavern was a learning environment in many ways for Lilith. Her father would host business meetings and many powerful, influential figures were in attendance. As a toddler she would often be present, playing quietly in a corner and listening to the proud confidence in her father’s voice. When she grew old enough to hold a knife her learning took place in the kitchen with her mother. She enjoyed the many recipes and careful workings that were needed to make the myriad of drinks and meals that would please people from all over Nightriver territories. There were times she felt like a master spellcrafter, surrounded by bubbling and boiling pots with steam filling the room she would toss in the next ingredients with a soft cackle and throw her head back in to a roar of laughter.
When Lilith was 15 there was talk of outsiders. A people different from her own, flat teeth and mere copies of eachother. Some of the Ulven from Brattsholt left to fight the unknown, few came back. After a year of fighting, her father, who had become the village leader by this time, had decided to take a stand. He gathered some like minded Ulven leaders and traveled to meet with these “unknowns”… these “humans”. They went to the city of New Hope. A truce was struck between the Ulven and the Colonists
and the fighting stopped.
Over the next years of Lilith’s life much remained the same. Work in the tavern, brew the concoctions, serve the patrons. Her father still held meetings, though they were more political in nature and less to do with the local trade routes. She would overhear a few things while bringing in the meal and feel blessed that her parents weren’t pushing her to take on more of a role in her father’s politics. She found the new clientele rather interesting for a while. After the truce was set colonists started to
make their way into Brattsholt. They would bring with them many different trinkets and clothes but what intriqued her the most were the stories. Tales of sea voyages and battles with monsters. Lilith had never ventured far from home, there was never a need, so she felt that nothing that exciting must be out there. Her imagination began to run wild.
As the influx of Colonists and Ulven grow in Brattsholt the town is in need of a Job Coordinator. Lilith has tired of the daily routine and takes the job as a way to strike out on her own. She enjoys meeting new folk and seeing the town prosper as things get done. A few months into the season Bandits
start harassing them. These were well armored than most brigands and they wouldn’t be deterred. After seeming to disway the hooligans momentarily, Lilith and the leaders of the town managed to evacuate the townspeople and most of the valuables. The Raiders returned in force and burned Brattsholt to the ground.
After many tears and help from other clans the town is able to get back to a working order. Lilith is distraught over the ransacking of her home. She felt helpless in both the defense of her village and in helping to heal the town. Decades of a passive life way heavy on her mind. Saying a heartfelt goodbye to her parents, Lilith packs her few belongings and ventures off to find a way to help those in need.
Through her travels she started to learn the ways of Alchemy and Herbalism. Many of the basics she had already grasped through all of her ‘playing’ in the kitchen. Taking lessons from those she finds while passing through towns increased her knowledge. At one such town Lilith was working alongside some Stormjarl Ulven. They told her of a village that was plagued by an odd sickness that was unexplainable. She agreed to go with them and see what she could do to help.
After traveling with the Stormjarl for a few months she felts that the views of the Stormjarl Clan align with her own. Lilith joined the Einherjar of Stormjarl to learn from them and to expand her knowledge in Alchemy and herbalism.
If she can use some of her newly aquired skills to help others,
then that is what she is meant to do.