Parlee Gwyn wrote:
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I'll try to sketch out a better avatar later. Golarion Elf eyes don't look like that. The important bit is the eye tatoo.
New Sketch. (ArtRage is awesome.)
You said to pick two traits, but the Player's Guide traits are all upside, as opposed to the SRD traits, which are balanced tradeoffs, so I picked two of the SRD ones and one story hook. If that is too many traits overall, just leave off the Story Hook benefit.
Traits: Absent-Minded and Distinctive(That tatoo)
Story hook: Love Lost (Orphaned)
Feat: Academae Graduate
Weapon Groups: Basic (Wizard), Bows (Elf), Light Blades (Elf) (Heavy Blades would be the optimal choice, but I just can't see a wizard lugging around a longsword instead of a short sword or rapier.)
Age: 85 years
Birthdate: Pharast 11, 4623
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 92 lbs.
Background: Parlee was born, appropriately enough, during the Month of Fates. Even in her earliest childhood, she possessed uncanny grace and a precocious intellect, but seemed perpetually distracted by something just out of view. As she grew older, it was realized that she was blessed with the power of foresight, able to see the threads of fate and being not quite anchored in time. Importantly, she was born after the death of Aroden, when all other foreseers lost their grip on the future (and many of their minds). Under the supervision of the High Priestess of Pharasma, Parlee was marked around both eyes.
By her late 70's, Parlee was thoroughly bored with the pace of life in the Mierani Forest, and began to agitate for an education. The patience usually associated with the long lifespans, and long childhoods, of elves was absent or insufficient for Parlee. The Tower of Stars in Celwynvian refused admittance to one so young, and seemed reluctant to allow a foreseer into the haunted city in any case. As a result, the decision was made to send Parlee to the next greatest school of magic on the continent: The Academae of Korvosa. The Academae had no such issues with a student older than much of the faculty.
Parlee's father accompanied her to Korvosa, as her guardian (since Parlee is still not a legal adult by Elf standards). Unfortunately, one year ago, a man named Gaedren Lamm caught wind of their frequent comings and goings between the Academae and the Elvish enclave at South Shore. Because Parlee appeared so important to the elves, he plotted to kidnap the youth and ransom her back. However, as such things so often and so tragically do, the attempt went wrong. Parlee ducked a drugged dart that was intended to put her to sleep, which struck her father instead. At her father's urging, she ran back to the enclave, and expected him to follow after vanquishing their attacker. He, however, secumbed to Gaedren's poison, and Gaedren, rather than deal with an adult hostage with the Guard on alert, slit his throat.
After the incident, Parlee was moved into the Academae dormitories for her own protection. She has never forgotten Lamm's face. Now that she has graduated from the Academae, she wants revenge for the loss of her father.
