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About Sha’ Lea

Dnd Beyond Character Sheet

Sha' Lea was born into a family of Shadar Kai elves that took up residence on Faerun, in order to practice and develop their own fighting style in relative safety from the denizens of the Shadowfell. For centuries, they passed as moon elves and stayed under the radar of any who sought them harm. They were a peaceful family, keeping to their own devices, unless approached by any locals needing help with the usual, such as orc raiders, bandits, and the like. The local populace grew to count on them as the years went by, and often gifted them with food at harvest time, horses, and whatever else they thought the monks needed. Life was good for Shae, and she never knew hardship, or hunger or true danger.

As She grew up, she became obsessed with the other races of Faerun, and their cities. She would often be found shirking her duties at the monastery in order to explore nearby cities and villages, Baldur's Gate in particular. She spent countless hours in the marketplaces in Baldur's Gate, exploring the back alleys, meeting as many people as she could, and buying trinkets from dwarves, halflings, gnomes, and anyone else she found interesting. It was one fateful night that she was doing this exact thing when a group of Drow raiders from the Underdark, mistaking the Shadar Kai for moon elves, attacked the monastery for slaves and plunder. Shae came back the next morning to a building full of dead bodies, blood, and silence.

The monks had fought bravely, killing many of the drow and their slaves (including bugbears, orcs, and goblins), but were ultimately defeated. As Shae explored the silent building, she found no survivors, only the brutality of the Drow and their minions. She went from room to room, finding nothing but bodies and blood. Everything of value had been taken, the women raped, and anyone young and able bodied captured. She found the body of her mother surrounded by dead drow, all slain by the skilled monk and her staff. She found no trace of her father.

She buried her dead family, burned the bodies of the raiders, and then left the monastery, taking her mother's staff and vowing to never again return. She forsook her family's surname, believing herself unworthy of it. She initially tried to find any trace of the raiders, to try and rescue any survivors, or at least exact her vengeance on the drow, but she found nothing. Lost of any purpose, she floated from town to town after that, doing small jobs here and there for food and board, until she was approached by a town guardsman in Baldur's Gate about a bounty that they needed done, but didn't have the manpower to complete. A murderer had escaped the day before his execution, and fled. They believed he had assistance, and was on his way to Waterdeep. They didn't have the numbers to send anyone after him as they had other, more pressing issues to deal with, so as usual they turned to adventurers. Shae completed the mission, hunting him down in the wilderness on his way to Waterdeep, and brought him back alive, so that his sentence could be carried out. As she watched his head roll, she finally felt a sense of relief, and for once felt like she'd done something worthy of her family name. It was then that she discovered a purpose for her life. She became a bounty hunter, seeking out criminals, raiders, murderers, anyone she deemed worthy of execution. She would use her skills, passed down to her by her family, to rid the world of evil, one bounty at a time, until she felt worthy of returning home.

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DDEX 2-05: Flames of Kythorn
Date: 03/09/2020
DM: GM Infinity (Paizo Messageboard)