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About Terra Minora

Appearance and personalityTerra is an aasimar woman who possesses the kind of figure every woman has dreamed of, her hair is long, silky, and blonde and her eyes golden orbs. She prefers wearing black leather or silk clothing with yellow accents and knees or thigh high black boots in homage to her goddess, and a silver holy symbol of Calistria. When prepared for combat, she carries a whip and wears a set of mithral chain that has been painted black with a golden symbol of Calistria painted on front and back.

She has a bubbly and charming personality with a liking for expensive things. She is very devoted to the worship of Calistria, particularly the more pleasurable aspect, and strives to show others, as many as possible, the joys of the Savored Stings worship. She is fickle and somewhat unreliable due to her somewhat capricious nature, but no one can accuse her of not being there to support her friends and allies in their time of need.

Background
Terra Minora was born in the country of Taldor to a wealthy Taldan family and was a seemingly normal child. Bright an bubbly, she came into the world and they were sure she would be the perfect daughter and catch a superb husband who could help promote their families goals. As she grew up their hope became conviction, particularly when she began to change, her appearance becoming almost unearthly, her manner more pleasant, though her eyes becoming golden orbs disturbed them, the priests told them she was an aasimar.

Now at the age of sixteen, Terra began to become an object of envy, fear, and no small amount of lust. Her parents betrothed her to a suitor, a wealthy, older, gentleman who was willing to forge a marriage alliance with them. Terra however, having become more willful and independent as she grew up, refused to marry a man five times her age. A rather significant argument ensued and when her parents told her she would marry the man or she would be no longer welcome in their home, Terra did the unthinkable, she left.

She fled to the city of Oppara to find work and forge her own way in life, but found that many of those who would hire her wanted her for something other than "honest" work. Many of them refused to hire her unless she would do "personal favors" for them, and after a time she found herself left with no choice. as she had nothing else, no skills, that anyone wanted. It was her luck that the man who hired her was rather nice, though he was almost as old as her unwanted fiancé.

Terra stayed with the man for several years despite his families anger at the gold digger who had attached herself to him. Fearing her taking him for everything he had they sought to discredit her and drive her away. In the end they succeeded, the gentleman throwing her out onto the streets with nothing but the clothes on her back. Her anger at this turn of events nearly drove her to murder until a priest found her seething about the betrayal. this meeting would be a turning point in Terra's life as he was a priest of the Savored Sting, Calistria.

The elven man taught her the worship of the goddess and aided her in getting delicious revenge for what had happened, the gentleman's family being caught as conspirators in a tax evasion scheme. their wealth was taken and they were cast out of their mansion to live on the streets. Terra made sure to rub in what had happened and to point out that it was she who made the discovery of their scheme. As she left them she could hear their screams of anger at what had happened. The reward for foiling their scheme gave Terra enough to live on comfortably if she wished but she instead invested in some very nice equipment and went on a journey with her mentor, the priest Cael.

Over the next year or so the two traveled a great deal but in the end, Terra chose to return to Taldor. As a parting gift the elf gave her a suit of specially made mithral chain and an enchanted whip to mark their time together and, after one last night of passion, Terra returned home. She went to the family manor when she returned to Taldor but found it was now vacant and eventually learned that her fiancé had ruined her parents wealth and status after she left, the two dying less than a year before her return. While she was still angry over what they did, she feels great guilt that she left things as she did. Now at loose ends, Terra has just recently arrived in Cassomir and obtained a job, a job that will lead her to her destiny.

Skills Diplomacy +13 (+14 gather info), Sense Motive +9, Knowledge (religion) +8, Profession (courtesan) +8, Spellcraft +8, Escape Artist +6 (5 with armor), Perception +6