Choosing a class was also difficult. The pleasure seeker
and nobility aspects were tough to reconcile without a decent charisma score.
However, placing her home in the First World, among the fey, allowed me to
expand on the idea of nobility. Being from a primal forest, one of the nature
based classes seemed like the best idea. With that in mind I choose the Hunter
class, specifically the Primal Companion Hunter archetype.
Kelis Shadowbough
Although the primary inhabitants of the First World are
the fey, they
are not the only beings that exist within the world. Some come to the first
world willingly, looking for something beyond the realms of man. Some come
unwillingly, and many is the tale of kidnapped children being taken by faeries.
Regardless of how one came to reside in the First World, the Eldest still rule and
everyone follows their dictums.
In the lands known as the Evergrove, the Eldest Magh
reigns supreme. She spends much of her time pouring over her prophecies and
leaves the day-to-day dealings of her land to the ever fluctuating fey nobles.
Each noble has their own court and their own realm has its own nobility on down
to the gentry. In some courts not all the gentry are fey and the Shadowbough
family of vanara are one such non-fey aristocrats.
Lord Varius and his wife Neela, along with their two
children Kelis and Baracca, dwell in the court of Duke Avealis. Varius and
Neela came to the fey worlds before either of the children were born, quite by
accident, when fleeing their burning home in the Mwangi jungle. They quickly
made a name of themselves and have gained status among the fey despite being
quite mortal.
Life for the Shadowbough children was as ordinary as can
be when you’re nobility in fey lands. The children were taught at home and
learned the intricate, if bizarre, etiquette of the fey. Living in the largest
primordial forest in existence, they also learned how to hunt and survive in
their wooded home. Kelis especially took to the lessons out among the trees.
Many of the fey worshiped the eldest as gods but the
Shadowbough family had a long family history of devotion to the Empyreal Lord
Seramaydiel. Although their connection to their patron seemed muted in the
First World, their adherence to her faith and tenets is how they excelled at
both music and discourse. These traits are what elevated Lord Varius to his
noble status, although Kelis did not seem to excel at them as her father did.
Instead of going to her father when she wanted advice
Kelis took to seeking out Jie, a faun. The young vanara’s desires to seek out
all the little pleasures meant the gentle prodding from her fey mentor was a
welcome relief from her father’s insistence that she learn to act as her
station required. From food and drink, to the freedom of the trees, to more
carnal pleasures, Kelis looked to experience every bit of life.
Even though she reveled in her excess, Kelis’s life was
not all chaos and disorder. The young vanara had a sense of justice, even if
her methods of enforcing it were more in line with the fey whose lands she
inhabited. What is right is right and what is wrong needs to be punished.
When a wizard from Golarion came to treat with Avealis he
was allowed free reign of the forest within certain limits. The willworker,
however, did not treat all of the denizens of the forest with the grace the fey usually do. When he destroyed the home of the primal simians who were
just examining him with interest, this incensed Kelis. Fey justice is, if
anything, overly literal and since the wizard destroyed what the simians owned,
Kelis stole his spellbook and staff and destroyed it in turn.
As is wont of the fey realm, Kelis’s actions had their
own twist. The youngest of the primal apes saw the deed the vanara performed
and began to follow her around. The two eventually became inseparable. When
Kelis decided it was time to leave home to make her own way, this new companion
left with her. Stepping through the fey portal on to the world of Golarion, the
creature looked for all to see like a normal ape, but Kelis knew there was
still a primal being inside. Now the two look to make a life of their own, if
they can figure out where they are.
Our random rolls have become Kelis the fey trained
woodswoman. Is this what you would have done? Which forested plane would you
have had her be from? What class would you have chosen? Who would her mentor
have been? How would she seek out her pleasures?
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