Name: Lilani Elaris

Username: Drache

Age: Lilani is 137, which makes her a young adult half-elf.

Appearance: (Brief description, will elaborate during game-play) Lilani is a willowy young woman with bright green eyes and long wild golden-brown hair. She has some elvish features, including slightly pointed ears and almond-shaped eyes, but to anyone familiar with elves would likely be able to identify her as a half-breed. She tends to dress in greens and browns, garbed for life in the deep wilderness.

Home Land: Lilani was raised primarily in the elven city of Bisha by her father, but since her parent's relationship was only a fleeting tryst, she did spend some time with her mother in a nearby human civilization. More recently she has lived deeper in the wilderness, learning the ways of the shaman and the healer.

Personality: Lilani tends to be cheerful and optimistic, and actively attempts to diffuse tension rather than inadvertently exacerbate it. Even as a relatively young woman, she possesses a nurturing instinct and is often the person that others feel they can confide in. She does occasionally surprise those around her by taking firm stands on issues she believes in.

Back story: Lilani's parents, an elven warrior and a human merchantess, had a brief fling when her mother's family visited the city of Bisha. At first Lilani lived with her mother, but the threat of war compelled her mother into sending her to stay with her father. Though he obviously loved his daughter, the social stigma of being a half-breed became too heavy a burden to bear. She left the city the night of her coming-of-age to learn the secrets of the earth and sky known by the reclusive druids and shamans of the world. In her travels and studies she chose to undergo the rites of the pact with her loyal friend and protector, a fierce griffon named Sarkonar.

Weapon of Skill: Lilani carries only an oaken quarterstaff carved deeply with eldritch runes of enchantment. The staff itself has several abilities (to be revealed later), but Lilani primarily uses it as a focus for the nature and healing magic she has learned to use through the Pact. She can still use magic without it, but having it in her hand can sometimes enhance certain spells. Lilani also has a passing skill with poisons and can either use them by themselves or to make regular weapons more deadly. She is also capable of using a sling or blowgun, but these are backup weapons.

Magic: Lilani is a druid. Her spells come from the neutral natural world and with them she can control beasts, plantlife, and the elements with varying degrees of skill. Her magic is mostly used for healing, and she has so far made a living as a traveling healer in the more remote forest villages, both elf and human. Due to being somewhat hermit-like and being bonded to a frightening magical beast, she prefers to use her power healing animals, but the magic works just as well on people. Having the ability to communicate and manipulate animals also makes her a valuable trainer. At the current time, she is on a mission to learn the next tier of druidic power, which is the ability to transform her own body into that of an animal.

Equipment: Lilani is skilled at finding what she needs to live off the land and carries only a few basic necessities for outdoor living, such as a hammock and cooking implements. She does carry a healer's kit and constantly adds to it, taking every opportunity to refresh her stores of healing plants and potions/substances. She also carries a flute which she plays as a hobby. Sarkonar serves willingly as a mount, so he is generally wearing a saddle with light saddlebags, but he requires no bridle. Lilani wears leather armour and carries a change of clothing to better fit into the city crowds. 

Pact Beast: Sarkonar is a proud male griffon who Lilani nursed back to health after he was hunted for sport by Yid soldiers. Returning to his clan's eyrie to find it torched to oblivion, he pledged his life to the young druid. He harbours a fierce resentment against Yid's tyranny and urges Lilani to use her power against them. Sarkonar speaks only telepathically and like most griffon's, enjoys the taste of horseflesh. He is a golden griffon.
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