child_of_bhaal

❥ Name/Handle: Ash
❥ Contact: plurk is Claireki77y
❥ Over 18?: Very much so
❥ Other Characters: NA

❥ Name: Syeira, Gorion's ward
❥ Canon: Baldur's Gate
❥ Canon Point: End of Shadows of Amn

❥ History:

Wiki page

Baldur’s Gate I
Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7

Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

The God Bhaal

Syeira’s path is that of a neutral good, bard bhaalspawn. Which means she has been gifted the Five Flagon’s Inn Playhouse from Raelis Shai.

Player choice decisions:
-did not romance the only companion that showed an interest.
-did free the slaves at the Copper Cornet
-did kill Maevar for the Shadow Thieves
-did not accept help from Bodhi because she was very creepy
-accepted Saemon Haverian's help getting out of Spellhold
-supported Prince Villynaty's coup of the underwater Shahuagin City
-disbanded the Cult of the Unseeing Eye, returned the Rift Device
-helped the Silver Dragon recover her clutch in the Underdark
-helped Solaufein fake his death and escape the Underdark
-100% betrayed Phaere and her mother to Lolth's handmaiden.
-has not willingly transformed into the Slayer
-saved everyone who could possibly be saved, avoided killing whenever possible
-final party at the end of the game: Haer'Dalis, Minsc, Nalia, Imoen, Viconia

❥ CRAU?: Syeira spent nearly two years on the Space Reality TV show called The Drift Fleet. She lived in relative peace for the first time in years. She made friends and enjoyed the luxuries of normalcy, making several deep emotional attachments to several other members of the Fleet, coming to think of them as family, most especially her crew mates Zhas and Coil, who she came to look on as brothers. During that time she willingly transformed into The Slayer to kill a beast that looked like some type of dragon (a T-Rex) that would have killed her and her friends, as they were unarmed at the time. She died from overexposure to her Slayer form, witnessed by Maglor Feanorian, Finrod Felagund and Arthur (Inception). She was revived by Atroma, and she experienced some kind of deep vivid occurrence that she cannot quite recall, but can only be sure that it was dark and evil. She now occasionally has nightmares about it, but cannot describe her dreams afterwards with any clarity.

❥ Personality: Syeira has a hero complex. It began when she turned twenty and her adoptive father, Gorion, tried to sneak her out of their fortress home of Candlekeep for her own safety. They were ambushed and Gorion was slain by her (later revealed) half-brother Sarevok, while she ran and hid in the woods. Despite the fact that this was what her father had ordered her to do, she forever felt responsible for his death, and guilty for not having tried to save him. Thus, she quite literally tries to save everyone she comes across that is in need.

This can be a terrible and wonderful quality. And her constantly growing and changing traveling companions are an example of her refusal to judge books by their covers, or occasionally, even some of their content. She has been known to travel with Evil aligned folk, including a Thayvian Wizard and a Drow Cleric, despite their demands to do something less than scrupulous every now and again. She disdains hypocrisy, and will never turn her back on someone asking for her help, even if she feels apprehension about the supplicant. She feels that just because someone is shady, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re bad. And conversely, has learned that just because someone is friendly and jovial, does not mean that they are good.

Unfortunately, her gut isn’t always the wisest thing to follow. Syeira is a Child of Bhaal and with that comes inherent disadvantages, primarily the Taint in her blood. The Taint is the very essence of Bhaal that flows through her veins, and always it tries to influence her actions. When angry, she can escalate to violence more quickly than most would think, judging by her usual helpful and kind demeanor. And it is far more difficult for her to calm after a battle is over. Her blood always calls to her to kill, to wash herself in blood until no living thing stands in her way.

Syeira is somewhat of an insomniac, as she has nightmares quite often. These nightmares are unlike regular bad dreams. They are very often the Taint within her trying to draw her into giving into it, and becoming a ruthless killing machine. There have been times when her Soul has come to speak to her in dreams, and help to fight off the Taint’s influence. In any instance, when she wakes, it is often gasping in fear, if not outright screaming. And the thing she is afraid of is herself.

As stated before, she likes to be of service to people in need. She doesn’t really know what to do with herself when she’s not on some quest or another, and will seek out things to do for people. She doesn’t really know what it means to just relax, and fills idle time with anything she can think of. If she can’t find someone with a task for her, she’ll busy herself with music, or writing. But in the end, she’s a restless thing, and always has been.

Then, of course, she is only twenty-one years old, and spent a great deal of her life being very sheltered from the outside world. So being stuck in one place tends to grate on her. She is young, and impetuous and despite the incredibly hard lessons of reality she’s learned in only a year and change, she’s still naive to a point. She trusts firsts and asks questions later. She always puts the concerns and welfare of others, before her own, sometimes to the point of detriment to herself. She isn’t cagey or coy by default, and has a habit of being overly giving of herself. She’s the very model of the phrase ‘once bitten, twice shy’.

Because she wants very desperately to be a real hero. She wants for people to look at her and smile, say her name with admiration, instead of instant fear. If she can earn that, then perhaps Gorion did not die in vain. Then she can look herself in the mirror and think that she is worthy of his sacrifice, and that she hasn’t disappointed him.

It's a lofty goal, and her climb is steep. It's not as though she can begin with a clean slate like any normal person. From the moment she was born, the deck was stacked against her. She was born with a specific purpose, to be fuel to revive her dead father.

No matter where she goes, the Taint of her heritage walks with her. It proceeds her, surrounds her and follows in her wake. As good as she wants to be, death is almost always inevitable when around her. Either she will kill you, kill someone for you, or you will kill with her. Perhaps not always directly either. It's a terrible weight to carry around, and she has wished, more than once, that she could just walk away from it all. She didn't ask to be born Bhaal's child, and she never wanted her so-called destiny. She resists the call of the Taint with everything she has, doing her best to turn the hateful reality of what she is, into something positive. What better way to spit in Bhaal's eye than to do good things with her life?

However, despite her determination to change her stars, the fact remains that she walks with death every day. People have died simply because they traveled with her, and those deaths weigh on her heavily. She cannot survive on her own, even a Bhaalspawn has their limits, and she quite honestly craves companionship. She has a habit of pulling people into her circle who are in someway lost and looking for direction. They range from pure and innocent to jaded and evil. But they're all looking for something the same as she is. A place to be themselves with someone who will look past what is on the surface. She sees a little of herself in all her friends, which account for the often motley assortment of them.

❥ Abilities:
Half-elven racial abilities
Infravision/Low-light vision
Immunity to Sleep spells and Charm spells
Elven Blood- Any effect that targets specific races treats her as an elf.

Bard class abilities
Syeira is an extremely high level College of Valor bard, which includes a Lot of spells. I'll list them if you wish.

Bhaalspawn abilities
Bloodlust- Syeira has a history of being a more vicious and deadly fighter than a bard ought to be. This is due to her nature as a bhaalspawn being triggered by the spilling of blood. It causes her to be far more proficient in battle, and more likely to kill opponents that might out class her in size/armor/strength and so on. She has a difficult time calming down once a battle has ended. The more blood that is shed, the harder it is for her to soothe the bloodlust.

Slayer Form - an avatar of Bhaal. While in the actual Forgotten Realms D&D setting, the Slayer is a corpse-esque looking humanoid form, in the game of Baldur's Gate, the Slayer form looks more like the Ravager form and functions accordingly. This form can be triggered voluntarily, or in cases of extreme duress, can happen involuntarily. Extreme duress has so far been seen to be an onset of uncontrollable bloodlust, or overwhelming rage. The first warning sign that she is in danger of transforming is her eyes will begin to glow yellow. Like her brother Sarevok, the glow shows up when the Taint of Bhaal is growing strong within her blood.

Other Skills
Languages: fluent in Common, Espruar (elvish), Drow, and Drow Sign.
Instruments: skilled with harp, lute, flute, violin, and pan pipes. Passable on piano and harpsichord.
❥ Extras:

Did your character bring anything along (limit 3 items) with them?
-her journal
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Which god will they choose to support? Or do you wish to be randomized?