Taure’Mithra Dynelie

Player: Lurker
Race: Moon Elf
Initial Alignment: CG

Appearance: A slight, lithe woman with agile, graceful moves. Pale of skin, with large almond eyes and long hair of midnight blue. She dresses in pretty, but simple clothing that is flowing and allows her to move, and carries a well tended, polished Elven thinblade at her side. She wears a pendant of Sehanine Moonbow around her neck.

Background

Taure’Mithra was born some 120 years ago, in the Elven stronghold of Evereska, the daughter of a Moon Elf Bard, and a Wood Elf Ranger, hence her name, Silverwood, in common translation. She favored her moon elf father’s blood, with eyes and hair both of dark midnight blue, and pale skin of the Teu’Tel’Quessir. She reached her youth as other elves were migrating from Faerun to Evermeet in the Elven Retreat, while most of her kin in the last stronghold city remained.

From an early age, Mithra was gifted with both a knack for learning like a sponge, as well as the musical talents of her father. She apprenticed herself to the bardic college as she moved into the cusp of her adulthood, as well as lost herself in the tomes of lore and history of her kin. Tales of ancient kingdoms, and elven knights, of Bladesingers and romantic accounts of her people in their progress and struggles across the continent, drew her in for the waking hours she didn’t spend in rehearsal of her scales. As a result, she was much the wallflower amongst her young kindred, far too studious for some who preferred to cavort and cajole around her.

This didn’t sway the young elf much, rather it gave her more reason to dwell on how she could make her mark in the legends of her cousins. To that end, she desired to become a Bladesinger — the most romanticized of the Tel’Quessir’s defenders. Verse practice gave way to dance, and practice with her thinblade. Aside, she spent her late nights in the Moonspire in prayer to the Moonbow, whom she chose as her patron to watch over her as she would someday wander paths outside of her sheltered home.

Come that day, she left the stronghold with little more than her lute, supplies, a simple blade that was nonetheless cared for meticulously, and prayers for good speed and sweet water. Her aim was to sojurn through the lands that remained of the once grand kingdom of Cormanthyr. Her travels led her to Cormyr, and to the city of Arabel, as her stopover toward the Dalelands. There she met others of her kin, including the Bladesinger Galdern who agreed to apprentice her in the art of Bladesong.

Personality Profile

Mithra will use her Performance training to project a flowery, eloquent persona about her, used to conceal the true awkwardness of the wallflower beneath the surface. It projects not only upon a stage, but even in her interactions with others. She goes to great pains to keep that facade from decaying save for those she will become truly close with. She truly is a hopeless romantic, and seizes ahold of the histories of the grandeur of her people to fuel her desire to see and behold its remains, and recapture as much as she can.

Goals

Mithra left on her sojurn to see and learn about the lands that once held the ancient kingdom of Cormanthyr. She wants to see as much of it as she can. And as a Bladesinger, she wishes to serve as an errant protector of both her kin’s histories and the people and their settlements.

Relationships

While he has mostly retired having graduated Mithra as his last pupil, Galdern is still seen much as a mentor and elder by the young El’Tael, and she hopes to carry on his mantle to apprentice others in the art. She’s not quite as flitting and flippant as some of her kin, and prefers close relations rather than fleeting assignations. She’s recently kept frequent company in another Sehanite, Desna Lethariel, another who blends arcane and swordplay, in a different style; with whom she’s become fast friends and companions.

She has at least passing, amiable relations with others of the Semberholme and Velethuil, where she took temporary residence. Not too many years later, Taure’Mithra returned to the Grey City after some disagreements with the less tolerant factions of Velethuil, and their intervening in her tutelage of an apprentice in the art of bladesong.

Recently, situations with friends still in the Sember, as well as developments at home have brought her back, at least for now. She has however kept her distance from the politicking of Velethuil completely, finding herself more comfortable amongst her less pent-up wood and wild elven friends. And she resides at the Drunken Badger, near where her teacher retired in Hunters Down.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts

• Anything that harkens to the history of her people, their settlements and kingdoms around the area, and landmarks would be of huge interest to her.
• One of her bucket list items is to see the Standing Stone in Cormanthor, and perhaps to find some of the hidden Wood Elf communities that still linger from the remains of the old kingdom.
• Any attempt to defile or capture relics and landmarks of elven domain — such as those taken by Clan Auzukovyn — would be answered by the young Bladesinger to thwart.

Notable Gear

Quickstrike: This Elven thornblade was lovingly crafted of mithril by one of Taure’Mithra’s uncles, who is an elven smith of some reknown in Evereska, and it bears his trademark. Forged as a parting gift for her sojourn away from home, it’s been designed perfectly balanced, honed with a keen edge and is set with a mooonstone in its gold-inlaid pommel. Mithra’s soulmate, Desna has since enchanted it to quicken the bladesinger’s reactions, thus. granting the wielder the benefits of Improved Initiative when it is drawn and held. Upon this enchantment Mithra dubbed it with the name Kysh’Ella, or “Quickstrike.”
Dmg (M) 1d6; Crit 18-20/x2, +2 crit mod; Damage Type Piercing/Slashing
Special: A wielder can apply her Dexterity modifier to attack rolls with an Elven thornblade instead of her Strength modifier. An elven thornblade grants no additional benefit when wielded two-handed.