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Born out of the unexpected love story between a Cambion Sorceress and a Half-Elf Druid, Elyr was bound to have a rather unconventional upbringing from the start. Her mother Dalia, a servant of Mephistopheles, was part of the efforts to keep Raphael from getting the Crown of Karsus, which in turn kept her away from her family. In an effort to keep Elyria and Roza safe in case Raphael found out, the two of them lived solely with their father, Elorin, a former Chosen of Mielikki and Green Regent, in hopes to get them to connect with their Druid ancestry in the future.After finding out about Dalia’s involvement in keeping him away from the crown, Raphael struck a deal with a Bhaalist assassin as a way to get back at her. The following bloodshed resulted in Elorin sacrificing himself to save his daughters, yet he could not save Roza from becoming susceptible to the assassin’s Bhaalist magic, something that would leave her with a permanent mark. Realising just how unsafe it truly was to have them around while Raphael was alive, Dalia figured it’d be for the best if she disappeared from her children’s life for good, and so she left them at the doorstep of a Mielikkian temple in the wilderness.Even though the Temple’s Mielikkian Clerics had their hesitations taking in two hellspawn, the sisters were taken in by the Temple’s resident Elveln Paladin Tasalor, who raised them as his own. Being just like her father, Elyria had a connection with natural magic, much to the happiness of the local Nature Goddess worshippers, yet her sister seemed to lack her connection to the wilderness, instead focusing her whole attention on blades and steel, following the guidance of a voice she heard in her head that everyone else seemed to consider an imaginary friend if anything.After hearing this voice in her head for so long, Roza followed it to the edge of the Shadow-Cursed Lands, never to be seen again. Feeling guilty for her sister’s disappearance, Elyr swore at the early age of 9 that she’d make it her life’s work to find a way to lift the deathly curse and find her sister. She trained under Tasalor’s mentorship to become a Paladin of Mielikki, and after swearing under the Oath of the Ancients, she set off with her fellow Mielikki worshipper and best friend Nadia to cleanse the Sword Coast from the creatures of Darkness in search of a way to lift the Shadow Curse.Thirty years went by for the duo in the blink of an eye, and thirty years was how long it took for Elyr to be able to make any progress on her quest to find her sister. During a visit to the temple they were raised in, Elyr and Nadia found out Tasalor had also gone missing near the Cursed Lands and decided to investigate his whereabouts. It’s while in this investigation that the two of them got ambushed by Thorm’s soldiers and taken to Moonrise Towers, where Elyr got put in the Nautiloid and had the tadpole inserted into her eye.

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Helsing was the youngest son in a family of Gur from a tribe hailing from Neverwinter. From a very early age, Helsing was taught to hunt, scout and survive in the wilderness by himself. One day while out in the town market, a merchant wrongfully accused Helsing’s mother of stealing from him, which escalated into her getting wrongfully arrested. Helsing managed to escape, however he was eventually caught by guards and taken to neverwinter’s prison himself.While in jail, Helsing got visited by the nobleman that owned the supposedly stolen goods. The man gave him the choice between staying in jail or coming to work for him, and not feeling like he had much of a choice, Helsing accepted the man’s proposal. It was while working for said nobleman that Helsing befriended the man’s son, Rostam, with whom he formed a close friendship.As per tradition, the youngest child from each generation in the Nobleman’s house was to be sent off to train under the Order of the Lycan, and so, when he was still a child, Rostam was taken in by the Blood Hunters to learn their ways and join their ranks. Helsing refused to let go of his friend, and so the Blood Hunter that came to escort Rostam accepted to take Helsing with him as well.Being a much more sensitive child than most men from his family, Helsing found himself struggling a lot to fit in with this new lifestyle. He didn’t like weapons, was fascinated by all living creatures, and the sight of blood alone was enough to make him throw up. Overall, he thought of Blood Hunters as being vile creatures only in it for the money.Feeling the young boy’s insecurity, one of the Elders, Lady Rosemary, decided to take Helsing along with her on a particularly ghastly mission. She showed him the result and bloodshed of letting wild monsters go untamed, and after their return to the fortress, he came back with a changed perspective on the matter. Rather than seeing Blood Hunters as killers for hire, he now saw them simply as a different kind of soldier- one fighting an enemy more supernatural than those fighting in armies, and so he decided to dedicate himself to properly learning the ways of the Order of the Lycan to better be able to protect those around him.While in training, Helsing and Rostam grew increasingly close, but it wasn’t until their early adult years that the two became officially lovers. Things went well for the two of them- at least until the months leading up to the ceremony where both of them would be officially declared Hunters of the Order. Feeling like Helsing was still too sentimental for the job of a Blood Hunter, Lady Rosemary decided to put the young half-elf to the test with the help of Rostam. They pretended the latter had been found guilty for conspiring against the order- something than in a real situation would be punished with death, and ordered Helsing to be the one to execute the sentence.Much to the Elder’s disappointment, Helsing did not go through with the charge he had been given, and instead tried to help Rostam escape to avoid his fate. Because of the latter part, Helsing was the one who was instead charged with treason, and promptly banished from the lands under the Order of the Lycan’s protection.Although he did accept his fate, Helsing managed to sneak out with him the vial he was to drink from during the ceremony and performed the ritual by himself outside of Order grounds. This decision proved to be a mistake. Without anyone to guide him through the lycanthropy transformation, Helsing found it extremely hard to adjust to the hybrid serum’s abilities and managed to control those powers very poorly.He decided to try and return home, hoping to find his mother and reconnect with his tribe, yet when he arrived he was mostly seen as a curse rather than a blessing. The tribe members could see the change- they could sense he was tainted by Lycanthropy and shunned him from his home. The following argument led to him losing control of his lycan abilities and injuring his father. He never returned home after that.Helsing found himself lost in the woods, stuck in this werewolf form for almost a full year until he was found and taken in by a Cleric of Selûne, who helped him return to his normal form. Although he did not stay with the cleric for long, he promised to return with a worthy reward to thank her for her kindness.It took years for Helsing to be able to get in sync with his new lycan form, but eventually he managed to trust it enough to begin using it in his Blood Hunting endeavours. Now without an order to serve and only his own empathy to trust, he roams Faerûn in search for the next beast to kill, mostly going for monsters terrorising defenceless villages.

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From a very young age, all Finch knew was how to make ends meet in the streets of Baldur’s Gate. Him and his older brother Armir were separated from their parents while the younger of the two was still very little, and cashing in on Finch’s cuteness, the two often found themselves running scams or stealing from passer-bys. One day during a very severe thunderstorm, the two had no choice but to seek shelter by breaking into the Stormshore Tabernacle, where Finch first came to know Mystra. He was intrigued by the magic shrine, and found himself being called to to.Following the encounter with the statue, Finch grew increasingly more curious and attuned to the Weave. He began switching from snatching money to ancient tomes, and in turn, that would lead him to attuning himself even more to magic. At some point, Finch befriended a kid from his neighbourhood, Enver Flymm, with who he had a very sweet but short lived romance with, however said kid mysteriously disappeared one day, never to be seen again.As Finch’s magic skills grew, he managed to start making a slightly more honest living by putting up magic performances in the town square. He became known to more and more people, but most agreed that his magic was still far from perfection. Even that didn’t deter Finch, though, as he started calling himself "The great and Amazing Finch, the Shining Star of the Gate".Somewhen in his early twenties, Finch re-encountered his childhood romance, who was now going by the name of Gortash instead of his real last name. The two of them reconnected and rekindled their childhood romance, growing just as close once again. Things wouldn’t stay like that forever, though. Finch began to notice how much Enver had changed, no longer the the sweet, albeit clever Enver he knew, but something else entirely. It all culminated in the day Enver got invited to an important nobility event- one he considered Finch not up to the standards of. Finch was publicly humiliated by his lover in front of his new associates of a higher status, leading Finch to never set foot in the upper city again.After that encounter, a cloud grew over Finch’s head. He already desired a higher status for the sake of security and stability, but now he desired it for something else- power and influence. He used his showmanship and street smarts so slowly climb up the ranks, putting up a front of fake nobility, however just as he became more known, one of his new acquaintances set him up in a trap- one which lead to him being abducted, tadpoled, and sent off on a nautiloid to become a true soul.

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Being the youngest of two sisters born to wood elf and cambion parents, Rozalie didn’t have as much of a recollection of her biological family as her older sister Elyr did. She vaguely remembered living with her father in their cottage in the woods, but most of those memories are gone by now and more so facts she can recall. After her father was assassinated by a Bhaalist assassin, Roza found herself extremely susceptible to the murder god’s influence, even if she herself didn’t know that was it at the time.After their father’s passing, both her and Elyr got taken in by a paladin living in a temple of Mielikki near Baldur’s Gate. The sisters lived relatively normally while there, however there was always this strange force in the back of Roza’s mind compelling her to venture into the Shadow Cursed lands. Most times, either Elyr or their guardian would be there to stop her before it was too late, however on one such occasions, no one noticed fast enough and she found herself walking straight into the forest in the direction of Moonrise Towers.She eventually found herself face to face with Ketheric Thorm. The undead general looked after Rozalie for most of her formative years, using her as a way to cope with the loss of his daughter for the second time. However, Roza knew Moonrise Towers wasn’t her one true purpose, and soon after, she found herself in the cult of Bhaal’s lair underneath Baldur’s Gate, who indoctrinated her into the cult.Roza found herself living pretty well among cultists, be it because of her hellish ancestry or just her sheer will to survive at all costs, and by the time she reached her early twenties, she was appointed as a head recruiter, prowling the streets for vulnerable people to be taken into Bhaal’s clutches the same way she was. She learnt to be everything her current target needed, be it a mother figure, a support system or an object of desire, which helped her understand how to manipulate people more and more, which in turn allowed her to sink her claws into increasingly powerful targets.Before she knew it, thirty years since her original disappearance had gone by. She was the cult’s High Priestess and married to the chosen of Bhaal himself, the highest position she could possibly hope to achieve while not being a bhaalspawn. And things would have been as perfect as they could get in her situation if it wasn’t for Orin killing the Dark Urge. After the albino Dragonborn, Roza was the next on the deathbringer’s list.Left for dead in Moonrise Towers, Roza was found by Ketherick, who wasn’t about to lose a second daughter. She was handed over to Kressa Bonedaughter to be revived, however instead of being sent out on the nautiloid, she remained in Moonrise Towers, where she conspired her revenge against Orin until Thorm was defeated by a group of tadpoled adventurers, with who she teams up with on the way back to Baldur’s Gate.