The following, for those with the fortitude and time to read it, is the descritpion of Solace that will ship with the module. It contains spoilers for the first few modules of the series.
The player may chose to read this as the background for thier PC or go thier own way. the module is written for Solace but can be played with any character.
It's a draft so please excuse grammar. Not my strong point
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You were born to a half elven father and human mother, you were called Solace, or Mylali in Elven, as that is what you brought to your mother; comfort. Your mother died when you were very young and your grandmother took over your upbringing. When, by the age of five, your grandmother saw that you were aging no different from a human she also had to leave. The grief of having to watch her son and granddaughter grow old and die within only a fraction of her lifetime was too much for her.
You were taught the Elven tongue by your father and brought up to respect nature. Your father was no adventurer however, he was a successful merchant. When you were five he brought a silent partnership in an import company in Neverwinter and moved to the Thunder Bay area, where he became the financial advisor to the local Lord Tysan. You grew up in and around the Tysan estate, treated by the staff as one of the house children. Ormin, the Cleric of Tyr, who saw to the secular needs of the family became your friend and tutor.
Lord Tysan married Morag about two years after you joined the household. She came from Neverwinter and was not happy to be married into country folk as she was often heard to say. However she was a widow and not able to keep herself financially and marrying her provided Tysan with connections in Neverwinter so the match was made. She came with two staff, her house maid and Samuel, a reclusive, artistic man who seemed to do any odd work that Morag had for him.
There were no children in the marriage for years after that so you became a surrogate daughter to Morag. She saw to your education in the ways that a Neverwinter lady might be expected to behave as well as more practical matters. Had you been more intelligent she would have put you on a course to be a mage like herself. After a while it became clear that the only reason your father was retained in the house staff was you. He repeatedly clashed with Morag on financial matters and the two developed a healthy dislike for each other. Instead she employed a man named Reece who challenged your father on a daily basis for the ear of the Tysan household.
Morag was a strange woman, to you she was kind, protective and, in her way devoted. To others she was capricious, manipulative and capable of cruelty. She could be dominating and aggressive to staff and her husband, but to those she considered her family she was a much more pleasant person.
The arrival of Hal Tysan changed everything in the house. Morag had a son now and the focus of her world was him. None around her mattered and your upbringing fell back to Ormin. By now you were in your early teens and your relationship with the elderly cleric was sometimes strained but always solid. He knew how to teach you to read and write but had no idea how to deal with the complexities of a teenage girl.
For all that you were difficult at times you were bright, spending much of your time helping your father to run his business. You saw to his ledgers and applied yourself to making money for him by feeding information to his business contacts in Neverwinter.
When you were sixteen you became infatuated with Samuel, Morag’s servant from Neverwinter. He had been constant in your life for many years and his introspective manner and capability at all things he set his hands to, especially artistic endeavours fascinated you. He was commissioned to build a new wing on the house, a chapel and rooms for Ormin downstairs and extra rooms for the Tysan family upstairs. It was clear now that the Tysan marital bed was cold, some wondered how Hal had come about such was the relationship between Tysan and Morag so the new wing was to give Morag her own room.
While he was building this, you watched him leading the men and making his plans and, when the time was right allowed him to seduce you. He was at least ten years your senior but this did not seem to concern him or you. You kept your relationship secret from the family as you knew Morag would not agree, the only person who knew was Ormin and he only knew the half of it. The quiet Samuel turned out to be abusive and violent, he dominated you and, over time took you to some very dark places indeed. You were young and naïve it did not occur to you that this was not normal. In time however Samuel did start to scare you with the pleasure he seemed to take in hurting you and you started to listen at last, to Ormin. He told you to end the relationship but you did not value his view as he was celibate and his did not see what experience he would have to advise you. Just when he was close to convincing you, one of the house maids, Siobhan fell pregnant. She was a very old friend of yours and when Ormin said the child was his you lost all confidence in him. Siobhan had to leave the estate taking her child with her and you lost a good friend. You relationship with Ormin crumbled to nothing and you were driven back to Samuel.
A few weeks later you found out in the market that Samuel was seeing other women, market girls. These affairs were short but common. Worse still two of the girls he was “seeing” had gone missing. You were outraged but afraid of Samuel, so you kept quiet; your relationship with Samuel was still secret, not because you wanted it to be but because you were too scared to let it be known. He had many time threatened your life if you told anyone about you both.
In the end it came to the point where you could not be with him anymore and you ended your affair. He seemed to take it well which encouraged you but that evening you were awoken by the firm grip of mens hands on your body and a knife at your throat. What followed would not benefit from detailed description but Samuel tortured you, first with steel and then with fire. When it was done, he covered you and the room with lamp oil and set light to it.
The pain was incredible and you passed out but were woken but a few moments later when you were thrown into the freezing river, still tied to your chair.
You came out of the water cut from head to toe and burned deeply down the right hand side of your body. Your hand in particular had only two usable fingers and your right arm was close to wasted. Healing was possible but only through a wish spell.
You had been rescued by a priest of Mielikki who later said that he had been called by his god to be in Thunder Bay that night, you suspected that, in truth, he had been there to see one of the women in the tenements, but none the less the cult of Mielikki considered you special and took you in. You ran to them that night, scared of what Samuel would do if he found that you had survived.
Over the coming years you lived with the cult of Mielikki in the forest of Neverwinter. Instead of taking the healing they offered you learned to live with your scars and became stronger again despite them. You lacked the wisdom to become a cleric of the cult instead becoming a Ranger, your dexterity and affinity to nature made you good and your skill with a bow became a talking point among your peers.
For all those three years spent training in the Neverwinter wood only one thing was on your mind … revenge. More than anything you wanted Samuel to die for the way he had treated you and the Market girls. When you finally did arrive back in Thunder Bay much had changed. Your father had lost his house and was living in the tenements. He no longer worked in the Tysan household. You suspected foul play and dedicated yourself to finding out how this had come about. Reece now owned and lived in the house that you had grown up in.
Your first target was Samuel however and you found that he had been sent to Lakeside by Morag, to be town overseer there. When you got there you found an adventuring party had formed, working for Samuel to try to get rid of a group of smugglers. You suspected Samuel might have a hand in this and let them get on with their work hoping to find evidence of wrong doing on Samuels part that would allow you to confront him without fear of reprisal. This they found but Ormin allowed him to get away. He arrested him and, instead of hanging him, sent him to Thunder bay for trial. Samuel escaped on the way back to Thunder Bay and you blamed Ormin for this.
Before tracking down Samuel you joined with the party in Lakeside to bring down the killers of Hal Tysan’s first wife. You needed this time to increase your skills and plan what to do next. Once your task there was complete you left the party to focus on finding Samuel and finding out what had happened to your father and his estate. You found the adventuring life to your liking though and vowed to join with the party again, if they would have you. The secular lifestyle of the Mielikki temple was not to your taste.
This was a difficult time for you as you knew that the party you had left were helping to clear Lord Tysan’s name and clear the inheritance of Hal Tysan who you consider a younger brother. You spent much time in the wilderness alone. Spying and gathering information, all the time hearing of the things that the adventurer and Ember the rogue were doing to help your removed family in your absence. Those were lonely times and your thirst for revenge was all you had to keep you sane.
In the end though you found Samuel and tracked him to the old Tysan estate where Hal Tysan was to thank the adventurer and Ember for clearing his father’s name. There you discovered that Samuel was Morag’s son by her first marriage and that she had been protecting him all along. This made sense to you but you are now torn, the woman you consider your mother must have known what Samuel had done to you and the others and yet she still protected him. Ormin it seems was not the father of Siobhans child but was protecting her from Morag. The child was Lord Tysan’s and thus a legitimate heiress to his estate. There is no knowing how Morag would have responded to this so Ormin had taken it upon himself to protect her. All that underpinned your life had changed in just few short minutes and now you feel lost, the only thing left you are sure of is that your fathers loss required action, you must take revenge on Reece and claim back your father business and estate.
The pain in you limbs is constant, worse when you have to fight. Firing a bow is manageable but using a sword can be agony. But still you keep your scars, they are your reminder of your past and task ahead … they drive you on, without them you don’t know who you would be. If you did, you are not sure if you would like her very much.
PJ
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