Basra Ciy a'Var
Rogue
Human - Deadfire Archipelago
Background
Basra Ciy A'Var never met her parents; she says her birth-name and day were revealed to her by an enterprising suffusilier she had paid a beggared five-piece to for a divination, when she was seven. For reasons unknown to her, she was born into spending the early twenty-odd years of her life as one of the many young table-maids of a corrupt merchant. When her adult-strength fully manifested, she hoped to end her servitude and her own miserable life when she gutted the man from navel to heart with a silver steak knife, in front of the armed guard captain, at the annual South Watch banquet. To her shock and horror, the man did not collapse in a bloody pool like she expected, but instead aged a thousand years in seconds. The stench of necromantic magic blew in all directions as he disintegrated into dust before her. For Basra's service in dispatching the disguised ghoul who had so brazenly infiltrated the ranks of the city's elite for whatever its sinister motives, the captain granted her freedom from servitude and a tidy sum of coin, which was enough to buy her own small lodgings in a dank corner of the city docks.
However, Basra was sorely uneducated in living the free life. Those next five years were even worse than the life she had while indentured; full of abuse, murder and debauchery. But, through it all, Basra was never the victim or cause of such torments, only an ever-terrified witness... as if, whatever gods that had abandoned the city to vice long ago remembered that they had mistakenly left one of their own behind, and ensured her safety.
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It's a character for a novel I've been writing, but I actually created her back in the Icewind Dale days, fleshed-out a bio and everything
I used her in that OT adventure thread I made too, a few months ago
i feel for this post. i do.
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