Name: Fyodor Strelnikov
Race: Custom Lineage
Class: Fighter
Background: Haunted One

Personality Traits:
• Endless night is nothing new to me.
• I don’t talk about my torments. I’d rather just forget them entirely.
Bond:
• Leo Dilisnya... The name is familiar to me. But I don't know why.
• If the people of Bryn Shander hadn't taken me in, I would have frozen to death. I will see the debt repaid.
Ideal:
• Peace At Last. Now that I am free, I just want to live a quiet life.
Flaw:
• I am afraid of mist and avoid it at all costs.
• I am a purveyor of doom and gloom.

Appearance

Personality: Jaded, haunted, pessimistic, and terrified of mist. But also loyal, honest, brave, and able to endure great hardship without complaint. He is determined to repay the people of Bryn Shander for saving his life and then live out the rest of his days in peaceful normalcy. While he does his best to be sociable when approached, it quickly becomes clear that he isn't very good at it. He prefers the company of himself and when not working, he tends to sit still and mutter quietly to himself. From listening in on what few snippets of muttering are spoken loud enough to be heard, curious eavesdroppers have also deduced that he is fixated on the name 'Leo Dilisnya' for reasons not even he can discern.

Backstory: Thirteen months ago, a man stumbled into the town of Bryn Shander as a heavy mist passed through. Badly wounded and frozen half to death, the townsfolk who found him thought his eventual recovery a miracle. Once his neck injuries had healed enough to let him speak speak, the man introduced himself as Fyodor Strelnikov and mentioned being used to lands of never ending darkness, but didn't share much more than that. Upon making a full recovery, Fyodor felt compelled to repay the town that saved his life. He has since then taken on any request made of him by the townsfolk to the best of his ability.

Name: Anenome "Annie" Stoneskipper
Race: Hexblood
Class: Warlock (Fathomless Patron)
Background: Feylost

Personality Traits:
- "I was raised by sea hags, and as such, have a very warped view as to what is 'beautiful'."
- "I am very excited to learn new things. Perhaps even a little TOO excited."
Bonds:
- "I'm afraid my sea hag 'aunts' are still looking for me."
- "I am searching for the family my 'aunts' stole me from... my family."
Ideal:
"Honesty. You should always be open and truthful with the people you care about."
"Freedom. No one should feel like they are trapped."
Flaws:
- "I lived an incredibly sheltered life and now I'm free in the world, my lack of knowledge and street smarts make me an easy target."
- "I can be extremely petty when I feel I've been wronged."

Appearance: Annie appears as a young woman in about her early twenties, standing at about 5'10" though often appearing shorter due to her tendency to hunch over. She's pale with a bluish hue to her skin, golden eyes and long hair that appears as if it were made of sea weed. As with all hexbloods, she has ears that split in forked points and an eldercross - an irremovable living crown, hers appearing to be made of golden coral. She tends to prefer flowy clothes, often in dark, cool colours, and often topped off with a cape which often has its hood drawn when she's in unfamiliar places.

Personality: Annie's upbringing by her sea hag 'aunts' has left her with a... unique perspective world: she sees beauty and finds joy in some of the most bizarre and even dire situations. This, along with the fact that the world is so new to her, means that she wants to see and experience everything and meet everyone, and has very little restraint in doing so, filled with seemingly boundless energy and a bubbly enthusiasm for life. She can have her down moments, of course, especially if she feels wronged or offended, but these rarely last long thanks to her having a very short attention span. Any upsetting thoughts usually dissipate the moment she sees something new and exciting.

That being said, Annie does have a loneliness to her, having so few friends besides her aunts that she is willing to consider any stranger who shows her the slightest bit of kindness to her a friend. To her friends, she is something of a people-pleaser, going out of her way to make those around her happy, and she will put up with all kinds of behaviour from them... except lying, of course. She can't handle it when people she cares about lie to her.

Backstory: Annie was raised in the Feywild by her two sea hag 'aunts', Margot Minnowcatcher and Ivette Icebreaker, to replace the deceased member of their coven, Sadie Stoneskipper. Annie doesn't remember anything of her life before she was found, only that her aunts supposedly rescued her from a near-death situation and because of that, she should be grateful to them and do whatever she tells them. For the longest time, that was Anenome was happy to do so: she trained with her aunts to do the same magic that they could, and believed all the things they told her about the Feywild and the realms beyond. Sure, they weren't always the nicest to her - Isolde in particular was quick to threaten her with violence the moment she did even the slightest thing wrong - but they were the only family she had and she did, in her own way, love and admire them.

It was only when she reached adulthood that things took a turn. Annie had already become a little more rebellious, her curiosity to experience the world away from her aunts' influence causing her to often sneak away and would often draw their ire, but the thing that finally pushed her away from them was when she overheard them talking about her. She would often hear them muttering about things when they thought she was out of earshot. Through these secret conversations, she discovered how they really felt about her and, more importantly, that they had not rescued her like they had said, but instead stole her away from her real family on the material plane. Distraught, Annie decided to run away from her aunts, packing away any random objects she could find and leaving their cottage. Eventually, she even found a way out of the Feywild and to the Matieral Plane, where her search for her real family has lead her to Icewind Dale.

Anenome's CS

Name: Strix
Race: Reborn
Class: Artificer
Background: Sage

Personality Traits:
- I feel lost and alone in a world that is constantly slipping from my sight and grasp.
- I bury myself in my work, studies, and research- anything that can last for longer than I will.
- I continue to search for something that will relieve me of my silent pain.
Bonds:
- I resent my creators for bringing me back to life in the way that they did.
- I feel trapped by the promise I made to a loved one, to never give up on life, no matter what.
Ideal:
- Aspiration. I'm going to prove that I'm worthy of a better life. (Any)
- Free Thinking. Inquiry and curiosity are the pillars of progress. (Chaotic)
Flaws:
- I try to suppress any feelings of attachment that I might form to the people around me, as I know they'll never last.
- In fact, I find it difficult to care about anything at all.

Personality:

Strix is a very pensive and reserved person, somewhat cold in her approach to solving problems and dealing with issues. She's quite intelligent, having spent most of her life in an extremely prestigious academy, though she struggles with social interactions, being stunted in that regard. She's quite inquisitive, always being interested in accruing as much knowledge as possible, being attached in a sense to her books and secrets as a way to cope with her fear of attachment to others.

Backstory:

Strix was once a normal human girl with a normal family and a normal life. But when she met an untimely demise, she was brought before a prestigious academy in hopes that they could mend her back to life. And in the end, they succeeded, turning her into a partly-mechanical, not-quite human entity- but alive, alive once again.

Things were fine for a while. She continued to live alongside her family, though she was now mandated to study at the academy as part of her debt. However, as the years passed, she found that her new body no longer seemed to age in the same way that those around her did. Slowly but surely, her loved ones passed on, whether from accident, disease, slaughter, or simple old age.

In the end, when her last loved one lay on their death bed, they made her promise never to give up on life, to keep trying to search for anything that could keep her going. And even now, years past that point when she can barely recall those faint memories, that promise sticks with her, until the very end.

Strix's CS