Thrace Delvos, Tiefling Mercenary By Chaerod Watch

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To address the inevitable first point: yes, Thrace is a tiefling. I threw together a chart to roll for her appearance and she just so happened to look quite human. She has small nubs of horns on her forehead, which she keeps hidden beneath her skullcap, and her tail is small enough for her to keep tucked into her trousers.



Thrace grew up on the island of Delvor (the setting of our homebrew campaign), in a town called Fort Frostshore. Her father, Aaron, was a human paladin and her her mother, Scarlette, was a tiefling bard. In their prime, they were adventurers and heroes, meeting on the road during one of Aaron's missions to protect the realm. At the time, Scarlette had been extremely down on her luck, working as a freelance musician and occasionally stooping so low as to spend the night with people for coin. Aaron, recently widowed with a young son (who was in the church's care while he was away from home), made it his new mission to save the desperate woman.



Eventually they settled down and started a new family, having Thrace and then a second son, named Kaiden.



Thrace learned to fight from her parents, and when she was fifteen, left to pursue a life of mercenary work--wanting to prove to her father that you don't have to commit to a cause to be successful and lead a fulfilling life. She did a handful of jobs around the island, not being particularly scrupulous about her employers. She had only a few solid rules: No jobs hurting kids, and she charged triple to interfere in the affairs of the established crime families.



This backfired rather badly for her when she accepted a job for the Ambassadors of Discord, a group of insane fanatics dedicated to finding and serving the Old Gods. Though the job went well, she realized just what sort of madness she was working for. Not wanting to risk her new employers' wrath, she quietly left after the job was done, pursuing work on the mainland. She also made a new rule for herself: No cults.



Five years later, news started circulating about trouble in Delvor: people evacuating en masse, unnatural creatures hunting down innocent civilians, and a dark, creeping fog blanketing the island.



Thrace is my latest character, a 3.5e Rogue/Fighter. My DM let me apply weapon finesse to her spear, even though it isn't considered a light/finesse weapon normally. I was initially going to dual wield light axes but he pointed out that Oberon Martell and other characters in literature/film/television have used spears as dexterity weapons, so I retooled her to suit it.



Recently, her story took a turn for the worse. Much worse, actually.

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Published : Dec 11, 2016