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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 261766" data-attributes="member: 1844">Marja's ProfileHere is Marja's character background in a (not so small) nutshell.Marja Silvanrod – Half-Elf, Sorcerer, Marja is the daughter of Mirium Spooner, a human chef for an Amalthean Lord, and Rodrick Silvanrod, an Elven bard.  She had an idyllic childhood (fairly unheard of for an adventurer) growing up as a very pretty and lively creature on a beautiful estate where the Lord and Lady have done their best to smooth over the scars left by the Titan Wars.  Her parents are real free spirits (think 1960’s flower children).When Marja entered adolescence she began to have nightmares.  She would wake up to find things being tossed about the room, or destroyed in bursts of light.  Having never met a sorcerer, she was unable to detect the first stages of her inner magical power.  Frightened by what was happening to her when she slept  Marja began to stay up late.  She began to run with a wilder crowd and to drink heavily.  By drinking herself into a stupor she could assure herself of a dreamless sleep.When her father finally realized what was going on, he recognized the signs of sorcery.  His mother is a sorcerer so he sent Marja to the elves deep in the Amalthean woods to live with her grandmother.  While there Marja embraced her powers, but longed to follow in her father’s footsteps as a bard, and longed to travel.She set out under the apprenticeship of a bard and friend of her fathers, but bandits attacked the party and her mentor was killed.  In this fight she met Borin, and they have become very close friends.  Marja has set aside her dreams of becoming a bard to travel with the group.Marja really likes people and enjoys personal interactions on all levels.  She’s drawn to defend the weak and challenge the cruel (more for the social aspects than from a deep-seeded sense of right and wrong), and just loves to be social.  Despite embracing her sorcererness, she still fights inner demons.  Although she no longer fears the manifestations of her magic while she sleeps, she is still plagued by nightmares.  She often dreams of huge winged creatures attacking her and pushing her off an enormously high cliff.    To drown out these nightmares, Marja still drinks herself into a stupor most nights (the party doesn’t quite know this yet, although some suspect).</blockquote>

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