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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lou" data-source="post: 6700012" data-attributes="member: 51567">Pela Dun BackstoryPela is searching for her father. Like all changelings, her mother was a hag. Her mother was an annis hag.  She remembers nothng about her father. All she thinks she knows about her father is that she had six handkerchiefs, each with partial stitching of a seal, in her pocket from when she was a small child. She hopes that one of them belongs to her father's family. She's not sure how she will prove paternity even if she finds his house.Her mother decided when Pela was four to dump her on the steps of a monastery. At that age, she was starting to help her mother's victims escape. The monks sent her to the elven wizard school when she showed signed of magical ability. The elven wizards didn't catch on to her spirit whisperer ability at first. But they finally realized that she was very different and slowly pushed her out of the school as soon as they could argue that she, as an orphan, could take care of herself. [OOC]For DM review: The Elven wizard school is small, like a private university, with a wizard branch and a sorcerer branch. The Elves don't like to let witches or shaman research there. Witches and shaman have their own small Elven schools with little cross-over. The Elven wizard school is also known for non-human racial magic items. Alternatively, the Elves allow wizards, sorcerers, and witches but not shaman to be students. Alternatively, it's just that spirit whisperers are rare and no professors there research their powers.[/OOC] Because spirit whisperers are similar to both witches and shaman, Pela has papers requesting a transfer to Whirtlestaff's for advanced training. Another reason she was forced to change schools is that she killed a fellow student using her Brain Drain Spirit Hex. Pela was trying to clear another student accused of stealing a ring. She used her Brain Drain Spirit Hex to see if this one student knew who took the ring. He died under her mental attack (3d4 damage). She only escaped punishment for using what she saw in his mind to show that a gang of students were stealing from professors and students. Pela had to use her Monstrous Insight ability to fight off another student who tried to kill her to protect the gang. She has been warned by several professors not to return to the Elven wizard school by herself due to friends of the gang.[OOC]For DM review: Whirtlestaff's Wizards Academy is like a large public university with branches for all types of magic-users. Alternatively, WWA is like an elite private university with areas of unusual expertise, including spirit whisperers, exploring questions like:  Why are some familiars also spirit animals? Why do some spirits link to spirit animal familiars? Can you change the spirit link?[/OOC]Pela dresses in light flowing outfits. She files and paints her fingernails to hide the fact she can kill with them. Many changelings have different colored eyes. Pela's are both blue, but in bright light one can see that the left eye is lighter than the right eye.Pela would arrive at Pembrose with a small caravan of merchants travelling up the river. She would have traded her skills as a lookout and knowledge of a wide variety of monsters, humanoids, and nature for passage.</blockquote>

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