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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 2162617" data-attributes="member: 8221">Background:    Athena was a foundling; left abandoned outside the Abbey of the Just Hammer in Tassledale some 20 winters ago. There was no clue as to her parents, but there had been a drow incursion that spring and it is conjectured that she was conceived then - in circumstances that remain unclear but were probably hardly pleasant.    So it was there she grew up, steeped in the teachings of Torm and Tyr and surrounded by examples of duty and service. She hoped that she too could become a Paladin in time; guard the Dales and seek to vanquish evil. Certainly that was also the feeling of the Clergy there, but in the meantime their were chores to be done - candle wax needed cleaning off the reliquary, the kitchens needed more water and when that was done there were always more, and more onerous, duties to perform.    Athena saw her human peers grow up faster; and while they grew up, left or took their places in the order she was still living in the Abbey as a child. But still, one day, she would hear the call and take up her dutiful place as a Paladin in Tyr's service.    It never came; on her 21st Birthday she attended a service of divination in the chapel. After a day of fasting and prayer the moment finally came when she would lift the ceremonial longsword and take up her Paladinhood.    It would not move.    Confused and tearful in her rejection she fled the abbey into the woods; there, alone, and at her lowest ebb she received a vision of three armoured figures standing before her.    "Your destiny is not to serve us child. Your heart is good, but there is something within it that needs to be free and it should not be shackled. There is another who needs you more."           The vision faded and was replaced by another, that of a nude drow female who beckoned her on to follow through the woods; together they ran until she lost all track of where she was and she found herself in clearing where all sorts of humanoids were gathered - mostly drow and a few half-drow like herself, but also humans, elves and gnomes. There was feasting, and singing and laughing - sounds hardly heard at the stern abbey.    Here she was at home; here was where she should be.    She snuck back into the abbey that night; packed her few possessions and took off on the road - with no idea of what she was to do, but certain that it would be the goddess's will.</blockquote>

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