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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faoiltiarna" data-source="post: 1772294" data-attributes="member: 22558">The Story of Lady FaoiltiarnaLady Faoiltiarna is the only child of the Lord Faolan and Lady Moriath of Wolf Heights.  Her parents were murdered when she was only a few months old by a group of assassins led by the dark half-elf Himoos.  Lord Faolan commanded his brother-in-law, Daray, to flee with Faoil and hide her someplace where she would be safe from danger.  Before Daray left with the child, Faolan placed his Amulet about his daughter's neck after scratching her name upon the back in hopes it would lead her back to her birthright.Daray fled into the Heartland with the infant girl and soon located the Hawk Manor and its residents.  Questioning the local villagers, Daray discovered that the Lady of Hawk Manor had had a stillborn daughter and was deep in the thralls of grief.  Certain this was the have to leave his niece, Daray left her in a basket at the gate of the manor and then fled to the coast in hopes of drawing the assassins away from Faoil and convincing them she was long gone from Imarr.Faoil was raised by the couple, who were also the parents of Ciargain, Faoil's husband-to-be.  When she was 20 years old, Ciargain and Faoil were wed.  Shortly after their marriage, a groups of marauders/assassins led by the demon Zorn attacked Hawk Manor, killing Ciargain and his parents.  Ciargain, in an attempt to save his family, hid Faoil in a secret escape tunnel and was about to retrieve his parents when Zorn kill him.  The last memory that Faoil had of her husband was the look of shock upon his face and the face of the demon assassin behind Ciargain.Swearing to avenge the death of the only family she had ever known, Faoil traced down each of marauders and killed them one by one.  She finally tracked Zorn to the Meat and Gristle in the City of Imarr where she confronted him.She demanded to know who sent him to kill her family.  Zorn swore to lead her to the one who had ordered the attack on Hawk Manor for a price, Her.  Faoil believing the demon meant he wanted to have her for a night, agreed to the price.  Zorn led her into the sewers beneath the city to an empty chamber where some bones laid.  Claiming he had fulfilled his promise, he demanded his price.  It was then that Faoil realized that Zorn's price wasn't that she had been led to believe, but that Zorn intended to make her a his slave claimed foul and that the demon had deceived her.  The two battled, but Zorn was able to defeat Faoil with a blow to the head, but not before Faoil had delivered a successful strike with her sword.Zorn stripped Faoil of her armor, clothing and weapons, bound her hands and feet, gagged her and then using his knife, cut her forearm and drank her blood in order to replace his energy.  With the bound woman slung over his shoulder, Zorn headed back to the surface with the intent of taking Faoil to the slave quarter to have her branded and collared.At the gate between the the Old City and the University Quarter, the city guard stopped Zorn.  They became suspicious of Zorn's story that Faoil was a runaway slave he was returning to the slave quarter.  The Captain of the Guard checked Faoil and discovered that not only wasn't she branded and collared, but she was not shaven as was the custom of female slaves.  Ungagging Faoil, she identified herself and told of Zorn's betrayal and his intended abduction of her.Zorn attacked the guards and was quickly killed.  The Captain freed Faoil and helped her to return to Hawk Manor.Approximately 3 years later, Faoil was called upon by Ciargain's uncle to remedy a problem of attacks against the residents of his area.  Along with a half-orc, a dwarf, the dark half-elf Himoos and two swords for hire, Faoil headed towards a mine where the attacks were apparently being staged from.  The half-orc and dwarf were killed by a colony of cannibalistic beasts when they decided to charge into the den of the beasts.  The two fighters, blaming Faoil for the deaths, quit and left for "greener pastures."With the aid of Himoos and Ciargain's young cousin, Faoil was able to brew up "wizard's fire" (naptha) and blow the cave entrance, sealing the beasts in the mine.  Faoil returned to Hawk Manor.The next day, Himoos showed up at Hawk Manor.  Faoil greeted him as a former comrade-at-arms, only to have her trust betrayed once again.  Himoos raped and brutalized Faoil, declaring he intended to make her his.  In an attempt to rescue their mistress, Faoil's elderly servants (a husband and wife) attacked Himoos only to be killed by the dark half-elf.  Realizing that it would only be a matter of time before the local villagers became aware of Faoil's situation, Himoos abducted her and headed for the City of Imarr with the intent of capturing a ship back to his homeland.  Before arriving in the City, Himoos branded Faoil and shaved her as was the custom, then collared and shackled her so that he could past her off as a legitimate slave.At the Meat & Gristle in the City of Imarr, Himoos offered to "sell" Faoil's services to a young barbarian woman.  When the woman discovered that Himoos was the man she had been seeking to avenge the death of her brother, she attacked Himoos.  After receiving a mortal wound, Himoos turned his blade upon Faoil in a last ditch attempt to "keep her as his".  The attempt only succeeded in wounding Faoil.  Himoos died at the end of the barbarian's blade.  With the help of the barbarian woman and a street urchin, Faoil was able to leave the Meat & Gristle and be healed by a cleric.  Once she was well enough to travel, Faoil returned to Hawk Manor.Four years later, Faoil has returned to the City of Imarr, searching for the identity of her birth parents and her answers to her bloodline.  She has sworn that she will leave no stone unturned in Imarr to find the answers to her questions.Faoil found through the Sage Bernard, she is descendant of Imarok, the First King of Imarr.  The attacks upon her Foster Family and herself were not matters of bad luck, but rather calculated attacks by a darker force intent on wiping out the blood of Imarok.</blockquote>

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