Character Profile: Ceranda

• Name: Ceranda
• Age: 164 years
• Birthdate: Not Known
• Race: Drochna (half-demon)
• Class: Rogue | Shadow-Dancer
• Height: 1.80mts.
• Weight: 70kg
• Eyes: Chocolate brown, slitted pupils (like a cat’s)
• Hair: Dark brown, messy short hair.
• Distinguishing features: She has a pair of leathery wings (short) that sprout from just behind her ears. On rare occasions she can also summon a pair of bigger wings from her back, that give her limited flying ability, but she hasn’t been able to do so since after ‘the incident’.

Origins

Ceranda does not remember who her parents were, nor how exactly she was concieved either, but can pretty well assume one of her parents was a demon, while the other was a human. The resulting mix of blood gave her some demonic powers, while being basically human in appearance. She could mask her hereditary demonic features by use of a polymorph self spell, although she usually chose not to hide the leathery wings that sprouted from behind her ears, since she never really did mind what people thought of her.

Personality

As a drochna, and a child of darkness, Ceranda was born with a tendency to evil that is strong in all her kind. But for reasons related to her infancy with a kindly old couple, she has fought all her life to refuse that tendency, and walk the neutral path. She knows she could never be good in any way, but at least she isn’t an evil person. But sometimes it’s hard to convince people otherwise.

She loves having fun in life, partying and exploring the lands. She usually works at night, stealing from the rich, and then spending it quickly in taverns and pubs. While she is extravagant in her clothing, she does not sleep with men for money, only for pleasure (and only with the best). She is aware that once her heritage is known, few will keep aquaintance with her, and so she opts to move around freely, looking for places where she is accepted.

History

As she grew up, she ended up walking the path of the rogue, stealing for a living from the shadows, although not killing unless she had any other choice. Her outlandish clothing and flirtatious ways also made her well-known in less respectful areas of large cities. In her many travels, she met up for a time with a fellow thief called Faeloth, a half-elf with silver-white hair.

They traveled together for over 10 years, as partners, lovers and assosciates… till ‘the incident’. While she remembers only vaugely the events of that fateful day, she does know that the gods had something to do with it. She survived only thanks to a dimensional door that she opened into the astral plane, but the blast of energy made her loose most of her magic powers, and she was doomed to stay forever in the form she had been in at that time. (thus she can no longer hide her head wings).

Taken in by a senior drochna on another plane, she learned the ways of the Shadow Dancers, and for many years she traveled with a small band that worked as a circus. On her travels, she had the misfortune to be caught stealing by a maithna, a being half-human, half-angel, paladins of good. Being recognized as a drochna, he hunt her down till she was cornered, and only survived by escaping once more through a dimensional door.