Elidhe Deadblade

"Gjenganger" Elidhe "Deadblade" of Nordal

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My time here is just as limited as any Undead's - none of it is my own.

— Elidhe Deadblade

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

The Thydian Undead are generally recognized by their slowed decay, but still appear much as they would in life, if one were leeched of color when alive. Elidhe is no exception.

Identifying Characteristics

She is most easily recognized by the faint sweet rot of old meat, and her aged armor.

Facial Features

Her face is often described as sunken in, the loose skin as weathered parchment, while her eyes have faded in their hue. There are signs of battle and scars, though they appear to have been healed.

Body Features

Without her armor, she appears thins and frail, lending credence to the tales of inhuman strength lurking within her bones. At her clavicle, she wears the sideways hourglass of the Watcher. The bottom half of the hourglass has turned blue.

Physical Quirks

Special Abilities

She has the ability to warn away people from disturbing graves, and the ability to spread a plague if the warning goes unheded.

She can sense where there are graves, sacred grounds, and if someone is soon to die. She does not have the ability to know when the person will die, only that they will "soon."

Apparel & Accessories

She generally wears her enchanted armor at all times to slow her rate of decay.

Specialized Equipment

• Armor of NotRotFindABetterNameLyraine - Enchanted to keep decay from progressing at a natural or accelerated pace. Is considered a "holy" artifact of the Watcher.
• Pact Breaker - A specially crafted longsword with the ability to break a pact between a pact holder and the person in the pact. Has the ability to kill pact makers. Is a very nice longsword.

Biography

Early Life

Lived a comfortable life, but was a younger child, and was expected to make a living for herself as she was not the heir to the family farm.

Education

As a youth and young woman, Elidhe learned the basics of reading, but most of her education was based on farmlife and then when she joined the Arle's military she was trained to use a polearm and shield.

Swords were the weapons of self defense for an armed individual, and she had received basic training for if she were in battle and her polearm would be ineffective.

Employment

Call to Adventure

Was soldier, was in battle, side was betrayed, die.

I want revenge because how dare you.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Supernatural Aid

Petitioned the Watcher, Thydian god of the Dead for permission to return from the dead.

The Watcher is a diety who is the guardian of the dead and the deity of unfinished tasks. In the past it has allowed the deceased to walk the world again if they feel there is a task they had left unfinished.

Elidhe insisted her death was unsatisfactory when she had died vowing revenge.

Threshold/Threshold Guardian

Sword fight/training. Journey from the After to the Material Plane.

Had to dig her way out of the mass battlefield grave she had been buried in.

Belly of the Whale/Point of No Return/Begin the Trials

Discovering time had passed, and she is decaying.

Trial 1 - physical

Seeks the Armor of NotRotFindABetterNameLyraine, has to fight another Gjenganger. The other had turned into a monster, leaving behind bruises on victims to eventually die of plague. While she is of the kind of undead, she dispatches the plague carrier.

Trial 2 - temptation

Timeless Illusion Trap using the truth - her side won, so stay and celebrate. She almost fails, before realizing that abandoning her quest makes her a "blue mark" plague herald, like the one she had just slain in the test before.

Trial 3 - earning aid, challenge to the goal

Nephew in service to the Watcher realizes his long-dead Aunt Eli was now back. Elidhe changes her goal from just revenge against the traitor who specifically betrayed them to include those who encouraged the betrayal. Nephew vows to accompany her to ensure he can remove her if she becomes the monster and cannot end herself.

Night Sea Voyage Sneaky Sneak/Reveal

Found Base. Discovered the traitor had died, but was brought back by Pact Holder. Traitor not allowed to die, though traitor wants to. Finds a legendary arms smith and rescues them.

Divine Boon

The blade Pact-Breaker is forged. But Pact-Breaker is incomplete and needs some final MacGuffinThing.

Transformation

Hunt across Theydim searching for the Traitor and Pact Holder Part 1. Catching leads suggesting Pact Holder is trying to manipulating Arles into DotDotDot

Hunt across Theydim searching for the Traitor and Pact Holder Part 2. Stopping the DotDotDot. Final lead.

Hunt across Theydim searching for the Traitor and Pact Holder Part 3. Return to the battleground she had died in. Big final fight.

Atonement/Sacrifice

Had to allow the traitor to escape in order to slay Pact Holder. Traitor decides they want to live and runs away, now free of Pact Holder.

Divine Gift

Pact-Breaker is completed and bound to her, she is officially named Deadblade.

Failures & Embarrassments

The Return

Refused, because the traitor escaped and needs to be found and put to rest.

I am still going to have my revenge - the traitor will be brough before the Watcher.

Mental Characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

Morality

To give your word is to make a promise. Do not make oaths you cannot keep.

Philosophy

Loyalty is to be rewarded, betrayal is to be punished in equal measure.

I may choose to save the greater good first, but have no doubt, I will fight for the lesser goods as well.

Taboos

Do not betray her, nor betray others while in her presence.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Savvies

Ineptitudes

Personality

Quirks

Vices

Likes

Dislikes

Social

Religious Views

As an entity brough back by the Watcher, she considers it to be her patron deity, the entity granting the abilities she has to put the forcibly revived to rest, and to sense if death is soon arriving for those around her.

Social Aptitude

Wealth

Financial State

Family Ties

Contacts

Mannerisms

Hygiene

Speech

Hobbies

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Species

Humans

Conditions

• Undeath

Ethnicity

Thydian Undead

Birthplace

Nordal

Hair

Pale, braided back, though has been dried and recently began to notice her hair is becoming brittle.

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Paled and dried from death and avoiding sunlight-accelerated decay.

Other Affiliations

• Order of the Dead's Rest

Further Reading