Lia Galanodel

Miss Lia Galanodel

Lia Galanodel is a Bard from the foothills of the The Issar Mountains. She currently works as a travelling performer.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Lia is particularly short for her kind, standing a meagre 4'7". Her slender figure is bulked out by the large coat she wears the majority of the time, a red and purple theme to her appearance making her a standout in any crowd. Her vibrant appearance is well maintained, largely to counteract the imposing, deep colour of her skin and eyes with lighter, complimentary shades of the same, and provides her with a minor protection against sunlight which her kind are particularly sensitive to, allowing her to travel on the surface only partially hindered during the daylight hours.

Identifying Characteristics

For the majority of the world, her incredibly dark skin - glinting a majestic, royal purple in intense light - is a significant feature. Her garish dress sense also gives her away, particularly making her easily identifiable throughout the taverns and inns of the land.

Apparel & Accessories

Donning a bright red, feathered hat to accentuate her eyes, and a long, deep purple overcoat to compliment her skin, Lia dresses to be seen. Heavy boots and strong leather gloves grant her a more combat-ready appearance given her chosen profession.

Mental characteristics

Sexuality

'If it breathes, it breeds.' - Lia

Employment

Lia lacks any formal employment as a travelling bard, instead using her expanding visibility and influence among the entertainment sectors of society to ensure she can get work anywhere performing for tavern patrons. She has varied ties with several inn-keepers in and around Illyria, ensuring she can provide for herself wherever her whims take her.

Morality & Philosophy

Being in touch with so many grand and great stories of the past, Lia strives to be the best she can be, hoping one day her good virtues will get her name alongside the great adventurers of time gone by. Even throughout her younger years she was eager to entertain and please others, giving her all in performing to bring joy to any audience, and she's eager to throw herself into the fray when needed to prove herself beneficial to whoever is in need of her services. She is particularly averse to death as punishment for crime, believing everyone is capable of change and deserving of a second chance.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

With such a large library of heroic stories and myths drifting around her mind, Lia has often fancied herself in the same position. In particular she is enamoured by the vast quantity of legends regarding High King Gabraeil Feywild, whose history has long since been warped by time. She desires the same of herself, hoping that one day the world will tell of the stories of Lia Galanodel, famed adventurer, to the point where people can no longer tell fact from fiction.

Likes & Dislikes

Of all things in the world, Lia is most at home in a tavern listening to others talk about great heroes, enjoying the art of fellow performers, and the general atmosphere of bustling crowds having a good time. Whether fact or fiction, she enjoys a good narrative. She could happily sit sipping ales and ciders for hours while tantalized by the wonderful words of her fellow bards, and she's always eager to tell stories about the powerful adventurers she has heard of or met in her travels.

Vices & Personality flaws

Working as a travelling bard means Lia spends much time roaming the taverns and inns of the land. As such, she has developed quite a taste for alcoholic drinks, unable to stop herself from indulging at the first hint of an offer of drink. She particularly likes high-alcohol spirits, which given her short, slender frame rarely agree with her.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Father - Leoric Galanodel - Commander in the drow military.
Mother - Daerie Galanodel - Distant mother, spends most time reading, has shown open disdain for Lia's chosen profession.
Older sister - Lorarie Swiftdream - Scholar of elven literature, married to a wood elf, Ellaeddyf Swiftdream. Probably doesn't think about the family often, but the only one that remembers Lia on sight.
Older brother - Caisys Galanodel - Part of a small troop of travelling salesmen. Regularly forgets his family, respectful when seeing them.
Older brother - Romaris Galanodel - In Illyria royal guard. Looks down on non-combat professions.
Younger brother - Ellar Galanodel - Training in the drow military. Shares Romaris' opinions.
Younger brother - Herris Galanodel - School, learning wizardry.
Younger sister - Wyntris Galanodel - School, learning wizardry.

Family Ties

Lia has a contentious relationship with her family at best. As long-lived as her kind are, they often fall into long bouts of study or participation in their topics of interest with little worry about the time crunch other races suffer, or focus entirely on their current duties, forgetting they even have a family in the process.
Abnormally for an elven family, Lia's is fairly large, with her in the middle of six siblings. She often suffers as the forgotten middle child while her older siblings are already off making great names for themselves, and her younger siblings are excelling in their studies of their own chosen fields. As a travelling performer who's main objective in life is maintaining crowd attention and adoration, this leaves her feeling uncared for by her own flesh and blood, with many forgetting her interests as a bard, and in one or two cases even her face and name.
Daerie in particular has always shown a deep disdain for Lia's choice of profession. She sees the performing arts repugnant, and as an avid book reader she finds Lia's fleeting rhymes and songs an annoying distraction from much greater works of literature in her ever-growing library of novels and textbooks. She also takes great pride in her dark heritage, the one time she found Lia toying with a disguise kit turning into a shouting match where she practically disowned her.
Sick of their constant lack of interest in her opinions and abilities, she left the family for good several years back, spending much of the last decade roaming Illyria, spreading her stories, trying to carve her mark on the world outside the caves and foothills that will have her remembered far beyond her lifetime.

Religious Views

Lia does not have any particular ties to any of the major deities, believing them all worthy of worship and attention, largely due to her significant appreciation of great mortal beings who followed them. With a multitude of stories involving different heroes under varied allegiances, she was never able to comfortably pledge her loyalty to a single one of them.

Social Aptitude

Lia is exceptionally social, often able to get along with anybody just out of sheer friendliness. Even in cases of people who rub her the wrong way, her significant performing skills let her bluff her way through most encounters while remaining likeable to the other party.

Mannerisms

Lia has a habit of muttering to herself, often trying to internalise events to be able to craft her own story, or determine good rhyming schemes for potential poems she can write. She often wanders around when not much of note is occuring, with a propensity to fizzle out of conversations to examine her environment, eavesdrop on other nearby conversations, and offer friendly waves and greetings to random folk passing her by.

Speech

She can slip between prim, proper and elegant, to rowdy, rough and crass in an instant, having spent plenty of time out in the world with the common folk who appreciate her work and presence.

Alignment

Chaotic Good

Species

Elf

Year of Birth

1121 NL 1098 Years old

Pronouns

She/Her

Gender

Female

Eyes

Red, wide

Hair

Long hair, pale blonde

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Dark purple, smooth

Height

4'7"

Weight

89lb

Known Languages

Common, Elvish, Draconic