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Tabitha Marie Lennox is from the island of Amarune in the Moonshae Isles in Faerun, and island her family has ruled for hundreds of years. A prophecy has hung over the Lennox family bloodline, a line that has always been passed down through the females, since its beginning. This prophecy foretold that identical girl triplets, born in a month, day, and year that were all multiples of three, would together have the power to save or destroy the world.
Tabitha is the youngest of identical triplets born in the triple three; the first to be born in five generations. When she and her sisters, Loretha and Agatha, were born, her parents were terrified that the prophecy would come true, so they both decided to split up their children to ensure the prophecy would never come to be. The problem was, they did not both to tell each other of their plans. Their parents were a purely political marriage, they did not love- or even truly like- one another, so their communication was always minimal.
Their mother made a deal with a mysterious supernatural force, known only as the Mists, and gave up her firstborn, Loretha, to it; she was renamed Sypha. The triplets were only five days old when their mother did this, and neither Tabitha or Agatha were ever told about their eldest sister. Meanwhile, their father made a deal to give up their firstborn to another entity on her sixteenth birthday; he unwittingly made this pact with Lolth. Since this deal was made shortly after Loretha was given up, and her existence was erased from the records, Agatha became the target of their father's deal. Their mother sank into a deep depression that she never shook herself out of; she spent a good portion of the girls' lives drunk.
Agatha and Tabitha were inseparable until their sixteenth birthday, when Lolth collected on their pact, turning Agatha into a black witch. Tabitha watched in horror as her sister's hair and eyes darkened and her cheery smile twisted into a scowl of contempt. She flew off, telling Tabitha she'd be back for her. Agatha's goal has been to turn Tabitha evil, while Tabitha's goal became saving her sister.
Tabitha found a book that helped her make a her pact with Mystra to become a white witch, a beacon of good; hoping this would help save Agatha. She's convinced her sister can be saved. After Agatha was taken, their mother mentioned in a drunken stupor that it was because of the prophecy, but Tabitha could only find a prophecy about the Lennox triplets, not twins, so she was convinced it was the drink that made her mother say that. Her father fell into drugs and alcohol when Agatha was taken, leaving Tabitha with no one to help or support her.
After a disastrous fight with Agatha one year later, Tabitha knew she needed to hide and gain power before she could save her sister. Mystra directed her to the Mists, and even though Barovia isn't a terribly safe place, it's safer than being somewhere Agatha could find her. Tabitha told her parents she wouldn't return until Agatha was saved.
Tabitha quickly made a name for herself in Barovia, as the White Witch. She healed anyone she saw in need of it, and would try to aid anyone in need to the best of her ability. The Resistance found out about her quickly, and brought her into the fold; they gave her the ability to move through the Mists so she could bring in supplies to help them. Tabitha has been there for two years now, helping in the Resistance and biding her time, waiting to become powerful enough to save Agatha, and hoping her sister doesn't come through the Mists to find her in the meantime.
Tabitha stands at 5'8 and weighs 158 lbs; she has some curve to her and a modest chest. She has white, alabaster, nearly translucent skin, and a porcelain complexion. Her hair is white, and goes down to her thighs; her eyes are ice blue. In the center of her chest is a silvery scar of Mystra's holy symbol.
Kithri "Quickshadow" Tealeaf is a halfling werebat from Faerun. She's an archaeologist who was bitten by a werebat on one of her first excursions. Not long after that, on a full moon, Kithri was chasing a delicious-looking luna moth through some mists and found herself in Barovia. She joined up with the Order of the Lycan quickly, and was thrilled to meet others like her who had full control of their shifting. Kithri has little tolerance for people she thinks are stupid or reckless, she likes people who think things through, have an order to them.
Her family is well known in the tea trade, hence the surname. Tea is a huge part of her life, and Kithri firmly believes that a cup of tea can solve anything.
The Tealeaf clan has a history with practicing the dark arts, and once, many years ago, she dabbled in them. Kithri felt something evil clutch at her soul, and she ran in terror, never looking back. But she still feels something evil lurking inside of her, waiting for the opportunity to be unleashed. She knows there's a relic that will free her family from the curse that ties them to dark magic, and she's driven to the brink of obsession to find it; it's why she became an archaeologist, she knew something somewhere would help her find what she needed.
Kithri stands at 3'1 and has a curvy, athletic build. Her hair is a thick, curly chocolate brown, and her eyes are the color of dark chocolate. She's a little brown bat when she's fully shifted.
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Falling prey as a young elf to a werewolf attack in the wilds of the Snakewood, Tilea lost herself to the beast within. Before being hunted down and subdued by the rangers of her village, she had encountered and slaughtered, a group of elven children out collecting nuts and mushrooms.
Horrified at her actions, she fled her village to live for a time in the wilds where she found some solace with the wolves of the forest and squirrels of the trees, but night-terrors made it near impossible to meditate, and images of the small bodies, torn and bloodied, haunted her waking hours. Unable to come to terms with the consequences of illness on her own, she turned to prayer and the Goddess Selune, who was the moon and was said to take the mooncursed into her heart and help them to control the monster within them, or even shed the curse entirely.
During the first real meditation she had experienced since the change overcame her, images of elves who were wolves but not weres filled her mind and she rose from her trance with a feeling of calm and determination. She set out that morning to find these elfwolves, the name for which suddenly came to her and she remembered her lessons as a small child about the various races of Tel-quessir. The fabled Lythari; rare, seclusive shapechangers from the Fae. Unsure of where to go, or how to find them, she put her faith in her goddess and that night, when looking up at her maiden form, noticed one of the seven tears had moved out of formation. She followed that star for a fortnight, and when on the cusp of Selune's motherhood, when her control was all but gone and starting to doubt, she stumbled through a thick bramble hedge and stepped out into a clearing filled with a pack of silver furred wolves. Startled by her sudden appearance, she attempted to calm them but her efforts had no effect on them. They quickly calmed on their own, however, and when stepped forward and, between one blink of the eyes and another, became a elf, she knew Selune had not led her astray.
The Lythari guided her in the ways of their Druids, and soon her curse was lifted. She wore her own canines alongside a ivory and silver symbol of the Moon Mother, gifted to her by the Archdruid of the pack, as a totem and reminder of her dark past, and the soft silver radiance that returned her life to her. It wasn't just her own life she was gifted, however, and within another moon they soon learned that in her exile she had found herself with child. The mooncurse can be lifted from those afflicted, however it cannot be lifted from one born to it, however with the aid of the Lythari one born to it can learn to control the beast within fully. She stayed with the Lythari for a few years, rearing the unexpected joy of her life, her daughter Seluna, alongside the pack. But the atrocities of her past soon caught up with her, even there.
The night-terrors returned, as did the haunting images during her waking hours. After much prayer, and guidance from the Archdruid, she decided she must set out to try to atone. Flashes of relics, and old forgotten vestments of the people came to her, and leaving Seluna in the loving care of the pack, she left the Fae to seek out these items to return them to the Tel-quessir where they belong, bringing a piece of lost heritage home may just redeem her, if only a little, in the eyes of her village. She out to find her lost family blade, Aerateu'A'Sum, and the Trappings of the Beasts, and earn back her family name: Aerasum'teu, and bring a new chapter to her lineage, that of the clan Aeravil'teu.
Tilea is 125 lbs, 5'2", with shoulder length, walnut-wood brow, hair, sage-green eyes, and a dark-honeyed complexion. There is clawed scarring across her abdomen and back and a large canid bite-mark around her left shoulder.
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Sachi is a natural-born weremonkey, a capuchin specifically. He was abandoned as a baby and grew up on the streets, learning to steal what he needed, and utilizing the cuteness of his capuchin form to con and distract people. The surname "Kno" comes from a lifetime of people saying "Sachi, no!" to him. Sachi is stubborn and has serious issues with authority; if someone tells him not to do something, he will instantly do it.
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Anvil was killed by the Talmot Wives.
Anvil is a blugrim, or more commonly known as a "dire smurf." He is around seven feet tall and solid blue. Anvil is very sheltered, growing up in a small merchant community. He tries to help people and do things for the good of the group, but his social awkwardness tends to land him in trouble, causing more harm than good. He is looking for the lost knowledge of how to create consecrated weapons, and doesn't understand that consecration is not a topic to be openly brought up in Barovia.
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Lythana was taken captive by the Wives of Talmot.
Lythana is a werewolf who works in the Resistance against Strahd, and is with the party because Belmont asked her to watch over them. She's being paid triple for this job.
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Belmont Van Richten is the leader of the Resistance against Strahd. His family is cursed to always destroy Strahd, in every single time loop. He tends to show up to save the party just in the nick of time.
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The Wives of Talmot are four Vistani women. Tarah is a red head who wields a bow. Farrah wears her gold-blonde hair in pigtails and wields a whip. Clarah has platinum blonde hair that she wears in a long braid, and wields two swords. Sarah has long black hair and wields a quarterstaff.
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Corvane is a blood monk who wraps her body up like a mummy. Not much is known about Corvane, other than that she's currently in Strahd's employ and is a devastating foe.
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