Post by daddydaedalus on Mar 28, 2019 3:31:27 GMT -5
Red color is what has been added since original posting
Nikki 'greycloud' was originally named Nikki Hyde. Her father worked his way from a hunter to a well standing merchant in Neverwinter City, by killing game and working hides, the business grew and eventually he had several people under him, the business was also lefarious and he sold illegal skins and hides and caring little for the animals involved. Nikki eventually found out the majority of his wealth was from dealing with exotic and sentient animals.
nikki's hobbies as a young lady included sowing, reading, being outside and caring for wild animals(birds, squirrels etc). nikki had no problem with petting a squirrel by day and sowing together skins by night, as long as the animald had been killed mercifully and not just for their skins, but she eventually found out her fathers business wasnt, unlike her, all kindness and caring. As she grew she started to befriend local rangers, and informing them about possible hunts arranged by Henri, and by that diminishing her own familys personal gain to the benefit of nature itself.
nikki worked loyally but realised she was doing something wrong, as she was a naturally intelligent and caring person, who knew the intrensic value of nature. At some point during the age of 22 she had a huge argument with her father, and both showed irecconsilable differences, forcing both to go each their own way.
Nikki lived with the local rangers after that, and after a while was introduced to the druids of high forrest, where she made her home for 3 years. She was given the nickname Greycloud because of her somber mood, probably caused by the mixed feelings towards her family and past work with her father. She befriended Humphrey during this time, and they became good friends due to their common dislike for civilised humans.
She walked around the high forrest and helped or scared off straggling humanoids with no errants in the forrest. She also secretly watched over the farmers close to the high forrest, sometimes performing rituals to start the rain or to ward off orcs and ankhegs. When the locals had sick or dying she would offer whatever little help she could, and ensure the family that death is as natural as living, and it mustnt be avoided, giving reassurance in the divine and natural. Eventually she was set the task to move out and learn from another druids circles traditions for 3 years, to learn of another land and its dangers, laws and mystics. She choose to go to the Plain of Standing Stones and her good friend humphrey offered to tag along for protectionand company.
At first glance the Plain of Standing Stones was a desert without much to see. But it was a hilled and mountaineus desert terrain, and hidden within the crevaces she found many shrubs, plants and tree-like plants and animals that depended on them. She lived with humphrey here for 1 year, taking care of the land and aiding the deserving. Traveling from crevace grove to crevace grove and then to sandy hills again. until she was contacted by a druid of the anaurach deserts main circle who had decided she was fit to be let in on their secrets, and such she lived with those druids for 3 years, humbly learning from their different ways, and sometimes when asked telling stories of her own native land, the grassy plains and forrests of the sword coast.
She traveled back to the druids of the high forrest and relayed her learnings for a year. Her father found out she was back in the high forrest, and hired several sellswords to fetch her back, and after a gruesome encunter where humphrey saw himself forced to shapechange and eat the face off off one of the 3 sellswords trying to bring her back, the 2 other sellsword fled so fast humphrey had barely swallowed the head before they were out of sight. Nikki fled with Humphrey to cormyr for evade the law and her fathers money/wrath. The druids of the high forrest agreed this was best, and they departed, knowing they would surely see each others again.
Family / relations :Feel free to use these guys as npcs or let me know if you need some other chars from her background and i can think some up.
nikki's father is names Henri Hyde, and although he is 44 years now, he is still in good shape and a very dangerous and capable hunter. Rumor has it that he has somehow gained unnatural vitalyti/longevety, through unnatural or nefarious means. He loves(or loved) nikki but feel like she has strayed. She has betrayed the path of the family and he wishes to bring her back into the fold, with violence if neccesary.
-nikkis mother Lisette Emilia Hyde is shy of conflicts and sides with her family mostly, she. She likes the family business and runs it when he is away, along with nikkis brother. She wishes nikki would return, but also wishes for Henri and nikkis conflict to be resolved naturally and without violence.
-Best friend a ranger/berserker named simply Humphrey. Chaotic Neutral Wereboar. Not the brightest, but what he lacks in wits he makes up for in willpower and endurance. Humphrey tries to control his were-nature, but the dislike he harbors for sentient humanoids can cause him to lash out and kill and potentially enter a rampage. Therefore he often keeps to himself. He enjoys hunting, cooking and eating the most, but likes discussing philosophy as well(13 or 14 wisdom) He secretly believes the human race would be better if all had hereditary lycanthropy like he has, as it would connect them to the nature that sourrounds and are a part of them(lycanthropy that can be controlled at will).
Nikki 'greycloud' was originally named Nikki Hyde. Her father worked his way from a hunter to a well standing merchant in Neverwinter City, by killing game and working hides, the business grew and eventually he had several people under him, the business was also lefarious and he sold illegal skins and hides and caring little for the animals involved. Nikki eventually found out the majority of his wealth was from dealing with exotic and sentient animals.
nikki's hobbies as a young lady included sowing, reading, being outside and caring for wild animals(birds, squirrels etc). nikki had no problem with petting a squirrel by day and sowing together skins by night, as long as the animald had been killed mercifully and not just for their skins, but she eventually found out her fathers business wasnt, unlike her, all kindness and caring. As she grew she started to befriend local rangers, and informing them about possible hunts arranged by Henri, and by that diminishing her own familys personal gain to the benefit of nature itself.
nikki worked loyally but realised she was doing something wrong, as she was a naturally intelligent and caring person, who knew the intrensic value of nature. At some point during the age of 22 she had a huge argument with her father, and both showed irecconsilable differences, forcing both to go each their own way.
Nikki lived with the local rangers after that, and after a while was introduced to the druids of high forrest, where she made her home for 3 years. She was given the nickname Greycloud because of her somber mood, probably caused by the mixed feelings towards her family and past work with her father. She befriended Humphrey during this time, and they became good friends due to their common dislike for civilised humans.
She walked around the high forrest and helped or scared off straggling humanoids with no errants in the forrest. She also secretly watched over the farmers close to the high forrest, sometimes performing rituals to start the rain or to ward off orcs and ankhegs. When the locals had sick or dying she would offer whatever little help she could, and ensure the family that death is as natural as living, and it mustnt be avoided, giving reassurance in the divine and natural. Eventually she was set the task to move out and learn from another druids circles traditions for 3 years, to learn of another land and its dangers, laws and mystics. She choose to go to the Plain of Standing Stones and her good friend humphrey offered to tag along for protectionand company.
At first glance the Plain of Standing Stones was a desert without much to see. But it was a hilled and mountaineus desert terrain, and hidden within the crevaces she found many shrubs, plants and tree-like plants and animals that depended on them. She lived with humphrey here for 1 year, taking care of the land and aiding the deserving. Traveling from crevace grove to crevace grove and then to sandy hills again. until she was contacted by a druid of the anaurach deserts main circle who had decided she was fit to be let in on their secrets, and such she lived with those druids for 3 years, humbly learning from their different ways, and sometimes when asked telling stories of her own native land, the grassy plains and forrests of the sword coast.
She traveled back to the druids of the high forrest and relayed her learnings for a year. Her father found out she was back in the high forrest, and hired several sellswords to fetch her back, and after a gruesome encunter where humphrey saw himself forced to shapechange and eat the face off off one of the 3 sellswords trying to bring her back, the 2 other sellsword fled so fast humphrey had barely swallowed the head before they were out of sight. Nikki fled with Humphrey to cormyr for evade the law and her fathers money/wrath. The druids of the high forrest agreed this was best, and they departed, knowing they would surely see each others again.
Family / relations :Feel free to use these guys as npcs or let me know if you need some other chars from her background and i can think some up.
nikki's father is names Henri Hyde, and although he is 44 years now, he is still in good shape and a very dangerous and capable hunter. Rumor has it that he has somehow gained unnatural vitalyti/longevety, through unnatural or nefarious means. He loves(or loved) nikki but feel like she has strayed. She has betrayed the path of the family and he wishes to bring her back into the fold, with violence if neccesary.
-nikkis mother Lisette Emilia Hyde is shy of conflicts and sides with her family mostly, she. She likes the family business and runs it when he is away, along with nikkis brother. She wishes nikki would return, but also wishes for Henri and nikkis conflict to be resolved naturally and without violence.
-Best friend a ranger/berserker named simply Humphrey. Chaotic Neutral Wereboar. Not the brightest, but what he lacks in wits he makes up for in willpower and endurance. Humphrey tries to control his were-nature, but the dislike he harbors for sentient humanoids can cause him to lash out and kill and potentially enter a rampage. Therefore he often keeps to himself. He enjoys hunting, cooking and eating the most, but likes discussing philosophy as well(13 or 14 wisdom) He secretly believes the human race would be better if all had hereditary lycanthropy like he has, as it would connect them to the nature that sourrounds and are a part of them(lycanthropy that can be controlled at will).