Basic Information
Name : Kaeris
Gender: Female
Race : Ghostwise Halfling
Age : 19
Profession : Monk
Languages : Common, Halfling, Elven, Dwarven.
Accent : Chondalwood (Toril)
Physical Information
Height : 2 feet 7 inches
Weight : 28 pounds
Body build : Athletic
Skin type : Smooth
Hair style : Bob cut with bangs
Tattoos/scars : Black symbols tattooed on her back
- [u][b]Coloring :[/b][/u] [b]Hair :[/b] Charcoal black [b]Eyes :[/b] Mirror like [b]Skin :[/b] Ashy grey [/li]
Alignment : Lawful/Neutral
Philosophy : "The shortest path between two points is a straight line." (Quote from Archimedes, in this case meaning don't stray, get straight to the point.) "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Quote from Laozi, meaning that even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point.)
Deity/Beliefs : The Way (An ethical philosophy from Kara-Tur focusing on the enlightenment of the self through the practice of certain spiritual exercises)
- [u][b]Personality :[/b][/u] [b]Detachment :[/b] She seems not to care too much about anything. [b]Quiet :[/b] She speaks in a very soft and even voice, barely above a whisper. [b]Brevity :[/b] She tries to use as few words as possible. [b]Serenity :[/b] She maintains a calm and focused composure. [/li]
Gear : Grey monk's robes, good gloves and her fists.
Habits/hobbies : Meditation, reading, exploration and discovery.
General Health : Cursed with a decay spell affecting her general health and fortitude, although she manages to counter its effects through ki channeling and martial training.
Favorite Drink : Spiced goat milk
- [u][b]Weaknesses :[/b][/u] [b]Decay Curse :[/b] She was cursed with a decay spell, turning her skin and eyes ashy grey and her hair charcoal black. She would be weakened by this were it not for her training. [b]Trusting :[/b] She doesn't like to believe that other people are capable of misleading and lying to her. [b]Vengeful hatred :[/b] She can't stop hating an evil sorcerer named Kalimvaar and wanting him dead. [/li]
Daughter of the Ghostwise Halflings, native to the deep caves of Chondalwood, her mother dies shortly after her birth and her father decides to journey east with his young daughter, as a traveling merchant along the Silk Road stretching from Dhaztanar in Semphar (eastern Faerun) all the way to Yenching in Shou Lung (western Kara-Tur). Kaeris grows up as a nomad, enjoying the diversity of cultures between the two worlds, until her father falls ill and she is forced to sell most of their valuables for medicine.
Ruined and desperate, she meets a shady sorcerer named Kalimvaar who promises her to save her father from death in exchange for a simple job way out in the Dry Steppes of the Hordelands. All she has to do is retrieve a gemstone from an ancient tomb in the desert. This tomb is guarded by a dreadful dark knight known as Kith Zerath. Kaeris could never in a million years even dream of defeating such an opponent in combat. She does however manage to strike a bargain with the undead knight. He agrees to break his sacred oath of guarding the tomb if she defeats his greatest enemy from when he was alive, the great centaur desert tribe chief known as Sungaar, and bring him back one of his ears as proof.
Having never been, nor ever wanted to be, an assassin, Kaeris decides to meet the half-man-half-horse and ask him to kindly lend her one of his ears. Touched by her tale and impressed by her courage, Sungaar agrees to give her the freshly cut ear of one of his recently deceased tribesmen. Bringing the ear back to Kith Zerath, the death knight releases as agreed the tomb to Kaeris and she manages to retrieve the precious gemstone. But as she pockets it, Kith reappears before her, furious, suddenly aware of her deception. He punishes her by marking her with a powerful everlasting spell of decay, turning her skin and eyes ashy grey and severely weakening her body. Barely escaping with her life, Kaeris returns to Kalimvaar with the gemstone. But now the evil sorcerer proclaims he had never actually agreed to "heal" her father. Instead, he curses the dying halfling with an eternal slumber spell, this way he will never die, but nor will he ever live again. Considering their agreement honored he snatches the stone from Kaeris' fingers and vanishes in a cloud of smoke.
Having lost everything, fortune, family and health, the grey hin wanders feebly along the Silk Road, begging for food, until Ugarth, a half-orc monk from Kara-Tur finds her and decides to take her under his wing. He teaches her "The Way" and his techniques of martial combat from which she gains fortitude and the ability to resist the effects of the decay spell by channeling her body's inner energy known as the ki. Years pass as she perfects her martial skills and Kaeris grows to become a powerful monk. She finally decides to seek out Kalimvaar and confront him. Upon her quest, she discovers the sorcerer has moved to Sigil, the city of doors.
That is where her destiny will take her and, by all the gods, she will find this wicked man and she will force him to reverse the spell he cast upon her father, so that the old halfling may at long last die in peace.
