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By Steve Gorman

Savoi Ellabard was the product of youthful elven passions. She was born and raised deep in the Forests of Relum. Her father, a steadfast priest of Galasiria, and her mother, a renowned paladin of the Goddess of the Forests, adventured together for years and fell in together on the road. Their relationship fell apart quickly after the heat of passion cooled, ten years later. They devoted themselves to the education of their daughter Savoi driving her towards the life of a divination sorceror to aid the church and village.

Savoi grew up sheltered in the temple of her father, both her parents over-compensating for their lustful zeal. Reading over recounts of her parents' adventures was her only pleasure and worthless arcane tomes, worthless to the elves at least, filled her days. Through the years, Savoi's parents collected many treasures for which they never found a use. These included several valuable spellbooks. Growing up in an isolated elven village there was no demand for the spellbooks among the elven sorcorers. Savoi played with the books as if they were puzzle books; a distraction from her pampered boredom. She spent hours trying to puzzle out the ancient spellbooks as a mental exercise.

Her arcane skills were self taught, combining elven spell lore with the arcane tomes for over 20 years. Eventually she was able to master wizardly cantrips. Her parents were surprised and happy that their daughter actually showed an interest in magic, even if it was impure human magic and they gave her further access to their libraries.


One day an older human wondered into their village and presented himself to the village elders. In perfect Elven he offered gifts of stories and knowledge in exchange for a night's lodging and a guide out of the vilage.

Savoi was enthralled listening to the man's stories from the bough of her tree. He was a middle aged human named Aleric. The human recounted tales of adventure throughout the night, involving the entire village in his tales. He even told a tale that matched a tale of one of her parents' lesser-known adventures about which she had read. But Savoi fell out of her tree bough when he told of her parents' lusty stolen moments in a necromancer's dungeon. He laughed and helped her up. As he did, she saw her parents staring at each other from opposite sides of the fire, oblivious to her fall.

That night, her parents were too preoccupied to notice Savoi wasn't studying. She asked her parents if she could join the party escorting the human out of the forest. Absently they agreed, in unison, and Savoi presented herself to the village elders to offer to herself as a guide...with her parents blessings of course. Aleric heard the offer and thanked the elders. Before they could even consider the matter it was settled and Savoi and two other elves were leading Aleric through winding magical trails. When she left town with the human stranger, she fully expected to return and took one of the ancient books with her to read during the journey.

When they reached the edge of the forest, Savoi made a decision and asked the elves to give her love to her parents and began a road to adventure with Aleric. The old man lead her on a life of adventure and taught her magic beyond the simple cantrips. Years later the old man died in Jerranq after a long battlewith a pit fiend and its minions. Aleric's dying words to her were "turn evil onto itself".

After burying her mentor, Savoi spent years studying the greatest threats, in her mind, to sentient beings in the library of Harria - abyssal creatures. She had no idea how to follow her friend's dying words but found tantalizing clues in the library of Harria, though not enough to define a clear path.

After ten years of seclusion in the library she decided it was time to search out a life of adventure again.

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