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Name: Dahlia Nightpetal
Age: 40
Height: 5'2
Weight: 100 lbs
Hair: Her hair is bright red with coppery highlights and reaches down to just below her shoulder blades. She usually keeps it pinned up or in a ponytail of some sort, finding it easiest to deal with this way in the middle of a fight or on the road traveling.
Eyes: Icy Blue
Skin: Tanned
Identifying Marks: None
Deity: Hanali Celanil- elf deity of romantic love and beauty

Class/Lvl: 6 bard/2 fighter/10 bladesinger

Race: Star Elf
Family – Her father is still living and she also has a half brother, Fox Maitril. Her mother is deceased.


Personality – Bubbly and generally happy, Dahlia finds it hard to tolerate injustice and sorrow in the world. Her goal in life has become to better the world she lives in, and to bring beauty and love to those she meets. She tries terribly hard to make friends with everyone, even those who set her on edge. She's a pure romantic, and can easily find herself getting ready for a ball just as easily as setting out on her next adventure. Sweet, innocent and kind, the bard often puts aside her own needs for others, but she is also bound and determined to protect her friends and those who may need her help.

Background: With the birth of Dahlia, her mother met her end. So distraught by his loss, Dahlia's father fled their home realm, taking the young baby along with him. Because of this, Dahlia was raised far to the south, in the lands around Calimsham. Her father had formed a troupe of traveling actors and minstrels, putting on shows to earn their living. It was a life of freedom for Dahlia, and it was a group effort by all those in her father's employ to raise the young red haired girl. Soon though, Dahlia's father took up with a female in one of the smaller desert cities, and upon returning the following year, he was presented with a baby. This was Dahlia's brother Fox. Her father took the child and so, Dahlia and Fox grew up happily immersed in the arts.

When she grew older however, Dahlia longed for something more. She wanted to see the world, see more than just the desert, and so with her father's blessing, she struck out on her own and headed north towards Waterdeep. Here, she joined a small guild of actors and singers, taking up the lute she began to perform onstage in a small tavern known as the Juggler.

Several years passed before she decided to move on, and leaving her mentor Katarinka, whom she had met when she had first joined the guild, she left with a small group of adventurers setting out on their own to make names for themselves. This was how she met Myth, the dervish, who she actively pursued, finding him quite curious in his stoic confidence. Soon, attraction and love bloomed, and so the pair struck out on their own, with Dahlia often convincing Myth to take missions that she felt were goodly causes.

Abilities:
Bardic Music 5/day- Countersong, Fascinate, Inspire Courage, Inspire Competence, Suggestion

Bardic Knowledge-Through her travels as a bard, she's privy to relevant knowledge about people, items and even places that are of significance.

Otherworldy Touch-Sunset-sunrise, she can apply the ghosttouch ability on any melee weapon or armor she uses, as long as she is using said item.

Blade Song Style- As long as she wields her longsword in ONE hand and nothing in the opposite, she gains a bonus to her AC equal to her class level.

Lesser Spellsong- She has a higher level of concentration when she is wielding her sword in one hand.

Song of Celerity- She can quicken a spell while also performing a full attack.

Greater Spellsong- She ignores her spell failure as long as she is wearing light armor.

Song of Fury- She can make an extra attack as long as she makes a full attack with her sword in one hand and nothing in the other.


(note, these abilities descriptions are shortened... but the basics are there)