Malkyr (Readonly)

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Score	AC	10 + Lvl/2	Armor +Abil	Class	Feat	Enh.	Misc	Temp
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Score	Level / 2 +REF	10	Abil	Class	Feat	Enh.	Misc	Temp
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Personality Traits Pragmatic, skeptical rebel haunted by his past.	Mannerisms and Appearance Malkyr is a quiet man, keeping to himself as much as possible, but he still shows empathy toward his fey beast companion and, unlike many of his kin, he's neither cruel nor malicious despite his profession, prefering to go for quick kills rather than to prolong suffering. Being at home in the wild, Malkyr lacks the subtle graces or grooming of his more urbane kin. Physically, he is unimposing--tall for his race, but of slight build. Even so he is wicked quick and it would truly be foolish to doubt his prowess in combat due to his thin frame.
Session and Campaign Notes	Companions and Allies "Owlgy," his fiercely loyal young owlbear, his ever-present companion. Zarra, his mother, a powerful Seeker/Cleric hybrid and follower of Eilistraee, is his most notable and loyal ally. The worshippers of the Dark Maiden near Serestal are largely considered his allies. He also has acquaintences among the Vhaeraunians he once called brothers, but most of them have turned their back on him for a past choice and he would likely receive a cold welcome from them.
Background & Other Notes Like many of his kind living in and around Serestal, Malkyr Shadowstep descends from those Drow who successfully escaped the mad cruelties of the Lolthian priesthood and viciously pointless wars of the great houses, making the harrowing journey up through the Feydark to the upper realm of the Feywild. Malkyr's father, Malaggar, was a master thief for the wealthy merchant House Fey-Branche, until he stole away with one of their treasures--Zarra Fey-Branche, a young daughter of Matron Bryntyl Fey, a huntress whose travels to the surface world on slave raids had disillusioned her with Lolth's worship and simultaneously enchanted her with the beauty and mystery of the wilds. It was really she who stole away with Malaggar, her favorite lover, who didn't share her idealism but certainly shared her desire to get out from under the oppressive thumb of the matron. After months of travel frought with many dangers, the couple made it to Serestal but by then their relationship was frayed and it wasn't long before they each went their separate ways, with Zarra welcomed into the Eilistraeean fold while Malaggar naturally settled in with the Vhaeraunians. While he didn't realize it at the time of their breakup, Zarra was pregnant with his child and, once his sources informed him she'd given birth to a baby boy, Malaggar demanded he be given over to him once he's of age, otherwise there would be war between the two Drow factions. It was a bluff, but Zarra's newfound spiritual leader prophesied that the boy would return to her if she let him go, but would never come back if she didn't, so she acquiesced. Malkyr (he and his father had taken on Eladrin surname conventions, in the hopes to throw off any Fey-Branche assassins) was raised in good Vhaeraunian tradition as a thief, and he was quite skilled at it, but his main gift was as a marksman, showing that indeed he was his mother's son. Being of slight frame however, young Malkyr lacked for armstrength, so instead of the greatbows favored by most hunters of the Feywild, he took up the crossbow and soon became an expert at it. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to save his father, who he found dead and mutilated at home upon returning from a hunt, with no sign of the assassin (he'd been taught about his parents' past). Distraught, Malkyr fled deep into the wild, where he was caught by surprise and nearly devoured by a vicious owlbear, until his rescue by a beautiful Drow huntress who tamed the fey beast in short order. She introduced herself as Ilivarra Chesserin, an escaped slave who lived alone in the Feywild, and Malkyr took an immediate liking to her. He told her much of his story in due course, leaving out his mother despite proddings from his rescuer, ultimately lying that she was dead, too. Ilivarra took him under her wing, teaching him the ways of fey beast taming, and in time the two became lovers, living and loving for the thrill of the hunt. Wishing nothing more than to marry her under the stars like true high elves, Malkyr repudiated the one lie he'd told Ilivarra--that for all he knew his mother was very much still alive and well and most likely still living with a group of Eilistraeean worshippers in the material plane near Serestal. Though mad for a bit, Ilivarra recognized how afraid he must've been back at that moment and the two made up, resolving to go see his mother and perhaps have a priestess of the Dark Maiden wed them. It had been ages since he'd been there, nevertheless it didn't take too long to find the grove near Serestal that was sacred to Eilistraee--and likewise for Malkyr and his mother to be reunited. Naturally Zarra was joyful at the long-deferred reunion with her son. She told him she already knew of Malaggar's murder and that she'd feared her son's disappearance had meant the end of him, too, but a vision from her goddess informed her of his safety and that the prophesy would soon be fulfilled. Wanting to get to know her son's beloved before acquiescing to an Eilistraeean betrothal, perhaps the most noble and fair symbol of dark elves returned to the surface, the three of them soon set out on a hunt together. On the third night, Malkyr and Zarra fell into a deep slumber, from which they awoke bound and gagged at the tender mercies of a Drow hunting party with a smug Ilivarra at their head. Malkyr burned in silenced rage as his "beloved" revealed herself to be his cousin, Alarra Fey-Branche. The house had been unable to capture the fleeing lovers before Zarra came under the protection of the Eilistraeeans, and sending a war party of sufficient strength to break their defenses would no doubt rouse the nearby Eladrin of Serestal, which was far too prominent to risk potential war with the Seldarine over one dissenting priestess. So, perhaps the oldest and richest house in all the Underdark bid its time, nursing Alarra's hatred of her aunt, whom she had idolized as a child but despised after she'd ran off and abandoned her to her cruel mother. She was trained to kill Malaggar and to entice his brat into taking her to Zarra, who was to be handed over with her son to the hunting party to be returned to House Fey-Branche's torments, and if all went as planned Alarra would be deliberately wounded and used to lure the surface Drow into a foolhardy attempt to rescue their own--right into a trap. While Malkyr fumed, Zarra was the picture of tranquility under siege, though she couldn't conceal the sadness she felt at such a cruel betrayal of her son's heart. The reason for her unflappable calm in the face of surely dire circumstances was revealed to her son's astonishment when the severed head of the hunting party's scout was thrown into the campfire preceding a hail of bolts from the trees. Vhaeraunian Drow swept into the campsite in force, driving their Underdark cousins like hounds to the awaiting hunters of the Dark Maiden, who cut them to ribbons with their gleaming bastard swords, leaving none save Alarra alive, though she was subdued with a poisoned bolt. Newly liberated, Zarra explained to her niece that she had her mother's eyes--in all the years in exile she'd never forgotten her sister's cruel amber-hued orbs, gifts of her even more ruthless father, Dantrag Baenre, laughing at her in the darkness. Even though Alarra had grown up, she knew her immediately and put the word out to the Vhaeraunians that their brother's killer had surfaced and it was time for revenge. Malkyr wasn't pleased by the double-deception, but he agreed with his mother that he'd never have believed her if she had said anything, the only way was to let the truth come out even at the cost of a broken heart. He asked to be allowed the privilege of killing her, but Zarra said no, that right belonged to her--as she cut her niece's throat she whispered, "For Malgy," her old pet name for Malaggar. She still loved him after all these years. Malkyr was welcome to return with the Vhaeraunians, but he elected to stay with the Eilistraeeans and learn their primal ways of hunting. He tamed his own owlbear, naming it Owlgy in jest. He's slowly coming out of his shell, but still prefers to go out hunting on his own, which he does for wide stretches at a time. As a rare male in their community, a number of huntresses are after him, but due to the circumstances most understand that it'll be some time before he's open to that, though after all the Dark Maiden is a love goddess as well, so who can say? Of course not all of the sisterhood are after him for that reason--not everyone wants him there, some would rather he just go back to his brotherhood, but these have been muted voices so far due to Zarra's standing in the community. He was out on one of his hunts when a message came to him from his mother through the beasts that a party had come from the Feywild to dispatch the cultists who'd been hiding out in proximity to their home. Returning, she told him of what she'd overheard of their greater mission to find and rescue Eladrin children, and asked him to lend them his aid as a tracker--if the Eladrin council learns of the assistance they provided in resolving this terrible thing, perhaps it would go far toward their acceptance by their highborn kin.