Blackwell, Emiliana

General Information

• Name: Emiliana Renée Blackwell

• Class: Bard (19)

• Race: Human
• Gender: Female
• Age: Eighteen

• Height: 5'2" (~158 cm)
• Weight: 92 lbs. (~41 kg)
• Build: Slender / Petite

• Hair: Blond
• Eyes: Blue
• Skin: Lightly Tanned

• Accent: Waterdhavian

• Affiliations: Sundarian Legion

• Deity: Milil, Lord of All Songs

Overall Appearance

Emiliana is a petite, lithe young woman who typically keeps her long, golden-blond hair tied in a stylish ponytail. Intelligent, kind blue eyes constantly peer at her surroundings. While not graced with divine beauty, she is attractive in her own common way.

She moves with an effortless, cat-like type of grace, and rarely do her footsteps make a sound. She is not strong and muscular, but neither is she weak and frail.

Overall Personality

Emiliana is a good-hearted, kind person who tries her best to help others and work towards 'the greater good'. However, she has a stubborn, impatient streak, and she is prone to unleashing her temper once she has been pushed past her personal limits. She tends to adapt her personality to situations, and she has a knack for excelling in most social situations. Naturally flirtatious, she often receives flattery and attention from men, but she keeps her interactions chaste.

She is a hopeless romantic and an eternal optimist despite any outward unhappiness she might show. She believes in the power of true love being able to conquer everything, and she believes that good will ultimately triumph over evil. The suffering of others pains her, and she would rather experience untold miseries herself rather than allow others to wallow in agony.

Background

Emiliana is a native of Waterdeep, the City of Splendors. She is the youngest child of Matthias and Alana Keenan Blackwell; both parents are well-respected military leaders within Waterdeep, although Matthias Blackwell recently retired from service. Emiliana has an older brother, Darius Blackwell, who also lives in Sundren Valley.

The entire Blackwell family is steeped in a rich military tradition. Emiliana's parents, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents, great-aunts and great-uncles, and great-grandparents have all served as soldiers and military leaders in some capacity or another for many generations.

Although not nobility, Emiliana enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle in Waterdeep. She demonstrated a talent for creativity at an early age, and the intelligent child was tutored in a wide variety of academic and artistic subjects. Her affinity for music and the arts has resulted in her becoming an accomplished performer with a powerful soprano voice, and her love of reading and learning new things provides her with the ability to know a little bit of information about everything.

Free-spirited, stubborn, and rebellious, Emiliana gave her father fits (as well as gray hairs) during her youth. She shunned the military lifestyle, and she refused to accept offers to join Waterdeep's forces alongside her parents. She also rejected several offers of courtship and marriage from soldiers and noblemen alike, stating that she would never be involved with a soldier or marry a nobleman for anything other than love.

When she reached her eighteenth birthday, she decided to leave Waterdeep and travel north to visit with her cousin, Lysandra Blackwell, who had written Emiliana about her new life in the relatively unknown place.

Time In Sundren

Emiliana arrived in Sundren full of energy, curiosity, and naïvéte. She quickly made numerous friends and allies with her good-spirited, friendly nature.

One of the first people she met was a young, gruff soldier named William Shepard, for whom she developed an immediate dislike. He, as well as Lysandra, were a part of the respected Sundarian Legion. Despite Lysandra's encouragement, Emiliana steadfastly clung to her decision never to become a soldier. However, spending time with her cousin - as well as William, for whom she was reluctantly developing affectionate feelings - slowly pushed Emiliana towards wanting to belong to something greater than herself.

Darius, her brother, arrived in Sundren Valley a short time later, and his path as a paladin of Torm took him towards the Triumverate. By this time, Emiliana and William had become romantically involved. Lysandra was chosen to be the new Warden of Wrath, tasked with defending Sundren from her enemies, and those enemies soon attempted to torment her by kidnapping and torturing both Darius and Emiliana in turn.

Right after she pledged herself to the Legion, Emiliana was abducted from the washroom of the Second Wind Inn while cleaning her new uniform. Her captor subjected her to many different physical and psychological tortures, including wrapping her in razorwire and suspending her from a balcony overlooking a lava-filled ravine. Her allies rallied to save her by utilizing a Wish spell, and William whisked her to the safety of his personal quarters so that she could recover from the traumatic experience.

Thankfully, she did not lose her optimistic spirit after the ordeal, and soon she was learning about her new role in the Legion. She traveled with many companions, including a new friend named Johanna Patson, and Emiliana experienced many new and wonderful sights throughout Sundren Valley. She also garnered the attention of a powerful vampire, Iosolde, who became enamored of Emiliana's musical talents after hearing the bard perform.

(( To be continued! ))