SESEN

Race: Fallen Iaret (Dhampir)
Age: 18
Height (Length): 9'6"
Weight: 330lb
Class: Fighter (formerly Ranger)

Occupation: Flower seller, vampiric thrall, adventurer
Skills: Gardening, sales, acrobatics, murder, hunting, archery

Likes: Flowers, the color blue, her freedom, the taste of blood
Dislikes: Taking orders, pity, poverty, the taste of blood

Sesen was born to Herebty, a pure iaret in Tatlankel�s Precinct of Reeds. Her father left shortly after her birth, possibly due to Sesen being fallen. Mother and daughter cultivated and harvested lotus and other flowers in the shallows of Wenarehk Lake, then sold the fresh flowers to upper class residents of Tatlankel. Despite being fallen, Sesen grew into a beautiful young woman, and became the primary seller for the pair�s business.

While selling fresh blooms at the Nomarch�s residence, Sesen struck up a relationship with Soter, a pure iaret and the Nomarch�s personal taster. As part of a Cerulegilt plot to poison the Child Dynast on behalf of the Hierophant�s regency, Sesen was murdered and transformed into a vampiric thrall by Liopold Sadoul. At his orders, Sesen returned to the Nomarch�s residence after dark and murdered her young sweetheart. However, the travelers intervened, and Sesen was dominated by Countess-4�s dark powers, departing Tatlankel in the yanta�s service.

Sesen grew in experience and bitterness while adventuring with the travelers, until the yanta confronted her own past at the cathedral in Parholt. Countess-4 imparted the essence of her recovered identity to the young thrall, restoring the girl to what passes for mortality. With the training in weapons of the gladiator Fuath Backbiter and the magical tutelage of Luyno Maurimoor, coupled with her own skills at stalking prey, Sesen rejoined the travelers in Keltokel as a fully fledged ranger.

Her story is one of change, however. During her sojourn to the Lakelands to indulge in further revenge against the Cerulegilt, Sesen and the other travelers ran afoul of a mishap in planar travel. The resulting struggle to survive in Aelwyd Bell and the exposure to raw potential under the guidance of the Headless King refined her magical abilities. Sesen�s current posture is now more bellicose, more warrior than hunter. Additionally, she took a small wryddlas she calls Texohtli as a familiar.

Angst defines Sesen�s personality. Vampiric thralldom froze her in a moment of teenaged rebellion and resentment, and she was compelled to murder the one of the only people to care for her despite her fallen nature. She traded one master for another in Countess-4, and the yanta�s clinical approach to killing left its own mark on the young girl. Sesen was encouraged to hunt and instructed on how to hide her killings to avoid the sort of suspicion that would inevitably lead to her extermination. This amorality had a corrosive effect on her morals when coupled with the undeniably enjoyable act of vampiric feeding.

The girl is aware of her own beauty, but is loath to fully exploit it, as it brings injury or much worse on those who show interest. She despises pity even when it benefits her, having felt its weight throughout her life.

Returning to life as a dhampir has released Sesen onto a path of new changes. Her personality is once again free to develop and will doubtless continue to evolve as she adventures with the travelers.

Sesen�s most striking feature is the light green coloration of her scales, a shade highly regarded among iaret. Her dark brown hair is cut with a fringe in front and habitually done in braids in styles popular in the Suzerainty. In build, her upper body still reflects the slender physique of her age despite the necromantic enhancement of her strength. She tends to wear the simple linen huipil and kilt she was used to in Tatlankel, though she�s now received a fine kalasiris and serpent-themed jewelry as hand-me-downs from Countess-4. As part of her recent travels in the south, she has added a fitted scale haubergeon for protection and a winter wolf pelt worn as a mantle for warmth.

While a vampiric thrall, Sesen did not take very good care of herself or her appearance, perhaps reflecting her self loathing or the festering evil within that preserved her beyond death. The danger that running water poses to such creatures did not lend itself to cosmetic concerns. As with many other aspects of Sesen, however, her return to mortality has reignited such concerns.

>Sesen is named for her mother�s favorite flower, the blue lotus.
>Herebty was never definitively told what happened to her daughter, and is still waiting for word from her.
>Despite the antipathy of iaret society toward the fallen, Sesen has collected a surprising number of Suzerainty artifacts, such as personal gifts from the Dynastic household, weapons in ancestral bronze, and her enchanted scale armor.
>While she was a vampiric thrall, she was fed small samples of the travelers� blood. As such, Sesen may be one of the few mortals to have tasted tylwyth blood.
>Her time as a vampiric thrall, traditional iaret association of the sea with death and subsequent aquatic adventures have left Sesen with a strong wariness towards water.
>Sesen is uncommonly skilled for her age and this may in part be to the essences of Countess-4�s past that she was infused with.
>This same consumption of a part of the past means that Sesen knows more of the secrets of the yanta�s construction than Countess-4 does herself.
>An ioun stone orbits Sesen�s head, storing a spell left by Countess-4. The spell is a modified version of animate dead gleaned from studying the scriptures of Horizon Walker cultists.