Lux Tenebris: Shireen Orred

SHIREEN ORRED, L7 Human Bard

STR     08 (-1)

DEX    14 (+2)

CON   16 (+3)

INT     11 (+0)

WIS     10 (+0)

CHA   18 (+4)

HP       56

AC      13 (Leather armor)

Traits:

Languages: Common,

Proficiencies: +3

Armor: Light

Weapons: Simple, hand x-bows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords

Tools: Navigator’s tools, Vehicles: water, Fiddle, Drum, Squeezebox

Saves: Dexterity +5, Charisma +7

Skills: Acrobatics +7, Athletics +2, Intimidation +10, Perception +3, Persuasion +10

Feats:

Ship’s Passage

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Bardic Inspiration (d8/4x)

Jack of All Trades

Song of Rest (1d6)

Bard College: College of Lore

Expertise

Font of Inspiration

Countercharm

Spellcasting:

# of Spells: 10

Spell DC: 15

Atk Mod: +7

At-Will (3): Dancing lights, Magehand, Vicious mockery

L1 (4): Detect Magic, Sleep, Thunderwave

L2 (3): Cloud of Daggers, Invisibility, Shatter

L3 (3): Dispel magic, Hypnotic Pattern, Nondetection

L4 (1): Polymorph

Equipment:

Rapier. Melee. +7 to hit; deals 1d8 +4 piercing; Finesse.

Dagger. Melee. +7 to hit; deals 1d4 +4 piercing; Light; Finesse; Ranged, 20/60.

Belaying pin (club). Melee. +3 to hit; deals 1d4-1 bludgeoning; Light.

Leather armor. Light armor. AC 11 + Dex.

An entertainer’s pack, a fiddle, 50 ft. of silk rope, a lucky charm, a set of common clothes, 10gp

Shireen Orred grew up on the coast of Alindrast. Her parents were sailors and Shireen followed in their footsteps. Unfortunately, the life of a merchant sailor wasn’t a good fit for Shireen. Most of the captains of the merchant ships treated their crews like slaves.

Shireen was serving aboard a merchant ship, The Golden Apple, when the crew mutinied. The captain and first mate were shipwrecked and the Apple’s crew turned to piracy.

The pirate life was a better fit for Shireen and she served aboard the Apple until it was scuttled by the Alindrast Navy. Afterward, Shireen made her way south, to Dagger Bay, a port that was notorious for offering safe haven to pirates and smugglers.  There, Shireen joined the crew of infamous pirate queen, Iron Jenny.  Over the years, she rose through the ranks, eventually captaining a ship in Iron Jenny’s fleet.

This was a golden time for Shireen. Iron Jenny ruled the coast of Alindrast and Hylondek. No naval force could match her. Shireen was proud to stand by Iron Jenny’s side and thumb her nose at the merchant companies that controlled Alindrast.

But all good things come to an end.  Iron Jenny’s luck ran out, with her lifeblood, on the point of a rival’s blade.  The merchant companies’ luck ended when Duke Wallen Randego assumed control of Alindrast. And Shireen Orred’s luck ran out when her own pirate crew mutinied and shipwrecked her on a barren, rocky atoll in the Gulf of Promises.

She should have died. She would have if not for the peculiar skills she had picked up during her career. Most Alindrasti sailors distrusted magic and avoided it like the plague, but Shireen had a talent for spells. Magic had saved her life more than once and it would do it again.

Returning to Alindrast, Shireen began to hunt down the members of her mutinous crew. One by one, she sent them to the chill embrace of Rovelek, the God of the Dead. Her hunt has led her, curiously enough, to the court of Duke Randego. It seemed that Shireen’s former first mate had turned over a new leaf and become a popular member of the Duke’s court.

Killing a favored member of the Duke’s court could bring down considerable wrath on her head, but Shireen doesn’t care.  She’s come for her revenge and she’ll get it, by hook or by crook. Whatever happens afterwards, she’ll deal with it as it comes.