Rhiannon Songweaver

Demographics

A female aelvar

Born: Approx. 3725 BC

Died: N/A

Residence: Jungle of Fangs

Occupation: Refugee, bard

A young (20s) aelvar woman of surpassing beauty. Spun-silver hair, eyes of sapphire. Height is 5'8".

Born as one of the many daughters of the last Aethertide Emperor (2nd age). Her identical twin Olwen of Dark Silence married her father and became one of the Empresses; she was betrayed, tortured, and sealed in lunar crystal, to be used for her ability to gather souls via song.

In reality, she lived a peaceful life as a bardic healer and comforter, until shortly after Moon's Fall, when her sister, at Emperor Lorcan's behest, used demonic curses to puppet and corrupt her loyal guardian Theloman of the Steadfast Blade. He kidnapped her and the two of them tortured her until they could impose false memories of despair and loneliness, priming her to become Sister Sorrow, the Architect of Lamentation. Sealed in a shard of the Third Moon, broken off much earlier, she remained in the depths and her unique talent of creating shadow copies of herself was used to blight the landscape, consuming the life and souls out of anything caught in it.

In 261 AC, the Argentones infiltrated the Tower of Melodies where she was entombed, brought hope to her in her memories (stored in the form of books), and eventually faced her sister, now a lich, and the husk of Theloman at the apex, sending Olwen reeling back to her husband/father and ending Theloman's cursed existence, but not before he could beg forgiveness. They freed Rhiannon and are carrying her back out of the cursed waste at this writing.

The name Songweaver is a chosen last name; she has abandoned her birth name. Her friends call her Rhia.

Mechanics

Mechanically, she's a fairly standard bard with a few unique properties: she can create a duplicate of herself that can speak and move, but can only interact physically in a limited fashion. When it rejoins her, she shares its memories. Second, she is the singer of a Song of Power, created in cooperation between her and Lark of the Argentones. What power this song holds is yet unknown, but it contains a fragment of the power of the Allsong within it.