Nyx

DEEP SIGHS IN DRUIDIC

Appearance
In Nyx's real form, she has the appearance of an attractive young woman with a very petite figure. She has large colorless white eyes circled by thick black rings. Her hair is short pink-white ombre with three long brains off to the side.

Her outfit consists of a dark green and emerald green leather bra, a dark green miniskirt, and brown cape with fur at the shoulders. She has three earrings at along the helix of her right ear. Nyx also appears to have bandages wrapped around her feet and waist, however, it is unclear whether these are covering injuries or just for aesthetic purposes. Nyx has ink stains on her right hand from writing important thing on her hands. She is 5 feet tall.

Personality
Nyx is known to have a bright and mischievous personality, always doing whatever she pleases just because she feels like it. She's can be described as a bit of an airhead and appears to be extremely carefree. She often comes off as very childlike and sweet. She likes to have fun and if she can cause a little chaos along the way. Bonus Points. She is extremely forgetful and often needs to be reminded to do the most menial task, such as eating or sleeping. She is very loving to those she's close to. Showering people she cares about with hugs, kisses and as much affection as humanly possible.

From an outsiders prospective, Nyx suffers from what appears to be anterograde amnesia. She can't seem to retain new information. Often forgetting about people and conversations she literally just had. However, Nyx's brain is a bit more complex than she lets on.

Her mind operates much differently than other people, since Nyx actually remembers everything she has ever seen.

Every face. Every person. Every animal. Every word. Every object.

Everything.

The way she contains, sorts and organizes this information is very different from “normal” people; Nyx has completely compartmentalized her brain into an extremely well oiled machine, keeping what is useful, and storing the rest when it’s unneeded.

Nyx’s mind is an incredibly beautiful complex work of art. She has every person and memory sorted in her head - from deeply special memories, core to herself - to what many would consider useless information. She picks and chooses what she deems important enough to recall based on the situation. Often she doesn’t find the conversation she just had important enough to recollect much to the irritation of those around her. But that’s because she doesn’t deem you important enough to “remember”. If she doesn’t think you’re important that’s your fault not hers. People often confuse her forgetfulness and overall ditsy-ness with stupidity, but Nyx is absolutely anything but stupid. She is actually rather intelligent and incredibly wise but people just don’t give her the chance and often talk down to her, attempt to control her or treat her like a child.

The Deeply Connected Ones: People she cares deeply for and can recall new and old information with ease. Those that have never hurt her or more specifically purposefully hurt her. The ones that don't treat her like a child or talk down to her or control her. Memories of them come as easy to her as breathing air.

The I Love You but You Hurt Me Ones: People she loves but they did something to hurt her. People like her family or certain friends from her past. These people are part of the group that Nyx has decided aren't important enough to remember right now. However, if she really sat down and concentrated. She'd remember them. Or if they appeared in front of her right now. She'd remember them in an instant.

The Good Ones: These are nice people that Nyx has met throughout her travels. These are inkeepers, barkeeps, people that have fed her or taken her in without prejudice. A Nice guy that bought her a drink at a bar. People like them. She wouldn't call them friends. She probably doesn't even recall or know their names but she'd be able to recall them being nice to her if she ever saw them again. To Nyx. Nice = Good.

The New Faces: People she has just met. This group is people she is learning about to decide which group they go into. She doesn't see them as good or bad. This is the most neutral place. It is their behavior towards her that will decide whether they are important or unimportant to her. Whether they are “remembered” or not. She usually gives new people cutesy nicknames because she genuinely can't be bothered to remember their names right now (expect Pascal. She can remember his name but she just likes calling him cutesy nicknames). Currently the entire party is sitting in this category.

The Currently Unimportant Ones(Nyx calls it Naughty Island): People she knows, people she loves, people she’s friends with. But, they've done something to cross or upset her in some way, shape or form. They could be friends that scolded her for something or accidentally hurt her feelings. Either way. Trust has been broken. Nyx does not like controlling people because she does not like being controlled. So people that keep bossing her around often get temporarily sent here. Being sent to this category is essentially her way of punishing the one that hurt her. This is the most spiteful place because she "forgets" the person on purpose and the only way to claw your way out of this situation is to apologize and try and gain her trust again. You could be someone she loves dearly and you could die in front of her in this state and she would not shed a single tear for you. You essentially become nothing to her.

The Nameless Faces: People she's seen throughout her travels. She doesn't know them or care about them. They could die in front of her and she'd feel nothing towards them. As a Changeling she can change into any person she's ever seen. So this group is full of her wide repertoire of faces.

Her Core: The core of who she is and memories that make up her personality. Most of these are ones she’s had while completely alone. These are the parts of her that she holds dear and these are the things that make her, her.

TRASH: This is the group of people that Nyx despises with every fiber of her being. They've done something so heinous that someone that doesn't hate anyone hates them. She can remember every tiny detail about who they are. Their Appearance. Their Mannerisms. Their Voice. But she can't remember their name. Being nameless to Nyx is a very scary place to be already because she doesn't care about you even a tiny bit. But, to be Trash and Nameless is even scarier. Because she wants you dead.

Racial Proficiencies
Deception (+7)

Persuasion (+7)

Class Proficiencies
Insight (+8)

Perception (+8)

Background Proficiencies
Sleight of Hand (+6)

Stealth (+6)

Other Proficiencies
At level 4, Nyx acquired the Skilled Feat giving her access to 3 more skills.

Intimidation (+7)

Investigation (+5)

History (+5)

Background
Nyx is someone that has never felt what true freedom feels like. Her entire life, her entire existence has always been under someone else’s control. When she was young she often felt more like a marionette doll - a puppet of a string, being constantly controlled and commanded what to do - rather than a person. Eat. Sleep. Dance. Sing. Magic Lessons. Music Lessons. Etc. etc. etc. Everything she did from an early age was completely controlled by her family.

She was raised by her parents and grandparents in absolute seclusion from the world. Nyx’s entire childhood and adolescence was spent living in a cottage hidden completely from the world by Druidic magic. Her parents, Nat and Wik, were/are extremely overprotective, controlling and borderline manipulative of their “mentally challenged daughter,” as they often call her. While her grandparents, Lun and Vik, are much more compassionate and loving towards her. Her grandparents taught her everything she knows about being a Druid completely in secret because they wanted to give her some ability to obtain some essence of freedom for herself.

When Nyx was a little girl she would often sneak out late at night to go into the nearby town full of Dark elves. This is where she met her childhood friend and current favorite transformation, Zilvra Abaeir. Over the course of several years the two would have nightly rendezvous and play and talk for hours. Zilvra claimed to be the daughter of a wealthy noble. However, this is likely untrue. She both admired and looked down on Nyx for her naivety and her almost doll like mannerisms. For years she told Nyx hundreds of stories of people and places Nyx had never even known existed in this world. Wonderful. Amazing. Places. Zilvra is who started Nyx on the path she currently walks in life. The path where she can do what she wants instead of what other people want.

However, these years of peace and happiness between the two friends ended abruptly and tragically one night while playing in the underdark they were attacked by one of its many monsters…. The two were separated in the chaos and Nyx was luckily saved by her grandfather who had been secretly watching over her nightly escapes for years. Nyx never saw Zilvra again and due to the trauma of losing someone so incredibly important to her incredibly small world she started taking on the appearance of Zilvra almost constantly. To her, this form comes as easily to her as breathing air. She has no clue what the fate of her friend was. She doesn’t know if she’s dead or alive. She doesn’t even know if Zilvra left her for dead or not. Either way…. This was the first time Nyx had ever cried in her entire life. Nyx didn’t leave her home again for several long… torturously boring…  years.

Late one night, just after Nyx had turned 15, something inside her twisted little head snapped… and she realized that she’s been living like a canary in a cage almost her entire life. One could say that this was some teenage rebellion bubbling to the surface. So in a fit of spontaneity she decided she was going to leave and never come back. She packed her bags and went to run towards the exit of her “prison” only for her grandparents to appear in front of her. However, instead of trying to stop her, they just sadly smiled at her before handing her a beautiful totem of the moon goddess, Seras, and a pretty locket with a photo of their family inside. With a gentle kiss on the forehead and a hug they asked her to be wary of strangers and who she trusts.

“Be wary, beautiful child, of who you let know and see your true face and form. This world is a dangerous place and not everyone is a friendly face. Just stay safe and stay alive. We love you.” were the last words she ever heard her grandfather say.

Nyx simply nodded her head, smiled and left in the dead of night disguised as the beautiful drow, Zilvra Abaeir. Unfortunately, after a while Nyx’s memories of her family began to fade and with it the memories of the locket currently sitting at the bottom of her bag completely and utterly forgotten. She never planned on returning home, so she deemed those particular memories unnecessary and troublesome. The last thing she wants is to start feeling homesick after all.

As the years of her new found freedom passed by Nyx met and took the forms of many people. However, as the years passed she became less scared to show people her true form. Her true form often earns her stares, free drinks at bars, money, dates and occasionally impromptu marriage proposals. Nyx is an innately sexual and loving creature by nature. All she wants is to love and be loved. To put it simply. She is a flirt and she’s learned over the years how to use her body to get exactly what she wants.

Most of her “boyfriends/girlfriends” have been really genuinely nice people that treated her really good for the short time they were together. None of them ever expected anything more than a fling and felt blessed to even be considered the object of her affection for even a short period of time.

However, a few were not so nice. It was never anything physical due to the extreme, terrifyingly crushing fear of angering the god that looks at Changelings like a fine wine to be cherished and enjoyed. However, there was quite a bit of verbal abuse. They’d call her all sorts of mean names not thinking she’d understand or remember them calling her those things anyway. Only to freeze with fear when she glared at them and told them to essentially get lost or go die. Her life continued like this for several long years. For once she thought she was free, however, once again her life was just in the cycle of Eat, sleep, dance, sing, flirt, drink, repeat. Now the puppeteer is the people around her.

Everything changed when late one night, a sleazy, slimy “old” Wood Elf criminal named Belanor Pinevale witnessed what appeared to be a small group of people surrounding and beating/torturing what looks to be a bloody little dark elf girl in an alleyway illuminated by nothing but the full moon… In what can only be described as an act of pure adrenaline the wood elf took out his bow and arrow and started firing down on the group striking each of them straight through the chest killing them instantly. This attack left some slight scarring on Nyx’s back and feet that she now keeps covered pretty much at all times except when bathing, of course. This was the most traumatic thing to ever happen to her. These strangers that she had never met before wanted her dead and she has absolutely no idea why. This completely altered her way of viewing the world. Gone were the days of just drinking and making merry with all sorts of strangers…

Once the perpetrators were dead, Belanor ran down to see if the little drow girl was still alive only to watch in awe as her body morphed back into her native state. Belanor quickly took the beautiful bleeding young 18-year-old woman to his home and nursed her back to perfect health. Once she recovered he decided to take her under his wing and teach her some rather unsavory things… he tells to embrace her unique set of abilities and use them to make lots of money. Even though he is totally using her to get what he wants, lots of coin, he also genuinely befriends and comes to care for this “helpless” girl. In a sense, he treats her like a daughter. However, unlike her father who wanted to control her so she could never get hurt, Belanor is just a guiding presence. He’s there to offer support or guidance but he doesn’t command her to do anything she doesn’t want to do. She considers him more her father than her own father at this point. She even jokingly refers to him as “da” or “old man” when not calling him Bel. He teaches her how to defend herself, how to con people, how to essentially flawlessly perform grand theft identity, how to kill, etc. Belanor is what started her on the path of doing anything she had to do to survive. If you aren’t her friend she sees you as completely disposable and she’ll turn on you and kill you if it means she’ll survive.

For almost 2 years, Belanor and Nyx traveled together creating all sorts of chaos along the way. However, all good things must come to an end eventually because one day Nyx decides on a whim that it’s time for her to spread her figurative wings and find something new to do with her life. Belanor isn’t angry when she tells him this, he just laughs, puts his hands on her shoulders and tells her that “Listen… No one is allowed to tell you that you can’t do something, except yourself. Don’t let them tell you you can’t do something just because your memory is shit. Never let anybody try to fix that pretty little head of yours. You aren’t broken. You’re you. You’re Nyx. That’s the only thing you need to remember.” Afterwards a few tears were shed, hugs were given and they parted ways for who knows how long. Belanor genuinely believes that Nyx will probably forget all about him once they part ways. He just hopes that she remembers the things he told and taught her and for once... She does. Belanor is the first person to be deemed important enough to always remember. He’s the first person to be added to the Deeply Connected Circle of her brain and she often quotes the things he’s told her in the past.

Nyx, now age 20, is once again traveling the world when she runs into a peculiar shop with a peculiar person inside. It’s Pascal.

Nyx, upon meeting Pascal, thinks he’s the most interesting person she’s ever met and she latches onto him and his personality. Pascal, on the other hand, feels incredibly concerned about the forgetful young woman. He assumes that maybe she hit her head and that's why she appears to have amnesia. However, he quickly learns that, that is not the case. She doesn't have amnesia. This is just how she is. Nyx is just unique and is genuinely happy in her uniqueness. However, he does feel inclined to keep an eye on her.

Over the course of a couple years they become very close friends to the point that Pascal is now the second person Nyx deems important enough to remember. Pascal is also one of the only people Nyx Trusts enough to allow herself to recall things in front of. She feels safe enough to tell him about her family, her childhood, where she's from and where she wants to avoid. It’s a friendship built on genuine platonic love and affection. Nyx is also a cuddle bug that hugs onto him the moment they are in the same room no matter the situation (Particularly if the situation is incredibly inappropriate). Nyx essentially ends up living with Pascal helping him around the shop for a couple years.

Over the years, Pascal has accumulated quite a bit of knowledge about Nyx and he’s 100% the only person that she has willingly allowed into her little world and told her past. He knows her better than anyone could ever dream too. Nyx and Pascal are close enough friends that she is known to affectionately refer to him by the nickname Scally and he refers to her only by a similar cutesy nickname of Nyxie. Unless the situation is serious.

To outsiders, it’s extremely hard to tell exactly what their relationship is. Nyx is a lady that lives off flirting, teasing, sexual innuendo and mystery. So when people ask her what her relationship is to Pascal she literally just says she "loves him" and gives no type of explanation as to what type of love she’s talking about. Is it familial? Is it friendship? Is it romantic?? You'll never know. Nyx likes to mess with people and plant those little seeds of doubt in peoples heads for no reason other than finding it hilarious… And Pascal isn't helping to make the situation any less ambiguous because when he's asked he usually has a strange answer like "Oh, she's just my friends, uncles, sisters, daughters, dogs girlfriend." Either way, she considers him her best friend, her family and calls him her BLFFL (Best -Ling Friend for Life).

Anywho, after five years of just crashing permanently at Pascal’s place, Nyx, now 25, goes to visit her friend, Momma Thibodeaux, who asks if she could change into her for a while so Momma can go take a long deserved vacation from her family and job. She offers to pay and obviously Nyx accepts even though she actually would have done it for FREEEEE. But she didn’t tell her that because Nyx likes shiny things. There she meets several strange individuals, things are broken, and Nyx is left thinking these people are SUPER interesting.

Later she goes to visit Pascal for their usual hang out session, however, when she arrives she sees those SAME strange people. Her being in her real form, she totally panics and so she turns into a mouse and hides because she doesn’t like strangers seeing her real self.... Pascal obviously notices right away her but chooses to say nothing… Eventually the travelers leave/are forced out and Pascal for some reason pays Nyx to go professional stalker mode and make sure these specific travelers stay safe and alive.

And THUS her creepy stalker arc begins...

Session Eighteen
Everything begins when loud splashing is heard from the shore and Jimmy the Horse comes confidently trotting up out of the ocean as if only slightly annoyed by the events of days prior. Walking into town, Jimmy interrupts an altercation between Cycil and Soteria. Soteria takes the convenient appearance of Jimmy as a chance to escape the argument and runs to get Mardax. Mardax quickly and excitedly runs outside to reunite with his horse and is happy to find that Jimmy is completely unharmed.

Mardax starts showering the undead horse with affection... However, something strange occurs and in a puff of smoke a young dark elf girl appears where Jimmy once stood... currently being scratched under the chin.

The elf appears to be lost and pleasantly confused at the situation she's found herself in. Mardax, understandably demands to know where Jimmy is. Cycil makes the suggestion that perhaps this girl has been Jimmy the entire time. A correct assumption to make.

Grandma Tortle essentially drags the young girl into the house by hear ear and fixes her some 4am food and is pleasantly excited when the girl has no food preferences. If it's edible. She'll eat it. It is here that the dark elf girl introduces herself to the party. Her name is Nyx and she doesn't seem to remember much else. Not that it bothers her one bit.

The Party quickly learns that Nyx isn't actually a Dark Elf. But a changeling in disguise and that she's been following them at the request of Pascal ever since Gemenehat to "Keep an eye on them." She has been taking the form of many different people since that moment and has been with them the entire time without their knowledge. Over time, she has grown attached to the party because she finds them to be incredibly interesting.

Moments later, Soteria comes diving into the house much to Nyx's confusion. Soteria is shocked to find a random Dark elf sitting at the table with everyone just talking away. However, she quickly ignores it and warns the group of guards coming door to door looking for someone. Soteria says that she'll take Walters form to answer the door even though she's incredibly injured and bruised.

Grandma, however, recommends that Nyx take Walters's form instead. Nyx nods and flawlessly takes the form of Walter, voice, mannerisms and all. The rest of the party quickly hide in the bunker as she answers the door.

The guards ask where Anathtah is and 'Walter' sadly, and flawlessly, responds that his wife had died a year ago. This causes the guards to quickly express their condolences before leaving.

Once they're gone the party quickly brings Soteria up to speed on who their new friend is and Nyx finally reveals her true self to the party. She's a petite being with pale white skin, colorless white eyes and light pink hair tied into multiple braids.

Soteria asks if she'd stop following them if they asked to which Nyx responds with a cheerful "Nope". Soteria asks if it's because she finds them too interesting to stop following to which Nyx responds with a cheerful "Yep." With these answers Soteria extends and official invitation to join the group even if she doesn't trust Nyx. Nyx happily excepts this invitation.

Everyone in the party starts introducing themselves to each other. When Nyx and Teyo meet they both become equally fascinated by each other. Teyo quickly figures out that Nyx is a druid which is why she can shift into animal forms as well as humanoid ones.

Before Grandma Tortle packs up her home to leave she gifts everyone small gifts. She gives Nyx a strange drug that helps her remember things for a short period of time.

Session Nineteen
After much debate, the party decides to deliver the letter to the emperor before they head farther north into the ocean to befriend the Steedmasters and go to Thenshath.

Before they leave Cycil goes into the workshop to repair his gun and finds a blood circle like the one grandma used to pack up the house. He has a hard time figuring out how it works and developed a fear of blood in the process. Nyx appears behind him and calls him a coward for being afraid of a little blood. She also points out that Cycil has no use for a bunch of random chairs and a workshop desk anyway. Nyx proceeds to reveal on of her hidden talents and creates a perfect copy of the sigil with pink on paper for later study.

Once they finally leave the Tortle village the group stumbles upon a hut that is familiar to the rest of the party but not to Nyx. The group quickly runs ahead towards the hut. Inside the hut is dirty and a morbidly depressed Sticks is inside... Nyx is told to keep her distance since the group doesn't trust her.

Sticks is convinced that everyone in the party is dead and that they are just ghosts coming to haunt him. After much convincing he finally believes that everyone is alive. Nyx chooses to do the exact opposite of what everyone told her to do and walks right up to him puts her hands on his face and essentially tells him that running away doesn't make him a coward. Sticks is a little scared of this small woman with a childlike outlook on the world.

Once Sticks finally gets ahold of himself he comes to the conclusion that Teyo is a god in need of much help and learning... He proposes that Teyo stay with him and that he'll handle taking Teyo where he needs to go when he's ready.

Sticks then asks Nyx's permission to look into her memories, which she excitedly gives, not quite understanding what she was getting herself into. Sticks sees her past and whatever he sees horrifies him as he pulls away while Nyx crumples to the floor having what appears to be a PTSD attack. The usually happy girl is now on the floor repeatedly asking for "it" to stop. Desperately wanting the "bad memories" to go away.

Allie tries to calm her how and asking her to breath with her. Sticks is in a total state of panic and at a loss of what to do. Soteria asks if he is capable of removing the "self" form the memory so that it was detached and felt like it was happening to someone else... This is an oddly specific request to make. Sticks does this but it leaves Nyx feeling like something was missing.

Sticks offers to let the party spend the night.

Nyx rejects the hug Allie offered her before they all go to the rooms....

Nyx's room at first is a hellishly pink and purple room with red undertones. In the center is a picture of an older well dressed man beside two younger men holding hands. the picture is taken from the perspective of a child. However, when she blinks again she's back outside the door. She re-enters the room. This time the room is completely grayscale, similar to her. However, when she touches something a random color blossoms from her fingertips. Soon she's tapping and dancing and creating a fun canvas in a comfortable space that feels like her at the time. However, no matter how comfortable it is, she feels like something is missing and she doesn't like it....

Pascal
Pascal is one of the few people in Nyx's life that she appears to be able to recall info about without issues. He is one of the few people in this would that Nyx would say she loves without question. She trusts him and trust is something that is hard for her to give. She affectionally called him Scally or Pascy depending on her mood. Before being sent on a mission to stalk the party, Nyx often crashed at Pascal's place since she currently doesn't have a home to go back to. Upon seeing Pascal, Nyx tends to launch herself at him and shower him with much hugs, love and affection. Pascal is one of the only people that Nyx has told everything about herself too. Even the bad things. He's also the only person she trusts completely. It is currently unknown how they met or why they are as close as they are.

Allie
Allie, affectionally nicknamed Birdy by Nyx. Allie is currently the person Nyx feels most drawn too. This could be because Allie has been being the most kind and accepting of her. She doesn't quite understand why Allie is so worried about her memories. She quite enjoys the hugs Allie offers. However, it is too early to see whether Allie will leave a mark on Nyx's heart.

Cycil
Nyx calls Cycil. Cily. Nyx hasn't had much time to get to know Cycil. She unknowingly interrupted the heated conversation between him and Soteria. Talk about a convenient distraction. Nyx finds him to be pretty interesting but she doesn't know whether he wants her to get close to him or not. So currently she's just watching him.

Mardax
Nyx called Mardax, Daxy, much to his own irritation. Nyx finds him to be rather funny even though he's obviously not trying to be. She hasn't had much time to talk with Mardax, however, he was rather shocked to learn that Jimmy the horse... was Nyx. The whole time.

Soteria
Nyx calls Soteria, Starry or So-So. Nyx desperately wants to be her friend but she can tell that Soteria doesn't trust her and possibly sees her as an enemy. This has secretly left Nyx feeling rather down. However, she isn't going to let anyone know that.

Racial Abilities
Change Appearance

Identify Shapeshifter

Darkvision

Feats
Skilled

Class Features
Wild Shape

Circle of the Moon