Tsabé

Tsabé of Nowhere is an undead Elven rogue, and my first DND character.

Les Sabres Incarnat
Tsabé was taken into the elite Elven assassin group, Les Sabres Incarnat, as a very young girl. She knew she had been an orphan before being taken in, but what she did not know -- and would never know -- was that the Sabres had been the one to orphan her. Two assassins had taken a contract to murder her parents, but did not know of their young daughter.

Deciding the girl had potential and that it would be a waste to kill her, the assassins brought her back to their base to train her as one of their own. She grew up training to fight and learn the arts of death from some of the Elven world's greatest assassins. Her entire childhood, she was taught to be a heartless and unquestioning murderer, with loyalty only to Les Sabres Incarnats and herself.

Tsabé was always refused answers about her parents when she asked who they were, but eventually grew disinterested in knowing who they were, deciding knowledge would only be useless information to distract her from her missions.

By the time she was a teenager, Tsabé was already a skilled assassin, ready to take on contracts with senior members of the Sabres.

On one of her early contracts, in which she had to kill an Elven statesman at a theatre he patronised, Tsabé made a small mistake which allowed one of the theatre's dancers, a noble's daughter named Mnemie, to see her. But rather than reporting the assassin, Mnemie wound up helping Tsabé complete her contract. Tsabé later found out the statesman and patron was hated by most of the theatre's staff for various reasons, but the statesman's power meant they could do little about it.

With the target dead, Tsabé knew she had two choices: kill Mnemie, who was a witness, or offer her a place in the Sabres. Fortunately, Mnemie made the choice for her, asking Tsabé to help her leave her caged noble life and join the assassin syndicate. Tsabé obliged, thinking that the dancer's skills would translate well to being an assassin, and Mnemie entered Sabres training. The two became very close friends.

Tsabé continued as an assassin for many years. Sometimes, events caused her to briefly question what she could have been if she had never been taken in, but felt she could not regret the only life she had ever known. Despite this, not once did she think of leaving her life.

Death
Tsabé, Mnemie, and one other Sabres Incarnat assassin took a contract to kill a witch in Rion. They expected it to be a somewhat easy kill between the three of them, but they were sorely mistaken. The three assassins -- despite their considerable skills -- were no match for the incredibly powerful witch. She killed all three after a fight from which she came out mostly unscathed, delivering the final blow on Tsabé with the assassin's own blade.

The witch looked through each of the dead assassins minds, out of mere curiosity, wondering what kinds of assassin had been sent to kill her this time. But when she saw that Tsabé had never had the choice to become anything but a moralless hired killer, she felt pity for the girl. So the witch decided to test a new spell she had been working on and give the Tsabé a second chance at life -- a life in which she could decide her path for herself.

Using experimental necromancy, the witch brought Tsabé back to life, but removed the assassin's memories and anything on her person that could have hinted to her past as a Sabre. The witch then teleported Tsabé far from her home so that Tsabé would not return.

Rebirth
Tsabé woke up in a forest, near the village of Catrix, Rion, with no previous memories. She had only her clothes and some weapons (which included her hidden wrist-blade).

Roughly five days after her awakening, some Catrix villagers found Tsabé, who was "dazed, dirtied" and "like a feral animal”, and took her back to the village to help her recover. Being around people again brought her to her senses.

The Dustwillows, a farming family of three -- Maera, the mother; Avra, the elder sister; and Brom, the younger brother -- offered Tsabé a place to stay in their home, feeling sorry for the homeless and memory-less elf. Tsabé grew close with her hosts and helped them on their farm just outside the village.

About a month and a half after Tsabé's arrival in the village, bandits tried to burn and loot Catrix. Tsabé, with some other villagers, fought the bandits off. Tsabé later insisted she had only helped, to which Avra Dustwillow replied that Tsabé was the main reason the bandits mission had been stopped. Trying to sleep after fighting the bandits, Tsabé received the clearest vision of her past she'd ever had. In the memory, she was laughing on a rooftop with a friend in a similar uniform to herself -- whom she did not know was Mnemie.

A mysterious offer
Three months after her awakening in the forest, Tsabé was walking the outskirts of Catrix. After climbing into an abandoned field, she heard a disembodied voice -- despite being entirely alone in the field. The voice told her it had an offer for her, and then proceeded to order Tsabé to prepare to leave and return to this field at sundown to wait for a "sign". Tsabé questioned why she should follow the order, to which the voice cryptically informed her the village held no answers about Tsabé's past. Only by leaving could she gain said answers. The voice then disappeared.

It was hardly a decision for Tsabé; she knew she couldn't spend any more of her life with no answers, or waiting around, doing nothing in Catrix. She headed back to the Dustwillow residence to pack her things and say her goodbyes to the family before once again returning to the field before sunset.

Waiting for the "sign", Tsabé chose to meditate to pass time. in her meditation, she received flashes of an old and very violent memory. This horror caused her to briefly consider not trying to discover her past, but Tsabé decided that she couldn't live without answers -- even if the answers were not something she'd like.

Joining Crown Prince Eragon's party
After entering the portal, Tsabé found herself teleported to a group of adventurers; Crown Prince Eragon Alpenstream, Freyr Ithun, Faetrin Klelrilurdesh, Hakan, and Lysan. The adventurers -- who had just been teleported out of a prison by Eragon's demon patron, Ira, and now found themselves with one extra member -- assumed Tsabé was the assistance they had been promised, and so allowed her to join their mission to stop a set of assassinations on the royal families of Akera.

After Tsabé informed the group of what had brought her to them, the other party members hypothesised that the voice that had given her the offer was that of Ira.

Unfucking the Realm
DND campaign, ongoing.

Personality
Before her death, Tsabé had very few and flexible morals, willing to take any assassination contract that paid well enough. She had little care for the lives of others and even enjoyed her targets' suffering -- as long as it did not interfere with the efficiency of her mission. She was infalliably loyal to Les Sabres Incarnats, but above all, loyal to herself.

After her resurrection, Tsabé lost all memory of her previous life, which changed her personality a great deal. She is genuinely happier, more empathetic, but perhaps somewhat more naive. Her great quest is to discover answers about who she was before her memory loss, and believes she would do anything to find out.

Skills and abilities
Before her death, Tsabé was an assassin of near-unparalleled skill outside of her fellow Sabres Incarnats, thanks to an entire life spent in training. She was adept at archery, swordfighting, and hand to hand combat, but preferred her Sabres wrist-blade above all other weapons. Equally, she was observant and a quick learner who could easily learn any new combat skill. As an Elf, she also posessed some magic -- the ability to shoot rays of frost and to have telekinesis. However, she did not often use these, and preferred to carry out missions with just flesh and steel. Tsabé was also highly skilled in stealth and parkour, which allowed her to complete her contracts unspotted, like a ghost.

After her death, Tsabé was out of practice and not quite as proficient in fighting or her other skills. While she came to remember a great deal of her training, she was not the expertise of assassin she had once been. While her fighting had somewhat worsened, she now posessed some new abilities from her resurrection, such as the ability to throw bolts of necrotic energy at opponents. There were other benefits to being undead: Tsabé no longer needed to eat or sleep. She was also immune to poison and disease.

After her death, Tsabé still recalled her prior knowledge of the languages Common, Draconic, Elvish, Infernal, Thieves’ Cant as she had done before.

Trivia



 * Tsabé's name is pronounced "Sah-bay"
 * Tsabé counts as a deuteropotmos.
 * Tsabé exists in the universe A Pack of Cards as Sable