Elze'etah

Elze'etah is a githyanki and a powerful eldritch knight who has fought in countless battles. She has two children in the age of three named Velatha and Ki'ianel, and protects them fiercely. She has purple skin unlike any githyanki. She is of the belief that violence and battle are spices that make life more exciting. However, she has toned down the violence recently. She values freedom and believes that it is better to die first than live as another's puppet. She is quick to anger if someone tests her patience and will want to at least punch said someone should they test her too much. She and her children currently live in Lacrienta, in the rebuilt village of Yalimford.

Journey's Start
Elze'etah has lived for more than a thousand years by a lot, and has participated in a similar number of raids on the Material Plane; from Aldmeer to Toril and many worlds in bettween. A powerful warrior of the githyanki, she was always aspiring to become a knight and have a silver sword and a red dragon mount of her own. However as she spent endless  time  in the timeless city of Tu'narath, after each raid she began seeing things and patterns in the people of the races she enslaved; customs and concepts that do not exist in githyanki society either because it is not practical or because the Lich Queen forbids it.

One day she went to the District of Discards yet again to kill some time as she was always so bored when she was not raiding. She spoke with one of her most recent captures, a human named Alder. In the conversation he told her about his children and family, and Elze'etah having heard that term before told him to enlighten her about this concept that humans call  family . Alder explained and they talked about it in length for weeks on end each time she would come to the district. Alder's way of explaining what a family is, the raw emotion he seemed to be feeling for his family and the things one must do to keep said family around seemed interesting to Elze'etah. So interesting in fact that she wanted to experience this peculiar thing for herself. She also had offspring very recently; taken to a crèche called K'liir near the world of Toril to be raised, and when they come of age to be trained as warriors like her. She started planning on leaving Tu'narath and claiming her offspring as her own and her plans involved stealing an astral skiff and take with her two or three able bodied nobodies from the district of discards to aid her. After Alder was killed for sport by another githyanki, Elze'etah put her plan into motion - she stole a skiff and took with her Nimma the half-elf and Amber the nimblewright, two people she had personally captured, offering them freedom should they help her get her offspring back.



Spelljamming and the Mission
After they left Tu'narath and the Astral Plane they went to Realmspace in the Rock of Bral and from there proceeded to gather resources via spelljamming for their mission and in time gathered a crew. They encountered danger and adventure while spelljamming across the multiverse facing spelljamming pirates, large spelljamming fish called scavvers, a stone giant in a floating castle in space, slaads and more to the point that Nimma and Amber died. Elze'etah found two other companions to command the crew under her; Tristan the wood elf and Mei Ling, a human. With them she went to the world of Krynn and back while living that space mercenary life.

During her time spent away from Tu'narath and her people she started seeing that Vlaakith is using the githyanki like puppets to further her agenda and not really caring about them. Surely Vlaakith has decreed her an enemy to be hunted down by her overzealous warriors.

Knowing full well the strength of Vlaakith's armies firsthand and not wanting to risk being disovered, she abandoned the notion of raiding Creche K'liir, also known as Stardock, openly with their spelljammer as it would also surely lead to their demise. After gathering resources and power, as well as a getting a Geas spell from a priest of a god of Toril named Illmater forcing Elze'etah to free all the infants from the creche and not only her own (much to her annoyance), they went to Toril and specifically to the city of Waterdeep. Elze'etah knows that in the Undermountain, the depths under Waterdeep, lies a portal to Creche K'liir, a fact she knows from her time she has spent in the creche in the past. Elze'etah and her two companions left behind the crew for a time and went in the Undermountain; their goal to reach the crystal labyrinth deep in the depths of the dungeon and from there sneak and jump in the portal to the crèche.

Having braved the depths of fifteen levels of the underground dungeon and a tete-a-tete with the Mad Mage himself who turned Elze'etah's skin purple just for laughs via Wish spell, they arrived in the crystal labyrinth. However, things are once again proving difficult as githyanki presence is stronger than what Elze'etah remembered in the labyrinth.

Raid on the Crèche
As Elze'etah and the group were making their way fighting they encountered the party of Wheres, Lucy, Xaldin and Barros. Having fought together against some crystal golems and githyanki guards, the other party agreed to help Elze'etah's cause as it is the right thing to do, but also with the promise of all the other treasures they find in Stardock. Elze'etah and the others were fine with that as long as Elze'etah also claimed for herself the Silver Sword of the githyanki leader there. As Elze'etah sees it, any githyanki under Vlaakith is a slave of hers and is a disgrace to Gith and only one true to Gith can be worthy of wielding a Silver Sword.

Their adventure took an unexpected turn when they fell in a supernatural fog that teleported them in Tu'narath. The githyaki there recognized her calling her the  Purple Traitor . Elze'etah and the others fought a deadly battle against a platoon of warriors, knights, gish and red dragons; almost losing their lives. Tristan indeed lost his life, and as the next wave of enemies was nearing them they managed to open a demiplane and close it just before the enemies flanked them.

Having taken a detour in Sigil, the City of Doors, and bringing Tristan back to life and also a detour in Aldmeer to do something Xaldin wanted, Elze'etah and the others returned to Realmspace and teleported inside Stardock using a bag of dust native to the place that Wheres had gathered inside the crystal labyrinth from the boots of fallen githanki just in case. There, they succeeded in rescuing all forty of the infants into the demiplane, that they later gave away in the temple of a benevolent deity of Toril named Lathander, to grow up in the care of the priests there. Of course, Elze'etah kept her two babies and had now achieved having a family. Next, she left the babies in the care of Tristan and Mei Ling for a while, as she and the others returned to claim the treasures they wanted. They succeeded in defeating the githyanki leader and claiming the various treasures in Stardock's vault. Elze'etah claimed the leader's Silver Sword for herself. All that however led to their hubris and then nemesis when twenty-nine githyanki and two red dragons cornered them while they were resting inside a Leomund's Tiny Hut inside the vault. They would lose their lives this time, had Wheres not completed her research for the Wish spell in these hours teleporting them away from the crèche. After that, Elze'etah and her party said their farewells with the others, called their spelljamming crew to pick them up and took to the stars. For a year, Elze'etah was contend and even happy with her children.

Crash-landing in Aldmeer and the life there
During that year, she learned more about what a family means, experiencing it for herself. She had quite a ways to learn to be a parent, but for the most part she succeeded. She along with her crew continued spelljamming as mercenaries in order to provide for her children and for everyone to make a living; plus she loves combat. It came a time however that her past caught with her, namely the githyanki hunting her. In the year's end, they hunted the Purple Traitor and her crew rigorously and viciously.

The chase went on for days and was filled skirmishes and maneuvers. In the meantime of having entered Aldspace while trying to lose their pursuers, Elze'etah lost control of the ship as the githyanki almost blew it up, plummeting towards the planet of Aldmeer. The ship crushed in the continent of Rythalion in the mountains called Long Shadows in the Free Realms. Aldmeer date of crash: 809 AS. The ship was destroyed during the landing and most of the crew died. Fortunately, Mei Ling used a magic item she was safekeeping for such an occasion which she found in the Rock of Bral after their return from Stardock. She activated it and a magical shield appeared around the area where she, Elze'etah and her babies as well as Tristan, were standing. They had come together while the ship was losing altitude; the crew members could not make it to them. The ship fell near a dragonborn village in these mountains; some of the villagers went to investigate. However, the githyanki crew who hunted them also landed to hunt survivors. The villagers arrived first and started helping the dying crew and the stranded party. When the githyanki arrived they immediately slaughtered the villagers and any surviving crew members. Elze'etah and the others fought them back, and with the aid of the local militia killed them all. After the party stayed in the village for three days in order to recover and take care of the two babies, they left on Mei Ling's and Tristan's account of bringing danger to the village. While Elze'etah did not really care about the village, she agreed that they need to leave and cover their tracks. So they started travelling again; the next months were to be hard.

Of course, before they descended with their skiff, the hunters had sent word to Tu'narath that they hunted the Purple Traitor to Aldspace, as Elze'etah expects they have. Like that, the attention of the githyanki shifted on Aldmeer for something more than just plunder.

As Elze'etah and the others made for their way, so did the githyanki made their move; they arrived and have established a base in the Long Shadows inside a complex of caverns. They are searching for Elze'etah and her babies, and also aim to recovering the Silver Sword she has. As for the party itself, they took their separate ways after a while seeing as it will be better for all of them to split the targets the githyanki are after. They said their bitter farewells, hoping that the future will bring better days than what befell their vessel and crew.

Elze'etah and the babies, which she named Velatha and Ki'ianel, left the Free Realms via ship from Tidemeet and went to Lacrienta, to the city of Elishunn. From there she joined some settlers heading to rebuild the village of Yalimford, in order to make a living off of its silver mine and fertile land. Elze'etah hopes to live in this small village away from prying eyes and the trail of her pursuers, which she is sure they are looking for her. She never stops training since she likes it, but also in order to be ready when the other githyanki show up; a thought she wants to never come true. While the villagers are not too fond of her, some of them have warmed up to her and her babies, plus she is a hard worker and valuable in the mine and in the village's defense from wild animals, bandits and the like. As much as she would like to, she does not carry her Silver Sword around the village or at work, however as an eldritch knight she can summon it to her hand whenever she wants to cut someone down. She keeps the sword secure in the basement of her house otherwise, since there is not much action to be seen in the village, and she does not want more attention drawn to her. She does miss the glory days when she slaughtered villages such as this though, and also her time spelljamming and adventuring but somehow this simple life makes her see the world differently; her children help with this newfound notion.