In the Halls of Undermountain: Vierna

Character Summary

Name: Vierna Baitor
Quote: "How the heck did you manage to get stuck in there? Don’t worry, I’ll just make the hole bigger."
Age: 30s
Sex: Female
Race: Drow
Class: Druid (Sentinel)
Character Tags: Earthbender, Earthdreamer, Bane of Aberrations

Description: Vierna’s appearance is typical of drow – jet black skin, white hair, blue eyes (although a bit of a darker shade). She wears hides underneath a hooded cloak and bears an ornately carved quarterstaff.

Vierna is usually accompanied by an elemental spirit which she refers to as “Krenira”. Krenira’s form is not contstant, but is often similar in size and shape to Vierna. Its body typically has the appearance of a swirling dust devil, but will occasionally take on more solid elemental forms.

Personality: Vierna is not usually one for small talk. Those who have not known her for long often assume she is some sort of quiet loner or introvert. Those who have traveled with her know that this is not quite the case. She is simply more interested in listening to the world around her most of the time. Vierna does occasionally open up and can be quite animated at times. However, what flashes of personality her compatriots can glean from these moments seem almost random. Sometimes stonefaced, sometimes fiery. Sometimes cold, other times childish. It’s almost as if her mood shifts with some unseen tide within the earth.

Bio: Vierna grew up among a group of drow with a somewhat nomadic lifestyle. Early on she was taught how to survive in the wilds of both the above world and the Underdark. She always had a preference for being underground and developed an interest in earth magic. As an adult, she took on the adventuring life as a way to explore more of the Underdark and similar environs, expanding her knowledge and connection to the deep earth.

Grudge: When Vierna was a small child, she had a pet badger. She doesn’t remember exactly how she got her, but Vierna remembers that she named her Berri after her favorite food. (Much to her parents’ chagrin, Vierna also had a tendency to try and eat anything that looked like a berry, including quite a few poisonous ones.)

Berri had a knack for tunneling, and as a kid, Vierna had a knack for following her through the tunnels. (Something she wouldn't be able to do today.) However, one day Vierna was chasing Berri through her tunnels and was surprised to find that Berri had tunneled into an old crypt. Vierna lost track of Berri, but eventually after exploring much of the crypt, she found another of Berri's tunnels leading out into the underdark in a relatively straight path. Unfortunately the tunnel had become blocked and she couldn't follow. However, Vierna figured that, if Berri had kept going straight, she would eventually have come to a network of caves that Vierna had heard of. So Vierna checked out the caves and, again after much exploring, found another of Berri's tunnels. Eventually, Vierna had to give up her search as the tunnels went too far from home.

As she grew up, Vierna maintained her interest in underground exploration and eventually took up adventuring. However, during one excursion in the East Rift, the same region where she had lost track of Berri, she came across a familiar looking tunnel. Although she could no longer fit through them herself, on a whim she decided to see if she could predict where it would show up next based on her knowledge of nearby underground structures. Her hunch paid off when she found more of Berri’s tunnels.

Ever since then, Vierna has been trying to track Berri down, repeatedly finding her tunnels in the most unusual of places. Somehow, Berri's path seems to run headlong into dungeon after dungeon, leading Vierna to continue the life of an adventurer and dungeon explorer in her quest to find her increasingly wayward pet.

How Berri keeps finding these dungeons, or even more curious, how she has managed to survive them and live this long is a mystery to Vierna. Despite this, and the worryingly increasing levels of danger Berri's path seems to take her in, Vierna continues following the trail...eventually leading her to Undermountain.

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