#i dont think leah put two and two together when she saw taljarae with emily's necklace at the docks when she got off the ship | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

dawn-star01 · 7 months

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soooooo....i sketched out the backstory of the moms of my dnd cleric, leah--emily smith, human bard for hire, and taljarae vadendre, former drow mine overseer that started to think better of running her miners into an early grave (and was nearly assassinated for her ruinously extremist views. or she may have just been in the way for a rival drow noble that wanted to snatch the mine from under taljarae's patron. who can say!). she is rescued from her assassins by emily who hides her in her camp, but is unable to really go into town or otherwise leave the caravan because a) there's kind of still a price on her head and b) the locals dont much care for full-blooded drow, whatever their politics. without anywhere else to go, she starts settling in, and eventually cozies up with emily, whomst she begged at the start to hide her. they eventually have leah together, who goes off to serve lathander (or eona, if im allowed to make up deities in a given setting) as a cleric (adventures are had)

emily is a human, with a human lifespan.

taljarae and leah are not.

#cw: death #cw: parental death #dnd #taljarae is momma and emily was mommy #i think some of the old caravan made it back to spend time with emily in her last days #the others had gone their own way or had passed away themselves #so she was with loved ones when she passed at least #except for leah who was off Doing Things and could not be reached #and i think her inability to say goodbye eats at her even more than emily being gone #i dont think leah put two and two together when she saw taljarae with emily's necklace at the docks when she got off the ship #but i do think the first question out of her mouth before she was even fully down the gangplank was: 'where's mommy?'#i needed a good cry about all of this i think it feels cathartic

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