1. Characters

Elizabeth Highlander

Abandoned you

Class-Fighter

I wanted to hone my combat skills, and so I joined a war college.

Occupation-Farmer or herder

I have always stood up for those who are weaker than I am.

Alignment-Neutral evil

Life Events- 7

1- You spent time working in a job related to your background. Start the game with an extra 11 gp.

2- You committed a crime or were wrongly accused of doing so. Roll on the Crime table to determine the nature of the offense, Smuggling, and on the Punishment table to see what became of you. You were caught and convicted. You spent time in jail, chained to an oar, or performing hard labor. You served a sentence of 4 years or succeeded in escaping after that much time.

3- You suffered a tragedy. Roll on the Tragedies table. A terrible blight in your home community caused crops to fail, and many starved. You lost a sibling or some other family member.

4- You committed a crime or were wrongly accused of doing so. Roll on the Crime table to determine the nature of the offense, Smuggling, and on the Punishment table to see what became of you. You were caught and convicted. You spent time in jail, chained to an oar, or performing hard labor. You served a sentence of 1 years or succeeded in escaping after that much time.

5- You suffered a tragedy. Roll on the Tragedies table. A family member or a close friend died. Roll on the Cause of Death supplemental table to find out how. Executed for a crime or tortured to death

6- You suffered a tragedy. Roll on the Tragedies table. A lover disappeared without a trace. You have been looking for that person ever since.

7- You went on an adventure. Roll on the Adventures table to see what happened to you. Work with your DM to determine the nature of the adventure and the creatures you encountered. You contracted a disease while exploring a filthy warren. You recovered from the disease, but you have a persistent cough, pockmarks on your skin, or prematurely gray hair.

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Fleshed out information.

1. The Early Scars (Events 1 & 3)
Before she ever turned to crime, Elizabeth was a highly skilled combatant who worked as a farmer or herder. However, a terrible blight struck her home community, causing massive starvation and killing one of her siblings. This tragedy—watching her family starve despite her standing up for them—is likely the exact moment she broke, abandoning her morals to ensure her own survival.
2. The Life of Crime (Events 2, 4, & 5)
Desperate or cynical, she used her war college training to become an illegal smuggler.
  • The First Catch: She was caught and sentenced to 4 years of hard labor/galley oar chains before serving her time or escaping.
  • The Second Catch: She went right back to smuggling, got caught again, and served 1 more year of hard labor.
  • The Breaking Point: A close friend or family member involved in her criminal life didn't just die—they were brutally executed or tortured to death by the authorities or a rival gang.
3. The Desperate Search & The Filthy Warren (Events 6 & 7)
Amidst this chaos, a lover of hers completely disappeared without a trace. Elizabeth spent years obsessively searching for them. This search led her into a filthy warren on an adventure, where she contracted a horrific disease. Though she recovered, she was left physically altered: a persistent cough, pockmarks on her skin, or prematurely gray hair.
4. The Marriage and the Final Disappearance
After a lifetime of hard labor, disease, and seeing her loved ones tortured or starved, a scarred, gray-haired Elizabeth met Aristodemus. They tried to build a simple life in the agrarian encampment outside Bryn Shander and had six children.
But a Neutral Evil smuggler with an active criminal history cannot stay hidden forever in a small tundra town.
  • Why she left without a word: Her past came knocking. Whether it was the law tracking her down for her old smuggling rings, rivals seeking revenge for the person who was tortured to death, or she finally found a lead on her long-lost lover, she knew staying with the family would get her six children killed.
June 22nd, 2026