Jelaqua is a veteran gold ranked adventurer that's been in the business for over a century. A human that suffered a fusion with a colony of coral during the spellplague, she found herself in an out-of-but-still-in-body experience. She'd become a living nervous system puppeting the dead flesh that was her former body. Over the years Jelaqua has picked upa myriad of tricks and trinkets. Dozens of magic items over her years, as well as a few cantrips and spells from over a century of dabbling. Having split apart from her old adventuring party after their numbers were obliterated in a dungeon delve, she's travelled to the Sword Coast for a fresh start. And a fresh face.
History of the Immortal Adventurer
Jelaqua was born in 1369DR in a small fishing village along the coast of Chessenta. She grew up, sailing on the sea in fishing boats, and diving for pearls among the reefs. On the day of blue fire, as the spell plague washed over Toril, Jelaqua was out diving. As the flames washed over her form, she found herself fused with the coral she had been diving among. Now, a monstrous creature that people were calling a Spellplague Hybrid, Jelaqua was cast out from her village for being a mass of polyps occupying the fleshy shell that used to be her body. With no other prospects to turn to, she set out adventuring, working on various martial contracts. During her adventures, she found she could not only expel herself from the physical body she was occupying, but also inhabit the bodies of other humanoids both living and dead.
Over the years, Jelaqua met and befriended other outcasts who had turned to adventuring, eventually forming an adventuring company that called themselves the Half-freaks. The band of now seven outcasts reveled in their nature, forming familial bonds with each other, as the rest of the world had turned them away. However, this was not meant to last. On a fateful diving mission into a sunken temple, the group returned to town with a fruitful haul of treasure. While Jelaqua helped a few seek healing for curses they were exposed to in those watery halls, the rest of the group began to identify loot. Whatever happened, Jelaqua does not know, but when she returned, she found the party members left behind slaughtered, and the treasure scattered across the floor. Missing was a single member of the Half-Freaks, a hobgoblin they'd taken in. Horrified by what happened, Jelaqua fled Chessenta, abandoning the remaining survivors of the Half-Freaks that needed to heal, and started to travel the world fleeing from those memories and filling her time, and bag of holding, with adventures.
Her erstwhile Companion Shield Guardian
