"Too often days swiftly pass / Weeping in the evening grass / There just is not enough time / Forthings you dreamt you'd do / The hours still drift by.

"Too many years, too high a cost / Too many lessons earned but lost / And still you complain all the time / Cursing the days before you / Lamentng the days gone by.

"And finally laying in your bed / Staring skyward, nearly dead / It all floods back one last time, / The chances that you left behind / But alas there's little left to do / ... but cry."

Dirimoran song

Tressta

Background

Born  24 Amarad 629 DR (Thar'Maral) at (--?--), Taldàna
Parents  Tomach Drynsval and Gwendin Haldress
Siblings  Tallyssa Elyce

Married  Arranged
Children  None

Tressta (Drynsval, of Taldàna) is a young woman of privileged birth and rearing who has worked her way into the cutthroat underworld of Oth.  Once a courtesan by profession, the beautiful Taládan temptress has dealt with many of Oth's elite.  Operating from Genter, an infamous outlying town, Tressta was employed for a few years before finding a way free by means of the half-wit Ogren Egrod.

Tressta is the youngest daughter of a once well-to-do merchant.  Her father was close friends with the local magistrate of Taldàna.  His rise in wealth was directly related to the rise of his friends in city politics.  The city lost favor with the ruling High Lord over disagreements over tributes and such.  The city magistrate, to avoid losing face, blamed his decisions on counsels from Tressta's father.  Her father immediately lost most of his business and became the target of vigilantes.  Almost penniless, he arranged marriages for both his beautiful daughters.  Elyce, Tressta's older sister obediantly married an old, well-placed widower.  Tressta's marriage to a miserly but important local noble would have secured her father back in favor.  However, the man was ill-tempered, critical, and self-centered.  Tressta refused.  Her father threatened to turn her out in the streets for insulting himself and her husband-to-be.  Tressta remained defiant and was turned out.  Since then, Tressta has never trusted nobles or society but is determined to use her looks, graces, and knowledge of their way of life to get what should be her's.

Tressta moved to Oth in 650 DR, landing at the Dagger Peninsula, and taking residence in Genter.

Details

Aside from mundane possessions, Tressta has leather armor, a rapier, a masterwork stiletto, a shortsword, a ring of protection (+1) given to her by Dammon Shroudson and the Cloak of Shadows.

The following chart outlines the character's experience progression during the AD&D second edition chapters of the Othic chronicle.  Each data point represents one game session.  Disparity between experience totals from second edition to 3E is a result of published rules conversion.

Footnotes

1. Bluff - Seduction skill variant (rf. SAFp10)
2. Diplomacy - Receives a +2 synergy bonus for Bluff 5+
3. Disguise - Receives a +2 synergy bonus for Bluff 5+
4. Elesea's Boon - Received from High Lady Elesea XI of Taldàna on 27 Eren 653 DR.

Biographies

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Contacts

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