Character Spotlight: Lorelei Zandros (Tracey)

Background

1. Where was your character born? Lorelei was born in Beacon City, Caldraza.
2. Who raised her? She was raised in a home above her father’s harp shop by her mother and father until her mother passed when she was twelve. Her father handled it pretty roughly for the first year when he then hired on an apprentice who was fourteen at the time.
3. What was happening in the region when your character was growing up? Conflict and growth. Refinement in the arts and sciences. A sweeping change in national religion.
4. Does your character have any relatives? She has an aunt who married a merchant who specializes in grain shares in Beacon City.

Motivation

1. What are your character’s immediate goals? What would she like to do in the coming year? Her immediate goals were to stay out of Caldraza long enough that the people that want to see her dead have been found and dealt with. Her intention was to travel the countryside until it was safe to return. But after all that’s happened in the last year, she’s not sure that she is truly cut out to continue the life that she had led.
2. What are her long-term goals? She isn’t sure anymore. She has felt through her travels that there is something more to the life that she’s led and that she was given the gifts she has to cultivate more than what she has used them for.
3. What type of person would be her ideal mate? Her ideal mate was murdered, but until his murder, he was the last person she would have considered to be her ideal mate. Now, there is a chance that no one will ever measure up to the man her memories cling to.
4. Who is her patron deity? Is she a devout worshiper? Merrithrawn. She believes that every sound of the world is a piece in a prayer that defines life. Every song is an offering, not just to Merrithrawn, but to all of existence.
5. Is she a devout member of any nonreligious cause? She is loyal to the Court of Caldraza. She believes in the entity of the kingdom and would give her life to protect it and its royalty who protect and inspire all the greatness that is Caldraza.
6. Is there any race, creed, alignment, etc. against which she is strongly prejudiced? She fears those who will stop at nothing to further their own ends when their endeavors hurts or kills innocent people or destroys something beautiful.
7. What is her greatest fear? Love.
8. What is the one task she absolutely refuses to do? Clean a carcass of any kind. Makes her queasy.

Idiosyncrasies

1. What is her favorite color? Yellow.
2. Describe what she would wear if money were no object: Silk gowns and silk slippers. Elaborate jewelry embellished with yellow diamonds.
3. What is her farovrite food and drink? Duck in fig sauce and a deep, woodsy red wine.
4. What is her favorite animal? Dove. She had doves once. They sang beautifully.
5. What habits of his friends annoy him the most? Petty indifference, apathy, and infatuation with the superficial.

Traits

Courtesy: 8	Valor: 6	Self-sacrifice: 10	Generosity: 8
Sobriety: 7	Calm Temper: 8	Optimism: 9	Curiosity: 7
Forgiveness: 6	Cheerfulness: 7	Patience: 4	Honesty: 6
Helpfulness: 7	Loyalty: 8

Miscellaneous

1. What would be her theme song? Through the Dark by KT Tunstall
2. What would be his job in modern society? Recording artist / political activist.

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