Lae’zel: Make yourself useful

Name: Lae’zel

Race: Githyanki

Gender: Female

Class: Fighter

Subclass: Battle Master

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Age: 22

Equipment: Her camp clothes is just a leather tank top and leather pants. Her underwear looks like a complex construction of leather straps that have one strap going up her stomach to connect to her her leather bra which according to Lae'zel, the under-harnesses are used for strapping oneself onto a red dragon. Her armor is of course Githyanki design, a half plate armor that’s made of silver with a red gem in the middle of the chest plate. Although when she was captured she lost her Githyanki long sword and now uses a common human made long sword.

Appearance: Lae'zel has yellowish-green skin, with black accents below her ochre eyes, cheeks and neck. She has several scars, most prominent of all one that runs from her nose to her chin. These, along with her stern countenance, give her the look of a seasoned warrior that demands respect. Patterned black bumpy mottles adorn her face above her eyebrows and on her cheeks, and like all githyanki, she has a tiny thin nose that looks like two nostril holes on her face like a bat and long and pointed ears, with ridges protruding on the back edges. Her hair, kept shoulder-length, is auburn and straight, with a several adorned silver braids running along the side of her head and a small bun on the back. Though shorter than the rest of the companions, she stands proud and intimidating with a wiry, athletic frame.

As she might tell you her species has a superior design as she has a cloaca and is able to reproduce asexually by laying green eggs that have thin metal strands on it that act like armor for the soft jelly like egg.

Personality: Lae'zel is xenophobic, arrogant, and quick to anger. Proud of her species, she frequently volunteers comments to the party detailing the nature of her people, often as a means to illustrate githyanki superiority. She can be rough in her expressions and often cares little for the feelings of others. In her mission to remove her mind flayer parasite, she does not hesitate to intimidate or harm those who would step in her way. Lae'zel is fiercely loyal to her queen Vlaakith, and is almost desperate in her determination to prove her worth. Over time, she becomes more accepting of her companions, though never losing her biting edge. Despite her often vicious behaviour, she is keenly observant and frequently understands the feelings of party members. Lae'zel is not above pragmatism either, willing to go along with a plan she finds distasteful or work together with someone she dislikes - as long as the party stands to benefit.

Lore: While readily willing to boast of her people, Lae'zel is decidedly reserved when it comes to herself, and shares only fragments of her past before the conflict against the Absolute.

She hails from crèche K'liir, also known as Stardock, a githyanki enclave on an asteroid in the Tears of Selûne, an asteroid cluster near the namesake moon. There, Lae'zel received the customary githyanki martial education, with lessons on how to battle, raid and plunder in the name of Vlaakith. This brutal training instilled a hatred for illithid in her, as well as turning her into a ruthless warrior, willing to do whatever is necessary to accomplish her missions. This indoctrination also reinforced her view of githyanki superiority and disdain (if not outright contempt) for other races. During her time in the crèche, she and her clutch battled beholders in a nearby asteroid and infiltrated a neogi spelljammer, slaying its entire crew. Tested by battle, but still considered a weakling by her people, she sought to prove herself to Vlaakith as a worthy warrior, and be welcomed to the Astral Plane among her kin. Thus, she set out in search of mind flayers, until then only heard of by her in stories, to battle and present her queen a severed illithid head as proof of worth. Lae'zel is captured by the nautiloid during this mission, tadpoled in a cruel mockery of their ancestral feud. Kept in a pod, she awaited ceremorphosis, doomed to her fate. After the nautiloid crashed she met up with the survivors and reluctantly became a rag tag team of hero’s trying to save Baldurs Gate and get rid of the tadpoles in their head.

Backstory: A fierce warrior from crèche K'liir, Lae'zel is a follower of Vlaakith, the Lich Queen of the githyanki. Sworn to obey her queen and serve as a blade against the Illithid, she was captured on her quest to present a Mind Flayer head to her crèche. Now, tadpoled and with few options at hand, she must find a way to rid herself of the parasite and finally prove herself as a worthy warrior to the Undying Queen. How she does it, and whether she remains loyal to Vlaakith, is something she can decide throughout her adventure.

Approval: Lae'zel prefers direct approaches and is focused on quickly finding a solution to the tadpole infection, without wasting any time. She approves of direct solutions to problems, as well as not getting involved in petty issues unnecessarily. Displaying feats of martial skill and being resolute also sit well with her.

Disapproval: Lae'zel dislikes acts of mercy and compassion as well as showing submission, respect, or diplomacy when force is also a viable option. She does not agree with helping others for the sake of benevolence, despises showing weakness, and will vehemently disapprove of any form of neutral or positive interaction with Illithid of any sort.

Dating: At first her relationships are only about sex, the relationship will turn more serious as Lae'zel gradually learns to see people as an equal and then as a partner.

When romanced, Lae'zel will slowly begin to soften up to her partner and start enjoying the small things together with them, even seeing worth in Faerûn as a place to live in with her new lover.

[Attributes:

Strength: 17

Dexterity: 13

Constitution: 15

Intelligence: 10

Wisdom: 12

Charisma: 8]