Fadra D'Rethi

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Fadra D'rethi
Female Drow (Faerun)
Player: Gallant
General Information
Full Name: Fadra Derethoi
Nicknames: Lady Rosegold, The Rosegold Errant
Age: 164
Deity: Sune
Alignment:
LG LN LE
NG TN NE
CG CN CE
Occupation: Paladin
Faction/Rank: Order of the Planes-Militant
Place of Birth: Ust Natha
Physical Attributes
Height: 4'7"
Weight: 115
Eyes: Red
Hair: White
Complexion: Clear, Smooth
Physical Build: Athletic, Toned
Physical Features: She wears her long hair in a braid that reaches almost to her waist, and wears rose-hip piercings. She is always clean and well groomed, often smelling faintly of that plant.
Skills
Aside from being an above-average swordswoman, she is a fair-handed scribe, and dabbles in painting.
Equipment and Items
She carries a Blade of Roses, and typically wears somewhat elaborately feminine fullplate or heavy armor.


Fadra D'rethi (Derethoi) is a drow paladin of Sune, in the service of the Order of the Planes-Militant, Second House of Celestia, who operates in the vicinity of Sigil and across the Planescape. She is a native of Aber-Toril.

She is the bearer of Kyorlen, the Faith Keeper.

Description

Fadra is fine-featured, with crimson eyes that trend towards more rosy tones in good lighting. Her hair is stark silver, tamed and woven carefully to a fine braid. A trained warrior, she's strong, limber, and remarkably healthy. She is well endowed for a drowess, and when she is not wearing her rose-embossed armor, she can fill out a dress with little problem and as much grace.

Although she is patient and typically serene, most note that Fadra can be a bit bull-headed, often leading her friends and companions into dangerous, sometimes even impossible situations - but it's just that she's undaunted, and firm in her convictions. Behind the shining armor, is a mind that's cool, calculating, and rather exacting, and oftentimes before these apparently half-cocked adventures, Fadra will exhaust herself in research, and is not shy of asking for the help of others who are better informed than she.

Most people find her kind and pleasant to be around.

Philosophy & Outlook

Some paladins know that they are called from a very young age. Some paladins are born good, grow up in cloisters, and squire, and have adventures alongside more experienced paladins, having bright and happy days in sunlight. Fadra is not one of those.

She knows, personally, the power of kindness given to monsters, because she was - and is - a monster herself. She does not compromise her beliefs, nor does she press them on others. She is not a sword for scouring the world of evil, though she bears one, and carries it well. Fadra instead views herself as an example and a living proof, having spent almost sixty years living as her former lover's goddess wished her to, as Beryl had painted her, long ago.

Fadra, a Sunite, trusts her heart oftentimes more than her own eyes, and never acts against it, caring not a whit for what others wish of her, which can confound other similar paladins who defer to higher guidance or church structures - in short, she is more heavily good than lawful, when it's reckoned thus.

Brief History

Fadra was born in 1192DR, in the city of Ust Natha, to Matron Deneve of House Derethoi, the Fourth house in Ust Natha of that year. She was preceeded by a brother, Kieves, and two sisters, Malise and Evess. Her father was never known to her.

In 1216DR, she attended the city's local temple of Lolth, but failed out two years later, after displaying an embarassing lack of aptitude. To the eternal derision of her sisters, she was trained, instead, as a sargtlin, in the care of her older brother Kieves.

In 1284DR, around the time when she assumed nominal command of the House's slave-forces and lower Sargtlin, she broke the hands of a human craftsman named Beryl. By 1299DR, he had become a permenant fixture in her chambers, where he produced artwork for the house, and entertained the young drowess as lover and confidant. He was slain in 1303DR, by one of her sisters, prompting Fadra, not yet a full adult, to flee Ust Natha for the surface.

Directed to the Dancers of Elistraee by the area's erstwhile peacekeeper, a silver dragon, Fadra realized her calling as a paladin by way of her mourning of Beryl, and thereafter spent her time with the Dancers upon the surface.

She spent a great deal of time erranting as the "Rose Gold Knight", and eventually "Lady Rosegold", throughout northern Tethyr, and southern Amn, though mostly within those mountains.

It was while she was clearing a portion of the upperdark of Gibberlings that she stumbled into a malfunctioning portal and ended up in Sigil.

Fadra's Paladin Oaths

• I am a peaceful promoter of art, love and beauty.
• I will defend things of beauty by vanquishing the ugliness of evil, even cloaked in beautiful form.
• I will perform a loving act each day and awaken it in others as true love will win over all
• I see beauty that radiates from the core. As a rough stone hides a diamond, a drab face may hide the heart of a saint
• I am a firehair and lead by example, not with my blade. Where my blade passes, a life is cut short, and the potential for beauty is lessened. When my blade must pass let it be with mercy and for love.
• I accept surrender if my opponent can be redeemed—and I never assume that they cannot be. All things that live love beauty, and I will show beauty’s answer to them.
• I liberate others to show the beauty of freedom and the freedom in beauty.

Record of Deeds

Capture of Hediam

On the tenth day of her first month in Sigil, Fadra witnessed the fall of the Planetar, Hediam, of the Golden Hills.

She gathered a group of adventurers, visited Bytopia, and gained the support of Housewarden Portia of the Planes-Militant, and a proxy of Garl Glittergold, acquiring both a scroll of binding and the Planetar's fallen sword, the Defender of the Twin Paradises. She also acquired a Celestial Ruby, through the wizard Hel'vyst, by way of Bytopia, which could capture the Planetar's slain soul.

She and her companions summoned and faced Hediam on the eighteenth day, and finding her unwilling to repent and return, they managed to strike her down with the assistance of the Hollyphant, Tutu, and a small host of celestials, sealing her in the ruby and returning her to Garl Glittergold.

For this she was inducted into the Planes-Militant under Housewarden Portia of the Second House of Celestia.

Irrinet Prime

Following a portal device invented by the gnome Wilbur, who had been stuck on a rapidly de-aquifying world with a species of peaceful kuo-toa, Fadra served as the primary negotiator with the Illithid, Lord Trasgul, who ruled over the remains of the world of Irrinet. Clearing out a cavern for the displaced water-worlders to live in, along with the peaceful monsters gathered by Trasgul, she assisted in resettling them peacefully.

Oh, they also managed to save the gnome.

Decimating the Century

In the ninth month of the current year, she led a patrol near Cadarn, encountering a century of devils under the mastery of the former master of the Sixth Circle of Hell. She, and a company of planeswalkers, killed them in their entirety save for their leader, who surrendered to her. As part of his surrender, she compelled him to cast off his badge, swear never to serve the Alliance of Change, again, and learned several things about his master that she passed on to Tasha, and Chandra, planeswalkers who had been searching for those particular answers.

Notable Quotations

"If I cut [your undead] down and beat you senseless. What exactly does that do for you? Would you stop? And killing you wouldn't solve the issue, either. It's not your life I'm after. Personally, I believe that everyone can give some beauty to the world."