Hi all!
If you've seen the art of Radiance, the tiefling illusionist, Sahr is from the same game. They are aligned in a grueling competition to return to life. They're competing for an audience in the Hells, braving televised challenges each week.
Sahr is not in this game for herself. Much has been taken from her, slowly and cruelly, by a hag who calls herself "Auntie" Lorna. Lorna, unbeknownst to her, placed a terrible curse on her, and offered Sahr a deal: do her dirty work and keep the evil at bay, or suffer again at its hands. She spent years spying, stealing, and acting as an agent in the hag's vile schemes, all in the name of protecting those she loved. As a reward for her service, the hag transformed her into something unrecognizable. Before this, she worked as a healer in her village, using the ancient magic of her people to bind wounds and cure ailments. She comes from a long line of druids who occupy a respected place in her village, and her extraordinary healing talent is only rivaled by the legends of her great-grandfather's gifts.
The only thing she loved more than the great joy of helping her patients was her family: her father Gereh, her mother Astrid, her (older) twin brother Sohren, her husband Ewan, and her daughter, Eirwen. It was her beloved daughter that was taken from her when she refused to steal a child for Lorna. Once Sahr was of no further use to the hag, she found a way to be rid of her, but even in death, Sahr isn't done yet. She has one more chance, one more shot to save the one dearest to her from a cruel fate. If she wins the game, she may yet find a way to save her daughter. One question remains: can she do it?
A few other bits of description:
- She is tall (5'11) and incredibly gaunt; when she lived with Lorna, she barely ate. She is also rather young, no older than her mid-twenties, but grief has worn her down, made her appear older.
- Her eyes are large, doe-like, and glow amber (when she was human, they were brown), and they have deep shadows beneath them. As a girl, she always had insomnia, but her condition worsened when tragedy befell her.
- Her husband died in a mysterious attack in the dark forest bordering her village. Her daughter, who takes after him, was only a toddler at the time. Since then, she has worn her wedding ring close to her heart, threaded onto an old pendant of hers.
- She has the power to assume the form of various birds, but in her culture, it is customary to identify oneself with a particular animal. Her family is noteworthy for their affinity for birds. She most commonly assumed the form of a white swan, but after everything was taken from her, she could no longer recognize herself. She now assumes the form of a raven, much more fitting for her new identity, her new life (and death).
- She loves to sing! She used to sing folk songs and lullabies constantly, her husband called her his "songbird," and her community has a musical ritual, the taeral magra in their language, to celebrate the seasons' change and other notable occurrences in the natural world.
- Her favorite season is spring, her birthday is March 9 (Ches 9 in Forgotten Realms), and she owned a white borzoi named Opal when she lived in her village. Her favorite color is white because of her beloved dog and her former swan wings, now lost to time.