Alyurra Helv'urden

EDIT: Yay! I colored her! Took me forever because I've always sucked at dark skin tones, so I kind put it off after two failed attempts. They always came out looking dirty. I found this awesome tutorial by ~taintedsilence yesterday and it was exactly what I needed. A big thank you to her for finally giving me the tools I needed to complete this piece!

My boyfriend is starting up an Eberron 3.5e campaign this summer. This is my character. (We are fully aware that a half-drow manifesting any Dragonmark is definitely not canonical.) The other characters are a satyr wizard, a thri-kreen samurai (that dual-wields 2-handed katanas), an ursa beastfolk summoner (who's eidolon is also bear...that can fly, shoot webs, and produce poison), and a dwarf fighter with the Mark of Warding.

Name: Alyurra Helv'urden (Pron.: All-yer-uh. Meaning: Legendary Wanderer, Those Above the Darkness)
Race: Half-drow
Class(es) & Lvls: Rogue 3
Dragonmark: Mark of Passage (House Orien foundling)
Physiology: Slim build, moderate muscle tone; long, shaggy, platinum blonde hair; large, slanted, dark red eyes; dusky grey skin.

EDIT: Added two daggers to reflect the change in her equipment. (Thank you to Photoshop for making it easy enough that I didn't have to redraw anything. lol) Also, her back story has been completely re-written.

Alyurra is the bastard child of Jysafay Helv'urden and an unknown human man. She led an unremarkable childhood living in Sharn, Breland. Her mother ran a modest inn; Alyurra was always up to no good, running around with the street urchins. That all changed at the age of fifteen when, by a stroke of luck, she foiled an assassination attempt on a merchant of moderate renown. The assassin was captured and executed, but the guild to which he belonged sought retribution for their lost agent. A week later, she was kidnapped from her home in the wee hours of the morning. They gave her a choice, join their ranks and work off her debt to them or they would sell her mother to slavers to recoup their losses. What was a child to do? Feeling she had no choice, she went along.

For the next twelve years her life was consumed by death. Training and killing was all she knew. Do not think she embraced this life. She bided her time, honing her skills until she could enact her escape and go into hiding with her mother. While on a job in Zilargo, she was contacted by an agent of The Trust. They knew she had the Mark of Passage, knew all about her plight, and offered her and her mother protection but with a simple understanding: they may call for her skills from time to time. Lucky for her contract, she accepted their deal. The Trust gave her a new name and a new life working for House Orien as a courier in Zilargo. She has lived a relatively comfortable life in Trolanport for the last three years. Her mother works as a maid in an upscale inn.

Can The Trust keep her previous "employers" at bay forever? We shall see...


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© Angel Garlisch

Media: 0.5 mm mechanical pencil for original sketch, ZIG Millennium inking pens, Prismacolor pencils, mild touch-ups done in PS Elements 10.0.

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