| Relatives | Ensueno (sister), Dolor (sister) |
|---|---|
| Languages | Common, celestial, primordial, Druidic |
| Affiliations | Sister of the Crystalline Conclave |
| Place of Birth | Western Amusa |
| Species | Earth Genasi |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5’7 |
| Eye Color | Silver |
Esperanza Alnilam is an Earth Genasi Circle of Stars Druid charting stars with the Tempest Brother Expeditionary Company in the Wicked Wilds
Physical Appearance
Esperanza has rich sapphire blue skin that shines and is smooth along the surface and small star patterns are clear to see in the light. Her hair is long and seems to nearly be made of the thinnest strands of silver, her matching eyes are a liquid silver as well. She wears the white robes of her nomadic conclave and has a grey cloak that protects them during travel. She has a round star sapphire pendant, that when she holds up to a light, shines a map of the stars, passed down to her from the previous star mapper. She also wears round glasses when she is working on drawing charts.
When she takes her starry form, Esperanza’s skin becomes an inky blue-black like the night sky and her joint each shine with one of Vela’s stars. Her chosen constellation lays on the spine of her back.
When Esperanza chooses to take any of her wild shape forms, it usually has silver fur like her hair in the case of fur covered creatures, or deep navy blue skin for creatures with no sure, such as snakes and lizards.
Personality
Esperanza has a tendency to not only be a physical wanderer, following wherever the nomadic peoples and stars take her, but also let her own mind wander. She will often be seen sitting in a room, staring off, thinking of her next star chart or corrections to her previous, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t completely aware of everything around her. She is keenly observant and it is difficult to hide anything from her peripheral vision or to sneak up on her. She almost seems to be savant, but actually is acutely aware of the nature and state of the energy around her. She also has gained a skill of reading lips from across a room, a skill learned from her sister, Dolor, who is deaf.
She is kind and has the sort of demeanor that makes you feel safe and that the things that she is going to sell you, such as her star charts and spell components, are going to be worth your money and time. She is passionate about her conclave and the good work that they do and loves her sisters dearly. She is protective of her youngest sister and never says a bad word of her, despite the tragedy that her birth caused.
She will do anything to avoid a fight, and when called into arms, she will attempt to restrain or incapacitate, rather than kill.
It goes without saying that as a druid, she loves animals and plants and the sky.
History
Esperanza was raised as a member of the Crystalline Conclave. From the moment she was born, she was destined to chart the stars, protect the land, or birth the next generation of their tribe. Not everyone in their conclave was a genasi, but it was a majority. She knew who her mother was, but all members of the conclave were their own family and would address one another as brothers, sisters, mother and father. She felt a special bond with her mother, but the matriarch, Alsephina, was the one who gave her her name.
Esperanza’s mother had another baby soon after, another Sapphire like herself and her mother, but with dark hair instead of the stark silver she had. Her final sister was born while she was only 5 years old and unfortunately there was a complication that caused her mother to die, giving her final sister a more opalescent skin tone and the fever had her born deaf. Despite their roles in the conclave being that all of their generation were to be seen as sisters and brothers, Esperanza gave special attention and favor to her blood sisters, especially Dolor, since she needed more help growing up.
When Esperanza showed promise as a mapmaker, recognizing stars and spacing and the dimensional changes when moving from location to location, she was pulled into a specific circle within the conclave to begin learning the druidic powers of Vela and the stars and how to adapt her body to embrace their energy and use the constellations to change herself, like other druids were learning to wildshape. She learned to wild shape into animals as well, but favored what she learned about the stars’ power.
When she graduated from the circles’ teachings, her mentor, Kalausi, began sending Esperanza to the market to sell her maps at the market and crystals and other things that the conclave has been selling while in Galik as a part of their fund raising in order to continue their nomadic travels.
It was during this time that Esperanza found the advertisement for the Tempest Brothers’ and how they were heading out into the Wilds, a part of Amusa that her conclave had struggled to venture out into for making their maps. With permission from the Kalausi, she then applied to join!
Powers and Abilities
Esperaza can transform into a Starry Form, her joints taking the form of Vela’s stars, and her deep skin covered in the constellations over the top of Quelmar’s red skies. She uses this to give extra healing, cause extra damage, or maintain her concentrations.
She is Observant, with a passive perception of 23 and the ability to lipread.
Attacks and Weapons
Esperanza uses a quarterstaff that is actually a mapmaker’s measuring stick, and a sling.
She more notably uses spells such as Ice Knife and Moonbeam, but uses Call Lightning in desperate times, which she learned from her sister Ensueno.
