Voscaera

Voscaera

Relatives	relatives
Languages	Common, Celestial, Elvish, Infernal
Affiliations	Ta-Shedet Snake Cult
Aliases	alias
Marital Status	Single
Place of Birth	birthplace
Date of Death	deathdate
Place of Death	deathplace
Species	Maedar Half-elf
Gender	Female
Height	6'0
Weight	163
Eye Color	Yellow Serpentine

Voscaera is a player character inn the Bedlam in the Badlands Community Campaign. She is Maedar Half-Elf Witch from the Pteran desert.

Physical Appearance

Voscaera is a roughly 6'0 elven woman with serpentine eyes and scales. She often wears a veil to cover her eyes when dealing with those she is not familiar with to avoid drawing attention to her medusan powers.

Personality

Having been born into an ancient elven snake worshipping witch coven Voscaera is often cold to those she deems inferior to herself, usually non-serpents and non-elves.

History

Voscaera's story begins long ago at the beginning of recorded history with the collapse and burial of the great elven city, Ta-Shedet. Near the end of Ta-Shedet's life span a group of elven priestesses received prophecies of doom from the goddess Meretseger and decided to split away from the rest of elven society and form a conclave in the desert to preserve the memory of Ta-Shedet into a new era. Roughly 1,100 years later Voscaera was born to the daughter of the high priestess that had led the conclave into the desert, and was brought into what had become of that conclave of clerics, now what could best be described as a coven of Medusan witches worshipping the goddess Meretseger, a Shedethan goddess of magic and funerary rites. Voscaera spent her formative years as a young high elf being taught the ways of Shedethan Elven Glyph magic. Proving to be a prodigy and due to her status as the granddaughter of the original high priestess, Voscaera was selected from among her cohort to be given special training to be blessed by the goddess Meretseger and begin training to become a host for the goddess. After selection Voscaera was isolated from her peers to train her body and magic to be able to survive the metamorphosis into a maedar or half-medusa. The transformation was traumatizing both physically and mentally; physically her body became covered in scales, her eyes became serpentine, and her teeth became pointed like fangs; mentally the transformation severed her from the collective dreaming that all elves go through when they trance and instead puts her into a solitary state where she can only hope that one of the gods of Ta-Shedet appears to give her command. The transformation also isolated her socially due to her becoming unable to hold eye contact with any of her kin for too long lest her gaze become poisonous. Her social isolation was also furthered by her transformation indicating that she held an important religious role in the community as the lesser avatar of Meretseger and heir apparent to the title of High Priestess. Shortly after her training completed and she began to settle into her role as the lesser avatar, demonic activity began to increase all around Pteris and she recieved a dream from Meretseger telling her to go out to find the Great Tree City, 𓅩𓆭𓈈, Urneht. After that command from her goddess, Voscaera went out into the desert to find the Great Tree City and discover the cause for the increase in demonic activity.

Languages

Voscaera can speak Common, Celestial, Elvish, and Infernal.

Powers and Abilities

Voscaera's medusa ancestry gives her access to a weaker version of the medusa's petrifying gaze. Voscaera's gaze can make those glares at so sick that they become restrained. Voscaera also has access to glyph magic and uses it to bolster herself and her allies and harm her enemies in combat. Her glyph magic also gives her the ability to summon an sand golem she has affectionately named Newsratada or the sandstone that summons storms.

Glyph Magic

Spell	Glyph	Transliteration	Translation	Description
Guidance	𓅝𓏏𓏭𓌨𓂝	Dehwety Xery-a	Thoth Assistant	Glyphs appear above the target's head and impart knowledge to help complete a task
Shocking Grasp	𓆓𓂝𓊡𓂧	Dadret	Storm Hand	Glyphs made of lightning appear on Voscaera's hand shock the target
Shield	𓇋𓎡𓅓	Akam	Shield	The glyphs appear in front of Vosceara and block attacks against her
Heroism	𓅓𓌨𓇌𓀜	Megi	Bravery	The glyphs sear above the target and protect them from fear
Identify	𓋴𓃀𓇼𓂩𓅓𓀁	Sebatem	Learn Name	The glyphs appear above the target item and rearrange themselves into the name of the item
Caustic Brew	𓂐𓄑𓏛𓅓𓂝𓄿𓏋	Hum'tacha	Spray Vinegar	Glyphs appear in the air and acid sprays out from them in a line
Detect Magic	𓅠𓄖𓊾	Gemheka	Find Magic	The glyphs emanate from Voscaera and fly towards magic items and effects changing color depending on the school of magic
Cure Wounds	𓁹𓇋𓄿𓏏𓀑	Ariantchaat	Heal Wound	The glyphs appear on the targets wounds and stitch them closed

Attacks and Weapons

Her main weapon of attack is a dagger that she has enchanted with glyphs so that it returns to her hand after being thrown.

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Companions

Rhogar Dreel

A truly insane and reliable dragonborn. I once watched him jump 40 feet straight down a purple wyrm burrow to slay a demon. He also appears to wield some form of glyph magic, I must inquire upon this further.

Syl Vipershade

A cunning little serpent. I wonder where his serpentine heritage lies.

Silgr Thyrikk

Yet another user of this peculiar form of glyph magic, although in the rather unfortunate form of a dwarf .

Pearl Dust, Lincoln "Toots" Whiterock, Larry the Lizard Wizard

A fascinating trio of magical reptilian folk, best to stay on their good side.

Adventures

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