Hello everyone!  I look forward to joining you all in this adventure!<br/><br/>I like the houserules, and in the tabletop 5e I've played before, our group had also always required HD to recover during a long rest also, so I'm comfortable with that form of slower healing.<br/><br/>And Allia, and Mella:  as my character, Vanessë is the elf maiden who became the apprentice of Soveliss Galanodel, perhaps we can work out some common back story elements?<br/><br/>Here's some basics of my character:<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/6e/Aolien-WLOP.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Vanessë Istya<br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong>High Elf<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>20 (following houserules on Elven maturity rate)<br/><br/><strong>Character Sheet:</strong>https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1829727 (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1829727)<br/><br/>Vanessë was born in Yelmed, and grew up there until here seventh year.  At that time, her parents relocated to the elven Court of Arashalu, entering the service of the elven crown, and also hoping to reconnect their only daughter with a deeper appreciation of her elvish heritage.  Vanessë demonstrated talents in both the martial and the magical arts, but being drawn more to books than to swordcraft or to people, it was determined that she should undergo training as a wizard.<br/><br/>She, however, grew restless.  Her memory of even as small and provincial a village as Yelmed, in addition to the ideas she encountered in her studies, led her to feel that the elven society was too insular for her tastes, and by the time she was 17, she found herself wandering back to her birthplace, knocking on the door of Soveliss Galanodel, seeking to continue her apprenticeship under his tutelage.  He had been reluctant at first, but her persistence, as well as her well-rounded talents eventually won over the retired adventurer, deciding that she had potential for him to pass on a legacy that combined magic, martial skill, and artistic expression.<br/><br/>Still, being the big dreamer that she is, Vanessë is once again growing restless.  She longs for a life to see adventure beyond the village, to travel and see the wider world.  Soveliss's tales of his own adventures may have been partially at fault for this.  But the books that the elf maiden can often be seen keeping her company, whether she's sitting under a tree, lying in a grassy field, or even as she's walking through the village square, continually speak to her of a world much larger than she has ever experienced.  And lately, in her readings of philosophy, she has come across a puzzling question ("What is Love") that she couldn't answer in words.  And she is convinced that seeing the beauty of the world in is variety will be a necessary step in solving this puzzle.