<sup>Is this the hip thing kids are doing these days?</sup><br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/BfNMA0t.jpg)<br/><sup>Just imagine that bow is slightly insubstantial <br/>and actually an eldritch blast right now. Actual<br/>bowlock to come later.</sup><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Other potential images</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/Fbg4ick.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/6n7uZPU.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/Irbh42W.jpg)</div></div> </div></div><div align="center"><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong>J</strong></span><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">ana Parness</span></span> (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2041898)<br/>NG Half-(Sun) Elf Warlock 1</div><br/><strong><em>Personality</em></strong>: Jana usually attempts to keep upbeat and cheerful, though often finds herself taking risks above and beyond what she is actually capable of, believing that fate will find away and even if a loss or injury occurs now, something good will come of it in the future. Every cloud his a silver lining after all! While not particularly a seeker of justice, she believes every gamble (which<em>might</em>translate to any given event in life?) should be fair and square, coming down to an individual's luck and skill. She enjoys long walks, long talks and shuffling cards when nervous.<br/><br/><strong><em>Biography</em></strong>: Born of a tryst between an Elven priest, member of an ambassadorial entourage who were forced to stay in Daggerford for a period of time and a human shepherd. Her father knows of her but is reluctant to have anything to do with her as he believes that further association with this shorter-lived branch of his family gained from a moment’s weakness would lessen his social standing but has her elder brother Varran, a pure-blooded Sun Elf who resides in the much closer city of Waterdeep,  visit on their father’s behalf to provide the family with a small amount of coin to keep them comfortable. The younger elf has taken a shine to his sister, finding amusement in her love of risk taking regardless of her shorter lifespan and relative frailty, taking it upon himself to teach her the elegance of how to shoot a bow and play chess, whilst the best the lesser races round her would do would likely be ruffianism and card games. Though she did pick up on that as much as her two younger siblings from her mother’s marriage did.<br/><br/>On a return trip from Daggerford to Waterdeep Varran requested the services of a sellsword, a Paladin or Tymora who happened to be enjoying himself at the Lady Luck Tavern to accompany him back as a bodyguard in case of banditry on the road. The Paladin refused, stating that he had yet to finish his business in the area, but if the elf could best him in a game of chance to show that Tymora was with him the warrior would accompany him back, but if he lost he would be required to donate an amount equal to what he was offering in wage to the Lady’s church. Initially Varran was reluctant before Jana stepped in, relishing the challenge. It was a hard won victory, which resulted in the Paladin, Lyras, taking the job on the condition that Jana accompany them as a lucky charm. This resulted in Jana leaving her mother’s home and living with her brother in Waterdeep for the next three years.<br/><br/>Over those three years Jana earned the ire of a gang called the Coin Spinners – Originally from Luskan they had set their sights on expanding their operation in Waterdeep as they had in their home territory under the guise of doing good for the poor in the name of Tymora. Unbeknownst to Jana, her frequent use of her father’s allowance (most of which she sent home to her mother and sisters) in gambling parlours had slowly been draining these initial pilgrims’ coffers which slowed their operations considerably, though she could easily lose a bet as win it depending on if Lady Luck had decided to smile on her, it was eerie how often she won against these braggarts who used Her as a front. When they began to realise that it was more or less a single person who had been puncturing holes in their plans the Coin Spinners decided to make things a lot harder for the now identified half-elf, running an assault on her brother’s home and making an attempt on her life. She ran, of course, with no real way to protect herself she wanted to at least draw them away from her brother and so led them on a chase threw the sewers of Waterdeep. Hunkered in an offshoot waiting for the inevitable her foot hit something that to her made such a clattering she thought even the Masked Lords in their ivory towers would have heard it. Looking down she saw a longbow, not beautiful or special looking, but decently built with a string that shimmered in the dark, several arrows at its side. As her fingers touched it she could feel something stirring within it that tugged on her mind. It was a wager – use it and kill those that pursued her and she would get to keep it and her life. If she lost, well… the price of the wager would come when she was expired.<br/><br/>She began to knock an arrow, readying it in the dark as her body trembled, her weapon shaking in her hands as a flash of steel in the dim light made her fire prematurely, the shaft clattering limply on the grimey stone floor. The soft thunk of the bow being loosed spooked her pursuers enough that one thought something went by their face, falling into the rancid waters and giving Jana enough room and time to escape them as they attempted to fish their comrade out. The bow seemed to seethe slightly, as though it had asked for someone to say whether a coin would land heads or tails, but instead landed perfectly on its edge. Returning to her brother’s home she packed as much as she could as fast as she could before heading off back to Daggerford, advising her brother to return to their father for a time.