The Dak Legacy

History

Tyra, and her sister Maya, were born in the isolated Underdark city of Ashzu.  Her family held sway in the court of the city’s ruler, The Greatwyrm Wymar, though not very much.  They were a wealthy noble family of lesser birth.  This didn’t stop Tyra from enjoying the privileges granted to her by her position.  She was the very definition of a spoiled brat.  The only thing bigger than Tyra’s ego was her fear of the surface, and the humanoids who inhabited it.

From an early age Tyra heard stories of the greed and evil that humanoids wrought upon dragon kind.  Hunting them for their wealth, their skin, glory, any reason they could muster to hunt her kind.  Tales of dragons who had left Ashzu often ended in insanity or death on the part of the wyrm, and Tyra bought every sentence of the stories with no questions.  Her fear turned to hatred as she grew older, seeing humanoids as needing to be ruled and kept in line through fear.

Her only tempering came from her sister, Maya’Xiachayl.  

Maya was Tyra’s best friend, and the only one to ever temper Tyra’s anger.  Unlike her sister, Maya was calm and measured in her approach.  She was wise and powerful.  A measured ruler and the perfect inheritor of Tyra’s family line.  Tyra even had hopes that one day Maya would be chosen to succeed Wymar as ruler of Ashzu, seeing Wymar’s own children as too weak to possibly follow such a powerful legacy.  

During her formative years Tyra trained as a squire to another dragon, Lady Vashti.  Vashti was another powerful dragon, much older than Tyra and fiercely strong.  Even in her humanoid form Tyra aspired to be as great as Vashti.

As she grew Tyra became less interested in maintaining her humanoid form, choosing to remain draconic as often as she could.  Her relationship with her family became strained with Tyra taking less interest in court but demanding to still be part of the ruling of the house.  On top of this Maya became distant with her sister, leaving for long periods of time and rarely speaking to her.

One day, when Maya was due to return from a long trip away, Tyra had a rare moment of wisdom.  She saw Maya slipping away from her, not wanting to lose her sister Tyra sought to make amends starting with a small gesture.  She assumed her human form and went to buy a present for her sister upon her return.  Unfortunately when Tyra came home she found that Maya had been murdered, her body had been bought home for the family to grieve over.  Tyra was told that Maya had been murdered by a group of people who infiltrated Ashzu to steal its riches.  With this story Tyra’s anger resurfaced with a vengeance.  

Following Maya’s death, her family refused to seek a resurrection service.  Tyra could not understand why, and for her sister she would do anything.  Tyra stole 25,000 gold pieces worth of items from her personal treasure hoard and made her way to the surface, seeking a powerful cleric to perform the ritual of True Resurrection.  

Tyra found someone very quickly.  In the northern realms near the city of Winterholt she found the Bastion of Sages, home to the Sage of the North, Gilbert and his apprentice Elyse.  Gilbert was indisposed at the time, but his apprentice was more than capable of performing the ritual.  She refused, however.  

Elyse attempted to explain that resurrection is not a simple spell.  It requires divine intervention from the gods of the caster, as well as compliance on the part of the soul who may have found peace in the afterlife.  

Tyra did not want to listen.  Enraged at the defiance of this humanoid she attacked Elyse.  The two fought for a long while, destroying part of the bastion in the process.  Elyse pushed Tyra to her very limits, but eventually Tyra emerged victorious, burning the cleric with her dragon fire.  

Injured and dejected Tyra returned home, only to find her family waiting for her.

Word of Tyra’s crime had spread quickly.  The Sage, Gilbert, now hated all Red Dragons and Ashzu for her crime.  Tyra was dragged before the court of Wymar and her sentence was clear.  Exile.

Her draconic aspects were sealed deep in the depths of her soul by the court wizard and she was banished from her home.  Unable to assume her true form and saddened at further loss Tyra wandered the world, with only her anger to warm her on the cold nights.  

Involvement with the Saintess of Light & the Main Party.

Three years after her banishment Tyra heard rumor that the son of Wymar, Voss was in the desert city of Rhaz receiving tutelage from a humanoid Wymar was friendly with.  Seeing potential in seeking and audience with Wymar she traveled to the city to confront him.

Tyra found herself met with his large retinue, headed by Vystra, brother of Vashti.  She exchanged heated words with the young prince and his enforcer, receiving a slap to the face for her trouble.  Angered by impertinence by someone who was far beneath her in her eyes she stormed off, cursing in draconic.  

Voss warned his tutor, Horatio Atherton, of Tyra.  Explaining that it was because of her that his mother, Wyla’s, resurrection could not be pursued as Gilbert had declared he would not provide such services to them.  While Horatio knew that Wyla was not dead, he could not tell the young boy and took his warning graciously to be wary of Tyra and her hatred of humanoids.  

Meanwhile Tyra wandered Rhaz, realizing quickly that her pockets were becoming empty.  She sought employment and quickly found work for one such as her.  

Tyra met with the Saintess of Light, Aelia Crassi, and her party, after reading a notice about needing help in an upcoming battle.  They consisted of the young Wyther Marche, a gnome named Brooke, a northern dwarf named Fortinbras, and the wizard Horatio Atherton.  

Horatio informed Aelia as to his distrust of Tyra, though they couldn’t be picky about the help that came before them.  Tyra was given a place on their first job, retrieving a staff of power for one of the other Saints to use in a vital battle.  Seeing this as a chance to test this party’s resolve she came along.

The party were teleported to the southern Dolman jungles with the task of retrieving a staff from a temple of Yuan Ti, snake people and worshipers of a demon god.  

Tyra proved herself quickly in battle, assisting in the cutting down of many Yuan Ti, though the party remained distrustful of her, not knowing exactly what it was she had done.  

After successfully retrieving the staff she attempted to recruit the party to help her return to Ashzu and plead her case to Wymar to remove the curse and give her back her power, as well as revive her sister.  However the party shot down her request stating that the upcoming battle was far more important.  

Unbeknownst to Tyra, Horatio had used his connections in Ashzu to already request Wymar’s help for this battle, a request which was granted.  

Tyra followed, reluctantly, to the Golden Isles, a beautiful paradise of an archipelago, where she had been told a demonic incursion had occurred.  She doubted the assessment of the situation until she saw the destruction wrought.  

Through combined forces consisting of multiple powerful Saints, draconic forces from Ashzu, naval support from Rhaz and arcane artillery from the city of Geffen, the party were able to battle their way through the Isles and slay the mastermind behind it.  The Monk of Pale Night, Dontae.  

Upon her return to Rhaz, Tyra sought another resurrection for her sister from the Saintess of Rhaz, Nina.  She was met with the same words Elyse had echoed to her years before.  With her anger quieted and her ears open Tyra listened to them for the first time.  Not only could this ritual possibly fail, but with her actions Tyra may have doomed any chance she had at returning home, and having her sister back.  She realized too that the actions she had taken since Maya’s death would certainly have made her sister saddened and disappointed by them.  

Distraught and alone Tyra pledged herself to Aelia, the Saintess of Light.  She wished to find redemption in the eyes of her sister, and saw a possible way to do that by following someone who might embody Maya’s ideals better than she ever could.

Now Tyra finds herself in the North, fighting against the regime of blood and death in the form of the vampires who have terrorized these realms for generations.  The Saintess traveled there to end the parasitic threat to the North’s people once and for all, and Tyra followed, still seeking actions that might redeem her in Maya’s eyes.  

Mechanics & Stats

Tyra is functionally a human with limited Red Dragon features.  Her class Warlock, with her patron and pact being Hexblade and Pact of the Blade.  

Her patron takes the form of her draconic powers, sealed deep within her but still crying out to be tapped into.  Tyra is able to manifest these powers as a magically bound weapon forged from her draconic essence.  She is also able to muster limited uses of powerful spells and abilities such as Terrifying Presence, and Dragon’s Breath.  

Str: 14

Dex: 14

Con: 20

Int: 10

Wis: 8

Cha: 20

Tyra is trained in the use of both martial and simple weapons, as well as how to effectively use shields in combat.  Her preferred weapon is a segmented longsword, combining the effects of a whip and longsword into an elegant and powerful sword which she feels mimics her tail.