#captainofthefallen

Montgomery (who actually has like 9 names because my deal with the GM was that I could only play a gunslinger if I had a name equally or more ridiculous than Percy from CR) is the human son of a noble family from a city state ruled by a meritocracy of mages.  However, Montgomery has no magical ability, and is therefore essentially “useless” as an heir.  He chose to pursue adventuring as a way to prove his strength without magic to the world, and he’s a fairly talented engineer and diplomat.

Lorelei is an elf from a place in our world called the Dragonlands, where she and her brother Raynor were raised in isolation by their parents, who had retreated into the dangerous north to hide from Lorelei’s grandmother, a powerful woman who opposed the marriage.  When Lorelei was young (for an elf), her parents and brother were slaughtered by a white dragon, leaving Lorelei alone for 70 years except for the stories and songs her parents taught her.  She made her way south, to the school, when she came of age, hoping to find a purpose in life.

The two of them first began to bond when, during their shift guarding the school grounds during a tournament, Lorelei was approached and stabbed by a man demanding to know why she had “his mother’s face.”  Montgomery found Lorelei shortly after as she was bleeding out and succumbing to the knife’s poison.  He managed to get Lorelei to the school’s resident cleric, where she swore him to secrecy regarding the incident since Lorelei was certain that the man who stabbed her was her brother, long thought dead.

Weeks later, Lorelei came to Montgomery and admitted that she had tracked her brother down again despite the stabbing incident, and that he had told her where to find him.  She told Montgomery that she wanted to go to him, and Montgomery, desperate to keep their already fracturing party from falling apart, asked her to stay on the condition that he would help her.  While the promise made at the time carried much more weight for Lorelei than Montgomery, it was the start of a pattern in which when either Montgomery or Lorelei needed help, they were each other’s first choice.

Over the course of the next several months and other incidents such as Lorelei defending Montgomery’s worldviews to the other party members, Montgomery stopping Lorelei’s brother from gaslighting her into leaving them, and the two of them just generally being willing to be emotionally vulnerable with each other, they each individually started falling in love.  However, their situation is deeply complicated and potentially tragic for several reasons, not the least of which is the elf/human lifespan difference.