Backstory

Orchid’s father, Tryton the Elf, was an adventurer. He was a Fighter, constantly going wherever the action was, ready to charge into battle. This was a bit of a problem, since he was in an arranged marriage to an Elf named Sula—a Maztican homebody, whose idea of excitement was putting pepper on a scoop of mashed potatoes. Pretty much from the beginning, they agreed to a long-distance relationship. Whether or not they agreed that Tyrton could have an affair is a matter of debate. Nevertheless, while traveling through the outskirts of Waterdeep, Tryton met a Half-Elf named Penelope. He proceeded to met her again and again and again, over the course of five years, resulting in three daughters, Orchid, Leah, and Crystal.

As the oldest, Orchid quickly became responsible for helping to run the household. Penelope’s affair got her kicked out of her family home, forcing her to take whatever works he could get, in order to survive and raise three daughters. This meant long hours at the Waterdeep docks. By the time Orchid was five, Tryton stopped coming around. She always assumed it was because he got bored of his dalliance with Penelope and returned to his proper and regal wife. Maybe this was true, maybe it wasn’t. But Orchid was the one left in charge of tucking her sisters in at night. And her resentment of Tryton quickly blossomed into a deep resentment of all Elves. He abandoned her! Just like her Elf grandfather abandoned her mother. Going back and back and back.

( Things got slightly rosier... )

Level 6 Stats

Easy as Life

This is the moment when the gods expect me
To beg for help but I won't even try
I want nothing in the world but myself to protect me
But I won't lie down, roll over and die

All I have to do is to forget how much I love him
All I have to do is put my longing to one side
Tell myself that love's an ever-changing situation
Passion would have cooled and all the magic would have died
It's easy, it's easy

All I have to do is to pretend I never knew him
On those very rare occasions when he steals into my heart
Better to have lost him when the ties were barely binding
Better the contempt of the familiar cannot start
It's easy, it's easy

Until I think about him as he was when I last touched him
And how he would have been were I to be with him today
Those very rare occasions, don't let up, they keep on coming
All I ever wanted and I'm throwing it away
It's easy, it's easy as life

And then I see the faces of a worn defeated people
A father and a nation who won't let a coward run
Is this how the gods reward the faithful through the ages?
Forcing us to prove that all the hardest things we've done
Are easy, so easy

And though I'll think about him until the earth draws in around me
And though I choose to leave him for another kind of love
This is no denial, no betrayal, but redemption
Redeemed in my own eyes and in the pantheon above

It's easy, it's easy as life
It's easy as life
It's easy as life