Blu'Shim

Description
Blu'Shim the curiously beautiful gnome that stands in front of you is a mere 2 feet 8 inches tall but can seem so much bigger at times.

Blu'Shim wears a set of long flowing floor length white robes, fitted at the bodice showing her feminine features, with blue piping around the collar and cuffs. Upon closer inspection you notice that the blue piping around her cuffs and collar have small white jewels sewn into it making her seem to sparkle when the light hits them the right way. Over top of her robes she dons a long gray fur lined cloak with a blue gem on the clasp at her throat. She has small blue gems on her petite earlobes and 4 small rings on her fingers with tiny blue and white jewels on them. On her feet she wears a pair of thigh high fur lined boots that match her cloak, the laces that wind around the outside of the boots are tied in a neat little bow at the top, little groups of blue and white jewels dangle from the ends of the laces. Hiding under her flowing robes, secret to all because of being so well made is a set of fitted leather armour.

Long white hair with pale blue streaks all throughout flows down to her knees. She has pale, pale skin which has a bluish tint to it. Her big beautifully rounded eyes are ocean blue with flecks of gold in them and are framed by long lashes. She always seems to look as if she is curious about everything. Her pale skin makes it so that her eyes are the first thing you notice about her. Her long flowing hair is held back from her face by two barrettes on either side of her head just above her slightly pointed ears, decorated with tiny jewels of blue, black and hite. On the ends of the barrettes are long cords of leather that hang the length of her hair with small blue jewels hanging on the ends. Sometimes her long hair is tied back using the leather cords to keep it out of her way. Sometimes when in combat or on long travels she will braid it into intricate plaits.

Her naturally purplish pink lips always make it seem like she has a mischievous grin on her cutely rounded little face. Her high cheek bones, not quite as pronounced as elven cheek bones, are lightly tinged pink giving her some colour on her very pale face.

Under her cloak on her braided blue belt hangs a magnificently jewel decorated scabbard that is home to her well made and trusty rapier that hangs on her hip always. On her other hip is three pockets made of leather one holds a sling and in another the shots for her sling, the third is a bit longer than the other two, it houses the bolts for her crossbow. On the back of her belt completely out of sight from all the world is her hand crossbow.

Before Vintermor
Blu'Shim was raised at the top of the highest mountain in Meloria, her clan, The Skyye Clan, lived above the cloudline on the mountain.The clan had made a small village in the mountain itself. While building their homes within the mountain, the gnomish clan came across some beautiful gems that they began cutting and using to adorn themselves with. Sometimes they would go down the mountain to sell or trade with the jewels at the markets, or they would just go down to the markets to play tricks and pranks on the people there while picking their pockets.

Their clan survived for many generations up on the top of that mountain. If raiders of any sort would come their way the clan was skilled at hiding and camoflauging the site of their village, that was their only defense. Blu'Shim was brought up by her mother and father. Starting as a small gnomish child she was taught how to pick pockets and locks among other things in order to survive. One of the elder members of the clan would teach any of the willing gnomish children the ways of the apothecary and the lessons of alchemy to keep them entertained while their parents were out or down in the city. It wasn't often that the gnomes would go to the city only once every couple of moons. They wouldn't taken the younger gnomes until they were of an age that if a quick getaway was needed then they could be left behind to get back by themselves.

When Blu'Shim was of age to go to the city to try her hand at selling some of the jewels, which of course was just a cover to what she was really doing. She went down with her father leaving her mother and soon to be husband behind with the clan. While they were in the city Blu'Shim and her father got seperated, which didn't cause her any alarm. She headed back up the mountain after a couple of days figuring that she would meet him at home. A couple of days into her trip, she heard a commotion and climbed up into a tree and watched as a group of humans and gnolls clamoured up the mountain side, heading towards her clans homes. Scared she stayed hidden in the tree until they had all passed.

After a while of them being gone, she climbed down out of the tree and started following their tracks. The distance that they covered was far greater then what she could cover in a day, so she never caught up to them. However she followed their tracks all the way to her village, and the sight that welcomed her was cruel and grisly. Just outside the first of the homes was where the blood trail started. She searched frantically throughout the village for any survivors, and also for any signs of her mother, father and fiancee. She couldn't find them, or any signs of their bodies. After several days of searching for them, she started to clean up the mess of the bodies of the dead and slaughtered. She gave them all burials. While cleaning up the village she came across a few things that were foreign to her, one being a piece of cloth that looked like a map of sorts but it was ripped and she could only make out a few words on it and a crest that she had never seen. Another piece of debris she found that she knew was not of her people was a piece of dark forest green cloth, looking like it was part of a shirt or something similiar. Blu'Shim was confused for no one in her clan even had cloth of this colour, she set it aside with the partial cloth map she had found a couple of days earlier.

After she finished cleaning up and taking care of the dead, she went to the highest point on the mountain to grieve for all that were lost. After spending a few days at the top of the mountain something in her snapped, she decided she wanted revenge on the creatures that had brought her such sadness, and had decided that since none had come back to her village she would search to see if there were any survivors.

She climbed back down the mountain and packed her bag including the two pieces of cloth that she found. Upon closer inspection of the cloth that looks like a map she notices that she is unfamiliar with some of the places that are listed on the map. She started searching, first all over Meloria and then she moved onto another region, venturing further and further away from her home and what's familiar to her.

She searched for years, wandering thru different regions, different cities. Surviving on pickpocketing, stealing or hunting food and hiding from those that were bigger than her.

Everyday she would look at the piece of cloth that looked as tho it was a piece of a map. Every town, city and village she would check the map for any names that looked familiar.

Finally one day she came across a town named Ailsby, when she had checked the map to see if it was on there. At first she didn't think it was, but upon further inspection she noticed that at the tear in the cloth was a town that half of the name was missing. All that was left of it was the letters "lsby". She scoped out this town for a few days looking to see if she saw any gnomes or halflings that she could possibly speak too. On her 5th day she happened to see a meadow gnome with a family of what looked like humans, she followed them to a cottage. She snuck into the cottage after nightfall and found the gnome. She woke up the gnome and after much explanation found out that she was in the Kingdom of Vintermor, the little meadow gnome suggested to her to continue her search in the city of Vintermor for there were many learned people that could help her in her search. That and the crest at the top of the map was beside another larger word that had been cut off ending in "GDOM", the gnome told her that the crest belonged to the kingdom of Vintermor and was mainly used in the city.

After getting directions and thanking the gnome she left the house and started on her way again. Heading directly to Vintermor city, hoping to find some of her people.