Willhellmeana "Billy" Kaiserslautern[]
Introduction[]
Billy was The Company's Rogue. The last to join the company, she was quickly recognized as perhaps the most skilled adventurer in the bunch. Traps, locks and the like are rarely trouble for her; her skill with one handed blades formidable (pirate); and her stealth is uncanny, able to weave in and out of shadows at will some might say. With deep violet skin, electric white hair and ruby red eyes, she strikes an intimidating pose to most, however in truth, she really just wants to sit, have a drink and a smoke, and spend a day without looking over her shoulder. When she met The Company, she found she finally could.
Life Before The Company[]
Billy's great-grandfather is a Drow Elf. Her great-grandmother elfkin to some degree. So her grandmother was more elf than human, more Drow than either. While the events that separated light and dark elves happened tens of thousands of years ago, few Drow have ventured out from the souterrain over the millennia. Distrust of Drow based on ignorance and myth is still the default position of most of the denizens of Gaearth.
Before joining the The Company, she trained with the Sisters of Mercy in the Northlands as Ranger and Assassin; with her parents as a sailor and pirate; and dabbled with artificing with the Rogue's Guild on the Isle Clew, where her father semi-retired as Burgmaster. She brings an array of skills with her along with a natural aptitude for some Drow magic (yes, she can cast web). Several years before meeting The Company, Billy ended the life of the corrupt Guild Master at Isle Clew and went on the run. No easy thing when you're purple. Unable to shake off her training as a Sister of Mercy and pirate, Billy turned to a life of Social Banditry, helping small towns suffering from the impact of the Civil War in the Borderlands and the North while establishing safe houses for herself with grateful villagers and townsfolk throughout the region.
About a year before the events in the Prologue, The Company was low on olferb and needed to find a dealer. Ar-Raguel knew of Billy and as a connoisseur of olferb himself, knew she recently had been spending time at an Inn on the way to the Borderlands (Being a purple, drow, Robin Hood type is hard to keep secret). Some bounty hunters looking for Billy almost ruined the deal, but instead, Rocco ruined them. Billy, completely capable of handling the situation herself, remained hidden, watching Rocco at first politely dismiss the hunters who were harassing him for information, and then turned into a raging monster when they suggested if he helped capture her, he could have a 'a turn'.
She fell for Rocco in no small part because of the tension between his clear moral compass, and constant seething Rage he keeps checked ... most of the time (and never directs towards innocents or loved ones). But also, Rocco could smoke more olferb than she could - something she had never encountered in her 80-something years on Gaearth.
Family[]
Billy's Mother is one of the highest ranking members of the Sisters of Mercy, a sisterhood dedicated to relieving the suffering of those in the Northlands by any means necessary. The sisters have been accused of piracy, highway robbery, assassinations, and many other violent crimes. All perpetuated against the warring princelings and their hangers-on. They, and most of the North, see themselves as the good guys. Billy's mother is essentially the sisterhood's ranking admiral and leads a small fleet of deadly vessels routing out slave trade and piracy of foodstuffs, in Northern waters, results of the ongoing Civil War.
Billy's Father was a privateer for the Island Kingdom Enterprise Association (IKEA). The Island Kingdoms, off the western shores of the continent of Nin, were frequently the victims of pirate raids and even raids from armies of the North. He became renown for his determination and luck, and eventually allied with the Sisters of Mercy, meeting Billy's mother.
Six years before the events in Part 1 (and ten years after the Prologue) Billy married Rocco O'Dale, The Company's Captain and eventually Lord Killington, acquiring the title of Lady Killington.