Appearance

Identifying Characteristics

A long scar that runs along her left collar bone.

Mentality

Personal history

Tethys grew up living among her people; a medium sized grove of Satyrs who reside within the forests of Raven Rock. She had always enjoyed listening to the tales of her people and other fey folk as well as the music played at parties while the others danced and indulged in their pleasures. While she had little interest in the typical pleasures of her people, flowers absolutely enthralled her and she would frequently indulge herself in picking and hoarding as many as she could.
 
Her love of instruments formed early on as well; she would often play with small instruments she had made or with the instruments left out after parties. When a traveling bard by the name of Tiberius Wilmot happened through their forest, Tethys had been left awestruck as she listened to him play his music and tell such exciting tales from the places he had been. Listening to his music and his stories made the world feel so much bigger than she had ever imagined and she found herself yearning to venture out and see it for herself. The following day, she’d basically glued herself to the bards side, following him around and pestering him with all sorts of questions.
 
‘How had he learned to play so well?’
‘Could she ever learn to play like him?’
‘Would he teach her to play like he did?’
 
At the time she had been far too young to set out traveling with him, so instead he left her with a gift and a promise; that ‘Could she find him again once she had grown older, he would accept her under his wing as an apprentice.’ He gifted her his old flute - the first instrument that he had carved himself and played back when he had just begun his own journey, then left to carry on his travels.
 
Tethys spent the next many years practicing and learning how to play the instrument, dabbling in a few others as well over time, though the flute remained ever her favourite.
 
Tiberius had also shown her his journal while he had been visiting, within which he wrote down stories and tales he’d picked up and adventures he had while on the roads. Tethys quite enjoyed the idea of it, and so she found and started to keep a journal of her own, much like his. She would go on to carry it with her through her own travels as she grew older.
 
Once she’d grown old enough to travel out on her own into the world, she did. She spent a year or two wandering from city to city, looking for the bard from all those years ago. Finding him proved to be quite difficult, it seemed that he had traveled a lot, and many people knew of him in the places she asked. Eventually she managed to track him down in Ferran’s Hill, much to his surprise. He hadn’t truly expected to see her again all these years later. True to his promise though, he agreed to take her under his wing as an apprentice.
 
The next few years, Tethys traveled with Tiberius from place to place, playing music, sharing tales and learning from him along the way. She reveled in the years she got to travel with him, but as with most beings, his age slowly began to catch up with him, making travel harder for him over time. During the last year of her apprenticeship with Tiberius, he chose to return to his hometown; Applewood, where he would then reside, becoming something of a local bard. After Tethys had parted ways with Tiberius, she ventured out into the world again on her own, though every few years she would find her way back to Applewood, where she would visit her old friend and mentor, and share tales of her travels with him. She would make similar trips back to Raven Rock every few years to visit her grove as well.
 
On her own, Tethys continued to travel from place to place, sharing tales and playing her music; she did however find herself at the center of shenanigans a lot more often on her own. Usually as a result of her spontaneity or her tendency to wander where she shouldn’t in the pursuit of flowers.
 
Eventually, Tethys met a group of adventurers, who she would go on to travel and form deep bonds with.

Education

There is no better education than experience!

Mental Trauma

Tethys once wandered unknowingly into Yudaga’bal, the Feather Queen’s garden to pick flowers. Yudaga’bal was not at all impressed to see the young Saytr picking from her garden and attacked her. Tethys managed to run off, but not before she had received the wound that left the scar on her collarbone. Tethys doesn’t tend to tell people about it’s origin, she may spin tales if asked, but to date, the only person she has told the true tale to has been Tiberius. She has avoided Yudaga’bals’ territory ever since the incident - knowing that she is one to hold a grudge.

Known Languages

Common, Sylvan

Personality

Motivation

To become the best Bard she can be, and to help her friends out however she can along the way.
 
She hopes to immortalize her friends and the amazing people she's come to love through her tales and songs.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes;

• Tethys loves flowers. She weaves them into her hair and fur and stashes them in her bag. She enjoys eating them when they've dried up.


• Friends and family.


• Candied Yams (Her mothers are the best)


• Singing, dancing and telling stories.


• Instruments.


• Travelling

• Conflict or arguments.


• Fighting.


• Fenced in gardens.

Vices & Personality flaws

Tethys LOVES flowers. She will do most anything to procure flowers that catch her eye. Her love of flowers can at times lead her into troublesome situations as she tends to pick them or take them from wherever she finds them. She weaves them into her hair and hoards them in her bag to carry with her.

Hygiene

She is quite particular about her hygiene and keeping clean.

Social

Birthplace

Raven Rock

Current Residence

Travelling

Religious Views

Tethys shares one of the more common beliefs of her grove; that those who have passed on take their final journey to rest among the stars. 'Our soul becomes a guiding light in the dark, joining the eternal choir of starlight.'

Hobbies & Pets

Phlox the Moon Eyed Newt.