Appearance

Physical Description

Thin and lithe, she can easily pass for a teenage boy or young man if she drops her voice and pins up her hair, especially if she has enough time to make herself look more masculine with makeup.

Identifying Characteristics

Has a thin scar across her left cheek.

Apparel & Accessories

Usually wears clothes that cover most of her body, and favors shorts or short skirts over dresses. Prefers to wear gloves. No matter what she's wearing, she prefers bright, attention-catching colors, and her usual clothes are designed for ease of movement and dramatic effect in a fight. Her ears have multiple small gold hoops and studs in them.

Mentality

Personal history

Born into a traveling acting troupe to a human father and elven mother, Kelt learned lines from plays before she learned to read, and started acting before she was ten. By the time she was fifteen, another member of the troupe, an acrobat, had taught her stage fighting, which she excelled at, and found her niche in playing fearless young heroes and adventurers onstage.
 
Her mother anticipated her daughter's bardic magic before she discovered it for herself, and tried to teach her to be careful with her words as a child. Kelt, though, was growing up in an environment where almost nothing was off-limits, and reacted by asking her acrobat tutor to teach her Gnomish so she could circumvent her mother's restrictions in a language she didn't understand. After accidentally casting Vicious Mockery at her sparring partner, she was forced to be more careful, although she only learned to control her magic, not her tongue.
 
When she was twenty-three, her parents decided to retire to Valpond, and she followed them there and settled into a more sedentary lifestyle for a few years. Though living in Valpond initially held some interest for her, she was tired of the routine of housework and helping with her father's garden within half a year. It was around that time that she met, befriended, and then fell in love with Rowe, a farmer's son.
 
The couple got engaged almost two years later, but struggled. Rowe, who wanted a stable life and family, grew frustrated with Kelt's unwillingness to settle down, and Kelt began to feel trapped by Rowe's desire to build a permanent life together. Soon after, she broke off the engagement and left town. She looks back on their relationship fondly, but has no desire to reconcile with him, and they haven't had any contact since she left, though she often sends letters to Valpond for her parents.
 
In the last twenty-odd years after leaving Valpond, she's traveled with two different troupes, taken dozens of odd jobs and short-term employment, and has wandered across a good chunk of the continent; always writing, but never visiting, home.

Education

No formal education, but learned an eclectic mix of skills and knowledge from traveling with her troupe, including tumbling, acting, sewing, card and dice games, fighting, and painting.
 
Grew up speaking both Elvish and Common, and learned to read and write both from her mother.
 
Learned to speak Gnomish from the gnome who taught her acrobatics, but isn't able to read or write it.

Employment

She began acting before she was ten and helped prepare for performances at an even younger age. Aside from acting, she's taken up a number of jobs ranging from bartending to courier work, but never stays at one job for long.

Failures & Embarrassments

Between her irreverent nature and her love of a good insult, she's been kicked out of more than a few taverns and caused scandals in small towns. Smooth talking can only get her out of so many of those consequences.
 
Arlyn easily almost killed her when she was forced to fight her, which she finds a little embarrassing. She wants to fight her again properly to see if Arlyn really is better than she is.

Intellectual Characteristics

dumbass

Morality & Philosophy

Generally, she avoids being deliberately cruel to those who don't deserve it, but she doesn't often worry herself with questions of morality or philosophy, and that thoughtlessness can have unintended consequences for others. If she thought about it, she'd probably agree with positive nihilism - life is meaningless, so enjoy what you can.
 
In her few moments of genuine reflection, she's realized that she envies the long lives of elves, and fears dying before she's experienced everything she wants to try. That said, she also hasn't fully grasped the thought of her own future death, even though she knows logically that everything dies eventually.

Known Languages

Common, Elvish, Gnomish

Personality

Motivation

More than anything, she hates to be bored, and the constant new experiences from traveling are exciting enough to draw her interest.
 
Despite being a drifter with little to tie her anywhere other than her parents, she's not searching for a cause or greater meaning in life - all she wants is to keep doing what she enjoys and try what seems interesting. Despite her longer lifespan, there are still thousands of things she's never seen or tried, and that makes her certain that she never needs to worry about running out of things to do.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Has an excellent memory, knows all sorts of information and trivia, and is well-practiced in most of the tasks needed to live on the road. She's a persuasive speaker and very flexible.
 
She's also a disastrous cook, is bad at budgeting, and has large gaps in her knowledge due to her lack of formal education that she has little inclination to fix. Though she claims it's from lack of interest, she's also just not very good at most subjects.

Likes & Dislikes

Enjoys early mornings and late nights, festivals, playing cards, riddles, swordfights, and anything that she hasn't done before or that seems likely to make a good story.
 
Dislikes needing to sleep, most scholarly pursuits, rain, bitter flavors, and stiff or stodgy people.

Vices & Personality flaws

Bad at holding her tongue unless she specifically reminds herself to do so, and tends to talk her way into trouble even more than out of trouble.

Hygiene

Tries to keep clean as much as she can, but is usually covered in a layer of road dust.

Social

Birthplace

Near Riverton

Family Ties

Both of her parents are former actors enjoying their retirement in Valpond. Her human father, Aronne, is learning to garden, and her elven mother Sybella heads a children's community theatre. She gets along well with both of her parents, especially her mother, and writes them letters about her adventures and misadventures often.

Religious Views

While she acknowledges the existence of the gods, she doesn't pay any particular attention to most, but pays more respect to Dionysus and the Muses.

Social Aptitude

Comfortable in all sorts of social situations and excellent at faking ease when she's not. She's talkative and loves a good insult. Her silver tongue is more likely to get her into trouble than out of it, despite her best efforts.