Character Name and Pronouns: Tallunah “Tali” or “Tuna” Quicksilver, She/Her
Character Sheet: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/146481356
Species: Dragonborn, Silver
Class/Subclass: Rogue Thief
Background: Inheritor with a map.
Special Skills, Quirks, or Hobbies: Hobbies: Collects (NOT hoards) tiny figurines, beans (like once they are dry), silk sachets of tea, and small soaps. Figurines that are religious in nature are tossed into the river with a “Gods for the fish!” shouted out joyously.
Quirkily, Tallunah isn’t very appreciative of gods or other massive authority figures.
Quirkily as well, Tallunah enjoys finding Things. And researching things, to find them. Or she’ll maybe just find something, then study it. She loves finding things in other people’s homes, or at the Bardic Dorms, because….students have fascinating things. Farmers and people who grow random food-stuff on their balconies, or out their windows, also need to be examined - the beans, or maybe a few cherry tomatoes, not the people.
Special Skills include rope walking, ice making (with the Druids, twice a week), washing windows, chimney sweeping, getting cats out of trees, and taste testing. Please don’t tell Tallunah that when certain eating establishments send a messenger out to find her late at night to ‘taste test’ a newly spiced chicken-on-a-stick (yes, a whole roast chicken sometimes!), or a variety of topping-drizzled-corn-cobs, it may have to do with said establishment being cautious with new, suspicious or extra-rowdy guests who may be troublemakers. Once people get a gander at a six foot tall Dragonborn flashing her teeth and claws while snorfling down a corn cob whole, they may think twice, or become too distracted to commit to whatever shenanigans they may have been up to prior to her arrival. Let the poor woman believe she has input on tomorrow’s menu.
Notable Physical Features: She’s noticeably tall, svelte, with a silverish sheen, dark blue eyes, and a lovely spiked crest that runs from the top of her head, down her back, that has a slight blue tint due to her age. Her bare clawed feet, and hands, are well manicured.
Backstory:
Sharing is caring.
Actually, sharing is a keystone to cooperative, communal living. At least ten generations of Silver Dragonborn, along with a few generations of gemmy Dragonborns, and one odd duck family of Copper, thrive just below the treeline in the near-frozen Sunpeak mountains. In meaning, deep inside, which may be why they enjoy the company of the metal mining Dwarves who are practically next door. Near everything in Tallunah’s world was shared and swapped, refitted, and regurgitated between families. Even children were raised together by a million ‘parents’, as she would say, and there was barely ever any nonsense, or wildness, unless you were smart and able to get away - to hide, to sneak away - from all of those eyes.
When the young Tallunah escaped, she managed to explore tunnels, pockets of mushroom foraging forests, and lost crumbling caves with crooked steps and slippery but sturdy stalagmites that definitely led upward to ancient treasure, but she had never found it.
The Silver Song Tavern, a renown dining establishment for both Dragonborn and visitors, had been in the Quicksilver family for ten generations. A meal was traded for with a song. Sing for your supper! was definitely a way to bring in a steady stream of customers, but remember, this was geared towards the commune. The visitors came later, when the Dwarves started to trade with the community. Then, a couple of times a year in the Summer months, people would split off from their merchant caravan through the mountains just to see a society of Dragonborns when doing business with the Dwarves next door. All were welcome at the Silver Song Tavern; if one did not sing or play an instrument, coin was accepted but not as appreciated.
Tallunah had learned quickly to appreciate coins and the ways of Humans, and even Elves. She had a wanderlust so very strong, the Elder Council decided that it would be best to let her travel. Afterall, the map found in a polished, hollowed out wooly yak bone, was now her destiny; her journey to fulfill or fail at. The Quicksilver family had purposefully hidden that troublesome, rolled up map and squirreled it away, deep in the warm, humid fruit-cellar which was only tended to by her older brother, a Chef-in-Training, specializing in pineapple preparation and gemmy orange potato casseroles. This was how he was going to make his mark. A century earlier the family lost one of their personal growing caves to high heat and a sudden sulphuric burst of water. Many of the herbs that were used could be recalled, including the well-used Moon Elf spearmint, Gnomish blue basil, and family-developed red-streaked peppers that were smoked, dried, and powdered for their then-famous Bloomed Onion Flower Atop a Braised Meat Island within a shallow bowl of pop-up mushrooms and an assortment of potatoes…all swimming in a stew so very famous, a pack of Humans pushed through a late Spring storm to eat this symphony of delicacies, leaving a bag of gold in trade for a large cast iron pot of the meal. Perhaps they analyzed the flavors in some alchemical manner, but since the destruction of that particular garden, no one has been able to replicate that something-about-it magic to it. It’s still great, but it’s missing….something. The Quicksilvers, over time, became satisfied with what they had, striving for greatness in other aspects of the culinary journey.
To Tallunah, this missing puzzle piece was the legacy of a great woman who put their family on the map, quite literally. It’s about honor to follow this map. Perhaps it will lead to what was missing in complex flavor, or maybe it will lead to only stories about Great, Great, Very Great Grandma Chef Bluetongue. She, too, left the Commune and lived ten years in the wilds of the world before returning to the snowy peaks. Might as well trailblaze, crookedly following an old Dragonborn’s footsteps toward adventure and greatness.
Why Oddwall?: Because that’s where her inherited map led her. Plus, the river has a very nice sparkle about it.
Favorite Tea and Biscuit: Lemongrass Tea. Ginger biscuit.
