Lith Oakenheart is a Shadar Kai, Circle of the Moon druid. Like other Shadar Kai, she is ashen pale, with white hair and pupilless black eyes. Unlike other Shadar Kai, she dyes her hair whatever color suits her fancy (currently purple with swirls of pink and blue), is pretty darned chipper, and loves colors and animals. A member of The Voyagers, Lith loves to explore and wants to seek out strange new animals and boop them (or make a nice drawing if they don’t want to be booped).
Family Lith’s rather un-Shadar Kai like nature may be due to the fact that she was raised on Crannathragh instead of Flaygallows. Found orphaned, she was taken in by wood elves Eirlys and Gumption Oakenheart and raised as part of their rather eclectic family. This kind couple is known for taking in strays, so Lith grew up among a menagerie of orphaned and injured wildlife as well as several siblings of various races. One or two might have been born to the Oakenhearts, but none of their kids were entirely sure. Several, like Lith and her younger brother Rock, a stone goliath, were definitely not. She was raised among six siblings and likes to collect trinkets for them during her adventures, along with her notes and drawings of new animals or plants she encounters. She wears a necklace with charm for each sibling and her parents.
Village Lith grew up in the Village of Calladh-ard, which grows among the branches and trunks of enormous trees. Because they tend to take in stray wildlife as well as children, the Oakenheart’s home is on the outskirts of the village. A well traveled path through the treetops connects Calladh-ard to the Voyager outpost on Crannathragh, though the way is not without its dangers.
Family Lith grew up with
- Eirlys Oakenheart – wood elf, mom
- Gumption Oakeheart – wood elf, dad
- Rock – 8 year old stone goliath little brother. Loves rocks, especially the floating one Lith sent him from a tiny shard she passed through on the way to the Lava Swamp during a job for Storm of Vengeance.
- Elmanor – 120 year old wood elf older brother. A nature lover like Lith, she often sends him feathers and pressed flowers.
- Lief – 35 year old human younger brother, in some ways more mature than Lith despite being much younger. She sends him pressed leaves because Lief…get it?
- Aerin – 173 year old wood elf older sister. Not as close given the age gap, and the fact she left home while Lith was still young, but Lith still sends her the occasional post card, letter, or writing materials.
- Cogdribble – 37 year old gnome younger sister. Loves to tinker and take apart any device she can lay her hands on. Lith sends her any trinkets, gears, or clockwork or mechanical devices she finds, even broken ones since Cogdribble loves the challenge.
- Seren – 40 year old wood elf younger sister. No one expects Seren to stay home much longer as she is rather obsessed with voidships. She too will likely join The Voyagers and head off exploring soon.
Other Family
- Shalay – birth mom??? Holy crap… Lith and her team recently found a portrait gallery and genealogies for the descendants of Ariyah at the hidden shard, Darkgate Manor. Shalay’s portrait looks very similar to Lith and shows her holding a baby that appears to be Lith. Lith kept the portrait, as well as a tiara that looks pretty similar to Princess Gloriana’s.
- Ariyah the Reborn – great great great…grandma. Ariyah’s warmth and lighthearted spirit appears to have been passed on to her many times great granddaughter.
- Cousins – there was evidence at Darkgate Manor of two other living Orphans of Ariyah that the genealogies indicate would be her 2nd cousins (same great-grandparents, coefficient of relationship = 3.125%).
- A variety of “siblings” scattered throughout the Aetherverse that were also raised by the Oakenhearts. Two of which run Brewed on Welmet Station.