Vex

Vex is a mute tiefling orphan from the swamp town of Balsón. Growing up a hated street rat taught her the ways of stealth and thievery, as well as persuasion and lies. Though Vex may lack tact, she makes up for it with an indeterminable will and deep compassion for friends and allies.

Early Life
Balsón is a town that has little going for it. Infertile swamp lands far from large civilization, the people here found any excuse to blame their misfortune or poor choices on besides themselves. For the majority of vex's childhood it was her. Tieflings make easy scapegoats for the common folk, and without her parents to protect her she found survival to be a struggle. These hardships tempered her however; taught her lessons that would serve her and define her attitude in life.

Dragons
Vex had survived in Balsón for 17 years before her life had been truly threatened by the villagers. Despite the poor soil, the community relied on agriculture to sustain their village. That was until their fields became the new territory of a misplaced dragon. The townsfolk of Balsón saw this as a curse and directed their rage at the easiest of targets: Vex.

Hysteria took hold of the village as their crops burned and all their fury unleashed upon Vex. The mob captured and nearly killed her, cutting her throat. Her life was spared only by a passing stranger who took the injured Vex and treated her wounds as best he could. Upon awaking Vex found she had kept her life at the cost of her voice. Now mute, she quickly attached herself to her savior: a sorcerer named Tav'lin who was here in search of the dragon itself.

The dragon Tav'lin had been sent to find was a young adult brass dragon by the name of Sar'riyit Nadabmakhla who had ran away from her home. The apparent reason for this was a forbidden love between her and a black dragon named Faqaea Bin Zil which resulted in birth of an egg. Tav'lin insisted that she return to her father but knew that her father would find the child unacceptable. Thus a secret arrangement was struck between the three of them: Vex would take and care for the egg until it was deemed safe for Sar'riyit to return to it.

Vex now a foster mother for the spawn of a dragon knew that she must grow her abilities as a sorcerer to properly care for the wyrmling-to-be. Upon Tav'lin's recommendation she received enrollment in Arcturus Academy of the Arcane where she could study with other young magicians under the most knowledgable scholars on the continent.