Zephyra Songsteel
A tiefling playwright whose satirical play about a duke's corruption got the theater burned down. Now she performs in taverns, collects secrets, and turns them into songs that make powerful people nervous.
Tiefling (Infernal)
Bard (College of Lore)
Entertainer
Chaotic Good
Ability Scores
8
-1
14
+2
12
+1
10
+0
13
+1
15
+2
Skill Proficiencies
Character Details
The play was called "The Duke's New Clothes," and it was Zephyra's masterpiece — a musical comedy that named names, quoted real correspondence, and ended with the duke character drowning in a river of his own tax receipts. The audience loved it. The duke did not. The Moonrise Theater burned three days later. Zephyra lost everything: her stage, her troupe, and the only home she'd known since leaving the orphanage at fourteen. What she didn't lose was the notebook — three hundred pages of secrets, rumors, and damning facts she'd collected from servants, courtesans, and drunk nobles over eight years of performances. The duke wants the notebook. Half the court wants the notebook. Zephyra wants justice, and she's learned that a well-placed verse cuts deeper than any sword.
"I know a song for every occasion. Some of them are even appropriate."
"Beauty. When I perform, I make the world better than it was. That matters."
"My notebook of secrets is my most dangerous possession and my greatest weapon."
"I can't resist a dramatic entrance, even when stealth would serve me better."
Appearance
Female
28
5'8"
135 lbs
Violet with gold flecks
Dusky lavender
Silver-white, dramatically styled
Striking and unapologetically tiefling — curved horns polished to a shine, a tail that punctuates her sentences, and a wardrobe of theatrical coats in jewel tones. She carries a lute with a hidden compartment in the body where the notebook lives.