Sawyer Cymerian is a shadar-kai who formerly worshiped the Raven Queen for over eight-hundred years in the Shadowfell. During this time, he went by the name Drear-Lurker, and dreaded missions that required him leaving the Shadowfell, as the world outside seemed too bright, strange, and overwhelming. For the majority of his service to the Raven Queen, he endured severe depression, as many shadar-kai lived lives that were joyless and grim.
Initially enduring dreary centuries of depression, after beginning to take a daily medicinal dose of {St John’s or Jergal's} Wort, his depression improved substantially and he found new enthusiasm for life and the pursuit of happiness free from the Raven Queen, setting him forth on a mission to permanently cure his depression and possibly find a way to extend such a gift to others with depression or other psychiatric disorders.
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History
Like many of his kin, there was little joy in his life for centuries, other than the meager pride to serve the Raven Queen well or the mockery of culture his people clung to. In his city he was an apothecary, and took advantage of the traveling the Raven Queen demanded of him by using his trips as opportunities to collect herbs and roots. Despite trying to bring back samples to the Shadowfell, he rarely got medicinal plants and herbs to successfully flourish in the harsh and unforgiving conditions of the Shadowfell.
Deeply interested in herbalism and medicinal apothecary, Sawyer was experimental with the potions, elixirs, and medicines he made, and often tested the effects on himself to determine the effectiveness of his recipes. Despite shadar-kai bodies being able to live to the normal elven lifespan of seven-hundred fifty years, he prematurely killed three of his prior corporeal vessels by accident via self poisoning from his various amateur experimentations. As with all shadar-kai, his soul was returned to the Raven Queen and born into a new vessel. His fourth (and current) vessel is forty-three years old, and biologically female.
Although shadar-kai tend to care little for their bodily vessels, Sawyer was irritated with his ‘accidental’ wrong sex, and suspected it was punishment by the Raven Queen for his carelessness with his prior bodily vessels, in addition to his lengthy and slow completion of the missions she gave him, as he would go on frequent detours to harvest regional herbs. Not one to waste a body since soul allocation is a tedious process, Sawyer begrudgingly accepted his body and continued to identify as a man, although he grew evermore distant from the Raven Queen as a result. He began to think the Raven Queen did not care about shader-kai, and his faith only evermore wavered.
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Trivia
- If he misses his daily dose of his rudimentary anti-depressant, he will begin to experience withdrawal symptoms the next day, which will give him disadvantage on everything.
- Sawyer is currently in his fourth reincarnated body. His prior three were all male bodies, and his current form is his first time in a female body.
- He stole his outfit from a jester that he once had to harvest the soul of for the Raven Queen, enamored by the colors and flashy style.