Editing Kayleth Lifesinger (section)

==Background==

[[File:Kayleth_adolescent.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kayleth with Gryff]]

Kayleth was a war orphan, and by all rights should have died in infancy. A traveling fortune teller found her in the ruins of her parents' home, and took pity on the girl in a rare moment of selflessness. (An astute reader might ask, what was the fortune teller doing rifling through ruins?). And so, Kayleth grew up under the tutelage of "Bala-Barabushka, great Dame-Sage of the Mystical Voids". Throughout her childhood, the simple half-elven girl carried out the duties of preparing and upkeeping Barabushka's magic illusions, as well as tending to their pack horse, Gryff. She spent her youth stuffing chicken bones into sleeves and gathering pixie dust (simple flowering dust) for "spells".

In later years, Barabushka began to teach Kay a few basic arcane tricks and illusory magic to beguile and seduce coins from the purses of their gullible owners. The older woman knew that one day, her trembling hands would betray her magic seeing talents for what they really are: mere tricks of the eye. In such days, she would have to rely on Kay to take over her Magicke Shoppe of Wonderous Fortunes and earn them both their meals.

How does one start an adventure? Well, for Kayleth Lifesinger, it all started with a visit to [[Silverstone]]. Here, in-between tasks, Kay spent her time reading in the libraries, absorbing as much knowledge as she could. It was inevitable then that Kay would find herself sneeking into the Magic school to find more tomes of arcane (which were not admissible to the typical wandering person).

[[File:Kayleth_book.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A chance encounter]]
In one such trip, however, Kay found a tome unlike any others. It spoke of connections between the world seen and unseen. Immediately, it touched off something mystical: Kay's latent connections to the Feywild, to the arcane. Like a flick of a switch, the light of magic within Kay flashed on and all of her studies started to make sense. She was able to wield magic, as adept as any mage.

Her new-found command over the forces of the arcane did not go unnoticed. Barabushka demanded the girl to use her powers for personal gain. Turning a wealthy merchant here into a frog to liberate his purse, or entrancing a local magistrate there to pardon Barabushka's lengthy list of warrants. In a matter of weeks, the two were on very difficult grounds and before long, they parted ways. While Kay will always be grateful to the elderly woman's kindness for saving her life, she did not want to squander her gifts for mere coin.