Maybell Tuberosum

Maybell

Name: Maybell Tuberosum
Age: About halfway in her 20s, she's not sure, but 7 is a fun number to say, so 27
Race: Halfling

Maybell's origins

Maybell's life

Maybell was born in a nomadic halfling community, following the path of the Gloamin river between the mountains and the Sarodin Sea, based on the seasons. Her parents were some of the better cooks of the tribe. Maybell used to help them out a lot, when she wasn’t daydreaming or listening to the elders, telling stories. Later, she relayed those stories for the smaller kids, who she used to watch over and play with. Maybell got along very well with the kids, being very child-like herself. Around the time of Maybell getting to adulthood, she was on a crossroad of keep living like she was, or growing up and take responsibility. Not too long after becoming an adult, while the community was in their semi-permanent camp in the woods, she decided to stop believing in fairytales about the Feywild and their creatures. Allowing herself one last daydream while gathering herbs and mushrooms, a pretty cat came on her path. The cat was very friendly towards Maybell and seemed to want to play, so Maybell followed the kitty.
The cat, named Sprinkles by Maybell, lead her to the Feywild, without Maybell noticing right away. Maybell and Sprinkles played together for a long time, many days were spent playing, napping and exploring. Throughout the Feywild Maybell found that things were different from home, including sprinkles. It was easier to talk to most of the animals, plants normally edible had different, stronger, effects on the body. Eating red apples was out of the question, beans could have a lot of different effects, peas grew under the mattresses of princesses, pumpkins could suddenly sprout charriots and candy was suitable building material for the houses of hags. One of the safer plants to eat was rampion, which only made hair grow faster. While it was clear that quite some time has passed, at least a few days, how much was very much unclear, seeing how the Feywild is in a permanent state of twilight. After what felt like maybe a week, Maybell talked with Sprinkles about it being time to go back.
While able to navigate parts of the Feywild quite well, the route to the Material Plane was harder for Maybell to find on her own. She was able when focusing hard to find pieces of what she remembered. It slightly looked boring, but in a calming, relaxing way. She still needed Sprinkles help to get out, not to mention the attachment between the two, making them want to stay together. While getting back to the camp she’d left, Maybell noticed that the seasons had changed, so the others must have moved on. When they found the camp, however, the semi-permanent houses that were normally quick to make homely were largely in a state of disrepair. “There must have been a storm that demolished it! Good thing we are a nomadic tribe and moved on.” In the end, in stead of tracking her family right away, Maybell and Sprinkles went on their way looking for new friends, feeling changed by the experience. She knows all about the surrounding and the people found there. Over the next few years they traveled between the Feywild and Material Plane, mostly thanks to Sprinkles’ ability to find the way. Through this she was able to learn about Fay-magic and meet nice people, like the current party.

What happened in the meantime

For a long time the community looked for Maybell, while they would normally spent the summers by the lake, a lot of them stayed behind, looking for her instead. They kept making the same travels between the mountains and the sea, though lots skipped their stop in the forests. While most gotten the mourning out of the way, it could still be too heavy to be in that same place. Others were afraid of children and young adults being spirited away. With time, the tribe fell apart, some staying in the mountains or near the Sardonin Sea, others finding themselves going to bigger cities.

Sprinkles' perpective

Throughout the Feywild there is a legend that power comes from the believe of creatures in the Material Plane in what does/doesn’t happen there. The older the believer is, the more powerful the magic they create is. If someone like that is found, creatures from the Feywild will try their best to keep it that way. An animal with a compatible personality is often picked to show them their doubt is for naught. Some of these are ‘invited’ to come over to the Feywild. The inherit magic and the magic created by those individuals might mix and give those individuals magical abilities. For this, a significant amount of time must be spent in the Feywild at once. How long this is will differ based on the magic fields and time will run at different speeds in the different planes, resulting in people coming back way older or after many years, hardly looking a day older then when they left.
Sprinkles was appointed to befriend Maybell, happening very quickly. They spent 3 weeks playing in the Feywild, Sprinkles showing Maybell as much wonders as possible. They spend way longer than planned there, resulting in the time going at almost ten years in the Material Plane for each day in the Feywild. Sprinkles knows this, but can’t find it in herself to tell Maybell that everyone she loved has passed away.

Sprinkles can cast the following spell, once:

Blessing of Bountiful Generosity.

Targets up to eight creatures within 100 feet of it that it can see. The next time a target finishes a long rest, it regains all spent Hit Dice and gains 10 temporary hit points.

Present day Maybell

While Maybell isn’t the smartest and can be very naïve and unseeing, even she could see that things changed and years have gone by (though she doesn’t know how many). She’s afraid that if she was to look up her parents, she’d make things worse for them, scaring them and scared of how much they would have aged. She suppresses those emotions by only looking at the good parts in life, enjoying the wonders in it. Together with suppressing those emotions, Maybell turns her back on acting like an adult, since that would mean facing how she abandoned her parents.