User:StarSword/Esmerelle Patten

Esmerelle Patten was born in West Harbor, but ran away from home at age fifteen and ended up in Waterdeep. She briefly made a decent living as a thief, but stole from the wrong person and had to leave town rather abruptly. She found her way to Nehr'bak, where Falcar Greycastle took her in. Greycastle taught her to access the innate divinity in her soul, awakening her dormant paladin abilities.

At age 18, Esmerelle was sent to Icewind Dale to cross-train under the dwarf wizard Drogan, and was present when kobolds under the red dragon Tymofarrar attacked Icewind Dale and stole four Netherese artifacts from the wizard's home. She recovered the artifacts with the aid of the rogue Dorna Trapspringer, traveled into the Anauroch to have one of them scryed, defeated a Bedine lich, was petrified by a medusa in the ruins of Undrentide, was restored to life by an Asabi merchant Ashtara, and finally killed the medusa atop Undrentide. She survived Undrentide's destruction by escaping into the Plane of Shadow, and found her way back out to the Prime a year and a half later.

Following these adventures, Esmerelle was made a full paladin of the Lanceboard.

Six months later, Waterdeep was assaulted by the armies of the drow Valsharess.

Esmerelle was for two years the Grandmaster of the Order of the Lanceboard, but when her husband Valen died in combat barely six months after Kalir's birth, Esmerelle was overcome with grief and left the Order to raise their child in her hometown of West Harbor. Her hope was for Kalir to live out her life as a simple village woman, but all that changed when the King of Shadows returned and Ammon Jerro led the armies of Neverwinter to the Mere of Dead Men to challenge him. In the fighting, the Silver Sword of Gith was broken. Esmerelle instinctively dove on top of the two-year-old Kalir to protect her from the blast; a shard passed through her body and embedded itself in Kalir's chest, killing her mother instantly.