Athrath Whispersong

Background
Athrath Whispersong was a cleric to Chislev, the Beast, Wild One, and World Mother, at the temple to Chislev at the bottom of the Peragus Ocean. A part of the deep-sea elven race of Dargonesti, dolphin shape-shifters and faithful worshippers of the Wild One, the world-above-water was only sky, cloud, and random ships sailing by. Then the Great Storm of the year of Anemone washed through, leaving behind wrecks upon wrecks, pieces of broken wood sinking slowly, and bodies sinking faster. As the clerics of the Deep Sea rose to meet the dead for their final rest, Whispersong came across something not quite dead. Three weeks later, he was gone.

Whispersong would not easily talk of the next few years. Even his daughter, 'Lia, only ever caught fragments of the tale.

Scratch marks covered his upper body, thin lines of white criss-crossing his soft, grey-blue skin. 'Lia often wondered how he'd gotten them, but whenever she asked, he would tell her a different story. One day he would say he used to fight wolves, defending the wagons of the caravans they often travelled with. The next, he would say he had fought a dragon. The third day, he might claim they were scars from being whipped, when he was banished from the Deep Sea Dargonesti cities. Sometimes, a cock-and-bull story was easier to bear than admitting to having... history...

As to questions regarding 'Lia's mother, who logically had to exist, he simply refused to talk, though he would occasionally have nightmares, calling for "Bibby" through the night. 'Lia naturally assumed it was her mother's name. Athrath never argued. As they travelled, never settling in any place longer than it took for a caravan to start out, he taught Annalia the ways of Chislev. Just after she reached initiation to first level nature cleric, though, Athrath Whispersong took a rock to the head, and died soon after.

In his final days, mind blurred, his nightmares returned even during bright day, and his slurring included more about "Bibby", someone he lovingly called "Starshine", and a lot of nonsense 'Lia wished she'd never heard from her father.

Appearance
- Appears in the background story of Annalia " 'Lia " Waters