Syl

Details
Tiefling Paladin

Background: Acolyte - Feature: Shelter of the Faithful)

Back Story
Determined not to let Syl’s infernal blood besmirch her legacy, her mother gave her over to the temple of Illmater at a young age. A venerated cleric of Illmater, Syl’s mother had her schooled in Illmater’s strictures. Eager to gain her mother’s acceptance, Syl studied hard, but could barely keep up with her peers. One grey morning, a trio of armored knights came riding into the grounds of Syl’s abbey, one wounded and needing the attention of a cleric. Syl ran to get her mother, who then healed the knight, a paladin of Tyr. The paladin gave Syl a small trinket, Tyr’s holy symbol on a thin metal chain, as thanks. After seeing the knights ride out in their gleaming, if slightly battered armor, Syl decided that her future lie not with Illmater, but with Tyr, under whom she could right the wrongs of injustice with might and steel, rather than prayers and soup.

She followed the paladins back to their temple in Waterdeep and begged for admittance to their order. The paladin who had given her the trinket was impressed by her courage and sent word to Syl’s mother. When word came back that Syl, after abandoning her duties, had no place in her mother’s home, the paladin took her as a squire and taught her the ways of combat and Tyr’s unyielding justice.