Eleanor

Eleanor is a paladin in service to Alethus and a childhood friend of Kilwin.

Appearance
Eleanor is a human woman with chin-length dark hair and bangs. She wears ordinary chainmail and a holy symbol of Alethus.

Personality
Eleanor is a cheerful woman with a strong sense of justice. Although she has mellowed out in adulthood, she still has a slightly reckless streak and does slightly enjoy when she has a good reason to hit people.

Background
As a child, Eleanor went to school at Cowersby's Temple of Alethus, alongside Kilwin and Len. During this time, she developed a strong distaste for Len due his bullying of Kilwin and befriended Kilwin as a result. As she grew older, she began to spend more time around the temple and eventually began training as a paladin under the temple's head paladin, Crys. During her training, she often sparred with Kilwin, and typically won. She swore an oath to Alethus some time before Kilwin left Cowersby. She also has an older sister named Roslyn who runs a dairy farm.

Kilwin's Homecoming
Kilwin visited Eleanor when the party went to Cowersby, and was eager to introduce her to his new friends. Eleanor met the party at the Nervous Turkey, excited to see how Kilwin was doing. After catching up, she challenged Kilwin to a sparring match, which he lost. Eager to facilitate Reides's desire to pet a cow, Kilwin asked if they could visit her sister's farm. Eleanor obliged. Over lunch, Eleanor informed Kilwin that Len had left the village and was rumored to have joined a gang of bandits on the road. When Kilwin announced his intention to go after Len and turn him away from this path, Eleanor asked him to give Len a good beating for her. Upon Len's safe return to Cowersby, Eleanor rapidly approached and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. She was present for Len and the other surviving bandit's sentencing from Father Glasny and Crys, and was tasked with escorting the other bandit to Laketon to be turned over to the proper authorities.

Goals
Eleanor became a paladin out of a desire to keep her home village safe. So far, few serious threats have approached Cowersby, so she has had little trouble being successful in this.

Abilities
Eleanor is skilled with a longsword and shield, presumably in addition to other weapons. She also has access to basic paladin abilities, such as Divine Smite, which she used during her spar with Kilwin and again on Len when he returned to Cowersby.

Eleanor and Kilwin
Eleanor and Kilwin grew up together, and she is his closest friend out of his peers in Cowersby. Although she cares about him, she's not above gently teasing him or putting her all into a training spar with him. In the past, Kilwin had given Eleanor a hard time about her use of profanity, especially within and around the temple, explaining her interest in any hypothetical misbehavior he may have gotten up to during his travels.

Eleanor and Len
Eleanor and Len also grew up together, but their relationship has never been good, due to Len's former bullying of Kilwin. Eleanor's defense of Kilwin likewise drew some of Len's aggression Eleanor's way. As adults, she has some compassion for his situation, but still thinks he deserves a certain degree of roughness for his actions, evidenced when she encouraged Kilwin to give him a good beating on her behalf and punched Len to the ground on sight.

Quotes

 * "Have you ever heard him [Kilwin] swear?"

Trivia

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 * Trivia 2