My DnD Character's background

Calypso's Backstory

Calypso Meleimne was born into a family with only a mother named Rhea around as her father ran off after he discovered her mother was pregnant yet again with her younger brother (so she was around 2 in elf years ig😭). Leaving her to take care of young Calypso along with her other children, no child support. no visitation. nothing. Her mother was very kind and wouldn't even think of placing a hand on her children in a threatening manner as even though they lived in poverty and the fact that she was addicted to drugs and alcohol she still loved them and did not truly blame them for any of her problems. She also hated that she felt as though she was unfit to be a mother to the children she loved more than life itself which sadly caused her to be (even though she did not want to be) rather neglectful towards her children constantly spiraling into depression using pints and needles to cope which meant that she wound up leaving the elder children to take care of their siblings which thankfully allowed the eventually 7 siblings (4 boys and 3 girls including Calypso) to have a tight knit bond with one another which, while the circumstances could have been much better they're thankful for this 'gift from the gods' as they would call it.

Calypso's siblings (f for female m for male) in order of eldest to youngest in human years is Varda(f) 26, the twins Alf(m) and Albin(m)24, Claude(m) 22, Everest(f)18, Calypso(f) 16, Rui(m)14. However out of all of her siblings Calypso has the best relationship with her only younger sibling her brother Rui who she hoped to one day save from poverty along with her mother to get her help like she wanted as Rhea knew she couldn't over come her addictions alone.

When she was 11 she suffered permanently from an explosion in an accident caused by a rocket/firework being launched at her when it fell over after being lit at a festival her and her family attended. In a last ditch effort however to protect her face which left her with a scarred hand that for the most part had tremors constantly from nerve damage (her non dominate hand/her left hand). Even though she got immediate medical attention there was no salvaging her leg which is the opposite story for her hand. Knowing how pricey the surgery would be to remove her leg she cut it off herself with a hatchet (the same one she carries during the campaign). She did this as it would be cheaper for them to give her blood bags and try to help the skin grow over the open wound with magic which amazed her as she never really got to see magic much as no one in her family taught her the ways of a cleric or a druid or something similar.

She felt horrible for still giving her family yet another bill to pay so to help them she paid for her own prosthetic leg (above the knee prosthetic) so she could hopefully get a job to help pay off their medical debt. She decided to work at the pier at the young age of 11.

A few years after she started working at the pier she was walking along the dock carrying a bucket of bait for a older sailor, a freak accident happened where another sailor brought his line to far back and it snagged her nostril and ripped it upwards and over her nose bringing it over her nose being before it released itself. The sailor who she brought the bait to ran over with a semi-clean rag and applied some pressure to the wound while someone got a medical professional who was named Dr. Ofandrus who gave her medical attention. She was instantly amazed by the fact that he used magic to heal her only leaving scars and a slightly split nostril.

So she became Dr. Ernest Ofandrus' paid apprentice. On top of this she learned how to use medical equipment and how to help with wounds and illnesses along with some more common poisons. She thought of the doctor as the father she never had and he treated her and her siblings as his own and wanted her to get a good education so he enrolled her in a school to help Calypso feed her hunger for learning.
(This is also how she built up an immunity to certain poisons through working with crafting antidotes and such)
Calypso has always found safety and comfort in religion and practices of magic. Her mother never really introduced her to religion it was more of she was introduced to it by one of her friends from when she was younger and their aggressive views of religion but frankly that didn't affect her she just wanted to check it out and so she did and she now harnesses her abilities and such from 3 gods (I'll finish later)

      So, by time she was 16 all of her older siblings were out of the house and living their lives trying to move past their childhoods and live somewhat of normal lives trying to save up money to get the youngest two to college.

    Her mother one day spiraled back into the lowest depths of her depression and addictions where she accidentally overdosed and sadly passed leaving Rui and Calypso orphaned which her mentor could not live with so with the permission of their siblings he adopted them to get both of them a good education and a good home to come home to everyday.

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