Selina, Thief and Bast Worshipper

Selina comes originally from Mulhorand where she was a devotee of the goddess Bast and a novice sneak thief. Her childhood religion has left in her a deep obsession with all things cat related.

In one of her early exploits she attempted to rob a slaver of some cat shaped trinkets but ended up being aprehended herself. The slaver brought her north, en route to Zhentil Keep. Too Bad Jim, also of Mulhorand, noticed her when the slaver passed through Bug Tussle. Intrigued by her exhortations to Bast to help save her because he knew that his own goddes, Sharess, is likely the same diety by another name, he purchased her from the man on the condition that she train with him to become a priestess of Sharess in the Church of Divine Pleasure.

Sharess is, in fact, the northern manifestation of Bast, but Selina could not bring herself to make the conversion and continued to venerate Bast only as the Cat Goddess. This obstinance kept her at constant odds with the High Sensate. Also, her tendency toward cleptomania (concerning items related to cats she has to save vs spell at -10 to avoid the overwhelming urge to steal them) caused her to constantly place her own pleasure above that of those who came to worship at the temple. This Too Bad could not tolerate.

Because she found no pleasure whatsoever in providing pleasure to others she avoided helping others to feel pleasure whenever possible, almost to the point of deriving pleasure from that denial. This rift caused her to be expelled from the priesthood and left her free to pursue the more more natural vocation of being a professional thief.

When she left the church, she was allowed to take with her certain items including her specially made cat's claw gloves and boots, a tight fitting black silk body suit, mask, and cat's ear tiara. She also wears a solid gold holy symbol of Bast (though she has no power to use it as such), and a golden belt with a ruby studded buckle. These last items are truly valuable, but she will never willingly part with either.

She was allowed to leave the church by the High Sensate, but must repay his initial payment made by Too Bad Jim to the slaver, a debt of 1000gp. Further, she is indebted to Groot Hairfoot, who took her in at his Inn and undertook her formal training as a thief. For this initial training she owes the sum of 200gp. She signed a binding agreement that she will seek him out as her exclusive tutor until she has attained 3rd level and until that time in addition to any applicable training fees she will surrender to him 5% of all financial wealth attained in the line of work for which she has been trained.

According to the terms of the contract, in the event of her death before attaining third level, Groot Hairfoot is the sole benefactor of all wealth personally owned by Selina. After repayment of all sums owed and the successful attaiment of third level all obligations by either party are rendered null and void.

Groot had expected this to be a long and fruitful arrangement, however last night Selina had an extremely troubling dream. In it she was travelling to Dagger Falls with the Gypsy who lives in town, one of the priestesses of Sharess from the Temple of Divine Pleasures with whom she was friends, an elf she doesn't know and a man in a green turban. In the dream she is kissed by a nixie, engulfed in flames, chased by wooden dwarves, attacked by giant flies and frogs, watched one of her cats be killed, and other troubling images...but are they a preminition? Who can say? All she knows for sure is that although she went to sleep a first level thief and woke up a third level one.

She spent the entire day going through tests with her mentor and proved she'd somehow achieved the abilities and skills of a third level thief. With that demonstration, she was ceritified and her contract with Groot was ended. Selina was truly free now to seek her own fortune...the first portion of which would need to go toward paying off her debts.

Still, she had enough coin to celebrate, and that's exactly what she planned to do at the Fighter's Own tavern.

As a personal goal, Selina hopes to one day meet and kill the slaver who took her from Mulhorand.