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Last Updated
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- [[2021-02-02]]
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Hometown: somewhere in [[ttrpgs/The Slayers Five/Xhorhas]]
## Appearance
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Skin: Deep pink
Hair: Shocking silver, wavy and shoulder-length
Eyes: Silver - very unnerving
Tattoo: diamond dust covers her decolletage like a moonlit, starry sky - a constitution tattoo that the [[Lavish Chateau]] paid for to increase her efficacy as a courtesan.
## Profession
Courtesan
Stage name: "The Damali Diamante"
Lira's profession is essential to who she is. It's all she's ever known, but it's also a distillation of her personality. She exists to soothe others, and finds wayward souls particularly irresistible. She relies on her perception, insight, persuasion, deception,and abilities (charm, sleep, mage hand) to give people what they really want: company, affection, love.
## Backstory
Tieflings are always treated with disdain and suspicion, but Lira's unusual coloring caused her to be the subject of suspicion even among her own kind. Her white hair in particular was unnatural to her tiefling family, whose superstitions branded Lira as a curse.
As a young girl, Lira was abandoned by her family in Xhorhas and found by slavers, under the direction of [[Ophelia Mardoon]], who took her to the [[ttrpgs/The Slayers Five/Nicodranas]] in the [[Menagerie Coast]] to work as a courtesan. She barely remembers her family, except for her mother telling her to stay and wait in a swamp and never returning.
Lira's unique coloring and the fact that she was a tiefling made her very popular among johns in Nicodranas, and the very thing that made her an outcast in [[ttrpgs/The Slayers Five/Xhorhas]] made her an object of fetishistic lust on the [[Menagerie Coast]].
Lira trained under several mistresses before she fell under the watchful eye of the [[Ruby of the Sea]] herself, who taught her that there is more to a courtesan than whoring. She gave Lira her first musical instrument, a lute, which changed Lira's life. Where previously, she had seen myself as a victim of unfortunate circumstances, she began to take delight in being a courtesan and bringing joy to people.
That's when the [[The Golden Grin]] approached her. They wanted to recruit Lira, and since their goals matched her own, she accepted. They have asked her to do minor things to her clients, such as distracting someone or stealing a vial or other object, each bigger than the last. Their last request was for her to start making a name for herself in the Dwendalian empire, so that they might be able to pull strings there as well.
## Goals and motivations
### Immediate
Find and kill the leader of the group that kidnapped her when she was young.
Under the Grinners' direction, she wants to establish herself as a wandering performer in the Dwendalian empire.
### Secondary
Make her own way and determine her own path: not her family's, not the Ruby of the Sea's, but her own.
### Secrets
She has some serious issues with her physical form. She experienced sexual abuse when she was initially sold into slavery, and since then she's battled trauma from it. She is only emotionally capable of sex when in a form other than her own (through Disguise Self). She also hides the fact that she has functional bat wings, because they've been both sexualized and feared.
When Boris meets her, she is finishing off her last performance at the [[Lavish Chateau]]. She has already said goodbye to the Ruby and is set to make the journey to Zadash, but she will offer Boris gold to accompany her.
## Bonds
### [[Boris]]
Boris gave Lira the ability to fly, and he did so without any trace of sexualization or of fear. She felt what it was like to be flying with no sense of shame. She owes him a favor.
### [[Ora]]
Lira both mistrusts and is intensely jealous of Ora because of Ora's shapeshifting. She wishes she could do the same thing, and is working up the courage to ask Ora how she got it.
## Songs
### [[The Golden Grin]] songs
[[Grinning Fool]]
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## Other songs
### That Thing You Do
You
Doin' that thing you do
Axing that thing into a million pieces
Like you always doo-ooh
### Love Yourself (Justin Bieber)
Cause if you like the way you fight that much
Oh baby you should go and hit yourself
### I'm Yours
Open up your eyes and then you'll see
We're just one big family
Look into my eyes and you'll find
### Dear Future Husband
You've got that 9 to 5
but baby so do I
So don't be thinking I'll be home and baking apple pie
I never learned to fight
but I can heal you right
sing along with me
sing, sing along with me
### Shape of You
Hey, you know we want your head
Your head was handmade for somebody like us
Come on now, follow my lead
I may be crazy, don't mind me
Say, hey, let's not talk too much
Grab on her dagger and we'll show you what you need
Come on now, show us how you bleed
Come, come on now, show us how you bleed (mmmm)
### This Love
This blow ain't taking its toll on you
I say goodbye and you're going on the floooooor
Your heart is breaking in front of me
Coz Boris, he's great - you ain't gonna be there anymoore
### Nae Nae
Now watch me hit
Now watch me nae nae
### Underneath your clothes
Underneath your scales
There's an endless story
You won't hit this time
and I'm not sorry
### No Woman No Cry
No Dragon No Cry
## Used songs
## Other songs
### That Thing You Do
You
Doin' that thing you do
Axing that thing into a million pieces
Like you always doo-ooh
### Love Yourself (Justin Bieber)
Cause if you like the way you fight that much
Oh baby you should go and hit yourself
### I'm Yours
Open up your eyes and then you'll see
We're just one big family
Look into my eyes and you'll find
hate, hate, hate
### Dear Future Husband
You've got that 9 to 5
but baby so do I
So don't be thinking I'll be home and baking apple pie
I never learned to fight
but I can heal you right
sing along with me
sing, sing along with me
### Shape of You
Hey, you know we want your head
Your head was handmade for somebody like us
Come on now, follow my lead
I may be crazy, don't mind me
Say, hey, let's not talk too much
Grab on her dagger and we'll show you what you need
Come on now, show us how you bleed
Come, come on now, show us how you bleed (mmmm)
### This Love
This blow ain't taking its toll on you
I say goodbye and you're going on the floooooor
Your heart is breaking in front of me
Coz Boris, he's great - you ain't gonna be there anymoore
### Nae Nae
Now watch me hit
Now watch me nae nae
### Underneath your clothes
Underneath your scales
There's an endless story
You won't hit this time
and I'm not sorry
### No Woman No Cry
No Dragon No Cry
## Used songs
### Bardic Inspiration
#### Other songs
- Livin' La Vida Loca
- S-S-S-Single Bed
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#### Havana - ORA
O Ora ooo nana
She's gonna use her psychic daggah ooh na na
She'll slice you just like a banana ooh na na
All of your heart is soft and yella
You should run back to your nana
She doesn't walk up with that how you' doin
And when she takes out her soul blades she wins
She'll do you so good you won't remember it
And just when you think you've got her she grins
She's got you feeling like
ooooh...
You knew it when you saw her
Your name is on her dagger
#### Highway to hell - BORIS
Lovin' easy
Ragin' free
Boris got you on a one way ride
Askin' nothin'
Smashin' skulls
Takin' everythin' in his stride
Don't need reason
Just need rage
Ain't nothin' that he'd rather do
Goin' down
Not for him!
Being green means he's got lives times two
He's on the highway to hell
on the highway to hell
Highway to hell
He's on the highway to hell
#### It's My Life ✅ - JAMEDI
Jamedi!
it's now or never
It's not gonna live forever
I just wanna help you take its life
JA. ME. Di!
#### One Way or Another - CTE
One way or another
She's gonna blastya
She's gonna getcha getcha getcha with her
Tentacles or another!
### Song of Rest
#### Doesn't Remind Me
Never made it as a fighter
Too many dangers for a female tiefling
Tired of singin' for my supper
But now I'm singin' and it's me I'm healin'
And this is how I remind you
This is how I remind you of who we really are
### Healing word songs
#### Sexual healing
And when I get that feeling
You want physical healing
You want physical healin
#### Heal the World ✅
Healing word
I'll wipe the blood from your face
for you and or me and for the entire wildemount race
### Vicious Mockery or Cutting Words
#### Somebody
Somebody once told me
these things are kinda dumb
and they ain't the sharpest tools in the shed
I said Wow! So scary and yet
your attack won't hit and then
we could all use a little change!
### Revivify
#### Tubthumping
You get knocked down
but you'll get up again
ain't never gonna keep you down
### Slow
#### Nice and slow
Let me take you to a place that's nice and quiet
Where there's no one who'll interrupt
I just want you to take it
Nice and slow
### Stop right now
Stop right now
Screw you very much
We need somebody with a lighter tou-ouch.
Hey you! You've got us on the run
So let's slow it down baddie
and we'll have some fun
### Santeria
I don't practice Santeria
I ain't got no crystal ball
But I've got my music and my wits and--
I'll use it all!
### All About That Bass
### Ex's and Oh's
### Wish You Were Gay
I just wanna make you feel ok
but all you did was die and fall away
I can't tell you how much I wish you would stay
I just wanna make you okay
### Hotel California
Living it up in the cavern right before ya
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely space
Plenty of room in the cavern right before ya
Anytime you're here
You can find it dear
### Trouble is a friend
She's there in the dark
She's there in my heart
She waits in the winds
She's gotta play a part
Moonweaver is a friend
Yeah Moonweaver is a friend of mine. oh oh
### Doncha
Doncha wish your party was hot like us
### Santeria
I don't practice Santeria
I ain't got no crystal ball
But I've got my music and my wits and--
I'll use it all!
### All About That Bass
### Ex's and Oh's
### Wish You Were Gay
I just wanna make you feel ok
but all you did was die and fall away
I can't tell you how much I wish you would stay
I just wanna make you okay
### Hotel California
Living it up in the cavern right before ya
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely space
Plenty of room in the cavern right before ya
Anytime you're here
You can find it dear
### Trouble is a friend
She's there in the dark
She's there in my heart
She waits in the winds
She's gotta play a part
Moonweaver is a friend
Yeah Moonweaver is a friend of mine. oh oh
### Doncha
Doncha wish your party was hot like us
### Button# Buttons
#### Kiss Me ✅
Revelry
We're on the pirate island
Beats me
Where we're going next
##### What's Up ✅
I said hey hey hey-yeah-eh
hey-yeah eh
I said hey
Go beat his face
##### We Will Rock You ✅
It's got blood on its face
It's a big disgrace
Kick his butt all over the place
You will, you will, rock him!
(Rock him)
##### I Wanna Hold Your Hand ✅
You're gonna smack him goo-oo-ood
You're gonna smack him good
##### Mouth ✅
Would it be alright if we just killed you now?
Boris is the best, he's gonna axe ya
Turn you inside out, he's gonna axe ya
##### Fire ✅
You're sharpenin' that axe/knife
You're gonna kill it I know
You're heading in close
It's gonna tell you no
It's not gonna like it,
and I know it won't be lyin'
Because when you attack
oooooh!
Fire
##### Moves Like Jagger ✅
I'm not here to try to control you
Look into my eyes and I'll show
you've got the moves like Boris
you've got the moves like Boris
you've got the moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooves like Boris
##### Tubthumping ✅
You get knocked down
You won't get up again
Coz Boris is gonna keep you down
#### Bad Guy ✅
Oh you're a tough guy,
like to bash some skulls guy,
too green to be smart guy,
can't forget to rage guy,
You're that orc type,
make-a-turtle-sad type,
make-your-party-glad type,
Might-seduce-that-elf type
You're the baad guy, duh
#### What's Up
25 seconds and your life will be
flashing before your very eyes
I say hey... what's going on
#### Time of Your Life ✅
That damage was unpredictable but in the end it's alright
I'll give you back that time of your life
#### Santa baby ✅
Boris baby
looks like you've got yourself in a mess
Boris baby
So take another healing word tonight
#### B-A-N-A-N-A-S ✅
Your spell is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
2x
#### Milkshake ✅
That attack ain't gonna hit any of us
Damn right
Mine is better than yours
#### Let it Snow ✅
Oh, the weather outside is frightful
And your face is no more delightful
And since we've got no place to go
Make it slow
Make it slow
Make it slow
#### Holla Back Girl
Oh I see you going in for that attack
but I'm gonna stop you gonna hold you back
Coz I'm gonna holla back, girl
Gonna holla back girl
#### All About That Bass ✅ - ORA
Because you know you've gotta smack that face
Smack that face no trouble
You've gotta smack that face and make haste on the double
#### Pretty Fly for a White Guy ✅ - BORIS
Give it to them baby,
uh-huh, uh-huh
Give it to them, baby
And all the girlies say
you're pretty fly for a green guy
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