Threisginn, the Abandoned One

Their name, Threigsinn, is Druidic. It means: One Who is Abandoned. It is a cruelly ironic name, as abandonment is all they have ever known. Their first abandonment came before they were even born. Their egg was separated from the kobold clutches and sold as a luxury pet to the naive nanny of a high-nobility family. The little girl, a small half-elf girl, was so excited for the egg to hatch. When a small, bluish kobold finally hatched, the little girl was overjoyed, and gave her pat a make-shift rope collar and tiny wooden tag. Her stern father, however, was much less than joyful. It only took a week for the little kobold to bite the master's hand just a little too hard, and enough was enough. The father had had enough, and the tiny lizard was cast off into the sewers.

Deep beneath the city was a second world of its own. You see, the city - a bustling vision of the future - was built atop an ancient city which was itself build on top of a fissure to the Underdark. It was in this space between the between that the destitute gathered. Some were druids of the ancient faith forced underground; many were those in extreme poverty and nowhere to go. The people called the city the Above and their new home the Below. It was this starving society in whose court the tiny kobold found themselves in. However, the Elder of the Underground, a gnome of nearly 400 years age, took pity on the kobold. He gave the small lizard home, as much as the sewers could be called that, and a name: Threigsinn. The community questioned the purpose of keeping the kobold alive, but The Elder would not be swayed. A wise but frail one, The Elder taught Threigsinn basic skills to survive, as well as awakening a tie to the natural magic. A novice druid, by even their first year Threigsinn was off in the wind.

They never felt really at home in this underground community. Threigsinn kept to themselves, hidden away in crevices and crannies, but would still look over the people who had brought them in. The kobold was one of few brave enough to venture up to the Above, stealing supplies and food and distributing among the needy. Not out of charity - no, no - simply a tit-for-tat deal. Slowly, they became somewhat of a hero to the people in this dark world - a force truly like nature, distant but life-bringing.

One season of rain was particularly bad. The people of Above thought a wizard had called it; the people of Below thought the Above had planned it. Threigsinn simply knew the Below was slowly being inundated. During this rainy season, The Elder sought out Threigsinn with a request - he wanted them to journey to the surface in search of information about the rain. Somewhat begrudgingly, Threigsinn ventured into the Above under guise of a rat. Scouting for intel, they found out that the city had an emergency levee in place. However, the city was about to drain the levee through the sewers. Alarmed, Threigsinn hurried in attempt to warn their community, but as they made it to the Below, they found it already awash in a torrent of water. Threigsinn tried in vain to save some of the community, but they were unable to prevent anyone from being washed out into the Underdark crevice, far beyond reach. Threigsinn was abandoned once again.

Threigsinn would live in true solitary for the next several years; they transformed the ruins of the Below into a treacherous, trap-ridden dungeon. While meant as a way to permanently isolate himself, the obstruction of sewage eventually sent someone down to the Below. A gnome by the name of Karadrei Linden Wolfbane managed to slip past Threigsinn's defenses. She found at the center of this "dungeon" a sobbing kobold who knew it was surely the end. Karadrei was able to tell that this kobold was a fellow druid and spoke in that tongue to console Threigsinn. She stayed with the kobold awhile, learning quickly how broken they were. Karadrei invited Threigsinn to live with her; after much persuasion, they finally agreed. In addition, the gnome helped replace some of Threigsinn's decaying and rusted supplies, trying to slowly rebuild from apparent ruins. Karadrei commented on her admiration of Threigsinn's potential, and suggested adventuring as a way to both put to practice what he knew and to regain social interaction. Again, after much persuasion, Threigsinn was at least responsive to the idea.

Adventuring requests for kobolds, much less kobold druids, are rare, but with the egging on of their new friend, Threigsinn is making steps. The kobold is still relatively young, and unsure of they can really move on from their sordid past. Even now they doubt that Karadrei will stay by their side. But with every forcible visit to the sewers the gnome makes, the kobold's resolve strengthens, bit by bit.