![[elsbeth-dewdrop.jpg|300]] - A faerie woman who runs [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Southeast/Little Rock, Arkansas/The Lantern and Dewdrop|The Lantern and Dewdrop]] in [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Southeast/Little Rock, Arkansas/Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock, Arkansas]] - She claims to know [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/PCs/Rybeka Lee Hope|Rybeka]] - she was her babysitter back in Lampeter ## Elsbeth's Story - She claims to have babysat a young [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/PCs/Rybeka Lee Hope|Rybeka]], although [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/PCs/Rybeka Lee Hope|Rybeka]] doesn't remember her at all - She knew [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/NPCs/Player Backstory/Dalia Hope|Dalia Hope]] and [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/NPCs/Player Backstory/Caleb Hope|Caleb Hope]] - Rybeka's parents - Was able to describe highly specific details - Caleb's mannerisms and the illicit nutmeg in Dalia's secret cookie recipe - She could perfectly describe their treehouse in [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Feywild/Lampeter|Lampeter]] as it had been during [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/PCs/Rybeka Lee Hope|Rybeka]]'s childhood - She had been a rebellious youth - gotten in to much more trouble in [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Feywild/Lampeter|Lampeter]] than Rybeka knew was possible - Rybeka has a scar on her arm that Elsbeth claims is from a burn from a fire-starter ruin in her bag - Caleb and Dalia were furious and fired Elsbeth on the spot - Elsbeth struggled more than Rybeka did in [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Feywild/Lampeter|Lampeter]] - As soon as her christening date has passed, she rushed to leave on her rumspringa as was her right - Elsbeth's parents stopped her from leaving, until that night she saw the [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Gods/The Spider Grandmother's Litter/Raccoon|Raccoon]] perched on her window sill - She followed the [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Gods/The Spider Grandmother's Litter/Raccoon|Raccoon]] into the woods and found herself in the material plane - on Turtle Island - She struggled mightily for a few years - Eventually she saved up enough to buy [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Southeast/Little Rock, Arkansas/The Lantern and Dewdrop|The Lantern and Dewdrop]] - because it reminded her of home in [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Feywild/Lampeter|Lampeter]] - She regrets leaving desperately. She looks back at herself as an impetuous young woman who didn't understand the value of the safe home [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Places/Feywild/Lampeter|Lampeter]] provided (warts and all) ### Rybeka's Take - All of Elsbteth's details and information check out, but Rybeka does not remember this woman at all - Rybeka remembers being alone a lot as a child - She remembers burning herself on the fire-starting rune, but after a high insight check - it doesn't make any sense that Caleb and Dalie would have left Rybeka alone that much as a child - they were highly overprotective - Elsbeth was brough here by the [[D&D/(C0) The Compendium/Gods/The Spider Grandmother's Litter/Raccoon|Raccoon]] - but she hasn't displayed any of the same powers that Rybeka has on this side of the planar rift - Rybeka can't help but think that she's special