From an early age, Ghuanyl knew his mom was different from other drow. The fact that his father was human and treated as an equal was more than enough for him to realize how strange she was in drow culture. Of course, that meant Ghuanyl himself was only half-dark elf and a male child on top of that -- neither of those went over well in the underdark, no matter how much his mother loved and protected him.
When he came of age and with her own health failure, she granted what she thought was a kindness -- casting a spell that would transform him permanently into a female. His new form felt so wrong and strange; he hated it to his very core, yet he still could never forget it was done out of love.
But living in the underdark with the expectation of being cruel to others felt no better than having the curelty done to him. He decided to leave drow society and venture to the surface, to see where his father had come from all those years ago, and to start anew...

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