Elizabeth Hightower

Elizabeth Hightower
The young seeress that is the proprietor of the Moon and Star, a magic shop in the Hearth District of Gyliad. While she seemed extremely disinterested in any business the party offered, repeated visits (and mostly the knowledge that you saved her aunt Mary Hightower from a grisly death in Somerlend) has granted you fortune tellings and a pretty good discount at her store. She had finally given into the romantic advances of a man by the name of Matthew Orien, a handsome young merchant from Cape Horn, at Mathias' behest. Ever since then she has been frustratingly infatuated with him, and at some had gone missing. She returned a few months later, more grossly infatuated than before, and scarcely had the wherewithal to do proper business with the party, and gave them an uncharacteristically bad deal. When the demonic hordes sacked Gyliad Elizabeth tried her hardest, spent her blood willingly in an attempt to save her shop and her aunt, but most importantly her beloved Matthew. She was knocked unconcious and bleeding badly after suffering numerous wounds at the hands of demonic foot soldiers. Before the party could react, she was teleported away by Orien and the party has no idea what happened to her.

Slave to Desire
It turned out that she had befallen a terrible fate. Using magic and a hunch to track her, they discovered that she had been abducted by a sadistic drug smuggler, a tiefling warlock that called himself Trust and spoke as if narrating his own story. They found her chained to a wall, upside down, unclothed, and in a puddle of her own blood. A difficult fight ensued, the party forced to deal with powerful devil-magic and their own friend, who had been forced against them. The Wildfire Company freed her, learning that she had been magically enslaved to him and his whims, which primarily included torture and mutilation.

A Spark Ignited
On their way out of the smuggler's hideout, Elizabeth began exhibiting bursts of power well outside her normal limit, healing her wounds slowly before their eyes. This newfound power reached a fever pitch when they encountered a group of criminals at the exit. While the Wildfire Company managed to talk them down, Elizabeth wasn't satisfied. She unleashed a nova of raw psychic energy into the smugglers blocking the door detonating their psyches as well as their skulls. She then promptly fell unconcious for several days.The Wildfire Company later realized that she had been gifted a Divine Spark by Sirrion as a recompense for her struggle through her existing connection to the Strings of Fate.

White Scholar
After felling an Adult Black Dragon that called itself Brungleth, the Wildfire Company brought her back to their keep, where she has been quite busy teaching the various keep staff how to read and write, as well as teaching Sam to workings of spellcraft as Elizabeth rewrites her spellbook.

Begin again, born anew
Elizabeth, given funding by Guk and Moriarty, began to search. She searched for answers, who she was and could be. No longer able to see into the future after what monsters and men had done to her, and with her mother dearly departed, she was without the two sources of guidance she had come to rely on so heavily. Armed with a burning purpose and desire to save herself from her own mind, she began to spend every crown she could in this new pursuit, and found a thread to pull. She and her mother descend from a long line of oracles known as Volvern, who existed in seclusion on Hjalhelm. She charted an expedition at the first opportunity.