Dess

Physical
Dess is a changeling of many forms, but her natural visage is pale and elongated. She has colorless eyes and silver hair. In Avernus, she mutated to have leathery wings. A few of her transformations have included:
 * an elderly elf man, who is hard of hearing and orders milk at bars
 * a purple-horned rock-n-roll devil (who, notably, won an impromptu Elturel Idol)
 * Sovereignty 2
 * a kind goliath who befriended a kid named Timmy during a performance
 * an elephant woman/therapist... she insists she said "elf woman" but it stuck
 * Archie, a young red dragonborn; fanboy and self-proclaimed son of Arkhan

Personality
Motivated by survival and money. Slowly opening her heart to the possibility that other people might be important sometimes, too.

Biography

 * Dessarina, named after the river Dessarin, spent her orphan childhood disguising herself as non-changeling children for a few nights at a time, to survive and experience living in a home
 * Rescued from the streets and raised by the pirate queen La
 * During the party's teleportation into Avernus, Dess ended up on a detour through the Astral Plane; she met Excelsa, (an envoy of Ao the Overgod), who became her astral warlock patron
 *  Dess and Sovereignty return to Baldur's Gate to begin touring on their new theatre ship, searching for cults to liberate and orphans to save along the way; Dess also plans to track down La's orphaned daughter

Notable Inventory

 * Flute
 * Golden spellcasting lyre
 * Magic beans (notable uses: a bulette that ate through a room of cultists; a Dess-threatening animate statue; a 60ft pyramid engraved with the message "The Sideshow Slashers were here")

Trivia

 * She carries a feather from the kenku Giggles, a former member of The Sideshow Slashers
 * Her favorite song is 99 Potions of Greater Healing on the Wall