Synne
Race: Night Nymph
Combat Style: Spellsword
Special Talent(s): Flames of Sin, an unresistable green/purple flame that also absorbs stamina, and grows much stronger as Synne levels: Flames of Sin will do more than six times the initial damage once Synne has achieved 100 destruction skill.
Once achieving sufficiently high level Synne can cast her own personal variation of Ebony-Flesh - the Sin-Flesh spell, which provides slightly more armor than Ebony-Flesh and also enchants her sword with the Flames of Sin, igniting it to cause bonus unresistable damage that scales similarly to Flames of Sin.
Synne is a natural rebel and a compulsive troublemaker. She will often say or do things to deliberately anger or offend people. She has a real talent for this: she always knows exactly what to say to grossly offend someone, and often can't help blurting it out.
Synne will typically describe herself as a villain or nefarious character, but in reality she is probably closer to Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races, a caricature of an over-the-top cartoon mustache-twirling-villain than actually evil.
Synne has a tendency to tell ridiculous stories, many of which involve her, one of the divines (usually Mara, but it depends on the audience), and the business end of a belt-mounted soul-gem. And yes, that means exactly what it sounds like. She will generally mime the “thrusting” motion when she gets to that part of the story, too.
It doesn't take long for most people to figure out none of these stories are true. She's not a very good liar. In truth, she's an extremely bad liar, and probably the least persuasive person you could ever meet. If you catch her in a lie and call her on it she will laugh it off and admit that she made the whole thing up. She's not a sociopath, or out of touch with reality by any means. Strangely, her admission that she made the whole thing up never stops her from telling essentially the same story to the same person at some later date and expecting them to believe it.
Despite her tendency to brag about the outrageous things she has done, she is almost all talk. Most of her behavior is rooted in a kind of paradoxical-shame response. The same things that would cause a normal person to feel ashamed or embarrassed in a social situation seem to bring her enjoyment and delight. It’s not entirely a compulsion she can’t control, but you would never know it. Deep down she's really just a lonely girl who can't seem to stay out of trouble and can't keep herself from alienating people, so she has invented her “evil” persona as a defense.
It is unclear if Synne is her actual name, she just has habit of introducing herself as "I am sin!" and probably wrote it this way originally before gradually changing it, possibly out of sheer rebellion against proper spelling. It is also unclear if she knows that she is a Nymph, if asked she will respond with a similar answer using more emphasis, "a nymph?! FOOL! I *AM* SIN!!!!!"
Fights with a curved silver Akaviri blade and magic. True to her pseudo-villainous persona, she tries to fight dirty whenever possible, and would prefer to win a fight by underhanded tactics even if she could win honorably. Sometimes she even claims that she was fighting dirty regardless of whether she was or not, and will often insist that she only won by cheating, even if this makes no sense.
She claims the silver sword is a deterrent against werewolves, then transitions into an obviously made up story about how she once volunteered to be the concubine for a whole tribe of werewolves until they discovered they couldn't turn her into one of them, at which point she accused them of having both fleas and erectile dysfunction simultaneously, suggested that these two things were related somehow, and was finally chased out of their den. Most of her stories that don’t end with something obscene end with her having to make a hasty and comedic exit to avoid the wrath of an angry mob.
Don't ask about where her magic came from either, this will prompt her to start laughing maniacally and begin rambling energetically about the Doom of Tamriel and the “alignment of the stars” and “things that mortals should not know” and it will be very hard to get her to stop.
She can usually be found outside the shrine to Mehrunes Dagon, mockingly paying homage to the Daedric Prince of rebels. If Mehrunes Dagon ever manifested on the material plane to confront her about this insultingly fake worship, or even to reward her for her rebellious persona, her response would be identical: she would likely tell him to shove his grievance/blessing somewhere scandalous, make an obscene gesture, and laugh hysterically while she got blasted into oblivion. She’s nothing if not committed.
She sometimes teams up with Mystra, who Synne feels is too serious and who Synne tells to "lighten up, shortstuff." This usually ends their temporary alliance. Mystra HATES being called short.