Tsillik

Tsillik is a willowisp, a homebrew fairy variant.   When Tsillik was very young, she met an ancient creature known as the Madwitch, and ever since, she's been able to sense ghosts. This is completely weird for willowisps, who believe themselves not to have souls, and who have nothing to do with the afterlife. Should Tsillik be doing something about this? Laying ghosts to rest? She has no idea, she has no frame of reference.  

the full backstory

When Tsillik was very young, she went travelling the fey doors on a dare, something many young fairies and willowisps do. The fey doors are a series of passages through the Feywild from one mortal location to another, like wormholes. They’re always shifting, leading different places; part of the fun is that you never know where you’ll end up.   On this occasion, Tsillik found herself at the home of a woman she recognised from old stories as an ancient sorceress, or maybe a hag, called the Madwitch. They had a very pleasant conversation—the Madwitch made scones—and over tea Tsillik was introduced to a new friend, whom she liked a lot. When she left and made it back home, she couldn’t remember much specifically about her new friend, but it turned out they were a ghost, and they had come home with Tsillik. Tsillik has been able to sense the dead ever since, though not very well—even her friend, whom she still thinks of as a friend, is to her more of a set of jumbled senses, feelings and memories than a person.   Willowisps are indifferent to the afterlife, because they believe they have no souls. Tsillik’s sudden occult ability is so deeply un-willowisp that most other willowisps choose to act like it doesn’t exist. The ghosts she senses are of other races, and occasionally animals. Tsillik is sometimes unnerved by this, but mostly she doesn’t mind. She minds more that other willowisps tend to ignore her. She thus has tended to have non-willowisp friends, which has increased her exposure to ghosts. Tsillik wonders vaguely if she ought to do something about this, like lay ghosts to rest or something, but she doesn’t know how or even if it’s a good idea.   Recently a friend of Tsillik’s, a domesticated catoblepas named Vern whom she hasn’t seen in a while, has been appearing in Tsillik’s dreams. She thinks Vern might be dead, and haunting her from a distance. She’s determined to find out, which means tracing Vern’s movements.