Name: Aleiyra
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Description:
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StatsPower- 2
Agility- 2
Spirit- 9
Intelligence- 11
Charisma- 1
Aleiyra was always a girl who had grown up on the darker side of life. A magician by blood, she came from a fractured and miserable lineage of spellcasters, minor nobles, peasants and outcasts stretching back countless generations. Her parents had been priests at a church in the urban slums of a blossoming town that often forgot its worse-off in its bid for power in a nation just as selfish. While the church of her birth was a sacred place, her rather poor parents had been far from holy: still ambitious and not wanting to die from some miserable infection, like the many peasants before them they exploited the populace without any abandon for coin and property, trading their tainted divinations and faulty advice for wealth. Aleiyra, their baby girl, took ever more notice of this as she aged into the introverted, quiet, almost apathetic girl seen today. Her talent for literature and writing was prodigious, earning her the eye of a local scholar who took it upon himself to educate her in the ways of magic, for which she was also an adept. As she grew into her teens, she became ever more distant from her parents, whose swindling was beginning to catch up to them.
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, she returned from her teacher's library one evening to two bloodied and mangled floors splayed out across the church's altar, purses torn from their bodies and faced mangled into looks of horror -- the last image of fear burned onto their minds, before they had been slain. Aleiyra had but grimaced, seeing their greed had earned them their comeuppance. Black magic began to curl about her fingertips that that instant, and she knew the path of the holy priestess was one that led nowhere. She threw out her hand, and the tendrils of eerie black and red flowed into the corpses of her parents, whose frozen, pale visages shifted and flickered, becoming dull and lifeless as their baby girl's arcane powers breathed movement back into them. They rose from the floor, the knives still lodged in their guts, and looked to Aleiyra like the memories of their daughter lived on through undeath. She did not want them taken from her without a proper goodbye, and so did just that: she waved, touching her glowing hand to her heart, and released the magic. The corpses slumped over dead, and by the next morning, Aleiyra was gone.
The scholar that taught her had been a necromancer in secret, as the local guards would later reveal, desperate to pass on the tatters of his knowledge before he too, passed into the void. Seeing her parents gone, he took her in as not the student, but rather the daughter he'd come to think of her as. In unison, they fled across the country, retreating to the wilderness so that they might craft their art in secret. The next years of Aleiyra's life were a large gap in history -- she was preciously quiet about her training. Come her eighteenth birthday, however, she would return. From the drain of wielding the undead, her hair bleached white, and her eyes had turned red, and in her black cloak and with magic swirling about her fingertips, she walked with all the tellings of an
evil and
sinister black mage across the land. But she was not evil -- far from it. Never had she expressed an interest to control the world, or to raise a great dark lord from the dead. Instead, she was as a normal mage, traveling from corner to corner of the land, seeking to further her talents. And of course, she had long forsaken her last name. She was alone now.
Although, being that she was the quiet and even-tempered type, it was never easy to tell what Aleiyra wanted from life...