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Character: Alaiya Migard Freetrail, Dark Elf Eldritch Knight, Shipwrecked
Alaiya was born into power. Her mother, Veilla, was the leader of the Drow Tribe and so Alaiya grew up wanting for nothing. She learned the ways of combat from her aunts, and the ways of magic from the tribe’s elders, resulting in her becoming a strong-willed force to be reckoned with.
The tribe lived in a small mountain range where the nearest settlement was a small human village a couple of miles away. In her early teens Alaiya encountered a human boy around her age when she was exploring the area outside of her caves. Though they were wary of one another to begin with, he and Alaiya quickly became friends and would take any opportunity to meet up and share stories about their lives. Alaiya even began to teach him how to fight with swords and some basic magic.
Things changed however when Veilla discovered their friendship. Alaiya’s mother scolded her and threatened her that should she meet with the outsider again she would be disowned and banished for daring to make contact with a surface-dweller. Alaiya resented this punishment but dared not to defy her mother’s direct order and so abided by it. Everything crashed around Alaiya though when her mother discovered the boy, now a young man, sneaking through their caves in search for her daughter. Seeing it as an act of war from a potential assassin, Veilla had the young man killed. Alaiya, enraged by her mother’s actions, declared she had had enough of this way of living and would leave her tribe in order to live how she wished to do so.
Veilla tried to stop her daughter from leaving but Alaiya, still in a fit of anger, cut down anyone who tried to stop her until she was alone in the wilderness. Realising she had done something dreadful in banishing herself, she was tempted to turn back and beg for forgiveness but her iron-will steered her forward - not that she’d be welcomed back anyway.
When she reached the village her friend had lived in, she discovered the humans who resided there were afraid of her, after hearing decades of stories of how vicious the Drow could be. She resolved to trying to teach the more peaceful ways of her culture to the villagers and found great pleasure in doing so. Though she never fully got the village to conquer their fears, she left feeling she’d helped them understand her people a little better. As she trekked through the countryside, she stopped off at more villages, learning more about how other races lived and sharing the ways of life she had been used to.
Over the next couple of decades, Alaiya became somewhat of a diplomat for the Drow race. Her talents in negotiating and getting people to open up gained her a reputation. Her skill in swordplay and magic added to her reputation, she’d often get hired to help traders navigate from city to city against bandits on the roads and would often be requested to settle disagreements of various social classes.
Shortly after she joined a small adventuring party, finding a fellow cultured being in the bard, but resolving to teach the party’s monk about the various cultures she had discovered in her travels. When a portal opened to a demonic realm that plunged her world into darkness, she and her companions all agreed to set out and try and prevent this disaster from causing the end of all things.
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