Major NPC's Of Kolan/Aria

Aria

Nature: Survivor (was dreamer) Heritage: Yozi-Kin

Aria lived a relatively quiet and idyllic existence in her youth and early adolescence. She grew up in the royal palace of Shroud Hill, the daughter of the king's chief adviser, Sepia Song. She was uncertain as to her own father, but suspected the notoriously loyal Guard Captain Atahn from a very young age, considering she and her mother were the only people he ever treated with any tenderness. Even so, she daydreamed often that King Othen was her father, and that she was secretly a princess.

The truth was far less benign. Her mother was actually half demon, the daughter of the second circle demon Zhadtharesh the Tormentor, and the leader of the Yozi-worshipping Cult of the Silencing Shadow, and the demon blood bred true in her female child. To fulfil her plans of turning Shroud Hill into a sort of shadowland, but for Malfeas, Sepia Song needed another child of Zhadtharesh, one who was more demon than human. Since she was a bit old for it, she chose her daughter for the task.

On her seventeenth birthday, Aria was grabbed by members of the cult, and dragged down into the secret tombs where they conducted their rituals. She was ritually scarred and tatooed in unholy glyphs, and held down for the summoned Zhadtharesh. After he had finished his business, and returned to Malfeas, she managed to break free and escape, unconsciously using her few spirit charms to kill some of her captors and escape into the night.

She spent two months on her own, starving and running, hiding in the most dangerous parts of Shroud Hill. She hunted down those cult members she had recognized and murdered them for their part in her abuse. During this time, she managed to induce an early birth by overdosing on maiden tea, and was forced to kill the premature demonling with a rock when it seemed capable of surviving on its own. Finally, the PC circle came to town, tracked her down (her mother had offered a thousand dinar reward for her "safe return,")and heard her harrowing tale. They helped her hunt down and kill the rest of the cult, and the town was delivered from the shadow of the demon cult. She confirmed Atahn's paternity, and the two have grown slightly closer in the aftermath.

She has come to see the circle as her elder brothers, more or less, and is relatively dedicated to helping them achieve their goals... as soon as they decide exactly what those goals are.