Aryia

Played by Traci in Darkness Rising.

Background

Aryia grew up in a small town in The Spine among hard working people trying to subsist in a harsh mountainous environment. The town often had to deal with creatures like ogres, orcs, and goblins coming out of the mountains and attacking them so everyone in the town was trained to flight off such monsters.

Aryia’s father was the local healer, and taught her the trade as she was growing up. Her father always wanted more for her and when she was older he convinced her to travel to a small monastery called The Priory of Luna so she could further advance her skills.

Aryia studied at the prior for 10 years before it was razed by ogres in 06’. During the attack she did her part to keep the ogres at bay and helped save many lives in doing so. Even so, several died in the attack including her beloved teacher at the monastery Aquillo. Though many told Aryia there was nothing she could have done to save her teacher she vowed never to let anything like this happen to those she loved again. In order to keep her vow she moved to Talathese and began to practice with a wizard, Alban, who taught her spells to keep away and fight evil.

Alban was notified about the wave and was able to protect himself and Aryia while it was hitting the city. After the wave hit Aryia did all she could to help those who had been injured by the wave. While doing so she ran into Saul, an old friend of hers from the monastery. Saul told her of a ship sailing southward that was going to try to prevent a recurrence of another disaster like this one. When Aryia heard this she knew she had to be on that ship and immediately went to seek audience with Brad to gain passage on the ship.