Nualia Tobyn

A young woman who lived in Sandpoint with her adoptive father, the former head of the local church of Yoma. She was not born there, but rather moved in when her father arrived to take over as head of the church. As she grew, she became beautiful beyond compare: it was thought that angelic blood flowed in her veins, granting her grace and beauty beyond that of mere mortals. This afforded her an unbearable amount of attention from locals, who revered her and spread rumours, like her tears could heal disease. Sadly, she was proclaimed dead when a fire consumed the church and killed her father, though her remains were never found in the wreckage.
In truth, she hadn't died at all. In the year leading up to the fire, she had happened to meet a man who treated her differently, who spoke to her as a person and not as an object. She was enamored of him, so sick as she was of being treated like an alien or a relic. Their time together was wonderful until she one day realized that she had become pregnant. Suddenly, the man called her a whore and abandoned her, and her father turned her away. She left Sandpoint and made her way to the city, where the child was born. Through some convergence of factors, her extraplanar blood, her hate or something else altogether, the baby was not born as it should be: it was twisted, inhuman and cruel, and nearly killed its mother. As the midwives tried to save Nualia, one of them quietly removed the creature and ended its life almost as soon as it had begun. The event drove Nualia to madness: she abandoned her faith in Yoma and began to fervently worship Fierna, seeking her dark blessing. She took up with a cult that based itself in Medinipur and eventually hired several mercenaries to band with her to destroy Sandpoint once and for all, including the disgruntled half-elf Tsuto Kaijitsu, the brutish ranger Bruthazmus, and the down-on-her-luck swordswoman Ilsa. Her dark prayers had been answered in part: she had already begun to show the beginnings of fiendish transformation. Though Nualia was killed by Pandemonium soldiers at Thistletop Shrine before her plan could be completed, she had still been successful in scarring the town she had sought to destroy. Category:Character