Aelis Liadon

Aelis was a Player Character and was a high elf Artificer and Bladesinger. She was born in raised in the elvish town of Ellaka, in the north. She was always an avid artist, and desired to learn how to combine her artistic talents with the technology she saw around her. After learning in Sigil, she had a disagreement with who would retain rights and control over her newly created art-tech skills, causing her to leave. She then moved to Sigil, where she ran an art store to support herself and send money to her family up north. It was there she got coerced into helping with the Mendez fight club as a healer, and met the rest of the party.

## Current Status

Aelis is dead, having been devoured by the time eater.

### Lingering Injuries

* **PTSD** - Aelis's experience with the Sarlack has given her severe PTSD.
	+ If she is grappled, she must make a DC 16 WIS save, and on a fail, she has a flash back to a tentacle grappling and shuts down or is stunned for a turn while likely humming that same melody she did with the tentacle.
	+ She more anxious when in close proximity to danger. When she casts a spell with an active, conscious enemy within 5ft, she must make a DC 14 INT save, otherwise she fumbles over her words and casts a random spell of the same level instead.
	+ It is difficult for her to concentrate on spells when in immediate danger. If she must make a spell concentration CON save with an active, conscious enemy within 5ft, she makes the save with disadvantage.

## General Characteristics

Aelis was very prideful of her work. She was not the quickest to trust, but she did care deeply for her friends and family. She was very talented artistically and loved to integrate her artistic talents into everything she did.

## Background

### Childhood

Aelis was born in the tribe of the Twilight Crown to Erdan and Valanthe Liadon in Ellaka, and was the daughter of two high-ranking elders in the tribe. Due to this, she spent her childhood years (first 100) helping her parents broker trade deals with the nearby tribes. She really had a good instinct for upselling her tribe’s products and finding good deals.

Additionally, as a child, she loved all aspects of the North and truly believed it was the superior lands. She learned to paint from a childhood friend, Rinn (who now goes by Carric but she still refers to him as Rinn and he still refers to her as Ara).Her paintings had a unique ability to appear alive, although they weren’t actually. She specialized in sceneries, and had an ability to make the dreary North look like a snowy dream. She was also very close friends with Liluth Naemer

### Sigil

After Aelis became an adult, she chose to leave her hometown to travel to Sigil in 1690. She wanted to be able to add a more magical touch to the art she created, and she saw Sigil as the best place to do so. She trained at Sigil until 1692, and did some groundbreaking research on the intersection of art, magic, and technology. while at Sigil, Aelis was pioneering the art technology she is now known for today. She hadn't finished it yet, but had been close. However, she got a tip from a friend there that higher ups would want to have control over her art tech/would want to essentially have total control over who got to use it/how it would be sold/etc, which Aelis didn't really want to do. So she hid her research and left before anyone higher up could find out what she was up to. Her leaving caused her to be excommunicated. When she does her art tech in Sirex, she doesn't ever explain how she does it, she just bases it on the materials she uses (to hide the fact that part of it is Artificer tech).

### Life in Sirex

Aelis moved to Sirex and joined the Pictorum Guild. She sells both paintings and artist supplies, and she is said to only use resources from the Northern tribes, which infuse her paintings with more vitality and lifelike aspects than many others. Additionally, she has been working with the Guild and fellow traders to source more resources from the Northern tribes as opposed to other areas. In the off season for painters (typically winter, when festivals are less common due to the cold and tourists become more scarce) she travels to her hometown to gather more supplies. Additionally, she does sometimes have materials shipped to her, but she prefers to travel to see her family and friends. She also uses the trips to broker deals between other guild members and the tribes for the very materials she specializes in.

She lives in the trade ward in Sirex, directly above her store. She has been regularly harassed by the Syndicate Mendez family. They've threatened to burn down her store and even kill her, so to appease them, she has been employing her artificer skills at one of their fight clubs. The Mendez family has her working at their fight club/speakeasy called The Bottle and the Blade. She is acting as the medic for the fighters after the fights, and occasionally acts as a bartender as well. She has healed and worked alongside Anika Rockstriker a lot. She is a Goliath and the fight club's best (nearly undefeated) fighter. Like Aelis, she has been basically forced into working for the Mendez family and is also looking for a way out. Anika and Aelis  have bonded over their hatred of the Mendez family and being stuck in this situation together, and Aelis has become good friends.

## Life as an Adventurer

### Introduction to the party

Aelis was introduced to the party by Anika. Anika and Aelis were good friends, and both wanted out of the industry. Aelis joined the party to help them murder Delphine. In exchange, Aelis promised to help the party understand the maps they had received from the warehouse. She also introduced the party to Barnabus, a friend of hers.

#### Assassination of Delphine

Aelis provided the information the party needed to enter the secret fighting ring, and reprised her role as a medic in the ring to help get Telethial into the good graces of Delphine. She then travelled with them to kill Delphine, and unfortunately failed. She then escaped with them and saw her store be burnt to the ground due to her helping them.

### The Court of Owls

After discussing plans on how to stop the Court of Owls from murdering the entire Senate, Aelis remained with Vigilance to decode Delphine's black book while the rest of the party fought the pirates to acquire bomb making material.

In the Court of Owls hideout, Aelis chose to remain with Tolbo and disarm the bomb. This led to her not being framed. The pair only succeeded due to Tolbo quite literally eating the core after Aelis's bird plucked it out of Eldon

### Trial of the Century & Exploration of Bladesinging

As the only surviving party member who helped stop the bomb over saving Shad, Aelis had not been discovered as a party member, and therefore was not part of the trial. She tried to support the party on the outside by helping find the lawyer, attending all court hearings, and generally gathering information when possible. However, as a free woman, she also spent this time getting more attuned with her hometown skills by picking up Bladesinging.

### Reggie and the Stars

Aelis disguised herself as Arianne, a golden elf, and joined Reggie and the Stars as the guitarist. She was not a phenomenal musician, but her bladesinging skills helped her be mediocre. That being said, she sometimes had to resort to the drugs and the help of her homoculus servant to get through.

### Lost in the Jungle

After saving Nibbler, the party hid in the jungle and was attacked by numerous creatures, one of those being the Sarlacc. She was grabbed by said Sarlacc and dragged towards the pit. Realizing that saving V and Jaque, who had the resources and skills to save the rest of the party, she convinced party members to not save her and save the others instead. As she was about to be killed, she managed to break away (with a very lucky natural 20 by player Laura) and survived. This left her with significant injuries in PTSD from the incident that never really got healed before she died.

#### Death

Aelis was attempting to escape the time eater when she tripped and fell behind with Franz. Franz was able to scramble away, but Aelis was not so lucky. She attempted to use the spellbook she found to misty step away, but was unable to figure it out, and therefore was devoured.