Alina

Growing up constantly pushed to the side and enthralled in her studies, Alina is determined to prove herself and leave a lasting legacy in the process.

## Appearance

Alina is a human woman in her mid-twenties. She has straight long black hair, normally worn down, and bright blue eyes.

## Life Pre-Campaign

Alina was born the bastard child of a noble after her father had an affair with a maid. She was raised by her father and his wife (her step-mother), but they did not treat her well. She was raised with the sole purpose of eventually being married off to some other noble in an attempt for her father to gain more power. As Alina reached adulthood her father and step-mother managed to conceive a child, her younger brother, and any of the little attention she got was gone, leaving her to do whatever she liked.

Alina took this opportunity to leave home. She headed to the Academy of Magic where she studied to be a wizard and was an accomplished student. She remained in the capital of the Stonekeeper Empire where she at some point joined the Mage Guild. When The Empire passed the Unreliables Law, Alina did not agree with it, so, after her father, step-mother, and brother were killed in a riot due to the law passing, she took her inheritance, sold the manor, and left The Empire.

Alina travelled to Tiak, Shadesteppe in hopes of meeting with a black market dealer that she heard had a Meteor Swarm spell that she could buy. Alina desperately wanted this spell because while growing up her father had told her stories of encountering Delilah, the archmage of Eubuea, during his time fighting in Eubuea. After buying the spell, for a considerable amount of gold which effectively bankrupted her, Alina headed to the capital of Shadesteppe, Midnori. Here she met the Artificers Guild and began living with them and helping them where she could. The artificers made sure she stayed out of Delilah's way during the conference and when Twink invited the artificers to join Twinktania she went with them.

## Life During Campaign

Alina is first introduced when Dolus walks into her makeshift study on Twinktania and she immediately begins asking him a million questions about being an aarakocra. Dolus finds this annoying and leaves. Later, Twink is introduced to her and asks what magic she is capable of casting. After showing off a few various spells, none of which impress Twink, she reveals that she is able to cast the sending spell and is immediately told that from now on she will be traveling on the ship and will be their mode of communication. So, eventually, when The Starlost sets sail for The Westwood, she joins them. But before they leave on their next adventure, Alina helps to figure out why all of the planes are breaking after both the fey wild and elemental plane of fire appear on Twinktania. It is while they are investigating the not-volcano that Alina first meets Delilah and we are introduced to her hero-worship/crush on the elven archmage.

After finally leaving for The Westwood, Alina has multiple conversations with Twink on the way there. During one, Alina expresses her desire to be archmage and her interest in becoming the archmage of Twinktania. Twink tells her that he plans on giving Archibald that title once he is rescued. Throughout the course of the campaign Twink continues to stick to his guns about Alina not being archmage, but has hinted that if she declared herself archmage, rather then the previous plan of librarian, he would not object.

When entering The Westwood, Alina was threatened by Lotes who believed her to be a traitor after a different member of the crew, who was a traitor, blamed Alina. Alina was terrified by this, and remained scared of Lotes for a very long time, although her levels of fear did gradually lessen as the story became further removed from the incident.

It was in during the war in Sanctuary that Alina cemented herself as a permanent member of the party. She played a critical role in helping Twink figure out how to trap Gillian inside a frog to form Frogillian. She also joined the party for the battle against Starlost Twink. During this time period it also became apparent that her and Dolus were beginning to care for each other in a romantic way.

On their way back to Twinktania after leaving The Westwood Dolus asked Alina to identify a pendant that Starlost Twink had had, upon doing so Alina was possessed by Starlost Kiran, although he was caught fairly quickly as he accidentally called Dolus 'Illiac.' After Starlost Kiran was removed from her body, Dolus was apologetic and she approached him that night after everyone had gone to bed to tell him that it was okay. Arriving in Twinktania began the origins of Alina and Dolus' lunch dates where the two would eat lunch, normally provided by Dolus, and talk about Alina's past, The elemental plane of air, the history of Starloss, etc. It was also around this time that Dolus started leaving his ring in Alina's possession whenever he went into it.

Alina went with the party to Eubuea and the amount of time she spent with Delilah there greatly lessened her hero-worship for the elf. When causing a distraction in The City of Fort Dawn, Alina was tasked with distracting the guards, which she did by summoning elementals. While her portion of the plan went well, other sections did not and it ultimately resulted in Alina being stranded with no help. Her first reaction was to reach out to Dolus to come save her, which he did. Dolus attempted to carry both Alina and Mara back to their meeting place, but he was shot and accidentally dropped Alina back into the fray. After getting Mara to the meeting point, Dolus immediately flew back to get Alina. Alina was greatly injured and aside from physical injury it took her a while to emotionally recover from the experience. Alina still stuck with the party and joined them on their quest to win favor from the Eubuea nobility. It was while the party was traveling and taking various bounties that Alina finally admitted to Hickory that she liked Dolus. The information was also teased out of her when the girls of the Starlost Crew had a girls night after the party and crew reunited. While staying in Drinas' manor Alina made a move on Dolus in the bathhouse and the two have been together since, even if they have not quite officially put a label on it yet.

After Hush's death, an event that greatly upset Alina, especially because it was so soon after Mara's death, Alina helped Delilah prepare to cast the Wish spell needed to bring Hush back. Alina also joined the party as they traveled down into the caverns beneath the Ravenloft Mountains.

## Notable Items

* Frogillian
* Quill made with Dolus' feather, a gift from Dolus