Ydriss

> You're no better than her. How dare you take away the right of death - such a beautiful thing.
>
> -Ydriss to Alais, Smoke and Mirrors

## Biography

### Languages

· Common
· Abyssal
· Draconic
· Sylvan

## Relationships

### Family

· Uriss (Mother) †
· Griath (Father) †
· Alais (Adoptive Father) †

### Companions

· Atlanta Gloryweaver
· Cinzidiri Agnello
· Zeus (as of session 27)
· Bacchus (until session 8)
· Reed (until session 8)

## OOC Information

### Played by

Maria

**Ydriss** is a main character of the campaign and accompanies Atlanta Gloryweaver, Cinzidiri Agnello, and Zeus on their travels. She is a lawful neutral bard from the College of Whispers and originally lived in Revacrest. She is an assassin for the Raven Queen and carries out her will by eliminating the names presented to her in the Corvinomicon. She is played by Maria.

### Personality

Despite the almost constant smile she holds, Ydriss is snarky, deceiving and sarcastic. No matter the size of the enemy, she will always try to cut in with some kind of back talk or poke flaws in her foes' logic. This snark is slightly turned down for her companions, who she is much kinder to as sees as her friends. Despite this, she still has no problems with lying to them and hiding her true intentions. She seems to have a soft spot for romance, as shown by her excitement at the thought of getting Atlanta and Diri to date and agreeing to be Diri's wingwoman.

### Appearance

Ydriss is shown to have curly pale pink hair that is held in a high ponytail, upturned pink eyes and pale skin. Scales can be faintly seen on her face and arms. Her top lip is black while her bottom lip is a rosy red. She has a mole on her chest. Her main outfit consists of a dark corset that has pointed lines starting from the sides and pointing in the middle. Her corset has dark and transparent lace connecting to a black choker with a white gem around her neck. She has short, white puffy sleeves on each arm and black biker gloves on her right hand. Her skirt is pink with a wide slit on her left slide showing her leg. She wears a brown belt loosely around her waist while holds her dagger and an overlapping satchel which holds the Corvinomicon. She wears large, dark brown, heeled boots with white laces.

### Background

As both of her parents travelled frequently - her father being a business man and her mother being an entertainer -, Ydriss moved from place to place frequently at a young age, only settling in Revacrest when she was 5. They travelled all over Alteria, gathering various skills along the way. Her favourite pastimes were watching her fathers business meetings and watching her mother perform for others. When she turned 8, she was given a lyre for her birthday, which her mother taught her to play. She sunk a lot of her time into playing it, and put on plays for her parents. She picked up various other instruments along the way, but nothing would compare to her lyre.

One night, against her parents wishes, she secretly stayed up playing her lyre, which attracted the attention of a passing pixie. The pixie whispered to her promises of a larger audience and all the attention she could desire. Immediately intrigued and not knowing any better, she followed the creature in the dead of night. Unbeknownst to her, her parents also disappeared that same night. This created a legend among the towns people, believing that the tavern room they stayed in was haunted.

When Ydriss arrived in the feywilds, the pixie simply laughed at how gullible she was and vanished, leaving her alone. She travelled through the forest she was in alone, crying and running from anything that so much as breathed in her direction. She eventually came to a large city and for weeks she spent her time on the streets, playing her lyre for the people there and gathering the coins that she could.

Months had passed before she was approached by a passing elf, offering her a place to stay. According to him, he would come and listen to her play often and wanted to thank her for her hard work by providing her with a place to live. She was hesitant at first, but eventually agreed and she went with the man, who introduced himself as Alais.

When they arrived, there were multiple people of all ages. However, all of the adults there avoided eye contact. Ydriss was shown to a room filled with 4 other children, all of varying races yet they were all the same age and all knew how to play an instrument of some sort. She got along with them very well, all of them clicking immediately. As time passed, Ydriss slowly started to forget her life with her parents.

One night, one of the children that Ydriss got along with particularly well - a tiefling called Zerrus - admitted feeling unsure about his missing memories and wanting to know more about the outside world. The two along with the other children all agreed to leave the manor when they were old enough and explore the outside world together, their word being sealed with a poorly written contract by Ydriss.

During their time in the manion, Alais would teach them skills from the college of whispers, manipulating them into thinking that society was against them and that only it was safe with them, with him. The message was ingrained into their minds quickly.

When all of the children had turned 10, all of the children were woken one by one by adults, who continued to not make eye contact, and escorted them out of the room, ignoring their questions and confusion. As Ydriss was about to be led out of the room, a hand was placed on her shoulder. "Not this one." was all she heard before she was escorted back to her bed. She didn't get the chance to question anyone or anything as they had all left. When she woke up the next morning, none of the children had returned. However, Alais had come to greet her, telling her that she would now be allowed out of the room, free to go whether she liked. Naturally she grasped onto this newfound freedom. It didn't take her long to notice that all of the adults were also missing, but she paid it no mind, too excited about being able to now go wherever she could. As time passed, she would also forget about her friends and the other people who occupied the large home.

Years passed and Ydriss joined an official College of Whispers, improving her skills as she grew older. On her 18th birthday, Alais told her that he had an exciting gift for her. He gave her a white robe, telling her to put it on. He also was wearing one, but a more plain black version. She excitedly followed him down to the basement, which had been previously locked to her, and showed her old friends, along with many of the adults that previously inhabited the place along with them, who had all been now turned into undead zombies. When she questioned Alais about this, he shrieked about Ydriss being pure and the others being "unworthy". He then killed himself via slicing his neck open before her, and was torn apart by the zombie crowd before being reanimated as a zombie.

Despite her temporary shock, fear and near death, Ydriss opted to slaughter everyone in the basement, preventing the summoning of the Raven Queen. All of the zombies had been killed before she got to the last zombie, Alais. He proved himself to be much stronger than the others, jumping onto her and pushing away her lyre, which had been her main weapon. In her panic, she stabbed him with the same knife he had used to originally take his own life.

Despite Ydriss destroying the people in the basement, the Raven Queen appeared before her regardless, revealing that Ydriss had solved an issue that had been messing with her for quite a deal of time. Impressed with her talents, the Raven Queen offered the return of her memories and an easy escape from the Feywilds in exchange of becoming an assassin for her. With nothing else to lose, Ydriss agreed.

Some time before the campaign, Ydriss would usually start small contracts with her targets in order to eliminate them, usually just an exchange of services, which would then grow into something more. Sometimes it didn't need to come to that, if the other party broke their side of the contract. In the end, they would always be the same - the contract would end when death did them part.