Raina Haiverly

Raina Haiverly

Raina has pledged to join Lorehold.

## Dhampir Abilities

Early on, Raina spoke with a fellow student named Simon, who noticed her (and winked at her) during Orientation. He tried to guess what house she’s from, but she wasn't familiar with them. She said that she doesn’t have a house and introduced herself. When asked what she partakes in (“Please not spinal fluid, they’re the worst.”), she said memories.

### Goals

Raina told Slayeh her goal in coming to Strixhaven is to cure her curse. She noted that every few generations, a dhampir is born. She told Slayeh that most of them leave and never come back, but that she wants to go back home. She said she doesn't want to worry about going home and someone struggling with her in the future.

### Dreams

After the mishaps at the festival, Raina got a quick glimpse into Slayeh's dream: seeing a masked figure and hearing a voice for a moment.

After First Exams and the frog incident, Raina got a more powerful, more intense vision. After falling asleep, she found herself in a lucid dream:

> The world around her is difficult to make out, but appeared to be a dark forest where all the foliage is dead or dying. She saw a little blue tiefling girl picking berries. She heard a voice: "Sashura! Get away from there!" The small teifling replied: "It's Breezy! That's my name!" Raina tried to pull herself out of the dream; the world went black and started to fade away. Raina found herself away and in that in-between state, a distinguished man's voice said: "I’ll tell you a secret. I didn’t kill them. I teleported them into the cellar under the tavern. You know the one. Funny, isn’t it? What man will do for gold.” Raina never heard that voice before.
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After the Prince's party and Raina returns Optimal and Slayeh to the girls' dorm, Raina briefly sees a mist enter the girls' room before it knocks her asleep. She has a dream:

> She begins to see through the eyes of another creature. She finds herself walking through a hallway: it looks familiar. It looks like the hall of a dorm. The figure stands about half the height of a regular person: they are at a door. The hand reaches to the door knob (hue of green skin and 4 fingers; black robe and inside is red) and opens the door. The figure speaks: “Alright where is it?” There is suddenly barking; a mechanical dog charges this figure. With a deft movement of the staff, the dog shatters into pieces. (Staff is gnarled wood that snakes up like an S.) A confused halfling man says “Whoa, what’s up? Who are you my dude?” And the figure shocks and knocks him as lightning comes out of his hand. “It should have been easier,” The figure says. He’s overturning tables, “Those damn first years.” He smashes vials onto the ground, looking for something. “Where is it?” He sees a vest hanging up - a vial of the black goo. He puts it in his pocket. “I have to get out of here,” He puts a black box on the floor and presses a button: glowing little bugs pour out and he throws the box on the ground and he teleports out. Her vision begins to fade as the room is filled with these glowing bugs.
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After having this dream, Raina wakes the girls and they head to the boys' dorm: she recognized the description of Pringles' mechanical dog.

### Stolen Memories

During the fight with Joseph in the Aerojaunt Field after he lured K-W3rk and Cuddles there to jump them, Raina bites him and takes a memory. She is given a memory not unsimilar to what Joseph planned to do with Cuddles: a young woman preyed upon, charmed, and bitten.

### Recovered Memories

When Raina drinks the voidfish ichor, a memory is restored:

> Piles of parchment paper and books are strewn across a desk. A figure at the desk shakes the quill in his hand, spraying ink everywhere. It’s grasping at the quill. “We cannot have you here at this time, I’m deeply sorry. It’s time for you to leave.” A voice not hers says: “You can’t do this to me. I can’t return to my people without answers." "You won’t find them here. Get away and just leave.” This figure has dark sunken bags under his bloodshot eyes. They look up at her. His elderly normally warm features are stern, they scowl. “Stay out of these ruins and never return. This place is not for your kind. You and your people are cursed and we will have nothing to do with them.” In this memory, the person whose eyes she’s seeing this through bows and Raina hears tears, sobbing. Right before the memory fades, she’s staring out of what appears to be a dig site - ancient ruins. The sky is maroon and there are moons that Raina doesn’t recognize. The plant life looks foreign. This figure walks away from the site and walks down a trail.
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Raina recalls the first day of Strixhaven: Optimal wore a traditional garment of her people and this man in the vision was wearing the exact same symbols.

## Relationships

### Noni

Noni is a talking shrunken head that lives in Raina's satchel. Raina will sometimes take Noni out and talk to her; Noni is an ancestor of hers and gives advice and comfort. Noni doesn't think highly of Strixhaven, but supports Raina. Noni says if she dreamwalks, be very careful - you can do serious alterations to people. There’s still so much we don’t know. When you dreamwalk, you can get real close to someone, more close than you can imagine. It can be a good thing, but it’s very dangerous.

### Slayeh

Slayeh is the first person Raina opened up to about being a Dhampir. Raina admitted that's why she's at Strixhaven: to find a cure. Slayeh agreed not to tell anyone and to help Raina cover for her if she needs it. Slayeh is also the first person to meet Noni. When it's time for Simon's vampire party introduction, Raina invites Slayeh to come along.

### Afton

Raina dances with Afton at the Prince's party. Later in the carriage ride home, she refers to him as a "complication" to Optimal and Slayeh.

### Simon

Simon seems to be interested in Raina. She later refers to Simon as a "complication" after the Prince's party. He invites Raina to a vampire party for introductions. After she brings Slayeh along as her 'plus one', Simon invites her for a second date, just the two of them. Simon later expresses to Raina his distaste in Afton, after he was embarrassed at the vampire hunting party by one of Afton's spells.

## Taken by the Dream Stalker

During Week Two, Raina returns to the dorms and has a familiar feeling that her Noni warned her about. She awakes in a place that she’s been before where she was a small tiefling girl: a desolate place, cloud covered. This time, as she feels the grass beneath her feet, she sees Sashura, Slayeh and Cuddles standing in a field. The three suddenly blink and they are aware that they are standing in a field. They are in Sashura's dream and unable to wake themselves up. Slayeh offers a memory to Raina. Raina touches Slayeh’s forehead and Slayeh feels peace. The memory offered was supposed to be of Cuddles slapping her, but she gives her a memory instead of being on a date. They hear a scream. Sashura begins to walk off toward the direction of the scream. They see Sashura’s mother run out of the house, and a young Sashura following her. The memory is of her mother trying to do a ritual to remove the curse from Sashura. The memory freezes and Sashura goes up to her frozen mother and gives her a hug and tells her it’s ok. Raina tries to create a door but it doesn’t work. A door appears in front of her and they hear a voice getting louder saying “a dream walker”. A figure appears in the door that Raina, Slayeh, and Cuddles recognize as the pattern in the void fish. Cuddles is entranced by the figure but Raina steps in between them and tells the figure to let the other 3 wake up. She takes the figure's hand and disappears as the others wake up.

When the others wake up, they find Raina's body in the bed, but are unable to wake her up. They meet Master Altom and Ghinea at the Temple of Sehanine and travel into the dream world to save Raina.

## History

Raina is from a small druidic encampment in the King’s Forest in Faerûn. They keep to themselves. She’s been absent from them for a few years - she’s been traveling with archaeologists, the Haverlies. Her attendance of Strixhaven is sponsored.

Raina told Slayeh that she was attacked while working intent on an artifact - the robber wasn’t expecting her to be there. She doesn’t know what happened. She bit him - hard. In that moment, she knew exactly what he was thinking, what he was searching for. She saw the meeting they had just had about taking the artifact. He immediately dropped her, yelling in a language she didn’t understand. She doesn’t know if he maintained that memory or not.