Velavia Vrykul

Velavia Vrykul is one of the Oathkeepers of Veradon. She is renowned for her unbreakable defenses and drive to help and protect others.

## Physical Description

Velavia is a pale skinned tiefling standing at an immense 7'10" when smaller, and growing up to about 32ft in height at her tallest. She has long brown hair, pointed ears like an elf and horns that rise from the side of her brow and sweep back before curving upward. Her legs are also uneven as her right is bent backward from injuries she sustained when she was younger. Despite this she's still strong, with toned muscles that she use to carry her signature spear and shield. She eschews armour, preferring robes or dresses of Sanguian fashion, the only connection to her homeland she visibly shows.

## Personality

Velavia is a gentle woman and a pure soul. So much so, that even her fellow Oathkeepers sometimes feel bad requesting her aid in combat or will elect to leave her in the dark about any shadier activities they plan to undertake.

She stands for Good, and preaches equality and equity for Veradon and her peoples.

## Backstory

Velavia, along with her sister Tamara were twins born to cutthroat Sanguian nobility who were horrified by their impure daughters. Velavia was locked in her room far away from visible eyes for the first decade and a half of her life. Only seen by servants who brought her food, cleaned the room and taught her Sanguian culture and how to be a servant like them. Velavia was moved to the dungeons with two of her teachers after it was discovered that the servants were teaching her actual culture and not just human supremacy and had told them who her parents really were. Velavia tried to defend the servants but was silenced and tossed into solitary confinement. Eventually she was brought out, and told she was being sent to be cleansed and made part of the family. Going along willingly, Velavia found herself alone in a bandit attack, as the guards simply walked away from her caravan and allowed them to capture her. In reality, she was never to be cleansed, and instead the plan had been to trade her to the bandits in exchange for the bandits moving out of the family's lands.

In the bandits clutches, Velavia found herself a slave among 14 total. Forced to endure abuses, forced marches and watching other captives around her die of exposure, exhaustion and the sadism of their owners broke Velavia's heart multiple times. As she entered adulthood, Velavia more and more threw herself in between her owners and their targets, earning the admiration and pity of her fellow captives as she took beatings meant for the others, and after surviving years of near constant torment, the world finally looked up for Velavia. She found an opportunity to take the other slaves and escape. While everything didn't go to plan, and they were forced to split up, Velavia made it to Veradon, and started her career collapsed from exhaustion at the gates of the City of the Gods.

Over the next couple of years, Velavia's dedication to keeping her friends alive and success at doing so attracted the attention of angels, devils, and some say even the Watcher themselves. After reuniting with her family, attaining the rank of Orichalcum among the mercenaries of Veradon and helping parties withstand the attacks of everything from Elder Wyrms to some of the most powerful Demon Lords, Velavia was invited to join the Oathkeepers. Now, living with her wife Adabelle and adopted daughter Amaryllis, Velavia helps run the City of the Gods as one of the Watcher's representatives.