Aria Wanderlust

Art by AishaSoup

## Stats

**Aria Wanderlust** is a member of the *Tower of Archimedes* party. She is played by SummersSalt.

## Description

### Appearance

Aria stands at around a little shorter that 3ft tall. She wears a mish mash of clothes that are seemingly much to big for her, and decorated with bells. She wears a large witch's hat, with one large silver bell fashioned to the end and chimes adorned around the rim of the hat. She has long blonde hair with long bangs that cover her eyes. And she has a permanent smile of sharp teeth upon her face at all times.

### Personality

Aria is fairly intelligent and cheeky. She sees herself as smarter than most, but due to her inability to speak she often can't share these ideas or opinions. Her main form of communication is through book. She often expresses her personality most though her hand writing and general gestures. If she is angry she tends to write much more like chicken scratch, and if happy she takes on a much more cursive and stylized hand writing. She seems to be very particular about her writing styles.

## History

### Background

Aria in her younger days was a Bard. She was a Bard with a beautiful voice, and was actually semi famous for her singing in the area of her old Clan. One day, when she was getting ready to go on a long tour with a group of fellow Bards, she decided to stay up late in a tavern to write some new songs. While writing in the common areas of the tavern late into the night, a stranger walked in. This stranger seemed to notice her working with instruments, and approached her. The stranger did not seem too different from the normal person to her, besides a eerie and creepy smile that they wore on their face at all times. The stranger then pulled out a journal, wrote a small message, then turned it around to show her. The paper said, "Dear Bard, can you serenade a poor soul down on their luck, with a song just for me?" Aria being a generally kind person immediately agreed, and sang the stranger a song, just for them. Aria did as she always did, and that was put all of her emotions and heart into her song, but as the song continued her voice slowly faded until no sound could leave her throat. She panicked and looked to the stranger for help. But all the stranger did was stand up, drop the eerie smile that they wore, and simply said “Thank you” but in Aria's voice. Then the stranger left as fast as they arrived.

When her Bard mates awoke in the morning, Aria was thankfully able to explain what happened due to the fact that she was a ghostwise halfling, and could partially speak within their minds. They knew nothing of what had happened or who that stranger was, or even how to possibly cure this, but one recommended she travel to the Exodus Academy to try to find a solution. But before they helped to send her off to the Arcane Academy, they pointed out to Aria that even something else was different. She didn’t sound like herself when she spoke in the minds of her friends… She sounded empty, they told her…. After months of travel Aria was able to finally end up at the Exodus Academy to try to get some answers for what happened to her. And all that she and the professors at the Academy were able to find, was a legend. The legend was of that of a curse, a Bard's curse. The curse tells a story, a story of a sad woman with an eerie smile and a horrible laugh. The woman was often made the end of many jokes that those of her village would tell, and one day a bard came through and saw her as well. That bard turned the town's jokes of this woman into songs that are still sometimes sung today. But the bard sung words of insult at the woman's expense and the rest of the town laughed and pointed at her with disgust. That Night the woman went into such an unbridled and hate filled rage, that her rage and emotion turned into pure magic, and cursed the bard that sung of her. The way that this cursed is lifted and transfers is as follows.

“You shall sing no more, your words shall become quiet and the meaning behind them empty as well. And you shall wear the devil's smile and feel my pain. The only thing that may free you from this is the kindness of another, a bard who will sing a special song, just for you. But you must still further feel the pain I did, and you must take their voice from them forever once they finally give you such kindness.”

Having found all of this out, Aria quickly came to terms with it all. Once she accepted her fate she stayed in the Exodus Academy for a few days before speaking with the headmaster. She explained her story to the head-master and then dropped every single coin she had made onto the table, then simply spoke into the head-masters mind. “Please… teach me, music was my life. I need something… anything to replace its spot.” And so Aria studied the basics of wizardry at the Academy. They taught her basic magic and how to substitute her chimes and bells in place of specific verbal components.

She now searches out relics of Div, in hopes that one may grant her back the emotions she longs to feel again. Or even her voice, so she may spark emotion in others once again.

## Mechanics

### Powers and Abilities

#### Wizard Abilities

* *Arcane Recovery*
* Scribe Abilities
	+ *Wizardly Quill*
	+ *Awakened Spellbook*

#### Spell List

##### Cantrips

* *Chill Touch*
* *Firebolt*
* *Mage Hand*

##### 1st Level

* *Find Familiar*
* *Identify*
* *Mage Armor*
* *Magic Missile*
* *Ray of Sickness*
* *Shield*
* *Unseen Servant*

### Notable Items

Mysterious Purple Gem - If swallowed you can levitate (must end turn on the ground). If left in stomach for 6 months, allows you to cast magic missile at first level at will.

## Trivia

* According to SummersSalt, who has synesthesia, Aria's art evokes the scent of taffy and Lily of the Valley.