Maeri

**Maeri** is The Survivor and the human demigod daughter of Torva and Kai. She is unable to speak, so communicates through a sign language based on hand movements utilized in spellcasting and prayer. She can also communicate by writing with golden letters in the air with her magic.

Just like her mother before her, she has trained with all three clans.

## Appearance and Personality

Maeri has dark skin, short black hair, and golden eyes. She once wore crow feather earrings, a wolf claw necklace, and a bracelet made of deer antlers as part of her ceremonial Goddess outfit. She wears a magical enchanted cloak that hides her from Torva. When utilizing her magic on a large scale, her eyes glow fully gold.

She is very compassionate, selfless, and patient, especially with her guardians. She tends to act as the impulse control for the party. While she can keep up a regal appearance, she really is a dork.

## Relationships

### Slake

While initially wary of their association with Vioni, she is currently very supportive of Slake's actions.

### Falen

As his sister, she is concerned for Falen's well-being and often checks up on his emotional state whenever they happen to meet.

## The Festival of Lights

**Maeri** sneaks out of her room to the room of the guardians. She leads them up to the temple aviary filled with dead birds. She shares with The Guardians that she thinks that something sinister is going on but her personal attendants refuse to acknowledge the strange happenings. Laika Divine senses an evil undead presence, and everyone decides to follow it down to The Undertemple. They are attacked by three shades and Maeri provides healing support. She is shaken by the experience but tries to calm down the riled-up guardians, who argue with some temple guards that come down after they defeat the shades. Her personal attendants come down to whisk Maeri away into her chambers and locking the door.

Despite warnings from her guardians, she decides that the Festival of Lights should continue as planned not only due to the scarcity of hard evidence, but also the risk of losing even more of the trust of the island if postponed.

## Into Avelis

The Goddess falls into the Ocean with Laika and somehow transports them to an island with a steep cliff despite being unconscious. She remains unconscious and feverish as she travels with Laika across the desert onZerun's back. She awakens when reaching an oasis and gets licked by some camels. When Laika introduces the goddess to the Scholar Sha, Laika makes up the name "Maeri" on the spot to hide the Goddess's true identity. The goddess quickly plays along and accepts the name. Before leaving to deliver the books, the goddess changes out of her ceremonial garb into plain clothes and shaves her head.

### The Tower of Wivvil

In the The Tower of Wivvil, Maeri learns that she is not Kai, the Goddess of Estra, but rather her daughter who has retained Kai's divine power. As this knowledge is new to Wivvil, he allows this to be Maeri's price in exchange for the knowledge of New Common. As the group finds Falen absconding after setting part of the library on fire, she is incapacitated by pain when she is hit by his darts covered with a mild version of Khastra venom. Once Fran nullifies the poison, she attempts to heal Wivvil but finds herself at a loss of what to do. She boosts Fran's power to help the Water Genasi take out the flames.

### Into Torva's Jaw

She uses her powers to blind the entirety of Torva's follower's in Torva's Jaw to allow Fran and Corbin to go and save Laika from being tortured.

Maeri is impatient to go help the tieflings and furious that despite being a god, Vioni refuses to help them in battle after they escape Torva's Jaw. Throughout the battle she heals the wounded, but once Torva enters the battlefield she is struck by immense fear and hopelessness. She abandons her guardians and the battlefield and retreats into The Temple of Iol.

## In "The Gray Manacle"

After the battle in the castle, the guardians and her visit the Estrans' camp. She decides that it is time to tell them the truth about her true identity. With the support of her guardians, she stands in front of her people and shares that she does not have the Goddess's spirit, apologizes for lying to them, and promises that she will work to protect them and the world below. The Estrans easily accept the truth with great relief. Moving off of the stage and taking Laika aside, Maeri asks the tiefling paladin to go with the Estrans as they look for a new place to call home.

## In the "Final Chapter Prologue"

When Fran gets sunburn, Maeri helps ease her discomfort. She spends a lot of her time on the ship making excuses to hide Corbin's magical abilities and being seasick. When she sneaks down to see the Certenna with Corbin, she is able to speak with the creature. The certenna tells Maeri that she was captured for some unknown reason but wishes to escape and return to her family. On the final day of the voyage, she is trapped beneath some rigging alongside Corbin when their ship is attacked by a fireball. While they are able to untangle themselves from the mess, they find themselves abandoned by the other members of the crew. They find Rowan, a shipmate who was also left behind as they were caught underneath some of the ship's fallen sails.

## In The Court of Spears

### Pirate Attack

Unable to swim, Maeri hangs onto Corbin in his Dolphin Form as the ship sinks from the pirate attack. As the guardians take over one of the pirate ships, Maeri assists by casting slow. She prays over the bodies of the pirates that her friends slay. While she disapproves of Fran and Corbin's wanton violence, she is impressed by Corbin's massive tidal wave spell. Once ashore, she and her guardians are approached by Slake. Unsure of their intentions, she hides underneath her wet cloak and does not reveal her identity despite Slake's inquiry. When she and the guardians follow Lorea as they reclaim the city, she provides healing support.

With her experience navigating the court politics of Estra, Maeri easily slips into a persona of poise and grace for the Madrian courts.

She joins Slake to attend a concert in a cave, where she meets Coquin, a female Dragon Borne representative of the Bronze Order.

When encountering Falen when returning to their rooms, she attempts but fails to undo his bindings.

While the Guardians interrogate the staff and attendees of the Marchioness's dinner party, Maeri sneakily heals the poisoned Lord Helmshire. She returns with the guardians back to the castle, only to learn that there were multiple poisonings across the city, including Lord Nguenian. Gathering her tools, she rushes with the party towards his estate and commands the guard with her magic to allow them entry. Maeri attempts to heal the lord, but lacks the magic to do so. When Lord Andolen arrives and offers his assistance along with Fran, Maeri is able to bring Lord Ngyuenian back from the brink of death. Returning to their rooms in the castle, she brings up her doubts about her own divinity, as she was unable to heal Ngyuenian by herself. The guardians reassure her that she just needs time to strengthen her powers and that they are there to support her through the process.

The next morning, Dodson wakes her and the guardians up to prepare them for a sudden visit from the queen. Gathered in one room in mourning clothes, Queen Tenevein invites everyone to a celebration of life in the form of a ball. Maeri notes her concerns about gathering many people in one place after the series of murders in the previous night, drawing from her experience at the Festival of Lights.

Maeri comes up with an idea to give a quest to someone to bring the Estran books back to Wivvil's tower in an attempt to bring the knowledge back to Avelis. With Fran's support, she successfully persuades the librarian to take on the quest.

## In A Fragmentary Passage

Maeri considers Minotine's obscure warning and wonders whether she can name herself and if she could, what should her name be. After Fran's episode with Kai's diary, she takes Slake aside and catches them up on the details. Taking some time to talk to Fran, Maeri shares that she has never felt loved by any of her attendants.

When woken up by Corbin after his dream with the black monster and the golden figure, she finds herself unable to feel and starts to panic. Fran suggests that Corbin returns to his dream to figure out what's going on, and Maeri puts him to sleep with her magic. Quickly after the crow guardian passes out, she follows soon after. Maeri regains her sense of touch due to Corbin's quick thinking. As the guardians bicker on who to blame for this occurrence, Maeri is given a doll created by Slake. This being the first doll she has ever received in her life, she is extremely touched.

Reaching the Red Caverns, Maeri is sickened by the stench but soldiers on.

At Pavilla's Tower, she learns that Kai and Torva have been fighting to give her a name. She shares with her guardians that without a name to give her purpose, her powers will consume her. However, once she chooses a name, she will completely lose her humanity.