Aariel Dawning

> *"How dare you just vanish and not tell me where you had gone or that you were back." - Aariel to Nicholias*
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## Aariel Dawning

### Relatives

* Aariel Moonsong - Grandmother
* Verdana Moonsong - Grandmother
* Briallen Moonsong - Mother
* Nicholias Dawning - Husband
* Aurora Dawning - Daughter
* Neaera Dawning - Daughter
* Theta Arcadia - Granddaughter

## Physical Description

### Skin Colour

Porcelain

Aariel is the wife of Nicholias Dawning, queen of New Amaranthia, and a hero from the fall of mount unity.

## Appearance

Aariel is almost identical to her grandmother Aariel Moonsong with long wavy platinum blonde hair hanging over her shoulders. She has soft but well defined elegant facial features and long pointed ears that stick out past her hair. She tends to wear shades of purple both in and outside of combat, but also dons nearly white silver armour.

## Biography

### Eary Life

Like all white elves Aariel was born in the Forest of Lunarissitha, she was told stories by her mother Briallen Moonsong of her grandmother. She spent her youth like all white elves, learning from their ancestors and studying the ways of the hunt. Unlike the other white elf children Aariel was very close to her mother who was attempting to make the white elf society more emotional and social on a whole. Once Aariel reached adulthood she decided it was time to go off on her own adventures leaving her mother behind. She then traveled around Bretton for a period of time before returning to the forest. Since she had left Briallen had been successful in revolutionizing white elf society, children were now being raised by their parents and taught to interact with other races. While she was home her mother decided it was time she ascended like all white elves and said goodbye to her daughter. After that Aariel decided she wanted to see more of the world and departed for Unitas the last known location of her grandmother.

Aariel arrived on Unitas in the country of Dondar, she set off towards the land of the elves until she had a prophetic vision, as her people do. This vision lead her across human territory to a small village. Outside of the village Aariel ran into a handsome man with piercing blue eyes and golden-brown hair. This young hero was Nicholias Dawning, son of Pelor and prince of Amaranthia. The two of them decided to hunt the monster together as she was unsure why her visions had led her there. They began to track the beast and soon discovered it was a Basilisk. They stalked it to it’s mountain cave and after climbing the mountain and entering its den, they slew the monster. They made camp for the night in an nearby cave, and by the fire light they made love for the first time. Aariel departed shortly after unsure of how she felt, she told Nic she would see him again but left quickly as he had caused emotions she did not undertsand. She feared would become controlled by her emotions, like the horror stories of her youth.

### Reclaiming Unity

#### The First Year

Aariel constantly had visions of Nichoias, but refused to follow them as she feared falling in love, she had been taught that it often brought downfall. One day her visions stopped, at first Aariel was fine with this she continued on her journey towards the elves, but as time passed she became worried as she had not seen a vision in a long period of time. Trough meditation Aariel was able to contact her ancestors on the moon and ask why. They told her that her destiny was tied to the young celestial, but currently his future was not able to be seen. Aariel set out to find out what happened, she traveled from town to town attempting to find any lead on the missing prince. Almost a year had gone by since she started to look for Nic when Mount Unity collapsed, shortly after this Aariel began to have visions of Nicholias again and wasted no time following them back across Dondar to the elven border she had never made it to.

Aariel reunited with Nicholias late one evening outside of Trineantis, she approached him but lost control of her emotions and smacked himacross the face before breaking down into tears. Nicholias guided her off into the woods, the two heroes talked about what had happened in the previous year before succumbing to their emotions and making love. The two decided to attempt a romantic relationship. Once returning to the camp Aariel meet the rest of Nic's traveling party and discovered that there was a lot of infighting in the group. The following morning an elf named Maiyr returned to the group and introduced them to Kirx, a goblin that many of the members of the party met in Mount Unity. The group then continued on their way to Olyanor.

Right near the border of Olyanor the party was attacked by a pack of demons lead by an imp. During this battle the Aariel discovered that Maiyr and Kirx could both change form into a dragon and a demon respectively.

#### Olyanor

The group shortly after entered the forests of Olyanor and members of the party started to drift into a magical sleep, as an elf Aariel was immune to this and watched as elves decsended from the trees and led them to the capital. They soon found themselves in the royal hall of the palace of Olyanor. Before them stood Queen Elaria, and Chamberlain Aramil. Nicholias asked for her aid in retaking the human territory back from the church of Tharizdun. Elaria stated that she would offer the elves' aid if the party was to do a quest for her. The party accepted the quest which was to go to human territory and hunt down a fugitive who left with some humans, they were also tasked with retrieving two crystal rings. During this encounter the party also had to stop Dilly from dissecting and experimenting on Kirx, Aariel was a very outspoken voice against letting the experiments happen. Aariel left the group without warning to investigate the tales of her grandmother.

Aariel gathered all the lore she could on her grandmother before returning to where she knew the party was staying for the night. Aariel sat in the common room and waited for Nic to return, when he did the white elf asked to speak to him alone and the two retired to a private room. There Aariel expressed her emotions, a rare thing for white elves to have let alone express, she loved Nic and wished that their relationship would be more then a casual affair. Nic reciprocated her feelings but he explained that he could not commit to a relationship with her when she just vanished without warning, he needed to be able to rely on her. She explained that once her destined quest was over she would be there always but couldn't until she had completed her fate. The two agreed to stay as they were until that day. The two finished their night by embracing each other in the moonlight and making love. She left the next morning before Nicholias awoke.

#### Dondar

Aariel had reviceived a vision of her destiny and it lead her back into Dondar, while there she helped small villages with their problems. Since the rise of Tharizdun many small villages were having problems with raides that were once under the protection of Amaranthia. Aariel spent a considerable period of time in this area until her visions sent her towards Durgair. On her way to Durgair she ran back into Nicholias and his party.

Once the party arrived in Durgair, they ran into an issue with some slavers that resulted in a skirmish, during this conflict they beat the slavers and met back up with Elijah. While in town they met up with an underground church of Pelor run by Tricia, and Corona. They were hiding in the basement of Cloud Tavern. Blackthorn in the area were causing problems for church so the party spent a portion of the night making a plan to lure the Blackthorn out so that they could eliminate them. Aariel spent the remainder of the night watching Nic as he attempted to raise the spirits of the people they were with.

The next day they set their plan in motion, Nic summoned a golden eagle and attached a daylight spell to it, while Carol made the whole city aware of the presence of the Golden Prince. It was all going fine until the army showed up to support them. A figure in black armour showed up and slaughtered most of the army while the party retreated. Tricia later informed the party that the man in armour was the Nightingale. Since the Blackthorn presence was dealt with in Durgair the party decide to continue onwards to Hrothgar the land of the Dwarves. Tricia told the group of adventurers of a secret tunnel under the border that led into the mountain home of her dwarven lover Darwin. The party rode off towards the border and could see the humans and dwarfs fighting over the border in the distance. The party arrived at the location of the secret tunnel and went through it into dwarven territory.

#### Hrothgar

They arrived on the other side in the back room of Darwin's home. There they met both Darwin and Hoddyn. The party then traveled through Hrothgar to Hoddyn's home, once there they waited for him to arrange a meeting with the king. The party ran back into Liz who was staying there at Hoddyn's place on his request as he had become infatuated with her. After Hoddyn returned from King Prytis Longbeard, the party asked Hoddyn about the elven ring he once purchased and with Liz's sway he provided it for them. The party then met with Prytis, he and Nic were able to make a deal in which they would deal with a dragon assaulting the Crimson Perch and in turn Prytis would assist them in reclaiming humanity from the Tharizdun worshipers. Prytis had seen what his influence had done in the past as was more then willing to contribute. That night Aariel climbed to the top of Hoodyn's home and meditated, during this meditation she recieved a vision from her ancestors, it was both her mother and her grandmother, they offered her an end to her vision quest. She was to further change white elfs as a whole, and never ascend. She was told her fate was to choose the path that no other white elf had choosen to stay with your love and to live with them forever. She gladly excepted her fate and woke Nic to tell him the good news. Since she promised to be a constant in his life, he proposed to her. The two made love for the first time as betrothed.

The group marched on the Crimson Perch alongside dwarven mercenaries, once they arrived they were met with a small army of drakes. The party was able to defeat the drakes before they ran into the red dragon Feraak. Nicholias acted rashly and stormed the dragon headfirst which resulted in him eventually falling in combat as the remaining members of the party remained at a safe distance. Aariel in an unnaturally emotional state moved too far forward and followed her fiance into the realm of the dead.

Once the battle was over Aariel and the other dead party members were brought back by a man named Antali using a magical forge called the Soul Forge. After the party was fully revived and healed they were given a magic mirror that acted a portal to the Soul Forge in case anyone was to die while they were not near the Soul Forge. The party stayed behind at the Crimson Perch for a few days to help rebuild what Feraak had destroyed. During this time Nerisaga managed to convince the group that Kiki worked for the Blackthorn which explained her frequent disappearances and why she broke the locks of Mei's cage when they first met her. The party then returned to the dawrven king and with his blessing set on past Hrothgar to the land known as the Anthill.

#### The Anthill

The party made their way out of the Dwarven mountains and onto the mountain range known as the Anthill, once they entered the tunnels they were immediately approached by dromites. The dromites lead the group to their queen, Veene. Veene was willing to give the party one way passage through the mountain in exchange for a favor. The favor was to go to the land of orcs and collect a dromite egg that had been stolen long ago. The party continued to make their way across the continent and headed into the rolling plains known as the Little Hills.

#### The Little Hills

The group made their way past the different domains of the Little Hills until they made it to the land of the halflings where the were met by President Ago, who hired them to assassinate the leader of a rebel faction attacking the capital. There was a brief disagreement that night in which Carol used her magic to calm Maiyr.

The next morning the party found a note from Maiyr and upon reading it, it exploded damaging members of the party. The group then hunted Maiyr across the Little Hills but the trail went cold in tallfellow territory as he had used magic to teleport.

The party returned to the capital and learnt that there were two assassination plots in motion one was for David Hammerhome and the other for Ormag, Liz's father. This news caused the party to splinter more as Liz, Kirx and Keylara left for orc territory to warn Liz's father and Elijah used his secret connection to teleport to Dondar and try to save David.

The remaining party members traveled through the Deep Hills to get to the rebels, in the tunnels of the Deep Hills the party was met with resistance and had to remove the obstacle. Once the party got to the rebels location they were met by the rebel leader Algo who was once Carol's mentor. After sitting down and talking to Algo, along with information the party gathered in the capital, they realized that Algo wasn't the problem it was Ago. The party teamed up with the rebellion and marched on the capital. Outside of the capital the rebel clashed against the president's army. During the conflict Algo managed to kill Ago while the party held of the president's army. After the dust settled and Algo took over the party was offered a place to stay and decided to rest for the night. That night after Nic and Aariel were intimate she left for a moonlight stroll and Nic disappeared. Aariel attempted to try and find Nic he following morning but no means of detection could decipher what happened to him. Aariel decided to head out into the Dragon's teeth in an attempt to get to Thunderpeak, and access Pelor's realm so that she could ask him what happened.

#### Dragon's Teeth

Aariel attempted to croos the mountains but was halted near the border by the giant's civil war, she spent nearly a year there unable to make progress. Every so often Aariel would send her pet owl Lumi back to Carol in the Little Hills to see if there was any word on Nic. One day Lumi returned with good news Nic had returned just as suddenly as he had disappeared. Aariel began to back track until she ran into Nic and a small party of their previous companions near the border.

The party eventually made it to the giant council, a group of the leaders of the giants, comprised of Veahto, the last storm giant, Pitew, of the hill giants, and Hassun, of the stone giants. Nicholias attempted to gain the giants as allies in his war to reclaim humanity from Tharizdun but they were to busy with their own civil war between Paytah, queen of the fire giants, and the rest of the giant council. The party agreed to help make the fire giants see reason, but first they had to help secure passage for Amitola, Queen of the cloud giants as her people were having trouble with a group named Psiren who were kidnapping giants.

The party managed to make it to the cloud giants and with there help located Psiren's base. Once the group infiltrated the base they were able to strike a deal with Psiren resulting in very little death after Az stealth killed their leader Syr. The deal they made was that the group would not all be killed if they left the giants alone, if they needed giants they were to take fire giants, both parties agreed upon these terms and the group of adventurers returned to the giant council with Amitola.

The party then marched against Paytah and her fire giants, after a few smaller conflicts the heroes with support from the giant council advanced on the final battle of the giant civil war. During this conflict several members of the party would die. The battle was won however when Nic commanded Az to strike down Paytah from a distance and then used his reputation during the giant civil war battles to intimidate the fire giants into surrendering. In the following days the fire giants would rejoin the giant council with their newly elected leader, Pitew and the fallen soldiers would be revived. With the fire giants now members of the council, the party was given access to their lands and traveled on wards into the land of the frost giants, where they would meet up with Elijah, who revealed that he failed to save David and that Arianna, David's wife, was an Eventide.

The party was greeted by Laufey leader of the frost giants shortly after making their way into their domain. Nicholias and Laufey came to an agreement that if they could get the monster living in the Eternal Forest to move her forest the frost giants would grant them passage and place a representative on the giant council. The party then ventured into the Eternal Forest not sure of what kind of monster lived in there.

The group cautiously entered the forest but that made no difference for once they were lead inside by some kiterits the forest itself came to life and trapped the party in the branches of the trees and in their roots. A beautiful green skinned woman came out of the forest, with a massive dire wolf and started to attack Aariel, Nic commanded Az to sink into the ground and be ready to save his fiance if need be. After finding out that the woman was mistaking Aariel for her long lost love Aariel Moonsong, the current Aariel's grandmother, Nic was able to calm the Green Goddess. After calming down it was revealed that Verdana, the Green Goddess, was Aariel's other grandmother, after a short but touching reunion the party had to talk business. Verdana agreed to move her forest to help Aariel if they could find a place for her to move it to. Before the party departed for the giant council, to find a new mountain for her to overtake, Nic decided that it would be a good time for him and Aariel to get married. Verdana married Nicholias to her granddaughter, and provided the rings made of iron wood and a crystal provided by Morah Dantalion. The three then had a short but enjoyable family reunion in which Verdana told them of her old adventures with Emeth Mechapes, Tupai Kiterit, Dench, and the original Aariel, as well as giving the current Aariel the original's magical bow. The party soon departed back to the giant council.

Once the party returned to the giant council and explained the situation they were able to find a empty mountain in stone giant territory that Verdana could have. The party returned to the Eternal Forest and told Verdana where her new home would be. Verdana proceeded to uproot and move the forest across the Dragon's Teeth, upon arriving at her new mountain she hollowed it out and re-rooted her forest inside the hollowed out mountain. Once the forest was settled two cloaked figures showed up, one Nic recognized from the night in the little hills and now also from Verdana's stories as Emeth, and the other was the silver haired elf from the tavern in Olyanor, Sylanna Blackhide. Verdana and Emeth left for a time and they returned she said goodbye to the party and turned into a massive and beautiful tree, and her dire wolf Faunen became a stone statue at it's base. The party soon departed the forest as did the silver haired duo.

By the time the group returned to the land of the frost giants Laufey and his people where already turning the coast where the forest once stood into a frozen tundra, the party continued on with Laufey's blessing and eventually made it to Thunderpeak, the tallest mountain on Unitas that was constantly struck by lightning. It was said that if Thunderpeak was climbed one could enter Pelor's godly domain. The party proceeded to climb the mountain that was once the home of the storm giants. Near the top of the mountain where the party decided to make camp, Elijah attempted to kick Morah off the mountain but he was caught by Rebecca. Later that night while the party slept Morah and Rebecca left the mountain and the group.

Nic proceeded up the mountain alone, the party all departed the mountain and made way for Crombern. As they crossed what was left of frost giant territory they came across a band of ice demons and decided to challenge them. The ice demons used their power to insight fear and caused the heroes to retreat, Aariel was not effected and continued to shoot them from a distance. While retreating Elijah and Gali were slain and their bodies were taken.

#### Crombern

Shortly after making it into Crombern the newly reformed party arrived on the side of two warring orc tribes and Maiyr rejoined them. The group was able to end this dispute. The party continued on and eventually arrived at Ormag's camp, where they were reunited with Liz and Kirx. The party decided to help Ormag bring Crombern under one rule. The party partook in many battles with Ormag and his daughter. Eventually the party assisted Ormag's side in the finale battle, during the battle, a small group of enemy orcs went to hunt down Aariel without Nic noticing and managed to outnumber and kill her.

#### The Afterlife

Aariel's body was taken by Tyria Mechapes to Breslin, where she attempted to use magics and psionics to resurrect her and other fallen party members under her control. Aariel's spirit was protected by the astral form of her grandmother until she was resurected by Adara, and her party including Emeth. The party then traveled to Anora the capital of Olyanor and made camp at Dilly's house, who had passed away along with Adara's friend Kerach, to bring back the others. There, Nic and Aariel revealed what they knew about his past to Emeth and he revealed to the party that it was his wife Tyria that was orchestrating all the chaos. Tyria had been possessed in Mount Unity by an evil entity some time ago. The party then used the Verdana tree to return to the Dragon's Teeth, and then onto Crombern.

#### Return to the Anthill

Once the party were all in Crombern with their party fully alive and healthy, Az approached them and informed them that he had news on the quest given to them by Veene the dromite queen. The group was interested in what he had found and he led them to a tent in the back of the camp where there was a scuffle taking place. In the center of the scuffle was a female dromite named Lakki, she was red and had wings unlike the others, the egg that they had been sent to collect had hatched. The group was unsure of what to do next, and sought Az's perspective on the situation. He advised them that they should help Lakki ascend to the throne of the Anthill, as the current queen ruled through mental manipulation and Lakki would free the dromites. The group agreed on Az's decision and set off towards the anthill. Once there, the group faked allegiance to Veene to get close to her where Nic managed to kill her, freeing the dromites. The dromites quickly swore allegiance of their own free will to Lakki. The Unity Party soon departed out the other side of the Anthill leaving Az behind to help reform their society.

#### Path of Purity

The group pressed onwards back into Hrothgar where they met up with Prytis once again, he offered them a quicker way of travel via his Grand Forge, a mirror that traveled between his castle and the castle of Heropolis. Aariel would spend the next couple days in the library of Heropolis studding history.

The party departed and made good time to Marshbarrow, once there Nic got in touch with the King Tristan and arranged for a place to stay. The group departed for the location of the sect and took out their first search party effortlessly. They interrogated a scout and learned that there were two other search parties. Nic, Aariel, Liz and Emm, went after one search party while the rest dealt with the other. The party was able to dispatch their scouts in one swift action and returned to Tristan's castle for the night and wait for the others. The following morning the full party departed for the Path of Purity, once they got there they were able to defeat the full sect with minimal problems.

After the battle was over the land reacted to Maiyr's presence and began to project images, these images showed them that the elven fugitive that stole the ring was in hiding just outside of Marshbarrow. Through the flashbacks they were able to discover the answer to Elaria's quest and decided to complete it. The group returned to Heropolis and set sail to Olyanor.

#### Return to Olyanor

After docking in Olyanor the party made there way quickly to Queen Elaria, once there they told her what they saw in Marshbarrow and she seemed to be happy. She then revealed that Maiyr was her biological brother and she abdicated the throne to him. Once it was announced that Maiyr was taking the throne, Aramil, Elaria's chamberlain, used his magic to blow up the palace damaging many inside. The party was mostly unhurt and proceeded to hunt him down after making sure that the wounded from the palace would be safe. They followed him to Dilly's house and through the Verdana tree, once the arrived at the Eternal Forest they saw that Aramil had been tossed clean out of the forest. They attempted to continue hunting him down but lost the trail when he used a teleportation spell. The party returned to Olyanor and helped clean up the palace and soon departed with Kirx heading for Deep Anor.

#### Deep Anor

Unity Party marched into Deep Anor and after a quick scouting mission they decided to storm the castle so that Kirx could challenge the king, a right he had earned by helping to slay the dragon in the Crimson Perch. After making it into the castle's main hall Kirx challenged Drak'mil, and was separated off from the rest of the group using magic. While Kirx was busy dueling the king the rest of the party was dealing with a horde of goblinoids who had been summoned by Drak'mil. The party was able to hold off the horde until Kirx managed to defeat the king and sever his head. The magic barriers dropped and Kirx proclaimed himself king of the goblins.

The party had two countries left to unite before reclaiming humanity, and it had become an even more pressing matter as they had recently discovered through Xani that to defeat Tyria they had to reunite all the countries of Unitas. The group decided to press onwards to Old Anor home of the drow and then the Squall.

#### Old Anor

As the party wandered through Old Anor they came across a strange girl dressed in white named Eden, she proceeded to warn the party not to move closer to the capital as it broke Saul. The party would continue moving forward and closer to the drow capital run by Kazmir, until they came across a figure in the distance on his knees. Nic flew forward and approached the figure but once he did he dropped down to his knees, Aariel chased after him and dropped to her knees beside him.

Aariel was now a ten year old and was in an unknown location, but a ten year old was with her. The two began to look around and soon stumbled upon a young elf, who they were able to recognize as Keylara. The two managed to help Keylara sneak through the jungle and steal a dinosaur egg, once the egg was stolen and brought back to Keylara's village the couple began to fade back into their own time.

Once they returned a they realized that everyone else was still in the empty minded stance including Maiyr who showed up after Nic time skipped. A pale woman appeared before them floating with long shimmering black hair, she explained to them that they now understood the Shadewalker, Keylara. The couple explored the area and realized they could not go past the magical incantation ring that had sent them back in time. Slowly over the next couple days everyone awoke from their trance and they learned that Kirx was the Infernal Emissary, Saul was the Man Outside of Time, Rebecca was the Flame Wreathed, Gali was the Lightning Bearer, Neri was the Bridge to the Dead, Nic was the Natural Pinnacle and Carol was the Clairaudiant.

The party continued on to the capital and witness the beginning of a arcane ritual, the sky was dark as green lightning cracked across it and bodies fell from the sky. Once they got to the capital the party saw a ring of drow chanting while a sole drow stood in the center with a dagger over top of a sacrificial drow. The party attempted to stop the ritual by killing the man in the center but it failed as the drow making the ring committed suicide and ripped open a portal. From the portal a gigantic balor demon stepped out, the balor demon continued to summon even more demons until the party was heavily out numbered. Nic fearing the worst ordered the party to retreat while they still could.

#### The Demon Army

Emmellyne teleported herself, Nicholias, Aariel and Michael into the Eternal Forest, shortly after arriving Morah showed up and teleported Michael away and brought them Xani. Morah informed Nic that he had taken his group to Heropolis. Nic and Aariel requested Verdana's help but she was unable to respond.

Nic decided that the best course of action would be to split up, and they sent Xani the safe way to warn the dromites, halflings, and dwarves. While Nic and his party warned the giants, orcs, elves and goblins. Emm contacted Tricia in Heropolis to warn them of the demon army and then Kirx to ready him for the armies possible attack.

Nic flew to the giant council carrying Aariel and Emm and warned them about the demons, the council agreed to send help to the orcs so they could help them defend their borders. Laufey requested that some of the army stay behind and defend the coastal border. After the giant council was ready Nic took to the skies once again carrying the girls and traveled to Ormag's camp, where he told them of the demons and the giant support coming. Ormag readied his forces and prepared them to march when called upon.

The small party then teleported back to the Verdana's forest and then went through the Verdana tree to Olyanor. Once in Olyanor the party rested for the night after requesting that Maiyr return to the capital as they planned on marching on the demon army. Maiyr returned the next morning and the group of heroes began to develop a plan to end the demon army if possible, Carol arrived shortly after and informed the party that the demon army had grow significantly since their escape. The group then discovered that they could potentially shut the portal if they destroyed a gem in the top of the arc. Nic, Aariel, Maiyr, Solanna, and Emm soon departed for Old Anor via teleportation. Once they got there the group was quickly attacked by the demon army forcing Aariel and Emmellyne to retreat back to Olyanor.

#### Taking Trineantis

Once the whole party was reunited in Olyanor they along with Elaria and the twins formed a plan to retake the human border city of Trineantis back from the Tharizdun worshipers. The group who went to destroy the demon portal would rest up as the armies on the border shifted in preparation from a midnight assault.

Aariel joined the elven army on the edge of the forest and charged forward with the on the city, as Nic and his party were inside. By the time Aariel and the elves reached the city it had all ready surrendered to Nic. Aariel spent the following day reading and getting to know Yumi. That evening Aariel along with Nic and Emm was teleported to Thecan.

#### March on Summershore

The three of them arrived in Thecan in Elijah's room as he slept, Nic quickly woke him up and relayed al of the information he had for them as Elijah woke up. Emmellyne quickly departed on an errand for Elijah as the rest of the group went to the bar to meet up with Neri. Nic quickly flew away as Adara appeared and Aariel decided to follow Elijah around to better learn how nobles act as she was soon to be queen of a human kingdom. Aariel followed Elijah aound until the rebel army arrived and began their war council. After a plan of action was made the whole army including most of the Unity Party marched on Summershore. Upon arriving at Summershore Gaspard was defeated and the city was given to the rebellion. Not wasting any time the army quickly resumed marching but this time on Duskhaven.

#### Reclaiming Amaranthia

The amry arched for a couple days and Aariel took this time to inquire and gather information on what nobles do. During this march Nic stole her away one evening to a spot by the river he knew as a child, the two of them had a romantic evening under the moon light. Once the army arrived as Duskhaven an elite group of soldiers were teleported into the throne room, Aariel was part of the group teleported into the center, she barely had time to fire of a handful or arrows before Nic was floating above the throne intimidating everyone into standing down as he had quickly killed Lucille Eventide, Aaramil, and the giant devil they had with them. Aariel followed her husband outside as he commanded the city's surrender, after the city was evacuated Aariel helped go around and collect all the things left behind.

#### Learning to Lead

Aariel would help Nic rebuild his kingdom and get it ready for the citizens coming the next day. That night Aariel began to plant a garden in the castles center courtyard, together her and Nic planted the Verdana Tree seed they had been given at their wedding. The next day Xeni showed up to help Nic and Emm bring the fallen rebel soldiers back to life, and after that he visited Aariel who was still tending to her new garden and he aged all of the plants to maturity.

As her future citizens arrived in the city Aariel like her husband helped the people settle in, offered them supplies, and helped to rebuild the city from the ground up. Aariel would soon find a new friend in Mao, who she had seen in Trineantis, the two traveled together to all of the supply farms for New Amaranthia and hep the farmers get on track and diversify their crops. During this time they would tell each other of their peoples cultures and Aariel broke down her confusing family tree. The two would continue to work together in beautifying the city as Mao grew trees and plants through out it and taught Aariel the proper way to take care of her garden.

The next morning Aariel broke the silver strand Emeth had given her in Olyanor and summoned him, the two of them sat down with Nic and began to plan out their futures, at this point Emm took some of the liquid refered to as truth and became unconscious, and Aariel realized that she needed to learn how to rule immediately and how to unite the kingdom that she was now ruling as its citizens hailed from many different kingdoms and races.

That night Aariel attempted to make contact with her ancestors but was unable to, ever since she choose not to ascend. The next morning Aariel checked to make sure she was not needed to help with the city and since Nic had it under control she departed through the Verdana Tree. Upon arriving she asked for advice from her divine grandmother, and Verdana responded by using the wind to clear a spot in the grass and showing Aariel the actions of her namesake using grass and petals. Aariel understood that she had to treat evey person as an equal and bring the up and help them grow as a society and as people. Aariel then went to find Ormag, and departed for Crombren. Upon arriving she discovered that he had packed up his camp and she followed their trail leading her to a small settlement in the squall. She attempted to make contact with them but they responded with hostility so she used the teleportation dagger Nic gave her to travel to Olyanor where she went to read up on elven leaders. Later that evening she would use a different dagger to return home to New Amaranthia and continue to help with rebuilding in the following days.

#### Demon War

Aariel departed New Amaranthia alongside Nic and Emm for the lands meet and attended it as queen of New Amaranthia. Soon after the lands meet was finished the Unity Party agreed to attack the Demon Army the very next day before the united armies could to lower casualties. Once the party arrived Aariel began picking off smaller demons from a distance with her bow.

#### Return to the Mountain

After the battle was finished, and a large chunk of the continent was destroyed by the demons, she followed Nic back to New Amaranthia to make sure it was ok before they all teleported to Stoneshade and made a plan to attack where Mount Unity once stood the next day as it had started to be surrounded by dark magic with evil creatures pouring out, and Emeth trapped inside. Aariel spent the night embraced in her husbands strong arms as her potential last night alive.

Once everyone was well rested the party marched on the mountain as the human armies had cleared a path for them. Once they got inside the mountain Nic sent one of his celestial beasts he summoned inside to scout it out but lost contact with it upon entering the room. Nic decided he was just going to risk it and enter, the rest of the party followed suit. Upon entering the room Aariel was standing in darkness with a few enemies across from them and Tyria and Emeth in a separate bubble, along with majority of the item wielders in bubbles floating above them across from enemies, one of whom was Corona.

Over time all of Unity Party entered the main bubble and the wall separating them and Tyria was destroyed as all of their other enemies died, Aariel killing a lizardfolk attacking them. Emeth reached out and touched Tyria and a massive explosion of light followed, as the light faded in the center of the room stood a massive being made of light. Aariel bracced herself to attack as she stood in the safety of Emm's sheild. Nic dashed across the room and slashed into the giant being with a a devastating power that Aariel had never seen him use. With a few of his mighty slashes he was able to crack her form allowing the rest of the item weilders, as they were the only ones able to make contact chip away at what was left of her health, Aariel was unable to even hit the monster through her armour. Kirx was able to destroy the creature by shooting two arrows into the monster's chest finishing off what was left of the creature. As the being exploded the darkness around them faded and next thing she knew Aariel was standing in a room with pillars surrounding them.

The beautiful woman from when they traveled into each others pasts appeared before them and thanked them for their service as all of their item fell of off them and through them reappearing on the pillars around them. The beautiful woman faded away and was replaced by another woman with wings who stated that they may have won this battle but she would attack again and just wait for the Unity Party to die off. Nic went over to Tyria who was lying unconscious in the corner, and picked her up, not letting anyone evive her for fear that making her conscious could lead to her being possessed again or having other negative side effects set up by the being that possessed her.

Upon exiting the mountain they met back up with the non item wielders of Unity Party and a few of the lords of Unitas, Nic asked Emm to cast a spell on Tyria that would not allow her to wake until she made contact with Emeth. The group quickly made their way to Emeth who was being healed by Adrianna, Emm took over healing him so that they could wake up Tyria. Once she was awoken Nic made plans to meet up with Emeth in a few days and the two of them alongside Emm returned to New Amaranthia.

### Post Tyrian War

Aariel was a just and fair ruler whose straight forward approach made her loved by all of her citizens. She helped to form the Council of Light alongside Nicholias, Emeth, Tyria and Emm. The Council spent centuries guarding the known world. Aariel and Nicholias were blessed with two children named Aurora and Neaera Dawning. Aurora became a skilled fighter and helped her parents rule New Amaranthia between adventures. Neaera took after her mother's side in looks and personality and devoted herself to the church of Pelor eventually becoming the pope.

Both daughters become agents of the Council of Light and during a mission Aurora alongside Theo, who had begun a romantic relationship with her, both went missing. The Council attempted to find them but could not find any sign of them what so ever no matter what means they used including divine help from the gods. After years of mourning the family had to move on and continue focusing on the rising evil that was Samiel and his offspring. Eventually the Council of Light was forced into an all out war between them and their agents and Samiel and his mind controlled army. The Council made their way onto another plane via Alighieri and met Samiel and what was left of his forces on the battle field, and as Nic slew Samiel and freed his army, the group realized they were being held on the plane by a force stronger then even Samiel.

## Equipment

Aariel's main weapon is her grandmother's bow Somber Soul, it has improved aim and speed compared to other bows. She also carries a silver dagger. She was once bonded with the ancient artifact Facere Totum, which is a silver ring, and now wears a silver ring in it's place that allows telepathic communication with other members of the Council of Light.

## Powers

Aariel is an adept archer with divine magic from her training as a ranger, she is also skilled in arcane magic and has learned to enchant her arrows with it as well.

Her time spent bonded to Facere Totum gives Aariel the power to conjure creatures, magic and items.