Omari Siyala

Aria Siyala (Mother)

Liaro (Friend)

Arabella Marwood (Acquaintance)

Anthony Crowstone (Boyfriend)

**Omari Siyala** is a member in the Dragon Wagon, an adventuring group in Elysium, and one of the protagonists of The Darkest Ring. She's a vulpin, born in a nomadic tribe in Adral, Moesia and raised as a ranger by her parents.

## Physical Description

Omari is a vulpin (human/fox hybrid) with ginger fox ears and tail matching her hair colour. Her hair is naturally very curly and coily, in Omari's arc her hair has been cut since leaving her village and is shoulder length. In Liaro's arc she wears it in a short ponytail with a few loose strands falling around her face. She's the second shortest party member (after Arabella), and has long black claws on both hands.

## Personality & Traits

Omari keeps up a facade of a bubbly, friendly personality, using thaumaturgy to enhance her features to seem more lively. Being seemingly more analytical than she lets on, Omari is often the first to find out new information, such as Liaro's true identity.

Being intensely devoted to her friends, though misunderstanding social situations and cues. Omari finds it difficult to combine her emotional attachments with other aspects of her life and as such often misunderstands when and what she should communicate with others.

Despite this, when she has decided someone is close enough to her, she is persistently devoted to them, and always willing to sacrifice herself to protect them even if they may not feel the same.

## Biography

Omari grew up in the village of [village name], in Adral, Moesia and was raised by her ranger father Anzo Siyala and bloodhunter, former assassin mother Aria Siyala. As a toddler, she found a weak, and thirsty snake roaming around her house, learning she was able to speak with it, she quickly rescued and adopted the snake as her familiar Delphi, who she later learned was a drake.

Her dad taught her the basics of how to be a ranger while she spent her time in the village with her close friends Morxus and Celeste, the latter of whom she's secretly been in love with most of her.

When she was 19 her village was attacked by unknown assailants, her mother stayed behind to fight them off while her father took her and escaped, but she got lost in the crowd and soon found herself travelling Moesia alone, while using her acrobatic skills to earn money as a performer while she trained to become a better ranger.

Eventually, her travels took her to Norisea in Kusland, where now as a trained adventurer and ranger, she met Liaro, Lydia and Faust and subsequently formed The Dragon Wagon party.

### Omari's Arc

#### Arc 1

Sent on a mission to retrieve The Staff of Sylneas Silvertongue, alongside Liaro and Faust they found it in the possession of a Nothic by the name of Elric Sylvir. After a brief battle, he handed them the Staff in exchange for being spared.

Going to Taj in The Magocracy of Norisea, they met up with the orc noble who had hired them. After discovering his inability to wield staff he stormed out and left the staff to the Faust Telfer.

Interfering in a tavern brawl, Liaro met and introduced the party to Lydia Narr, a paladin working for Volothamp Geddarm to track down and rescue his missing friend Floon Blagmaar. Joining her in the quest, they tracked Floon’s last-seen associate Renear Neverember to a warehouse in the city, having been kidnapped by a group of Kenkus. Eventually, learning Floon and Renear were mistaken for each other and kidnapped by two opposing guilds, the party fought a Mindflayer in the sewers to rescue Floon and return him to Volo in exchange for the deed to a haunted house they now owned.

Having discovered a magical wand and mask in the fight against the Mindflayer, Omari put the mask on granting her temporary invisibility and increased attack damage, but its curse compelled her to refuse to remove it as it slowly began to kill her. She also borrowed a paper bird Lydia had found and sent a message to her dad using its magical capabilities

Taking Delphi to the vet due to strange behaviours, the group are sent to kill a hydra for cargo it interrupted including a cure for Delphi, but upon their return, they learned the “cure” was just a tea plant for the vet, and that Delphi’s changes were due to her going through puberty and turning into a drake. Arriving back at the house, Omari found the paper bird had returned with a message in blood reading “Help”.

#### Arc 2

Having used the Staff of SYlnea Silvertongue, Faust summoned a drake called Drake, who agreed to assist the group in following the paper bird back to Omari’s dad, which led them first to the city of Raco where Faust had an emotional reunion with his elder sister, Edith Telfer.

In the wake of his reunion, the party discovered Faust used to be a soldier for The Iron Empire of Brazaad and in a battle, he has no memory of, he was the only one left alive and with no explanation for it, his only choice was to flee and become a deserter presumed dead by his people. After this revelation, Omari promises he is her family now and that she will protect him from being discovered.

During their stay in Raco, Omari learned that her mother was seen in the city three months prior looking for her and her father has been taken by bandits sought after by the Empire. Tracking the bandits to The Bloodcliffs, Omari rescues her childhood friend Morxus, as well as a tielfing called Horus. In exchange for the removal of his shackles, Horus provides information about the location of Omari’s dad being in Starend, the city most recently taken over as part of Brazaad.

Horus attempts to cause conflict amongst the party, and shows interest in Faust’s magic while they travel to Starend. Discovering the true nature of Omari’s mask, Lydia and the party reluctantly team up with Horus to remove it’s curse on her. Soon after, Omari makes a deal with Horus, asking questions about a collar she stole off one of the bandit’s corpses, discovering there are many more of its kind that can be used to track down the location of her dad’s current kidnappers.

#### Arc 3

Arriving in Starend, tensions rise in the group as Liaro’s anti-Brazaadian ideals begin to show themselves, causing conflict between him and Faust. Omari tells Lydia about the deal she made with Horus, leading to an argument wherein Lydia tells her off for her bad decisions and Omari insists she had no other choice.

With Horus’ help, the party discovers the locations of 21 collar wearers in the city, most clustered in a Holy Temple, in the noble district where a cult of some sort have kidnapped him for a ritual. Quickly disposing of the cult members and leaders, Omari is reunited with her now comatose father.

Insisting she needs to let off some steam, Lydia convinces Omari and the group to go to the beach, where they’re quickly invited to a party by Destiny, a local genasi interested in Faust. At the beach, Omari meets a red tiefling Anthony with whom she quickly develops a flirtatious rivalry as they partake in multiple competitive activities before forming a casual sexual relationship.

In a desire to help Faust, Omari goes to a local arcane shop and removes the mask’s curse, gifting it to him to use if he is ever found out by The Empire. He reveals that he has begun a relationship with the genasi Destiny, and Lydia plans a dinner party for the party, Anthony, and Destiny.

The night of the dinner party and her birthday which she doesn’t inform anyone of, Omari discovers Liaro is a spy working for Hellinde, against The Empire, and before she can inform anyone after the party Horus shows up threatening to kill her dad for “disrespecting” him. Becoming excessively paranoid, she quickly enters a depressive state and refuses to leave her father’s side while contemplating the things Horus said the previous night about her and her party members.

The next day, Faust learns of her birthday and throws a mini party with The Dragon Wagon gifting her with a bow, during the evening Anthony visits her and they begin an official relationship.

Having recovered with the help of her friends and Anthony, Omari’s post-contemplative state leads to changes in her attitude and her revealing the truth about Liaro to a heartbroken Faust who she assumes has ended his relationship with Destiny. After which, the go to the mayor to inform her that the loot for missing adventurers’ posters around the city were found on the bodies killed by the hydra in arc 1.