Aejerine

##### Basic Description

Aejerine is a 6’2’’ tall female Crystalmage born 15 years before Aldonoire's rule. Her horns are an ashy brown, her eyes are blue, and her hair and tail tuft are golden blonde.

As a commoner, she often wears a light red dress-length tunic with a brown lace-up corset and boots. When traveling to The Frosted Woods region of the continent, she wears a brown hooded cape lined with pale fur. She has crafted an amulet of garnet and tiger’s eye that she wears daily, often tucked beneath her tunic. She wears multiple sets of golden earrings on both ears.

Aejerine lives near the western border of The Castle Village. She lives acting as a Dendromage as she runs a small, on-the-down-low ‘medicine’ shop [Aejerine's Potion Shop]. But contrary to what would be expected for a medicine worker, she doesn’t only use plants, she brews her potions with crystals. She often will cover up the tracks by infusing floral teas or herbs into her remedies to give the illusion of a dendromage medicine. While not well known throughout the entire kingdom, she’s gained a small reputation as a talented and mysterious healer, and her services are known little about. While a dendromage medicine may help an elf heal over time, the properties of Aejerine’s potions seemed nearly miraculous in comparison.

##### Personality and History

Aejerine is, while she is a commoner, somewhat quiet and stoic. She avoids questioning to keep her mage type a secret. She tends to be pessimistic but is, beneath the collected but sarcastic demeanor, rather affectionate. Her mother was a dendromage who was not aware that her father,  Tzoryte Aejerine, was a crystalmage. Aejerine has confirmed her crystalmage father to be deceased but she is no longer sure where her mother is, if she is still alive. Aejerine does not know her name.

At the age of 28, Aejerine met a young frostmage Delilah at The Library while attempting to find records of her history. Upon finding out the teenaged elf was orphaned, she offered her home as a place to stay and study as long as Delilah promised to help with the shop in return. Delilah, a mage obsessed with studying and mastering magic, eagerly agreed upon finding out the truth of Aejerine’s breed. They would live and work together for about 6 years before Aejerine would become Queen.

##### Path to Royalty

King Aldonoire’s health began to decline in the winters before present day, and many dendromage healers attempted to diagnose his sickness, but none could quite place it. As Aldonoire was royal, the Lightmage heritage incorporated elements into his biology that made him different from any healer’s common customers. Aejerine was called to the palace along with several other healers to tend to his rapidly declining condition. She was the only one who could truly detect his condition through sensing the energies throughout his body and mind. After dendromages prescribed medicine after tea after medicine, it was Aejerine’s potions that began to heal him and keep him alive.

After 2 years total of working non-publicly as the royal healer, Aejerine and Aldonoire grew somewhat close. Aldonoire’s previous wife had died of reasons not yet disclosed to the kingdom. But the king, in need of a queen and a mother to his son Prince Esryn, had fallen in love with the healer that saved his life and proposed to Aejerine at the Winter’s Solstice Ball on his twentieth year of rule.