Emrys Somhairle Vadalis

### Known Relatives

Geoff Somhairle Vadalis (Adopted Uncle), Helena Gibson d'Vadalis (Adopted Aunt), Elin Vadalis (Mother - Deceased), Bronn d'Vadalis (Father - Deceased)

### Relationship Status

Totes Single AF and would never be in a spicy inter-house relationship even once.

## Appearance

Emrys is a raven-haired woman standing exactly five foot nine inches tall. A combination of eyes so dark to almost be black or purple when cast in the right light and pale skin gives the human an almost haunting beauty, though to her discredit some might say, she does little to nothing to enhance her fine features except what is socially expected of her.

The aforementioned fair skin of her shoulders is adorned in deep blue tattoos in complex arcane symbological patterns. While extensive, it almost seems as if Emrys is so used to having these tattoos as to forget they're there.

While not overly muscular, Emrys does bear the telltale calloused grip and sinewy strength of someone accustomed to working long hours in harsh conditions. Many small scars crisscross her frame but she has few noteworthy ones save a large, long since healed, gash that reaches from the back of her hand to her left elbow, jaggedly running down the length of her forearm.

When not doing fieldwork, Emrys prefers to wear clothing as utilitarian as the effort she puts into the rest of her appearance and often comes off looking nice enough, if not a little blasé. She lets the scenario she finds herself in, whether work or House related, to often dictate what she wears without much thought given to personal preference. When in the field though it's a different story. Emrys sports a suit of finely tooled black leather armor, custom made to her specifications. She keeps it obsessively clean, maintained and stocked full of whatever spell reagants she deems necessary for the job at hand. She'll even readily admit she'd prefer to take something that might have value in the field over a small comfort because well you can't enjoy those comforts if you're also dead.

Lean, tall, and well proportioned, one would think that she'd catch the eye for all the right reasons -- but her physicality is strangely rote and practiced looking and she has a tendency to loom uncomfortably rather than stand companionably. This along with her oftentimes bored or disinterested expression, gives her an air of being aloof or detached that does little to give much insight into what the quiet, oftentimes contemplative, woman is thinking.

## History

Exerimental Mutagenic Research Yield Study v2:

H. Gibson d’Vadalis & G. Somhairle Vadalis (996 YK)

The research specimen, henceforth known as Emrys/Asset/Magebred/Subject, is a human woman created on Rhaan 8, 985 YK.

The goal of this research endeavor is to study the symbiosis of Emrys and various exotic biological creatures; with the express goal of discerning future viability for combat units. Exotic Species under consideration for symbiosis will be discussed at a later date. As will the extent and duration of each symbiotic component.

Emrys will be raised from creation to age 6 at The Facility located in location redacted, the Magebred will be run through a series of predefined tests at regular intervals to gauge physical and mental parameters, including but not limited to mental acuity, control over innate magical talent, physical abilities, etc.

Phase two will commence when Emrys either fulfills the required parameters of phase one or reaches a biological age of six years [whichever comes first]. Once either of these conditions has been met, the Magebred will be transferred from The Facility by caravan and accompanied by a designated Asset to the care of Geoff Somhairle Vadalis and Helena Gibson d'Vadalis in the city of Varna in the Eldeen Reaches.

Emrys will be given the full name Emrys Denelle Somhairle Vadalis and inducted into the House. The Magebred will be required to master her cover story and crafted genealogical record when brought into Phase two; the details of which will be discussed amongst staff and researchers to protect against scrutiny from lesser members of The House. Emrys will remain under the care of Agents Geoff and Helena who will be presented as her adoptive relatives.

During Phase Two the Magebred will be trained in subterfuge and obfuscations to protect the integrity of The Program. Acclimation into life outside The Facility, and continued symbiontic analysis and integration of Subject Emrys will be considered paramount.The subject will also be taught advanced classwork up to a collegiate level by private instructors.

Phase three:
Once parameters of phase two have been met, Emrys will be enlisted into The Balinor's Blessed Guild under the false pretense of dragonmark manifestation. The Program Facilitators will allow the Subject greater freedom during Phase Three while observing her interactions with the environs and people of Khorvaire to access the viability of her training.

Phase Four: The Asset has been afforded an opportunity to join the Acquisition’s Directorate and new parameters are being set in place. In light of the subject having reported in and been found to be of sound mind and body during phase three, enacting of phase four will commence immediately.

* Phase 4.1: Emrys continues to perform above previously set parameters and encouragement to continue her work with the Acquisition’s Directorate will be considered paramount going forward and take precedence to The Balinor's Blessed. Phase Zenith protocols have been set in place, awaiting final approval from senior facilitators before enaction and removal from The Acquisition's Directorate.

Phase Five: Emrys was contracted by the Wayfinders Foundation Fairhaven Branch to guide one of their teams through The Gloaming on a mission given by House Vadalis and facilitated by The Program. The subject exceeded expectations and saved the life of a Wayfinder named Falren Yusif with her enhanced physical attributes and proved herself instrumental in their efforts.

### The Last War

Emrys saw little of the direct conflict of The Last War save for the work she did with The Balinor's Blessed. Emrys' adoptive parents had done her a favor in that she would be spared from seeing many of the horrors of war while out in the wildlands. As the war waged on House Vadalis had prioritized the capture and study of exotic beasts that could be bred and trained into weapons and through her participation in this work she was shielded from seeing many of the harsh realities of war.

Through her work Emrys felt she was doing her part to protect the independence of the Eldeen Reaches, which had seceded thirteen years before she was born. Being an orphan of war, Emrys knew what the cost of it was for families and communities and had a great disdain for the idea of the prolonged conflict, which was all she had known throughout her life.

In the weeks leading up to the nation of Cyre being lost to The Mourning, Emrys was tasked with uncovering a malady afflicting a group of Magebred Destriers, which were soon to be sold to a private buyer in the southern town of Sylbaran. The animals had contracted some sort of wasting disease that sickened and withered them and led them to slow and painful deaths. The attacks were precipitated by a similar string of increasingly violent action against Vadalis' Magebred livestock in neighboring communities, but this was by far the most blatant attack against the animals and their caregivers.

It would soon be discovered that a druidic sect known as The Children of Winter were responsible for the affliction and attacks preceding it. They believed the magic employed in the creation of the unnaturally strong and resilient Magebred animals was a perversion of nature and needed to be destroyed. Emrys, working with her team of Balinor's Blessed, were able to strike at the heart of the camp the Children of Winter used as the base for their attacks and flush out the small cell.

When the Day of Mourning finally struck, Emrys was blissfully unaware as she was neck deep in fighting The Children. When she returned from the woodlands though it was like stepping into a different world, even if Cyre, or what had become of it, lay halfway across the continent. Nothing would be the same after the 20th of Olarune, even if Emrys didn't know it yet.

### Invitation

Emrys was contracted by the Wayfinders Foundation Fairhaven Branch to guide one of their teams through a particularly nasty bit of forest in The Gloaming. They came across a village on the outskirts that was being plagued by some sort of creature from within who caused a great deal of havok.

She helped the team uncover that the perpetrator was a Mabaran corrupted Satyr who had stumbled through a manifest zone and was lost, confused, and starving. The twisted creature had gone mad in it's despair and when they finally tracked it down and engaged it in a desperate struggle, Emrys went above and beyond her duties as a guide and saved the life of a Wayfinder named Falren Yusif and proved herself instrumental in setting things right again. When they successfully returned home, The Foundation extended an invitation to her. She was subsequently accepted into the branch and began working with them soon after moving to Fairhaven from House Vadalis' holdings in Varna.

### Experience

During the war Emrys worked with The Balinor’s Blessed helping in the study and capture of exotic beasts from the wildlands across Khorvaire. She learned resourcefulness and self-sufficiency when working in unforgiving terrain and a wide variety of skills and knowledge concerning the beasts they studied and captured.

After the war Emrys moved on to work with the Acquisition’s Directorate in helping secure knowledge and artifacts for the House’s purposes and expanded her knowledge of many foreign locales, as her previous work had focused mostly on the mainland continent and The Five Nations specifically. She had most recently, successfully participated in a mission to Xen’drik accompanying an AD team that included Tea d’Vadalis and Villio d’Tharask. Besides this mission to the ruins of Xen’drik, Emyrs has also briefly ventured into the Demon Wastes and been subjected to a manifest zone of Xoriat in the Nightwood of Karrnath.

Before being accepted into the Wayfinder’s Foundation, Emrys had split her time between working with The Balinor’s Blessed and The Acquisition’s Directorate, with the AD taking precedence.

Most recently Emrys was tasked by the Wayfinders Foundation to assist the citizens of Allamoir in further relocation efforts and for unknown reasons she asked to be transferred to the Sharn branch shortly after to learn and train with the Wayfinders that found the city in the Mists.

### Motivation

Emrys wants to prove that she is worthy of the training and support she has received throughout her life from House Vadalis and believes that through her expeditions and missions she can be the first to discover new increasingly exotic flora and fauna that she would be able to study and bring back to the House for continuted research,

### Secrets

The research specimen, henceforth known as Emrys/Asset/Magebred/Subject, is a human woman created on Rhaan 8, 985 YK.

Emrys has, for reasons unexplained, fervently kept secret from her House that she had taken a mission to assist Allamoir and has come to Sharn in part to learn more about what she found there.

Emrys may have stolen and released a Magebred Hippogriff her Aunt Helena helped raise and care for with her apprentices. This is fine. Valiance is fine. She also partially failed and may have left behind clues of her being involved without any solid proof. Also fine.

## Personality

**Personality Traits**

* Emrys feels most comfortable in an orderly setting and will often clean up and organize behind people absentmindedly, oftentimes not even realizing she's done it until the person needs the item she put away or cleaned.
* Emrys has a habit of carrying on running conversations with herself in her head, and weighing her words carefully. Her first thoughts are usually sarcastic or semi deprecating before she thinks through how to respond. She has a habit of getting lost in these internal conversations and because of it people have taken her for being aloof or detached in the past.
* Only half realizing it or catching herself afterward, Emrys will count random things while doing mundane tasks in the background of her mind, the counts oddly often being right even if she's thinking about other things in between.
* Emrys doesn't speak aloud as much as she probably should when first meeting and gauging new people, but when she does so she can come off sounding bored or disinterested. There are times even when she would rather speak with someone new through use of the message cantrip than engage in a traditional conversation. After so much time spent alone or with small groups in the wilds of Khorvaire it's made her feel less comfortable engaging new people, although she isn't a shy person necessarily.
	+ I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
	+ I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplations, becoming oblivious to those around me.
	+ I bluntly say what other people are hinting at.

**Ideals**

* Live and Let Live. Meddling in the affairs of others only causes trouble.
* Aspiration. I'm going to prove that I'm worthy of the training I've received throughout my life.

**Bonds**

* My family is one of the most important things in my life, even when they are far from me.
* I've been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.

**Strengths**

* I am confident of my abilities in the field and will work tirelessly to attain my goals.
* While slow to trust, those I do I trust with my life and I would protect them in the same way.

**Flaws**

* I have trouble initially trusting in my allies.
* Most people scream and run when they see a monster. I stop and take notes on its anatomy.

## Crunch

### XP & Gold Log

*This transaction list must include all finished expeditions and the gold/XP earned for each, as well as all expenditures (what you bought and for how much).*

Total Gold Remaining: 4 gp - Downtime Remaining: 70 dots

### Inventory

* Ioun Stone of Leadership - 58 Downtime Dots Spent
* Ring of Truth Telling

### Character Sheet

* https://ddb.ac/characters/27289306/YX3TtQ