Riel Anworth

**Riel Anworth** is an Eladrin originally from the winter court area in the feywilds. He's currently a drifter, doing typical adventuring work.

## Appearance

Riel is a tall Eladrin that tends to loom over most of his friends. He has long black hair that's kind of shaggy, some of it is tied with loose ribbon. His clothes are messy and tattered, and his entire body is covered in white splotches.

He has impact scars from his brain exploding on his forehead, and both his ears.

## Personality

Riel is a man that likes to look super cool! If anyone dares him to do anything, he will definitely do it - no hesitation. He lives his life like it's his last day, since he's already dead anyway. He has nothing to fear and he acts like such.

As a "traveling bard", he constantly tells tall tales of his trip to the Celestial Monument (yes, the one that killed him), and survived, but the story changes every time to make it seem like he was doing a strong, brave heroic deed or something of that caliber and not some petty dare for a crush.

His catch phrase is, 'pretty smart for someone with no brain!' because, while he acts kind of silly, he knows more than he lets on. Also because he legitimately has no brain.

## History

The Anworth family is a group of promiment gravekeepers that live in the feywilds. Like most families, Riel was going to take up the family business after his father, Kihel.

Riel, while hanging out with his friends, Eins and Lin, Lin dared him to go near the monument that dropped in the Winter territory by the Celestials. Being a gravekeeper (in-training), knowing the effects the monuments have on people who stayed near them for too long and perished by the Divine Wrath, one would think Riel would say no to be smart and safe... However, with Eins being his crush for many years, Riel wanted to look cool, seem super casual, and not afraid by the monument so he took Lin up on the dare. Even though Eins said it was okay, Riel doesnt' have to do the dare, Riel basically pshaw'd them and said how bad could it be, I've dealt with bodies that had Divine Wrath effects, it's fine.

Riel snuck into the surrounding territory that was affected by the monument, making sure to not be detected by any guards. That's where he was cursed by the Divine Wrath. Despite his yelling, no one could get to him in time. He heard a sharp noise to the point his ears exploded, and his brain basically turned to mush and he died there. Lin and Eins waited nearly a half of day for Riel to return before getting help. That's when they discovered Riel's corpse, and had to get Kihel to recover it.

They buried Riel like normal. Except, Kihel did a ritual regarding a coin carved with a dogwood, and a special flute with runes on it; one that'll grab a soul that's trying to depart, force it down, tie it to an object and a body to keep it in the plane they live on forever. With the lack of clerics in the feywild due to Gods and Deities not being so prominent ressurection is not that common, and this way is certainly strange and taboo in itself. About a day later, Riel woke up in his grave, head and ears throbbing, clothes teared up and stained with the "pure white" that drips from celestials, and his body incredibly sore all over. Riel took a little while to recover, but he immediately made a beeline back to his hometown to figure out what happened recently. Of course, coming back to his hometown like it was nothing in his current state, a lot of people... Were very surprised, and even scared. There were rumours the Anworths dabble in weird taboo stuff, but they didn't think they would've seen it (at least, what they thought.. they were seeing were those rumours). Riel was shunned and chased out of his hometown, before he could see his family or friends, for being a freak of nature basically.

Afterwards he became a "traveling bard" to spread his silly tales, and do adventuring work to survive.