Niah Ariel

## Appearance

Niah is 5'6 with long brown hair that has streaks of red in it and has a red tint to it. She is good at braiding and sometimes wears it in braids or in a pony tail or she lets her hair down. Niah also has golden eyes with white eye patch over her right eye, under the eye patch, she has no eye. Each eye with noticeable eye bags under it. She has scar over her right eye that goes vertically.

Her outfit consists a skirt that is wrapped around her waist and is tied to her by very strong cloth. Her skirt comes down to about halfway to her knees but shortens a little as it goes farther back and has a slight parting by her her right leg. Her skirt is colored dark blue with white dots at the bottom and the piece of cloth holding it up is white. Her shirt is sleeveless and dark purple, it comes up a little after her collarbone and has a white tie hanging from it with black, vertical, stripes on it. Her sleeves are separate from her shirt and come up to a little bit before her shoulder and go down to her wrist. The sleeves are skin tight.

She sometimes wears white gloves for warmth. She has dark purple boots that you tie to tighten with white bottoms that come up to a little below her knees. She also has a piece of dark purple cloth (a little darker than her shirt) that goes around her right side and arm but is torn off at the waist. She has a necklace that has a Sapphire that she wears, which was her older brothers, Elijah's.

## Personality

PRE-MEMORY: Niah is quickly annoyed by others and makes no attempt to hide it. She is annoyed by all the people she is traveling with, except Adra and is annoyed by Sylvan significantly less that the others. After experiences many life and death experiences with the group she is traveling with, she is beginning to warm up to them and cares a little, but she would never let the most of them know that, but is still annoyed nonetheless.

Niah is mostly throughout the story, lazy, annoying, and a bit childish in some regards and is very petty. During times of danger, Niah can get her act together and be serious and can be somewhat reliable due to her skills and how her body remembers battles. She doesn't exactly know how to show her feelings towards others if its any positive feeling, but instead shows it through her own way (as shown with the old lady and the water)

## History

Niah was born into a noble family and ever since she was little her parents always hated her and were mean to her (verbally abusing her, physically abusing her, throwing things at her) though Niah was just as mean back. They loved her older sibling, Elijah, who really loved Niah. Niah was always mean to Elijah (extremely mean to him and their parents) despite how loving he w as towards her. Due to how nasty and mean Niah was, wherever she went she could always hear whispers about her behind her back from the other nobles and this really bothered her and made her angry. Elijah was deathly sick with the illness their mother had, though their mother had it on a lesser scale, causing him to constantly be inside. Eventually, at Elijah’s deathbed, Niah was in denial he was going to die, since he loved him even though she was extremely nasty and never showed she cared. Because she was in denial, she cursed Elijah for being sick and blamed it entirely on him.

Niah’s mother finally lost it and grabbed a knife and slashed Niah across her right eye, making her blind in one eye and leaving a scar over it. Out of defense, Niah screamed and kicked her mother back, who was already frail, killing her. Niah’s father immediately yelled at her and punched her across the face and ran out with her mother in his arms screaming for a doctor. This left Niah alone with her brother, who was about to die, but was not dead. He told her “Please Niah, live to remember me, and live to find your meaning and purpose in your life”. With that Elijah died and Niah tore off Elijah’s clothes to create a temporary eye patch for her eye and to wipe her tears she would never admit came out. When her father returned he grabbed Niah by the face and ripped it out to further niahs pain, and to create a lasting “mark” on her. Due to this, Niah hates her scar, the loss of her eye, and the damaged skin around her right eye socket and is very insecure about it. She also she’s the scar going vertically as her mothers lasting mark on her.

The news spread around everywhere fast, within a week, making the rumors even worse, and Niah could tell her father wanted to kill her, so she ran after a week, but not before taking a necklace that belonged to Elijah. She was about 15 when this happened and she was on the run for 3 years. Since she was a noble, she was already trained in swordsmanship and other things. Her parents did not allow her to get an education. However, Elijah would leave out books and notes knowing that Niah would come at night to read them and return them, so she did get somewhat of a noble education. But while on the run from her father (who was chasing her) she strengthened her skills in other weapons, while discovering her ability, and she did some underhanded things to survive. She would rob and steal, she would hurt people, but never directly killed people she considered good for anything, but did leave people out to die or worse. She did not hesitate to murder or be hired to kill anyone who was evil by her standards (which were not necessarily very good). She would sometimes resort to selling body but tried to avoid it as much as possible. She stuck to mainly, gambling , stealing, threatening, and other activities to get by. The fact she indirectly killed people good by her standards did make her feel guilty, but her main goal was to live for Elijah and spite her father, the gods, and the world. She learned never to trust people too much and how to fend for herself. People around her area began to notice her, and if any common folk ever saw, they would chase her out while calling her any name they could think of (she was thought of like a sore thumb). This did nothing to make Niah feel better. She was somewhat infamous in villages and bars/taverns, not necessarily like a powerful foe, but more like a little brat who people were amused to observe. The fact that she never apologized to Elijah or made everything up to him forever haunted her. When she turned 18, she was thinking how much longer she would go on like this when a poisoned arrow hit her on her side, she stumbled and hit her head on a rock (cause of memory loss). She woke up where she started.

## Abilities

-Master at most melee weapons

-Moderate at medium ranged weapons

-Due to being demi-demon, Niah a considerable amount of strength

-Has the ability to ‘feel’ 4.5 seconds in the future, often in the event of danger

-Is very flexible and has quick reflexes

-Master at martial arts and acrobatics

-When she really wants to be or needs to be, she is very good at lying and deceiving (before memory loss)

-Has a general sense of the future due to her ability and constantly worshiping Oracle.

-Able to fall asleep on command

## Relationships

### Elijah

In contrast of her parents, Elijah showed unfailing love to Niah, but Niah showed nowhere the same back. As Elijah knew Niah so well, Niah hardly knew anything about Elijah except the fact he loved her. Niah seemingly hated him for what she considered acting when their parents would daily scream at her and everyone in the area around their house would whisper about her, yet he would tell her that he loved her, and he really did, but Niah didn't see it like that. If he loved her than sure, he would defend her and stop their parents from doing a little bit more than they do, but then why would he still love her parents and present himself to the other nobles, she would wonder. Due to this logic, Niah never once said something nice to Elijah, but Elijah knew that behind all her mean words she did love him even if she didn't know it herself. Niah did realize she loved Elijah at his deathbed when she felt indescribable sadness and rage at his death. To the day until she lost her memory, Niah still did hold some bitter feelings for him with the same questions of how he could love her and their parents at the same time, but behind all that she truly did love him.

### Sylvan

When Niah first met Sylvan she was annoyed at him and saw him as some kind of goody-two-shoes when he wouldn't let her kill brownie. But she teamed up with him because they were both lost in the forest with Emi and they all needed out. Later, when they both go look for Emi and get attacked Niah does begin to like Sylvan due to how he had her back during that and helped out. This feeling of trust and her like for him only continues to grow as they experience more and more adventures and times of worry that strengthen her trust for him to the point where she would consider them friends, but most likely would never say that. Niah still does get annoyed at Sylvan since he is typically the one that stops her from doing irrational deeds, but likes him still and acknowledges his capabilities.

After discovering they were half siblings, Niah loves him very much and he is one of the only people she will openly show affection to.

### Ambrose

So far, Niah hates Ambrose's guts due to the fight they had earlier when he was repairing her dagger and considers him an egotistical jerk.