Bria

**Bria** is an initiate Doctor in the Order of Ultra-Science and was introduced in Asphodel. (Played by *The\_Broker*)

## Biography

Bria was born into the Bryyo tribe to a Homini mother, Sfimas, and an Elysian father, whose name Bria never learned. Her father left shortly after her birth and Sfimas died before she entered her teen years. Despite her status as a halfblood, Bria was treated no differently from any other member of the tribe.

All throughout her life, Bria was particularly drawn to the art of healing. Her speed in learning this benefited her tribe a great deal and she was made the medicine woman of the tribe at a relatively young age. When she wasn’t healing her fellow tribe members, she would even venture out into the wilderness to aid the local fauna. Though she had a special fondness for anything with wings, she loved all of nature.

Around the 18th year of her life, her tribe began to suffer from a severe plague. Bria’s talents as the medicine woman were more than enough to prevent even a single member of the Bryyo tribe from perishing. Her skills in the healing arts were enough to draw the attention of a mysterious Order. White coat clad strangers soon arrived. They declared themselves to be doctors and offered their services as men and women of science to the tribe. They also warned them about rumors of Sheolfolk raiders being sighted in the region, though Bria knew for a fact that no such raiders were around. In particular, they offered all of their knowledge to Bria as they sensed she held great potential. Bria, though hesitant of the strangers’ generosity, decided to return with them to their headquarters. She knew they held advanced knowledge and hoped she could learn a great deal from them. But she kept from them the fact that she was a halfblood. The Order of Ultra-Science welcomed her into their midst and gave her the title of doctor. For the rest of her tribe, they also offered them some of their “finest wine”.

Fortunato Mansion held great promise for Dr. Bria. Though she did not care for the old structure itself, she found it’s library to be well-stocked. Filled to the brim with old Order journals and records, the library was a boon to her healing arts. Under the Order’s roof, her medicinal skills flourished. Still, her heart ached to return to the wilderness and see her tribe again.

Not long after her arrival at Fortunato Mansion, Dr. Bria was informed that her tribe had fallen prey to Sheolfolk raiders. According to the Order, they couldn’t find a single trace of any of her tribe members. Dr. Bria, having read much of the Order’s records, was suspicious about this news. The Order of Ultra-Science seemed to deal with hundreds of cases of Sheolfolk raiders and Dr. Bria was positive that there hadn’t been even 10% as many Sheolfolk in surrounding area, at least, not until recently. She didn’t know why the Order would lie about this, but she had a foreboding feeling. She believed that the old mine shafts below the mansion held the answer to her tribe’s disappearance.

Though the Order of Ultra-Science had given Dr. Bria free passage throughout the mansion, the mine shaft was off-limit to all lower ranked doctors. Nevertheless, Dr. Bria’s skills at sneaking through wildernesses (combined with many of the current Order doctors being not quite as perceptive/sane as they had been in the past) granted her access to the mine shaft. The shaft deep below the mansion held the answer to the mystery of her tribe’s location and the truth regarding all of the ‘Sheolfolk raiders’. Dr. Bria gazed upon the Core, the culmination of the Order of Ultra-Science’s sick experiments in shoving kidnapped people into a brain dead neurovore.

After that, Dr. Bria spent practically all of her time in the mansion’s library. Her feelings regarding the Order went back and forth. Her initial impulse had been to flee from them, seek out the closest settlement she could reach, and warn them about the Order. She had also even thought about killing every member of the Order. But she could not bring herself to kill even a group of murderers as them. Finally, she decided that she would find a way to destroy the Core. She believed that doing this and then guiding the current Order back to their roots as the Circle of Healers would benefit Asphodel the most. As for the ones most directly responsible for the deaths of so many people, Dr. Bria felt seeing their generational work destroyed would be a suitable punishment.

In the end, the new Head Doctor, Gate, gave Dr. Bria a flicker of hope when he gave the commandment that no further Homini, Sheolfolk, or Elysians would be thrown into the Core. For all his talk of ‘wasteful practices’ regarding the Core, she knew that Dr. Gate held no empathy for those who had been murdered for the Core. She believed that she could convince Dr. Gate to go farther than just stopping the growth of the Core. Dr. Bria wanted to show him her vision of the future of the Order as best as she could.

## Personality

Demure, determined, Dr. Bria is a kind individual who enjoys the wilderness. Back when she was with the Bryyo tribe, she dutifully healed all of her fellow tribe members as their medicine woman. Upon joining the Order of Ultra-Science and discovering their greatest secret, the Core, she is determined to destroy it for the abomination it is and hopefully return the Order to their roots as the Circle of Healers.

### *Strengths*

Compassionate to all life (though the Order in general push her to her limits), adept wilderness wayfarer, proficient healer.

## Relationships

* **Bria’s Elysian father**: current whereabouts and/or condition unknown
* **Sfimas**: Bria’s Homini mother, deceased
* **The Bryyo Tribe**: friends and people Bria had grown up with, deceased
* **Dr. Gate**: Instructor of a sort, leader