Vivek Tayloreth

**Vivek Tayloreth**, formerly known as Nereid, is a Hydra (a Water Elemental incarnated in the body of a dragon), originally summoned and named by Aria Tayloreth, but would later come to serve Radriel Tayloreth following her death.

She is the acting ruler of the Underwater City of Eterna, after the territory was abandoned by Zola Feldt and his organization, saved by Radriel's forces, and subsequently absorbed into Venjung.

## Appearance

### Medium Water Elemental

As a Medium Elemental, Vivek appeared as a humanoid mass of water who's form seemed to contort and twist regularly.

### Greater Water Elemental

As a Greater Elemental, Vivek took a much more human-looking form, with the only real way of determining that she wasn't human by sight alone being the rings of water that orbited around her and the bubbles that often emanated from her body.

### Greater Water-Darkness Elemental

Not much about her appearance changed upon her evolution to a Greater Water-Darkness Elemental, aside from somewhat sinister aura that lingered about about her and the color of her hair changing from its usual ocean blue to her more iconic black with blue highlights.

### Draconic Elemental/Hydra

The only notable difference about her once gaining a physical form would be the disappearance of the water flowing around her.

However, as a result of her evolution and incarnation, she gained the ability to freely switch into a draconic form. That form being long and serpentine in appearance, with clawed hands and no legs. This form is also capable of sprouting up to four other heads, all sharing the same physical characteristics as the original, with three horns on either side of the head, jagged, razor sharp teeth, and a platinum white mane running from the back of the head to the tail.

## Personality

While still in the service of Aria, Vivek was a very stoic person, often exercising caution and/or hostility towards anyone in the immediate vicinity (including Radriel, though she would come to trust him eventually). She was extremely loyal to Aria, and would take her word above anyone else's.

Vivek has been observed to have a very vengeful nature, shown when she joined Radriel on his quest to find and kill Clayman for Aria's death, and especially when she both evolved and manifested a Unique Skill as a result of her hatred.

She would try to tone down this part of herself after being renamed by Radriel and becoming a part of his nation's government, so as not to inconvenience him further after her attempted attack on Rimuru Tempest as a result of her second Unique Skill.

## Synopsis

She was originally summoned and named by Aria while she was still in her service of Kazalim and would spend several centuries in her service, growing a stronger bond rapidly, and eventually Nereid would develop romantic feelings towards Aria, though they were never returned as her affections were instead directed at Kazalim.

Following the destruction of the Super-Magic Kingdom at the hands of an angered Milim Nava, she would continue to aid Aria (and Kazalim by proxy) in the rebuilding of the Elven Empire. However, after Kazalim's death, her and Aria would relocate to the Ulgrasia Republic, and soon after, Radriel would be born.

She lived alongside Aria, and assisted her in managing Radriel (despite his unproblematic nature) by supervising his practice of Elemental Magic for the early years of his life.

A few years later, following Radriel's assault by Tear and Footman, she would accompany Aria on her trip back to the Puppet Nation Jistav in order to fight the two pierrots and avenge her son. However, Nereid found herself unable to offer any assistance due to the intervention of Laplace, only slipping past the clown in time to witness Aria have her heart stolen by the effects of Clayman's Puppeteer, leaving her with the instruction to bring Radriel to Jistav.

Her loyalty to Aria wouldn't allow her to attack Clayman and retrieve her heart once she was given the order to abstain, and she followed the Dark Elf back to Ulgrasia, where she would attempt to force the young Reaper Elf to go along with her, however after extreme resistance from the boy, spurred further on by Roxul Inudraga's attempts at protecting him, she would find that Clayman had planned on killing Aria once she had failed her mission, which he accomplished by destroying her heart, triggering a violent death.

Feeling the resistant force of the Physical World pulling her back to the Spiritual World, she inhabited Radriel's body for the months that he had fallen into his shock-induced coma for, hoping to find a way to travel the Physical World in order to avenge Aria. Once Radriel recovered and visited his mother's grave, Nereid would reveal the truth of Aria's fate to him, unknowingly sparking the boy's vengeful nature to track down his father and kill him.

Sharing the same goal, the two saw it appropriate to form a contract with one another, with Radriel allowing Nereid to inhabit his body in exchange for her power and an explanation of the functionality of skills.