Fleshing out some storylines!

Aolis Pherithil

A high elf, the eldest child of the Pherithil household, and Tali’s older brother, Aolis was the only other family member alongside the sorceress to escape the Rielcian authorities, with the two of them fleeing Agnazzar together and eventually ending up aboard the Defiled Grail in service to Merlyn Astra. Where Tali was studious, headstrong, and proud, Aolis was adventurous, easygoing, and protective over his now ruined family, though his ambition to rise in the ranks of the Rielcian army matched his sister’s own love of magic. Two sides of the same coin and as inseparable now in their exile as they were in their childhoods, Aolis has elected to join Tali in her vendetta against Rielcia and the Supreme, though more in the interest of ensuring her safety and as a counterweight to her impulsive temper than a genuine belief that their family’s status can be restored.

Alten

A human and freelance assassin, Alten was the one who found and rescued a nearly dead Ekahi from the streets of Muerte, subsequently bringing her to Dirys where he raised and trained the panthro to become an assassin herself. Ekahi see’s the man as a father figure, but in truth their relationship was…dubious at best. To be completely honest I’ve spent over a year on and off trying to figure out their dynamic with only limited success, but I have implied in her app and elsewhere that Alten was mostly using Ekahi to his own ends, throwing her in harms way on risky contracts, keeping all the earnings to himself, and overall just turning an orphaned and physically and mentally scarred kid into a killer isn’t really adoptive father of the year stuff. Whether he knew what he was doing or thought he was genuinely helping her survive on the streets is up to interpretation, but in the end he did leave/abandon her at the Shroud sanctuary in Dirys with a hurried promise to return before leaving for a contract, never to be seen by the panthro again. Ekahi’s desire to go looking for her mentor is a big part of her storyline, and Alten is a character I’m very interested in fleshing out, whether alone or with someone else!

Braelyn Atwood

Halfling, caretaker of the Dragon’s Hoard, and Lucky’s one and only employee, Braelyn is the genuine to Lucky’s fiction. Whereas Lucky views the Dragon’s Hoard and Fortune Exploration as merely a revenue stream to support his inventing and firearms company, Braelyn has a real love for the dead and forgotten things of Fortuna, transforming Lucky’s antiques and artifacts store from a glorified warehouse of shiny things to a surprisingly well organized and informed building of historical curiosities. She’s bubbly, enthusiastic, and pretty big-hearted, and though it often stands in contrast to her shifty, egocentric, and overconfident boss, the two of them have a good working relationship, with Lucky genuinely enjoying her presence as one of only two people he’s never really screwed over. I’m overall undecided if Braelyn is aware of some of the more illegal things that Lucky gets into or simply thinks her boss is a genuine treasure hunter, but given that the Dragon’s Hoard is Lucky’s only known physical address, i.e. it’s probably received a fair share of death threats, notices of judicial summons, and suspicious packages, she couldn’t be wholly ignorant. I also originally envisioned her as more a fulltime worker at the Dragon’s Hoard, but I’m very much not opposed to the idea of her being more of an assistant, including out in the field.

Shroud Members

The Shroud is a small but infamous assassin order originally confined to Acheron, but who have expanded more recently to operate in some capacity in most major cities across Fortuna. With their services available at a premium price, the Shroud is a popular choice among aristocrats and the wealthy elite for their willingness to take on high profile and dangerous contracts and their strict adherence to contract guidelines. Though a slew of exceptionally prominent and bloody murders has made their name known in both the criminal underworld and the law, their use of expertly concealed sanctuaries, adoption of aliases, and tightly knit structure have kept them firmly obscured in myth and shadow. Overall, the Shroud is something I’ve been really looking to flesh out more since it’s such a big part of Ekahi’s character that I’ve been subtly developing in some of her posts. If anyone would ever be interested in making a Shroud member, either in the Dirys sanctuary or creating their own somewhere else, I’d be all for it. I am hoping to get more interactions for Ekahi that aren’t all “she’s trying to kill you or someone near you”, so this is partly me looking for more friends or allies for her maybe, especially since she’s so young I do like the idea of some of the other Shroud members looking out for her or even pseudo-adopting her as mentors after Alten left, with others seeing her as just some token kid who's more trouble than they're worth with her quirks.