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''Half-Elf/Human'', AKA '''‘The Seeker’'''
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''"You're about to exceed the limits of my medication."''
== Appearance ==
== Appearance ==
Raiah is described as a light-brown skinned, medium-height, slender Half-Elf bombshell with a dirty-blonde undercut. What stands out almost immediately is the uncovered patch of scarred skin where her right eye was, and the faded marked of Vecna on her right hand. Raiah walks with an air of flirty confidence about her and a soft, velvety voice. Her colleagues say it's all a front for the real her. That the moment Raiah steps into the interrogation room, a switch goes on. A stern, insightful tone picks her victim apart like she already knows all their secrets and is playing a chess game with them. Trying to see what it is that will make them break. Raiah doesn't break bones or flay skin or pick fingernails, not right away. She is a woman of information and blackmail. Looks don't kill, but Raiah does.
Raiah is described as a light-brown skinned, medium-height, slender Half-Elf with a dirty-blonde undercut. What stands out almost immediately is the uncovered patch of scarred skin where her right eye was, and the faded marked of Vecna on her right hand. Raiah walks with an air of flirty confidence about her and a soft, velvety voice.
 
== Backstory (WIP) ==
===Early Life in Hadleigh===
Raiah was born with a curved spine and partial facial paralysis due to a cleft lip. This gave her a speech impediment and earned her the cruel nickname “r*tard” by the other children. Raiah’s appearance made it hard to play with other children who threw mud and stone at her, mocked her speech, and made oinking noises at her when they passed her on the street. The western borough of the city of Hadleigh, Hammersmith, was home to thousands of homeless and impoverished people forgotten by the city. Rather than band together, some turned on one another, it wasn’t enough to just be poor, maybe you were an elf, or maybe you were deformed. This intersectionality would allow for the killings of one Benjamin Barker to go so unnoticed for so long. It’s the same culture that allowed a man like Benjamin Barker to go about his business, that turned Raiah away, right into Ben’s arms. When Raiah wasn’t at Ben’s barbershop helping him sweep, she was watching the pigs eat slop. Raiah admired the plump, pink farm animal for their simplicity. They ate food and minded their own business. Being compared to pigs for as long as she had, Raiah hung around them. They were the only creatures in Hammersmith that didn’t care about the way she looked.


When Ben and his accomplice had been caught and killed for his crimes, Raiah was left with the traumatic image of slashing his accomplice’s throat in a fit of rage. It was somewhere in that moment, Raiah felt a warm, powerful feeling come over her. To finally take power and take revenge. It terrified Raiah. Despite being absolved of any wrong-doing, Raiah and her parents were forced out of Hadleigh. The whole borough was calling her a butcher, not convinced she had no idea as to what Ben was doing. So Raiah and her family moved to Val-Adin, where Raiah promised to turn her life around and find purpose in the military.
== Backstory ==
===The See-No-Evil Killer===
Raiah was born with a curved spine and partial facial paralysis due to a cleft lip. Raiah’s appearance made it hard to play with other children who threw mud and stone at her, mocked her speech, and made oinking noises at her when they passed her on the street. The western borough of the city of Hadleigh, Hammersmith, was home to thousands of homeless and impoverished people forgotten by the city. Rather than band together, some turned on one another, it wasn’t enough to just be poor, maybe you were an elf, or maybe you were deformed. This intersectionality would allow for the killings of one Benjamin Barker to go so unnoticed for so long. It’s the same culture that allowed a man like Benjamin Barker to go about his business, that turned Raiah away, right into Ben’s arms. When Raiah wasn’t at Ben’s barbershop helping him sweep, she was watching the pigs eat slop. Raiah admired the plump, pink farm animal for their simplicity. They ate food and minded their own business. Being compared to pigs for as long as she had, Raiah hung around them. They were the only creatures in Hammersmith that didn’t care about the way she looked.


===The Military Pt. 1===
When Ben and his accomplice had been caught and killed for his crimes, Raiah was left with the traumatic image of slashing his accomplice’s throat in a fit of rage. It was somewhere in that moment, Raiah felt a warm, powerful feeling come over her. To finally take power and take revenge. It terrified Raiah. Despite being absolved of any wrong-doing, Raiah and her parents were forced out of Hadleigh. The whole borough was calling her a butcher, not convinced she had no idea as to what Ben was doing. So Raiah and her family moved to Val-Adin, where Raiah promised to turn her life around.
Raiah’s first two years in Val-Adin were spent training for the entrance exams into the Expeditionary Force, the first branch of Elvish military. They were your guards, scouts, and desk jockeys. Raiah stuck to a heavily regimented diet and workout regiment set for her by the proctor overseeing her progress. The sudden change in her lifestyle and body, had taken a severe impact on Raiah’s mental health. All she ever saw when she looked in the mirror, was the fat, misshapen pig all the kids saw back at Hadleigh. She took matters of her weight into her own hands. A month before her exams, Raiah’s eating disorder had taken its toll on her body as she collapsed in the middle of the street on her way home from school. The proctor deemed her mentally and physically unfit to take the exam. Raiah had failed before she even begun.


===The Eye of Vecna===
Sometime between the events of the Demon Barber of Hadleigh killings and her moving to Val-Adin, Raiah struck a sinister deal with Vecna the Whispered One. In exchange for everlasting beauty and strength, Raiah promised to hunt down all defectors who left the Whispered One's service. Raiah killed a startling total of eleven defectors, striking fear into any acolytes or priests who even entertained the thought of leaving. Her signature was to remove the eyes of her targets. These brutal slaying garnered the attention of Alliance investigators and eventually [[Mystery Inc]]. The public called her the See-No-Evil Killer because of the aforementioned eye removal of her victims. As far the public knows, the See-No-Evil Killer died in the mines beneath the abandoned Shausher Wood Mill. Raiah was rescued from the killer's clutches with strange wounds that investigators say she suffered during a struggle with the killer. The only people who know what really happened in that mine are Raiah and Mystery Inc.
Somewhere between her arrival into Val-Adin and her second attempt at the entrance exams, Raiah had an encounter with Vecna. The details of the encounter are unclear, but it ended in a new face and body for Raiah, but at the cost of her eye.


===The Military Pt. 2===
A considerable amount of time had passed before Raiah attempted the preliminary entrance exams for the Jaeger Program. She had a new routine, a new diet, and had tested in the top five percentile of entrants on the first exam. Raiah’s tenacity paid off when she was accepted as a cadet, and would be given a chance to prove her worth to the greatest, most commended warriors in the High-Elf military. What stood out about Raiah wasn’t just her endurance, but how she tested in feats of mental endurance. The Jaeger Corp saw potential for an interrogation-based career path for Raiah. What the proctor called, borderline PTSD-induced psychosis, the Jaeger Corp called a knack for doing what was needed. Raiah graduated top of her class at the Jaeger Corp, and earned her tan-beret.
Raiah’s new transformation shocked her family and friends. The details of it disturbed them deeply, but nobody questioned it. Raiah had reregistered for the military, but instead shot straight for the Jaeger Corp, a branch of military where less than 2% of men and women are actually accepted. She had a new routine, a new diet, and had tested in the top five percentile of entrants on the first exam. Raiah’s tenacity paid off when she was accepted as a cadet, and would be given a chance to prove her worth to the greatest, most commended warriors in the High-Elf military. What stood out about Raiah wasn’t just her endurance, but how she tested in feats of mental endurance. Where the proctor was concerned, the Jaeger Corp saw potential for an interrogation-based career path for Raiah. What the proctor called, borderline PTSD-induced psychosis, the Jaeger Corp called a knack for doing what was needed. Raiah graduated top of her class at the Jaeger Corp, and earned her tan-beret.


===Croak and Dagger===
===Campaign 1, Heroes for Hire===
====The Archery Tournament====
Raiah joined Croak and Dagger during the first days of [[Cataclysm]] and was instrumental in helping them establish a theater of war with the aide of the Conclave. When Caelrogh was vanquished and the rifts were closed, Raiah decided to stay with Croak and Dagger as a joint operation between the newly gilded adventurers and the Jaeger Corp. Croak and Dagger were still very new and Elvira wanted someone to keep an eye on them. However, as time went on, Raiah grew out of her role as an observer and became a fully fledged member. She even went as far as starting a relationship with Aiden.
In their first encounter with [[Croak and Dagger]], Raiah and Elvira attended the Liberator's Day festival in Meadowcraft to represent the High Elves of Val-Adin. While Elvira was butting heads with Clymene and Atalanta, Raiah was less abrasive, and even looked forward to seeing Clymene in the Archery Tournament. Favored to win, Raiah was an exceptional marksman and athlete. Nobody was surprised when she made it to the three-man battle royale. What did surprise people, was when she lost the sudden-death standoff to none other than [[Clymene]]. For all her training, agility, and pin-point precision, Raiah's confidence got the best of her against a Wood Elf nobody knew.


====Cataclysm====
==Miscellaneous Facts==
In the days leading up to Caelrogh's invasion, Raiah made a few appearances around Meadowcraft. Her interactions with them were limited to being awkwardly hit on. Before the defense of Halfaya Pass, Raiah pursued a strictly sexual relationship with [[Aiden Thorin]], though Aiden seems to have something more serious in mind. When Croak and Dagger later took hold of Halfaya Pass, they found Raiah held prisoner in its belly. Well, not so much being held prisoner, more in the process of breaking out and bouncing knives off walls and into skulls. Raiah told them she had been captured by Loghain's men when she was ordered by Elvira to make contact with anyone at the pass. Unsure of what fate befell her commander, Raiah is working with Croak and Dagger to take control back of the territory around the pass.


== Abilities ==
* Raiah is the first NPC to possess a legitimate mental health disorder, and actively, openly discuss it while taking medication.
'''Supernatural Perception'''


'''Flawless Precision'''
* Raiah's fighting style is modelled after Bullseye from the ''Daredevil'' television series. She can take everyday objects and weapons and ricochet them with incredible accuracy off almost any surface.


'''Improvised Weapon Specialist'''
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Latest revision as of 02:14, 20 May 2023

Rhaenyra Lulinna Theron
Born1701
Hadleigh
OccupationChief Interrogator (Jaeger Corp), Adventurer (Croak and Dagger)
Years active1727-Present
EraAge of Passage
OrganizationCroak and Dagger
Height5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Criminal charge(s)Multiple Counts of First-Degree Murder, Breaking and Entering, Forbidden Cult Worship
Criminal penalty20 Year Sentence with required psychoactive therapy
Criminal statusSentence Lifted
Parents
  • Andrew (father)
  • Calliope (mother)

"You're about to exceed the limits of my medication."

Appearance

Raiah is described as a light-brown skinned, medium-height, slender Half-Elf with a dirty-blonde undercut. What stands out almost immediately is the uncovered patch of scarred skin where her right eye was, and the faded marked of Vecna on her right hand. Raiah walks with an air of flirty confidence about her and a soft, velvety voice.

Backstory

The See-No-Evil Killer

Raiah was born with a curved spine and partial facial paralysis due to a cleft lip. Raiah’s appearance made it hard to play with other children who threw mud and stone at her, mocked her speech, and made oinking noises at her when they passed her on the street. The western borough of the city of Hadleigh, Hammersmith, was home to thousands of homeless and impoverished people forgotten by the city. Rather than band together, some turned on one another, it wasn’t enough to just be poor, maybe you were an elf, or maybe you were deformed. This intersectionality would allow for the killings of one Benjamin Barker to go so unnoticed for so long. It’s the same culture that allowed a man like Benjamin Barker to go about his business, that turned Raiah away, right into Ben’s arms. When Raiah wasn’t at Ben’s barbershop helping him sweep, she was watching the pigs eat slop. Raiah admired the plump, pink farm animal for their simplicity. They ate food and minded their own business. Being compared to pigs for as long as she had, Raiah hung around them. They were the only creatures in Hammersmith that didn’t care about the way she looked.

When Ben and his accomplice had been caught and killed for his crimes, Raiah was left with the traumatic image of slashing his accomplice’s throat in a fit of rage. It was somewhere in that moment, Raiah felt a warm, powerful feeling come over her. To finally take power and take revenge. It terrified Raiah. Despite being absolved of any wrong-doing, Raiah and her parents were forced out of Hadleigh. The whole borough was calling her a butcher, not convinced she had no idea as to what Ben was doing. So Raiah and her family moved to Val-Adin, where Raiah promised to turn her life around.

Sometime between the events of the Demon Barber of Hadleigh killings and her moving to Val-Adin, Raiah struck a sinister deal with Vecna the Whispered One. In exchange for everlasting beauty and strength, Raiah promised to hunt down all defectors who left the Whispered One's service. Raiah killed a startling total of eleven defectors, striking fear into any acolytes or priests who even entertained the thought of leaving. Her signature was to remove the eyes of her targets. These brutal slaying garnered the attention of Alliance investigators and eventually Mystery Inc. The public called her the See-No-Evil Killer because of the aforementioned eye removal of her victims. As far the public knows, the See-No-Evil Killer died in the mines beneath the abandoned Shausher Wood Mill. Raiah was rescued from the killer's clutches with strange wounds that investigators say she suffered during a struggle with the killer. The only people who know what really happened in that mine are Raiah and Mystery Inc.

A considerable amount of time had passed before Raiah attempted the preliminary entrance exams for the Jaeger Program. She had a new routine, a new diet, and had tested in the top five percentile of entrants on the first exam. Raiah’s tenacity paid off when she was accepted as a cadet, and would be given a chance to prove her worth to the greatest, most commended warriors in the High-Elf military. What stood out about Raiah wasn’t just her endurance, but how she tested in feats of mental endurance. The Jaeger Corp saw potential for an interrogation-based career path for Raiah. What the proctor called, borderline PTSD-induced psychosis, the Jaeger Corp called a knack for doing what was needed. Raiah graduated top of her class at the Jaeger Corp, and earned her tan-beret.

Campaign 1, Heroes for Hire

Raiah joined Croak and Dagger during the first days of Cataclysm and was instrumental in helping them establish a theater of war with the aide of the Conclave. When Caelrogh was vanquished and the rifts were closed, Raiah decided to stay with Croak and Dagger as a joint operation between the newly gilded adventurers and the Jaeger Corp. Croak and Dagger were still very new and Elvira wanted someone to keep an eye on them. However, as time went on, Raiah grew out of her role as an observer and became a fully fledged member. She even went as far as starting a relationship with Aiden.

Miscellaneous Facts

  • Raiah is the first NPC to possess a legitimate mental health disorder, and actively, openly discuss it while taking medication.
  • Raiah's fighting style is modelled after Bullseye from the Daredevil television series. She can take everyday objects and weapons and ricochet them with incredible accuracy off almost any surface.
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