Raiah Theron

Half-Elf/Human, AKA ‘The Seeker’

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.

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.

The Military Pt. 1

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.

Abilities

Supernatural Perception

Flawless Precision

Improvised Weapon Specialist