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Azrielle's earliest years were rather uneventful. The only shadow in her life was that her mother had died giving birth to her. Raised by loving father in the forests South of Yew until her 11th year she knew nothing but happiness and freedom. She spent most of her days following her father as he hunted in the woods near their home. All that changed with the death of her father.
For the next several years Azrielle was raised by her uncle. A kind, well meaning, Vesper merchant the man had no idea how to handle the forest raised young girl angry at the wold for the upheaval of her life. As the years passed in Vesper Azrielle became increasingly solitary and withdrawn wondering often in the forests outside the city. It became increasingly common for Azrielle to absent herself from her uncle's town house for days even weeks at a time. Then one day late in her 18th year she simply didn't return.
For the next four years Azrielle wandered the forests of Britannia alone and detached from its people. She would hunt to support herself and spoke to others only on those rare occasions when it was unavoidable. Until one day having come again to the forests where she had spent her happiest days Azrielle came across a band of young students, wearing the emblem of the West Yew University, who were out hunting creatures in the woods. The students invited her to join the hunt and Azrielle made the uncharacteristic decision to follow them. After a successful hunt Azrielle accompanied the students back to there small school and there met Silver Dryad and was convinced to become a student.
In her studies Azrielle found a fulfilment she had never known but he advancement in the University was hampered by her proclivity for wondering. Her time now seemed to be divided between solitary reading at the library of the Lyceum and wondering the forests of Yew. One day many years after having found the school Azrielle was returning from yet another long absence when in the court yard where the University message board can be found she chanced to meet Perianwyr and the Rainbow King. They told her of Fogwood Village and of Perianwyr's tavern there the place called Serpent's Cross. After that Azrielle's wonderings would often lead her there.
In the Serpent's Cross Tavern Azrielle met a number of interesting individuals including Windlord who regaled her with stories and remains someone she is fond of. But her life continued to have little direction and she faltered in her studies. On one occasion while visiting the tavern she met a strange man named Fire Eyes a paladin of compassion who saw her for the lost soul that she was. Torn between her father's Elven culture she barely remembered from her childhood and the human culture of virtues she had only ever read of Azrielle agreed to follow the paladin to a nearby shrine. While meditating there she decided that if she were to truly understand herself she must come to understand the culture of Britannia.
So it was that she returned to her studies with renewed vigour reading voraciously any text she could find and discussing the nature of the virtues with anyone who would listen. At some point in her studies Azrielle found that she had come to believe deeply in the philosophy of the eight virtues.
It was sometime after this that by pure chance Azrielle met Aleph Aeirs and her life was truly changed forever. Having just returned to West Yew University after a lengthy sojourn at the Lyceum where at the request of a friend she had been seeking information about a particularly rare text Azrielle lingered at the message board to find out what had passed in the time since her departure. It can only be fate that she met Aleph for she had intended to retire early that night and had only decided at the last moment to check for news. As Azrielle stood reading Aleph came by seeking information as to the whereabouts of Silver Dryad. She explained that Silver had retired for the night and he asked her to relay a message to her that he was seeking help. Having recently read Aleph's expose on the Order of the Ebon Skull Azrielle took the opportunity to complement him on his skills as an author and they began to speak.
From that moment on Azrielle's life was renewed. Aleph and Azrielle rapidly became fast friends in Aleph Azrielle found a friend and companion such as she had never known in all her life. She left West Yew University and began to serve as Diplomatic Consul for Sic Semper Tyrannis. Among the people of that guild she discovered the family she had been seeking since she lost her own, the love of the person in the realm she admires most and a true understanding of the strength of the virtues. Not to say she won't still occasionally wonder off on her own.
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