Name: Coriana Alaros
Gender: Female
Age: 112
Race: Elf
Class: Mage
Appearance:
At 5’7, Coriana is slightly above average height for an elf. The image speaks for the rest, really.
Beyond her simple robes and staff, Coriana has no other equipment to note.
Personality: Reserved, compassionate, and wise beyond her age, though with the potential for a great anger. Coriana does not pride herself in her abilities, rather letting her actions speak for themselves. Such actions are often motivated by a need to promote the greater good, rather than any significant personal gain.
Background: Born in one of many elven towns in the forests around Overna, Coriana showed signs of magical ability at a very young age. Under the tutelage of the village priests, Coriana focused on her talent, eventually matching her mentors in skill by the time she was in her mid-twenties. By 40, she was regarded as the most powerful mage of the elven villages. Hoping to hone her talent even further, the villages decided to send her off into the human world. She wandered from city to city, endlessly practicing her magic and absorbing knowledge.
Coriana spent much of her time from her fifties to her seventies around healers and priests, quickly mastering healing techniques and defensive spells. By this time, she had earned a small reputation as the “Wandering Mage of Overna,” as commonfolk gossiped of her power. Much of the rumors spread spoke of her gentle soul and kind demeanor, though often were accompanied by whispers of a destructive strength with no match. Coriana often laughed at such rumors; there was truth to them, though never to the extremes that she heard.
The most common (true) story told spoke of both extremes in the same incident. While travelling between cities, Coriana stumbled across a farming village suffering from bandit attacks and a severe shortage in crops. She stayed in the village for several weeks, “speaking” to the earth in an effort to bring food to the village. She ultimately found herself successful, though that only motivated the bandits to press the village harder for their supplies.
Both her compassion for the villagers and her pride over her weeks of work angered Coriana; within an hour of the beginning of the bandit attack, Coriana had defeated every last one of the attackers. Again, it came at a cost: her weeks of work followed by such an eruption of her energy sapped Coriana of all her remaining strength. She fell unconscious, and was comatose for nearly a month while her body recovered under the care of the villagers. Upon her revival, Coriana simply thanked the villagers for helping her recover before moving on before the villagers could give her any further thanks.
Naturally, Coriana heard the calls for adventurers to investigate the ruins to the south. Only further motivated by her interest in the mystery of the ruins and her qualification solidified by the rumors and stories about her, Coriana could not refuse.