Name: Arlayna
Full Name: Arlayna Caitris
Pronunciation: ahr - LAY - nah KAI - trees
Nickname: None
Race: Half Dawn Elf/Half Human
Birthday: September 1st
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Class: Farmer
Deity: Annir, God of Order and Rialdir, God of Change
Pets: Feline named Aster
Current Residence: Small Farm

Height: 5'6"
Build: Thin
Skin Tone: Light
Eyes: Light Brown
Hair Color: Copper
Hair Length and Style: To Mid Back and Fluffy
Clothing Style: Simple Homemade Dresses; for the ball, a white top with a black skirt

Parents: Dawn Elf Father and Human Mother, Both Deceased
Siblings: None
Spouse(s): None
Offspring: None
History: She was born to a dawn elf father and a human mother. Her father died in a hunting accident while she was still young, and her mother turned rather bitter over having to raise a child who didn't age the way a normal human would. Despite this, she continued to live with her mother until sickness finally took her. She knows no other way of living, and her education is rather lacking considering her father was in charge of it and perished so early in her life. She hates visitors and enjoys growing her fruits, vegetables, and flowers in peace and quiet. She plans to live her life solitarily, but divine beings have other plans for her.

Abilities/Skills: Excellent Memory, Very Perceptive, Farming, Sewing, Cooking
Personality: She is very much a loner and rather blunt and unwelcoming to those that stumble upon her small home. She'll help strangers if there's no real choice - she's not going to let them die - but she's not going to be happy about it. All she wants is to be left in peace to work in her garden. So, she wasn't exactly planning to attend the ball, at first. Only fear of divine reprisals convinced her to go.

Non-Bonding Companions for the Ball: None

Meeting Notes (Written by Shard): She'd been at this party for ever, and while some folks might have let it creep into their spirit as a happy event, Arlayna just kept scooting around the venue trying to avoid... well, everything. Everyone, more accurately. She could spot this or that person in this crowd but preferred to be spotting weeds in the garden. Idly she swished her spoon around in the stew she'd picked up from the dinner menu, thinking about weeds and people and wondering if that was a bad thing in the eyes of the gods.

It's fine if you don't like people, they get in the way.

Arlayna's motion stopped abruptly, leaving the chunk of cabbage floating in the thick liquid to bob a little.

It's just me, I am Ransheva. I think I'd like to live on that 'farm' thing, do you have pests? If you like digging at weeds, I would enjoy snapping at rats... And maybe unwanted visitors!

Arlayna gazed away from the table and to her side, where a smallish (not small) hatchling stood wobbly on their hind legs, balancing with a strong tail. That tail split into two at the end, tipped with scary looking stingers, and framed by the bold black and white checkerboards of the event's trademark. The rest of the dragon was quite dark, richly coal-black, and those wings! Also patterned.

"How would you fit in... well," she chuckled mostly to herself, "I'm sure you will fit in the carriage shelter. Not that I'd ever ask you to pull a plough or cart!"

Arlayna is the companion of Ransheva!

Name: Ransheva (ran she VAH, a mixture of the parents names, as apparently is now tradition for the dad's line; if bred into more complicated naming, readopt mother's ' or any other changes)
Gender: Female
Size: 6'8" head bipedal
Build: not quite chunky
Physical Features: Azon/Halloween Mutt, bipedal though often can run on all fours, with four legs and two main wings, with large claws on all; small hip-wings (nonfunctional), split-ended tail with spikes and poison stingers; angular head with external ears, sharp back swept horns, webbed head and neck spines; pupiled eyes
Colors: Black Pawn 2, a dark charcoal black body with tiny checkerboard patterning on face and tail, wingsails, and neck crest webbing; graphite web spines, white claws and horns, dark green eyes
Stats: Strength 3, Speed 3, Endurance 3, Agility 3, Health 4, Intelligence 2
Abilities: while the knockoffs are less skilled than their full size Piece siblings, Black Pawn siblings are adept with Infernal and Void powers; with 4 for Telepathy, local and nexus teleportation; and 2 for magic breath and poison stingers
Parents: Donor Clutch Sheng Stac'ver + Vassago Thain
Bond: Arlayna, voluntary companionship