Naerilith Veyrien
Naerilith Elaisya Veyrien (a.k.a. The Threadmender of Myriath, Nael, The Unweaver’s Needle)
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
She was slender and sickly for much of her life, affected by threadfade syndrome, which drained her vitality as her spirit became more attuned to ancestral memory.
Body Features
Threadveins shimmered across her forearms and neck, evidence of deep spiritual grafting. Her posture was tall but bowed slightly with age and grief.
Facial Features
She bore high cheekbones, sunken silver-violet eyes, and brows marked with stitched ink in glyph-patterns of sorrow and remembrance.
Identifying Characteristics
Her presence was unmistakable—wherever she walked, the threadwinds stilled. Her blood-threaded sashweave cloak was said to hum faintly when divine magic passed nearby.
Physical quirks
She never walked in a straight line, constantly weaving slightly, as if tracing invisible thread patterns with her steps.
Special abilities
She could feel thread shifts across continents and was said to read entire bloodlines from a single drop of tear. Some believe she could manipulate ancestral emotion to calm or incite.
Apparel & Accessories
She wore a Loomtree-inked robe stitched with fragments of extinct Sashlines. A sash bearing her childhood memory was pinned to her side with a needle formed from petrified Loomfruit.
Specialized Equipment
Her primary tool was the Mender’s Hook, a silvered bone loom-hook capable of threading physical memory into the veil. It shattered during her final rite.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Naerilith Veyrien was born in the fading days of pre-Sundering Myriath, beneath a collapsed threadgrove during a rare dual eclipse, a birth seen as an ill omen by some and a sacred sign by others. Raised within the holy hollows of Loomroot, she was quickly recognized for her rare affinity with ancestral threads and an uncanny ability to sense emotional echoes before they were spoken. Though orphaned young, she was adopted by the Loomtree Temple's archivists, growing up among whispers of prophecy, half-forgotten glyphs, and rituals meant to preserve Myriath’s unraveling identity. Her brilliance and compassion earned her the title of Threadmender, a healer of torn bloodlines and broken truths. However, her final act, an attempted ritual to mend the Loom itself, resulted in catastrophe: the awakening of Kavessra, the goddess of unraveling, and the world-shattering event known as the Sundering.
Gender Identity
Naerilith identified as a woman, though she often described herself as “woven of both old and new threads,” alluding to a spiritual fluidity that surpassed traditional gender roles.
Sexuality
She is believed to have been celibate by choice, committing herself entirely to the Loomtree and its teachings. Rumors suggest a deep, unfulfilled connection with another Threadwright, but no name was ever confirmed.
Education
Naerilith was trained within the Loomtree Temple, later apprenticing under the Kinbound Archive’s original Cordmothers. Her study encompassed blood-thread rituals, ancestral memory binding, glyphcraft, and metaphysical ethics—a rare education blending arcane theory and divine doctrine.
Employment
She served as a high archivist and Threadmender within the Kinbound Archive, later becoming a spiritual advisor to the first generation of post-Sundering Keepers of Kin. Her role was never defined by salary or obligation, but by reverence.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Naerilith successfully preserved seven endangered Sashlines during the Severance Crisis, created the “Living Sash” binding rite still used today, and authored the controversial Codex of Woven Truths. She also mapped the spiritual lattice beneath Myriath, a feat no one has since repeated.
Failures & Embarrassments
Her most significant failure was the Final Rite, an attempt to mend the Loomtree by invoking every known divine thread at once. Misunderstanding a hidden glyph, she instead released the voice of Kavessra, triggering the Sundering. Though many blame her, Naerilith never spoke in her defense.
Mental Trauma
Following the Final Rite, Naerilith suffered from continual thread-hearing, an affliction where divine voices layered over one another, echoing even in silence. She withdrew from public life, plagued by visions of unraveling fates and flashes of apocalyptic futures that never came to pass.
Intellectual Characteristics
Naerilith was considered one of the most brilliant theorists of her age. She thought in metaphors, often describing memory as fabric and emotion as dye. Her writings are layered, recursive, and occasionally prophetic.
Morality & Philosophy
Her philosophy centered on the sanctity of lineage, the belief that the past must be carried with grace into the future, not severed. She saw mending not as a power but as the ultimate expression of divine will, though her views on fate began to shift near the end of her life.
Taboos
Naerilith refused to sever any thread, even those deemed corrupted or blasphemous. She also would not allow lineage memory to be altered or edited, a stance that caused many archival debates.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Naerilith wanted to heal the Loom—to repair what had frayed and preserve the Thalrani identity before it was lost forever. In seeking to restore unity, she triggered its unraveling.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
She was deeply empathic, able to soothe generational pain with mere presence. However, she was inept at politics and blind to her own cult of personality until it was too late.
Likes & Dislikes
She cherished old songs, folded letters, and the silence of winter thorn groves. She disliked idle praise, temporal magic, and voices that promised certainty.
Virtues & Personality perks
Wise, patient, and unshakably devoted to truth. She never lied, even when silence would have spared pain.
Vices & Personality flaws
Obsessive to the point of recklessness, resistant to outside advice, and quietly burdened by martyrdom she never sought.
Personality Quirks
She would hum ancient lullabies in times of stress and often stitched abstract shapes into her sleeves during conversation.
Hygiene
Meticulous but absent-minded; her robes were often stained with ink and thread-dye but always worn with intention.
Representation & Legacy
Naerilith is remembered differently across cultures. The Kinbound Archive honors her as a tragic figure. The Keepers of Kin mark her as a silent warning. The Cults of the Severed Thread revere her as the Voicefinder, believing her death completed the first phase of Kavessra’s awakening.
Social
Reign
She held no throne, but for over twenty years her words shaped the rituals and doctrines of the Kinbound Archive.
Contacts & Relations
She was once close to Cordmother Elsera Veon, with whom she created the “Memory Cradle” rite. She mentored Maelen Dros in her final years—who would later become a Threadbearer.
Family Ties
Either lost or intentionally purged from the Archive. Her line is believed to have ended with her.
Religious Views
A devout follower of Velexia, though her final writings suggest she may have unknowingly absorbed parts of Kavessra’s unraveling philosophy.
Social Aptitude
Poised but distant. She spoke slowly, with every word chosen like thread in a sacred weave.
Mannerisms
She would tilt her head slightly before answering questions, as though listening to something others could not hear.
Hobbies & Pets
She kept a silent thread-dove as a companion and maintained a ritual of folding her dreams into origami before burning them.
Speech
Her voice was soft, textured with cadence like stitched thread pulling taut. In ritual, it gained a haunting resonance, sometimes echoing with other voices not her own.
Wealth & Financial state
She owned little, believing memory was the only actual currency. Her Mender’s Hook was her most prized possession.
Alignment
True Neutral (Shaped by Vision)
Conditions
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Threadmender of Myriath, Keeper-Emerita, She Who Listened First
Age
94
Date of Birth
14th of Loomwake
Date of Death
11th of Duskskein
Circumstances of Birth
Born during a rare double eclipse amid a collapsed threadgrove ritual
Circumstances of Death
Self-immolation through threadburst after final manifestation of Kavessra's voice
Birthplace
Loomroot Hollow, Myriath
Place of Death
Beneath the Loomtree Remnant
Children
Pronouns
She/Her
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Presentation
Androgynous but ritually feminine
Eyes
Silver with threads of violet
Hair
Long, ink-black with streaks of woven silver thread
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale umber with faded blue undertones (marked by threadvein rituals)
Height
5'11"
Weight
138 lbs
Quotes & Catchphrases
“Threads do not break. They remember.”
“If I fail, let memory do better.”
“I did not release her—I revealed what was already unspoken.”
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
Character Prototype
A blend of the tragic prophet, archivist visionary, and misunderstood martyr. Her legacy walks a tightrope between heroine and heretic.
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