Na'lia

An elven woman of serene intensity, Na’lia moves like a memory being carefully replayed. Her pale skin is marked with faint, glowing lines — magical fractures she has embraced rather than healed. Her hair is a cascade of black and silver, braided with driftwood beads, glass shards, and lengths of rune-stitched thread from relics she’s restored.

She wears a long, sleeveless coat over a robe of enchanted fabric that shifts like disturbed water — a reflection of forgotten things. Strapped across her back is a relic-binder’s satchel that faintly hums when near ancient magic. She often stands barefoot in stonework ruins, one hand pressed gently to the earth, listening for the echo of what was.

In her presence, magic behaves respectfully — even broken spells seem to hold their breath. Na’lia speaks rarely and repairs constantly. She believes that no fracture, magical or personal, is beyond restoration — only reassembly.

Physical Description

• Delicate frame, bearing the quiet weight of centuries.
• Skin has faint glowing lines like ancient ley cracks.
• Garments are liquid in texture, layered with fragments of translated runes and warding cloths.
• Always barefoot — a personal vow to stay grounded with the ruins she walks.

Shardbinder’s Satchel

A dimensional satchel that hums near broken magic.
Allows her to stabilize, reconstruct, or silence artifacts too unstable for standard use.
Can safely store cursed or volatile magical objects without harm to others.

Virtues & Perks

• Believes reconstruction is sacred — that what is shattered can be made beautiful again.
• Rewrites magical inscriptions using cultural syntax, not academic Arcanum.
• Works with the Patternbound to recover ancestral techniques lost to colonization or conflict.

Religious Beliefs

Na’lia follows Desna, goddess of dreams, stars, and the freedom to wander. She believes that lost relics and memories are like constellations — scattered but never truly gone, waiting for the right dreamer to chart their path again.

Mannerisms

• Taps relics gently while thinking, listening for resonance.
• Walks in gentle circles around magical sites, slowly drawing energy inward.
• Carries memory-sand in a glass bead — lets it sift through her fingers during moments of decision.

Speech

• Speaks softly, rhythmically, like reciting a half-forgotten lullaby.
• Often answers questions with riddles or metaphors — not to obscure, but to protect nuance.
• Her voice carries a soft echo, like something spoken across a long memory.