Rylai

Goals: - Short: Finding Elinor's family and making her death up to them and telling her story - Medium: Being comfortable with who she is, and being accepted so she can walk around without being feared or judged, but instead respected and loved. - Long: Eliminating slavery and getting as many drows as possible to follow Eilistraee and joining the rest of the races above the Underdark

Other: - She wants contact with Eilistraee to gain her magic back

Story Summary Born to a powerful slaver family in the Underdark, Rylai was raised to strong parents. From her parents she learned strength through force.

Being a naturally strong willed elf, she took towards the sword a lot better than magic despite her mother's strong bias towards trying to get her to learn more magic. Rylai uses magic as a supplement to her natural physical prowess.

After years of being a slaver, she got a personal servant, Elinor Poulet. Over the years Rylai and Elinor developed a romantic relationship. This relationship lasted about 15 years. While alone Rylai treated Elinor as equals and treated her as a servant to others. Rylai's parents ended up finding out about this relationship between the two.

To the much disgrace to the matriarch of the family, her mother forced Rylai to execute Elinor. Elinor spent the entire time comforting Rylai even in her inevitable death, she made sure to make sure Rylai knew it was ok and not her fault.

After executing Elinor, Rylai left the Underdark. She vowed against slavery and the persecution of others. After leaving the underdark she spent her time travelling place to place trying to help others. To much her dismay she was treated with disgust and distrust. People would think she would have ulterior motives to helping them. She ended up aquiring a cloak and a headscarf to hide her appearance when traveling to avoid the hate her mere appearance would bring upon her.

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Not So Summarized: Rylai was the first child of 7 born to Imolg (father) and Iimiira Zurvos (mother). She had 4 sisters (Lysra, Mayva, Hale, Narcelia) and 2 brothers (Senthel, Nyrith). The Zurvos family is known as one of the top 3 most powerful slaver families in the Underdark. Being the oldest sibling she was being trained by her mother to be the Matriarch of the family. She took to the training very well, she ended up prefering the use of her honed physical talents and only to be supplemented by her magical abilities.

Rylai became known as a strong and forceful girl, she treated the slaves with no remorse and would publically make an example of any slaves that would not fall in line. She would pray to Lolth everyday and honour her to keep her strength. Even though she was not a cleric nor a paladin she was fanatical in her following of Lolth. This was until she was about the age of 76 when she got a new personal servant. This personal servant was a 28 year old human named Elinor Poulet. Despite the age disparity Elinor was a more wise than Rylai. When they were alone in private, Elinor would tell Rylai about the world out of the Underdark. Even though at first Rylai would brutally punish Elinor for speaking of these things, Elinor kept persisting anytime they were alone. Eventually Elinor broke through Rylai's tough facade and could talk about the world without any recourse and getting Rylai's full attention. Through the years they ended up falling in love with each other. Publically Rylai would be rough to Elinor to not attract any suspicion of their relationship, but in private she'd apologize and treat Elinor with nothing but love and admiration.

The relationship between the two lasted 15 years without any issues. This was until oneday Lysra ended up learning of their relationship after catching Rylai treat Elinor with respect that wasn't given to any others. This gave Lysra suspicion so she ended up catching the two in the act and outing them. Iimiira was irate once learning about their relationship. She ordered Rylai to execute Elinor. Despite being the one being executed, Elinor ended up comforting Rylai and reassuring her that everything will be alright and that this was for the best.

With the guilt on her shoulders after executing her lover, she fled from the Underdark in hopes to live the stories about the world that Elinor taught her. Much to her dismay she quickly found out that she was not welcome above ground due to her race. On top of that she stopped following Lolth and lost her magical powers. As much as she tried to help others, they always ended up treating her with distrust and spite due to being a Drow Elf. This was until she met a Gnome named Elford Fizzbot, who laughed when others were scared of her. He ended up teaching her why people had no trust in her. He ended up giving her a headscarf where she can hide everything but her Lilac eyes.

For three years Elford acted as a mentor towards Rylai teaching her about the world and assisting in her goals of helping others to make up for her past life. He ended up learning all about her past and who she wants to become in the future.

When inquiring about her magical powers, she mentioned she lost them when she dropped all faith and relationships with Lolth. He ended up asking her if she tried to be in touch with Eilistraee to gain her magic back. He ended up telling her about would be a good way to regain her magic.