Xaelias Vignae-Caicuria

The local snakey half-elf that likes to bum around Jirn and cause trouble. A rabble-rouser to some, and a stalwart companion to others, there's no denying this snerson (snake person) is definitely someone to look out for.

Personal Life
One of the myriad of lowborn people raised into nobility via adoption into the Caicuria dynasty, Xaelias is definitely someone that dislikes all the "stuffy noble stuff" as she puts it. She is close to her adopted sister, Eura, and corresponds regularly with her adoptive father Jantro. Xae is otherwise on amicable terms with the rest of the family, if distant with the more royal members.

Her hobbies include parkour, archery, climbing (whether on rocks or otherwise), exploration, and basking under the sun.

Physical Description
Xaelias seems, at first glance, a fairly normal elf. However, several traits give away both her human and more arcane heritage. Her features are rounder and less gracile than that of most elves, and her ears are not nearly as pointed, only exhibiting a small point at the end of what would be a normal human ear otherwise. Due to being melded with a snake spirit, Xae also sports scales on several parts of her body: her face, arms, neck, legs, and parts of her torso. Her most striking feature are the nubby horns that sit just below her hairline, an indicator that she has been touched by magic. Xaelias' emerald-green eyes have the characteristic slit pupils of a snake, and when she opens her mouth to speak, a viper's fangs and a split tongue become apparent.

The Beginning
Xaelias was born to an unlikely pairing-- a human Audalad woman and an exiled elven warrior from the Aurlûnor Velande, who had briefly (in his view) made a stop in the village where Xaelias was born and had a relationship with her mother. However, such a pairing is not meant to happen, and Xaelias was stillborn. The parents were grief-stricken, and that is when an unlikely individual stepped forward to help.

Calling herself "Lamia", a creature with the upper half of a beautiful woman and the lower half of a large snake approached the couple, and offered them a deal: this nature spirit styling herself the "Jade Empress" would revitalize their daughter, bringing her still heart to beat once more. However, she would be grafted onto the baby's soul, and the magic that Lamia is made of would be inextricably bound to the child forevermore. Both Mother and Father quickly capitulated, the window wherein anything could be done to save their daughter shrinking by the moment.

And so it was the ashen, still child stirred to life, brought forth into the world by two miracles.