Malice Alurden

Chosen by the Goddess of Love, Arawai, Malice is going on her own adventure to one day find her own source of love.

Once upon a time in a castle far, far away, a young Drow girl was forced by her father to study in his shoes. She detested it with all her heart as she loved the world and everything in it, and his profession was Necromancy which took life from which she beheld. Her younger sibling fell in line for the profession given to them, Assassin and Warrior, however, she did what she could to oppose her father. It started as befriending the critters that her father wished her to raise and the one she did raise, she dressed him up in the finest rainbow paints and sovereign glued a sharpened bone to its forehead to make it appear as a unicorn. Cupcake was merely the icing on the cake, it was when the girl refused to continue killing and that “the weak forget the strong when they are gone too long, but the heart and love very rarely falter,” was the last straw, reminding her father that he had fallen in love with a Paladin whose Oath was based on that very concept.

Soon after, she evaded work sessions by leaving the castle all together. If her father could not accept who she was, she felt she needn’t waste her breathe or life trying to prove it. Upon happenstance, the young Drow found a library and within it, a friend. The Librarian was an old, mature, yet blunt Dragonborn by the name of Urdaalis Thervyre. The two bonded over romance stories, one dreaming of the days gone by, the other who speculated for the future.

After she had read every romance book and deeply discussed the ins and outs of romance and love with her compatriot, the Drow girl was bequeathed the Champion of Love by the Goddess, Arawai. Though, no true quest is easy or straight and narrow. She was conscripted into the war, to the disdain of her father, as a Grave Cleric. In it’s horrors was the first time the naive child questioned how powerful love truly was. Yet, as a hopeless romantic, had gotten close to a prince but shortly thereafter, was sentenced to jail due to the completely racist and false reports of her trying to steal from his treasury.

She had the grandest of time there, she didn’t get too overworked, and often the guards would mention how much she had inspired the people to work with the stories she recalled to them, though that was mostly them just trying to get away from her and not to listen to how the two fell in love and their happily ever after was. Needless to say, she had never been accepted in her past and she wasn’t sure if she would ever, but as a girl with a big dream, the most precious thing was her hope.

When she was released she ended up going to a major city, and she was met with prejudice once more. Not many people accepted the Drow and more monstrous of races, so she ended up getting in debt with a bat-shit-crazy Gorgon lady, and somehow finding work in the university.

How does the story end? Well dears, that is a tale for next time.