Date of Birth: 1st of Great Tree Moon (adoption date), 31 of Lone Moon (birthdate)
Gender: Female
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation: Red
Height: 5 ft 8 in

Appearance

Body Features

Like most tieflings, Rimaia has curling rams' horns, goat hooves, and a tail.

Apparel & Accessories

Grey hooded robes trimmed in red, messily cut above the knees after a run-in with a thornbush. Underneath, she has dark brown pants and leather boots, shaped to fit her hooves. Recently Iltiari gave her a pale blue cloak that they had found.

Mentality

Personal history

Rimaia's earliest memories are of being raised in the Temple of Sekhmet, the place she has called home all her life. According to the temple priests, she was found as a baby outside of the temple, abandoned, with no clues as to who might have left her there.

Despite her origins, she grew up happily within the temple, and was often looked after by one of the priests, Lehvn, who she came to view as a father figure. Fascinated by the divine magic of the clerics and given mythology and religious instruction as her bedtime stories, there was never any question in her mind about what she would devote her life to. Over time, she came to learn that inside the temple was the one place where she could escape the stares that came with being a tiefling on the Holy Plains, and became even more convinced that she never wanted to leave.

It wasn't until Lehvn, then an old man, passed, that she began to recognize the strain even between herself and the rest of the clerics within the temple, and her opinion of the higher members of the clergy began to sour. Leaving, however, was out of the question - the temple was still the only place she wanted to be, and she soon found a friend in a recently-joined cleric, Risf.

Nine years later, Sekhmet's priests passed down a quest from their goddess, sending out several clerics in search of a sacred aegis missing for decades, and reluctantly, Rimaia left the Holy Plains for the first time in her life.

Education

Though taught to read, write, and do basic maths, most of her education was religious in nature.

Outside of her basic cleric training, she took an interest in field medicine and first aid, and learned to stitch wounds, cool fevers, and set broken bones even without the use of healing magic.

She's beginning to pick up some alchemy from Damiel's lessons, but her understanding of it is shaky at best.

Mental Trauma

She expects hatred or mistrust wherever she goes, and is extremely sensitive to comments about her race or demonic features. Even a mention of her horns or red skin will make her defensive, and she tries to draw as little notice to them as she can.

Morality & Philosophy

The priests who raised her did their best to instill strong morals in her, but how strongly those lessons took is questionable. While she would never condone hurting innocent people, she wants to keep her companions safe, and is more than willing to kill their enemies if talking is out of the question.

Above all, she believes that everyone should have a place where they belong, whatever it might be.

Known Languages

Common, Infernal

Personality

Motivation

She wants to return to the Temple of Sekhmet more than anything, and seeks the aegis so that she can do so.

Despite the trouble she's gotten into with her companions, she finds traveling with them preferable to being lost and alone in unfamiliar territory, and has realized that besides being helpless in the wilderness, she also wants to travel with them to keep them from getting hurt.

Quotes & Catchphrases

“Damiel no.”

“Guidance!”

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Well-practiced at field medicine.

Has little to no ability to look after herself in the wilderness.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes berry pie, all shades of blue, keeping things neat and orderly, and the comforts of civilization.

Dislikes the forest, sleeping on the ground, and difficult books.

Vices & Personality flaws

She gets angry with people who make her worried, and usually reacts by scolding that person.

She often assumes the worst of anyone mentioning any of her demonic features, even in harmless contexts.

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Summer Moon

After midnight, in Wright

by Rimaia Algol

(there is a scorch mark across the top half of the page)

So I might maybe be a little bit more drunk than I thought. I figured just using my own fire would be safer than trying to find a candle without knocking into something in the dark, but that... didn't really go that well. Nothing actually caught on fire though! Which is good, because I don't want to have to explain to Radiance why something in her house caught fire. And I don't think Damiel noticed the near miss either - he's still trancing and out of it as far as I can tell.

Instead of setting out right away, we decided to spend yesterday too in Wright to make sure that we're ready to face Tazra and Margoth. It might give them a head start, but... I think the time to gather more allies and supplies will be worth it in the end. I hope it's worth it. At the very least, the healing potions we got will probably help keep someone alive without forcing most of us to devote our magic to healing spells. And Margoth hopefully doesn't shrug off lightning magic like she does fire.

We met the king, too! Which is... a strange thought. Half because I never expected to be able to say that, but also, I don't really know whether he's my king. I never bothered to learn about whether the Mortal Kingdom's sovereignty extends to the plains. Come to think of it, I think more of us would question whether we're considered subjects of the Mortal Kingdom than not.

Either way, he offered us soldiers to help, and at this point, we'll take whatever we can get. The elven ambassador, a woman named Ave Lo, is coming with us too - she seems to know what she's doing. Radiance started off that arrangement by going off without us to meet them, but then she ended up needing us all to come anyway to corroborate her story...

Later on, Iltiari also recruited Pliskin, Risf's adventuring friend. Truthfully, we don't know much of anything about him - but we barely know anything about a lot of our allies, other than having someone else vouch for them. And I trust Risf's endorsement a hell of a lot more than I trust Radiance's vouching for her allies. At least most of them have Navy connections, though. Seems more reliable to me than Dagon. He's.... weird. Kinda wanna know what's up with him, also kinda don't.

He’s coming with us when we fight Tazra and Margoth, though, so I hope he’s as competent as he claims he is. We’ve got a plan that I think is good - split the bad guys up, have us take out the real dangerous ones while the others keep the minions from overwhelming us, hope we can actually beat Tazra and Margoth at the same time because there’s no way that fate won’t decide to make things hard for us, profit??? Hopefully without kickstarting the apocalypse in the process because I doubt we can handle a large number of demons after fighting those two.

Something I found out earlier tonight - Damiel thinks he's managed to alchemize true immortality? Honestly, coming out of anyone else's mouth, I'd be certain they were out of their mind, but from him I'm only half sure. Everything dies, eventually, except perhaps the gods - the idea of that suddenly changing is insane. But he seems certain that he's gotten it, or at least that he's gotten very close. And I can't help but believe him, and want to know how it would work.

Does that count as heresy? It sounds like it should, but either I can't remember or there's no explicit rule against it - probably because no one ever thought it would be possible, honestly.

He thinks that if he's right, this will be enough for him to be able to go back to the Elven Kingdom, which is... it's everything he's wanted the whole time, so I want it to work for him, and I'll figure everything else out later. I don't even really know what I want to do after this. We're going to win; I have to believe that. But afterwards - what do you do after saving the world, when nowhere feels right to go home to? I can't just wander around forever after I figure out what happened to my parents. but the plains wouldn't be an option outside of the temple... maybe Wright? It seems nice enough? I should ask the others about what they're going to do.

I feel like I should be more worried than I am right now, and I probably will be in the morning, but for now? I still don’t want anyone to die, but... I guess getting drunk was good for something. I think I’ll be able to fall asleep even knowing what’s coming tomorrow.

Rimaia's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

After midnight, outside of Bumble
Fawn Moon

Early morning, outside of Bumble
Fawn Moon

Redcastle, after All Crims' Eve
26 Jan 2020 12:37:35

I don't know where we are and at this point i'm too afraid to ask
Fawn Moon

Some tavern, at a town near the forest
Fawn Moon

aaaahhhhHHHHHHH
Garland Moon

The Flappy Stingray, Damerel
Garland Moon

A number of days from Damerel
Garland Moon

The Chipper Squirrel, Caster Falls
Garland Moon

Somewhere in the ocean, aboard the Joyful Damnation
Garland Moon

Docked near Necropolis-on-sea
Garland Moon

On the way to Wright
Summer Moon

fucking FINALLY
Garland Moon

Tabaxi Outpost
Summer Moon

Late afternoon, uncomfortably close to a cultist camp
Summer Moon

Late evening, in Radiance's family home in Wright
Summer Moon

After midnight, in Wright
Summer Moon

The major events and journals in Rimaia's history, from the beginning to today.