Appearance

Physical Description

Ryel is an elf and is tall (6' 3" or 190cm) and slender. She frequently gets comments that she is tall for a female elf. She is not super strong, but she is athletic. Ryel is quite agile and capable of impressive acrobatic feats... sometimes.

Body Features

Facial Features

Ryel's large green eyes are typical of an elf of Golarion with large irises leaving little white visible.
 
Her cheeks are round and a bit plump and her chin is soft. She has freckles on her nose and cheeks.
 
For the most part, Ryel wears light natural makeup but she enjoys wearing blush and eyeshadow which match her current hair color.

Apparel & Accessories

Ryel wears adventuring clothing typical of a thief. Example of the approximate color palette.
 
She wears a simple grey or tan tunic under her dark olive jacket made of either thin leather or thick cloth. The jacket has some purple and orange-brown accents.
 
Her trousers are the same dark olive as her jacket and have matching accent colors. They have lots of pockets.
 
She wears tall leather boots and a dark purple hooded cloak.
 
On her belt, Ryel carries her favorite dagger, two throwing knives, her coin purse, and various leather pouches in which to stuff pillaged loot and, of course, snacks.

Mentality

Mental Trauma

As a child Ryel mistook a magician's illusions act as dark magic and has an intense dislike of dark magic even today. Her friends in her adventuring party tried to help her understand the difference between illusions and actual dark magic but she's still trying to wrap her head around it. She's now far more likely to decide anything even remotely "dark magickey" is just illusiorary magic (but she's often wrong).
 
Ryel experienced an incredibly traumatic event as a young adult (age 88) while on a "mission" with her aunt Ellyria Mim, who is a skilled assassin. She left Avennara a few days later and has never told another person what happened that night.

Intellectual Characteristics

Ryel is clever but sometimes a bit dim. She is observant of even minute details in her surroundings but frequently does not make connections between those details to see the bigger picture. Over time, Ryel has had countless "special interests" which consume her every waking thought for a few days, weeks, or months, and then are often never touched again. This makes her a source of seemingly random, but incredibly deep, knowledge of very specific things. Nobody seems to have found any sort of pattern to her specialized knowledge.

Morality & Philosophy

Ryel's alignment is chaotic good. She believes doing the right thing is more important than rules. While Elves often enjoy being pranksters, Ryel makes mischief a pillar of her personality.

person.sexuality

Ryel perfers humanoids, but romance and sex are not high on her list of priorities.

person.gender_identity

Ryel is female and presents femininely. But not super fem, that's too fancy for her. Ryel sometimes reacts violently to being intentionally misgendered. She once stabbed a man in the chest in the middle of a crowded tavern when he accused her of being "an angry man in tight pants." One guy laughed.
 
Ryel is, in fact, transgender. She came to this realization during her journey to Absalom after making friends with Kungra Halfbeard, the captain of a small trade boat named the Fabulous Crow. Captain Halfbeard herself is transgender and spotted Ryel's uncracked egg immediately when she first set foot on the Crow. Halfbeard shared with Ryel her story of self acceptance and support from her loved ones and something about her story finally helped Ryel sort through some fewlings she could never really identify. Halfbeard is the only person Ryel has shared her "secret" with, having decided to step off the Crow in Absalom as a woman to start her new life. As far as Ryel knows, even her closest friends in her adventuring party don't know she is trans. She guards this as her most important secret and is determined not to let it out. Unfortunately she chose not to change her name and feminine elf names don't generally end in "-el" and many more people know this than Ryel thinks... Her party, if they have figured it out, don't treat her any differently because that's just part of who their friend is.

Taboos

Anyone who harms a child or an animal runs the risk of being stabbed in the face by an adorable elf right on the spot.
 
Ryel refuses to take a life without cause. As such, she turns down any jobs which are simply to eliminate a target. She believes assassins are vile cowards. While Ryel is reluctant to kill without justification, she will not hesitate to off anyone who harms, or attempts to harm, her friends or loved ones.

Known Languages

Common, Elven, Dwarven, Undercommon (mostly just swears)

Personality

Motivation

Ryel is strongly motivated by the mistakes in her past, especially those which have caused others harm. She is determined to do the right thing by any means necessary- legal or not. She hopes she can one day make up for the terrible things in her past.

Hygiene

As a rule, Ryel practieces good hygeine. She does not have any noticible body odor, generally keeps her clothing visibly clean, and keeps her hair clean if not a bit messy at times. Ryel is not afraid to get dirty and gross during her adventures, though.

Social

Birthplace

Avennara, Kyonin

Current Residence

Pathfinder Society Grand Lodge, Absalom

Contacts & Relations

Ryel is an Initiate with the Pathfinder Society and adventures with her fellow Initiate partymates:

• Lazar Menagerisian


• Silje Opalforge


• Sarai Dawntaker

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Ryel has not earned any formal titles.

Wealth & Financial state

Back at home in Avennara, Ryel's family was not wealthy and not destitute. They maintained a comfortable standard of living in their small village.
 
After leaving home, Ryel found herself pretty much broke and needed to take any job she could find. While she initially had ethical objections to the theivery she found herself doing to get by, she warmed up to it. Money is fake. Accumulation of wealth is harmful to the community. She'll steal absolutely anything now, even just for fun.

Family Ties

Ryel has not been in contact with her family since she left home. Before leaving she had a good relationship with her parents and found it hard to leave them. She was close with her Aunt Ellyria until a traumatic event tore them apart and drove Ryel to leave Avennara.

Social Aptitude

Ryel is socially awkward but not unliked.

Hobbies & Pets

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Speech

Ryel speaks a bit lazily, especially for an elf. She says "ya'" instead of "you" most of the time and often drops the ending "g" from her "ing" sounds.
 
"Where are you going?" would sound more like "Where are ya' goin'?"
 
Ryel's accent may be similar to a stereotypical Scottish Highlands accent (see: Kelly MacDonald, Brave (2012)) but her player can't pull it off despite their middle name literally being Merida.
 
During stressful situations such as combat or a tense social negotiation Ryel is more likely to swear, but not in Common or Elven. Instead she swears in Undercommon, something she picked up from her Aunt Ellyria. Ryel speaks very little Undercommon over all. It's pretty much just the swears.