Maliss Veness

Maliss Veness is a Yuan-ti pureblood girl from the southern city of Shasa Sarin in the country of Rieyama on Xedaris. She is currently a member of the adventuring party The Hungry Yaks, searching down a wicked cult who kidnapped her from her home land, as well as mysterious geopolitical forces which threaten her home. After growing up in the lavish and overbearing home of a military commander and a high priestess of the nation's major religion, Maliss developed a tense relationship with parts of her family, especially her mother, who placed strong expectations and commitments onto Maliss from an early age. Her two siblings Lassek and Sarenoth both swiftly rose the ranks of two of the cities institutions - the scholarly halls and the military, and have always spurred Maliss on to become her best self, though her rebellious nature and aptitude for finding trouble meant that her pre-defined path - becoming an Acolyte and taking her mother's place - quickly did not see itself become reality, and was 'relegated' to the secret services where she would be trained to become an infiltrator and spy.
Like many in the city, Maliss, though reluctantly, worshipped her home's deity of Gukjun, the Fiend exarch of the Yuan-Ti. While she would never admit it to her mother's face, Maliss never approved of the way the political and religious classes used the power granted by Gukjun before his passing to aid and excuse geopolitical advantage and conquest, making the exchange purely ceremonial and eventually for self gain through the warlock connection she adapted to in her training. As such, Maliss intended to finish her training and relieve herself of any ceremonial duties as fast as possible, and to become a professional spy in order to travel away from the city as much as she could.
During her training, Maliss learnt various espionage skills, becoming proficient in many forms of investigation, stealth and deception. She also gained a limited but adept ability to channel the arcane residue left by Gukjun to cast magics to assist her endeavours, receiving a tome by the institution to adapt to her own magic style. In the archives, she met a rogue and fellow trainee named Monsoon, a Water Genasi boy who's grandparents had immigrated to Shasa Sarin from a distant island many years ago. The two instantly became friends, competing for the attention of their tutors and always going on excursions together. During these excursions, Monsoon confided in Maliss that he felt guilty he could not properly pay tribute to the culture of his homeland, showing her an old, rusted silver pendant belonging to a god she did not recognise. He also carried with him a tattered old map, given to him by his grandparents, indicating a route through an undefined forest alongside a riverbank.
The two confided in each other for years, until, in one of their last assessment missions they were assigned a simple but important real in-field case: to spy on and report back findings on an unknown presence in the jungles to the north of the city hunting Phase Spiders. On their mission, in an attempt to bypass any further training and graduate as fast as possible, the pair attempted to take down the hunters, but were overwhelmed, causing them both to be held captive. After being kept for half a day, the individuals killed Mosnoon, though, unknown why to her, they restrained from killing her, kidnapping her and bringing her to the neutral town of Banshaw far to the north...

Maliss Veness' History

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Sethari Veness
Ivathar Veness
Lassek Veness
Sarenoth Veness

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The Hungry Yaks

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Rieyama

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Maliss Veness

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Rieyamani

Rieyama

22nd Shillalis 1622

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Yuan-Ti Pureblood

Female

Slender, athletic and tall. Tanned skin with patched of vitiligo-like scales. Shoulder-length black hair and orange eyes.

5'10"

8th Warlock/1st Rogue