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Raina is a human wizard/rogue played by Randi.

Early Years

Raina comes from a small village. She lived her entire life in the village, marrying a handsome local farmer and raising children where she grew up. She only left her village once to travel to the capital on a pilgrimage.

Her live was ordinary in every way until a few months after her 31st birthday and birth of her third child. A vampire lord named Relnareth moved to a nearby and declared the surrounding countryside as his domain. Relnareth vigorously defended his domain, driving off many of the other supernatural predators in the area and inadvertently making the area safer. An old priest named Jorda from Raina's village learned of Relnareth's true nature and began to publicly denounce him. In order to silence the rumors before they spread, Relnareth visited Jorda's house one evening, the evening Raina was visiting Jorda to bless her newborn baby, and tore the priest limb from limb. Relnareth turned Raina and considered for a moment killing the baby, but instead left with his new prize.

Lost Years

Raina had a hard time adjusting to life as a vampire spawn. She lived her life in a haze, spending the next 60 years as a minion of her new vampire lord. She fed and she obeyed, forced into servitude by the bond between spawn and lord. Her life had lost meaning and she cared for no one - not even Relnareth. She was his minion, but she hated him more than the eternal fires of hell for the curse he had brought to her.

One night, roughly sixty years after Raina was cursed with vampirism, Relnareth sent her on a routine task to collect protection money from one of the city's merchants. On her way, she stopped to feed on a beggar in an alley. He was sick from some plague that was spreading throughout the city, but Raina's undead nature meant she had nothing to fear from such trivial concerns. Raina fed, but did not realize he was an aasimar - a human with celestial heritage. His blood burned like nothing Raina had ever experienced before. The searing pain encompassed her thoughts and she lay in the alley for hours, screaming and thrashing in agony.

When Raina woke an hour later in a prison cell, she woke with a clarity of vision she had not possessed since before her turning. She affected an escape from her cell and returned to Relnareth, serving him for several more months. Raina learned everything she could about his operation, his base, his influence, and his reach. Armed with that knowledge, Raina left the city one evening in the post-dusk twilight and ventured the capital of Sa'Enkad.

Life in the Capital

Raina has lived in the capital for eight years. She worked as a maid, cleaning the mansions of the moderately wealthy. She earned the favor of one of her employers, a retired wizard-general named Tondrun. After convincing him of her sharp intellect and desire to serve Sa'Enkad, Tondrun taught her the fundamentals of magic. Raina would arrive in the evening after sunset, learn the fundamentals of magic from Tondrun, and then clean his estate through the nighttime hours. She kept her feeding in the capital city to the barest minimum, as the embrace constantly reminded her of the evil Relnareth had done onto her.

Convinced that magic was the sole cure for her disease, Raina pushed Tondrun to learn more. However, he grew hesitant to teach her more, telling her that it was the academy's responsibility to train wizards. The fellow cleaning staff began whispering about how Raina never seemed to age, never seemed to tire, and Raina quickly realized she was falling out of favor with her employer. She left shortly thereafter and traveled across the desert to the coastal city of Pradhan.

Life in Pradhan

Pradhan was much different from the capital. Raina found an apartment down by the docks. With a vibrant night-life, she had little reason to fear being caught in the sun because of a social situation. She works as a barmaid in a seaside tavern, focusing on her magical abilities in her free time and doing her best to avoid her vampire master.