Reia D'avalos

Character Info
Reia D'avalos is a 9th level bard. On September 14th, 2763, she graduated from St. D'artagnan's School of Dance Choreagraphy (College of Swords) with a final exam score of 115%, setting the record amound students. On session 1 of Adventures in Niflheim, she gathered that first party, and now she travels as part of The Fumbling Rollers. Her goal is to become The Red Mage.

Physical Description
Reia's hair is wavy and dark brown, and cut above her shoulders. She has green eyes, and tan skin. Like an elf, she has pointy ears, but her ears are significantly shorter than standard elf ears. She is also missing her left arm due to a freak accident involving a very lucky goblin. Sometimes she wears a prosthetic arm when the need arises, but most of the time she makes due with her mage hand. She wears an eyepatch over her missing eye.

The first thing you spot when picking Reia from a crowd is her red, wide-brimmed hat with a white feather attached to the hatband. Otherwise, her attire varies in style but is always in red. While out, she wears a breastplate over her clothes. Around her waist is a rapier, and slung over her back is a violin case.

Character Info
Reia lives on Albero, the starting place of the Adventures in Niflheim. She is the bastard daughter of Baron Merrick D'avalos.

You could learn just about anything about Reia if you asked. She is extremely talkative and very quick to trust. Just about anyone she meets is first regarded as a friend.

Also, you may find Reia's fully red attire to be more than just a favourite color. From talking, the party learns that she wants to become something called The Red Mage, even though she doesn't know what that means yet. Which is why she also wants to find the former Red Mage, Sir Fernando Montoya, who disappeared two years prior the start of the campiagn.

Backstory
You may have noticed the way Reia is generally treated by the townsfolk of Nell'Ombra. This is because she is well-known from the mischievious stunts she pulled when she was younger, and generally being the unstoppable force behind any incident. Now, the townsfolk are wary of Reia's presence and regard her with distrust. She is banned from entering the library and the glassblower's shop.

By talking to Elio Sparoco, Reia learned more about her mother and how she was born.

Around 30 years prior the campaign, 11 years before Reia was born, Rico Ramirez needed a boat, and she heard from a carpenter from Bosun that the best wood to build a boat was wood from a God Tree. Since Rico was raised on Albero, she knew exactly where to find a God Tree. Along with some hirelings, she set sail toward's Albero. At night, she and her hirelings snuck all the way to Nell'Oscrita, and scaled the bark and started trimming the lower branches of the Grande Albero. This event would later be known as The Grand Tree Heist. By the time one of the guards noticed, Rico and her posse had already collected enough wood to build a boat, which left the tree resembling a mushroom. As she ran, the guard woke up the family. Merrick chased Rico all the way to the docks. He even ordered a boat and pursued her all the way to Bosun, where they had a naval battle off the shore. As Rico is a pirate, Merrick's crew ultimately lost and his boat sunk. He washed ashore on Bosun. After regaining conciousness, he set off in town to find Rico. Bosun was a pirate island, so Merrick made haste in finding Rico. To his dismay and horror, by the time he found her, the wood from his precious tree was being built into a sloop, the Oro Jackson. Angry, he demanded to Rico to take him back home. She agreed, but instead of doing what he asked she kept him on board and dragged him into being part of her crew for the next 10 years.She finally took Merrick back to Albero after her crew had suffered a loss at the hands of another pirate crew. Many of her crew was killed, and morale was extremely low. Shortly after dropping Merrick off she disbanded her crew. She didn't think she'd ever return to Albero. Later, she befriended Eio Sporaco, and they went sailing and adventuring together. She didn't realise until almost a year later that she was pregnant. Knowing who the father was, they sailed back to Albero. A couple weeks later, Albero was in view. Rico intended to have the delevery at the Church of St. Alicia, but she couldn't wait. She ended up giving birth on the boat, off the shore of Costa Forte. Elio had delevered her. With haste, they docked at Coste Forte to get Rico medical attension. Reia was born with complications as the result of being the child of an elf and a human. Her slow growth and small size was the cause of her abnormally long gestation period. She was still very small, even for a newborn. But once Reia was stablized and Rico recovered, she said goodbye as she left Reia on Merrick's doorstep, where she knew Reia would lead a better life.

Reia ultimately lead a lonely childhood. Her lack of a real mother figure (her step-mother, Nivenal, hated her, and her caretaker, Carlotta, was paid only to provide for her basic needs) inadvertently caused her to act out in the form of beyhavioral issues and accidental spread of mischief and chaos. Merrick being an elf and blind to human needs, was certainly no help. And despite being a bastard, being related to the Baron came with unspoken protections. As she grew older, Reia grew infamous and generally distrusted to act in a respectible manner within Nell'Ombra,Two years later, Reia is attending St. D'artagnan's School of Dance Cheoreography, and she has a goal to become the Red Mage, whatever that means, but she can't leave Albero. She is also still lonelier than she realises. That is, until she meets her new friends.

Trivia
- Much like her mother, Reia was the source behind much of the chaos on Albero during her childhood.

- Reia attended and graduated from St. D'artagnan's School of Dance Choreography in Albero. She graduated with a final exam score of 115%, the highest any student has ever achieved.

- She lives in Castle Nell'oscrita, which is a Godtree.

- She has a giant cat named Timmy Toldrum XIV.

- On her third day in Madreperla, away from Albero, Reia lost her left arm. A goblin had rolled a critical hit and ended up shooting through her arm with an arrow. The arm had to be removed later.

- Later, in the Goblin City, she lost her eye to a warg.