The Gray Guard

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Basic Information
Name: Ameylia Arenwell
Aliases: Amy, Lia
 Gender: Female
Race: Human
 Age: 32
Profession: Gray Guard, Demon Hunter
Languages: Common and a few others.
 
 Physical Information
Height: 5’11’
Weight: 160
 Body build: Muscular. She’s a big girl.
Skin type: Fair
 Hair style: Long red hair kept in a low hanging pony tail.
Scars: Numerous along her body from years of battle.
Tattoos: None.
Hair: Red, vibrant
Eyes: Icy blue
 
 Mental Information
Alignment: Lawful Good
Philosophy: “A lesser evil for the greater good.”
Deity/Beliefs: Bahamut
 
 Additional Information
Gear: When in armor, Ameylia commonly wears dark plates with a flowing black mantle. Outside of armor, she prefers wearing white or more colorful garments.
Jewelry: Gold studded earrings with diamonds on each ear.
 
History:
Early Childhood
Coming from the small prime of Indriul, Ameylia was the youngest of four children to the lesser noble family of Arenwell in the kingdom of Novolia. A sickly child, Ameylia spent a great deal of her early life behind the walls of her father’s castle living vicariously through her two eldest brothers Adryan and Renrick.
 
Located in the western province of Novolia, the Arenwell were followers of Torm and resided in an estate that provided security against the mountain orc tribes. Hailguard, Novolia’s westernmost fortress, was under the command of her elder brother Renrick while Adryan and her sister Raenya owned holdfasts elsewhere in the region.
 
Ameylia suffered from a rare blood sickness where her blood would not clot, causing even the smallest cut or bruise to be life-threatening. This prevented Ameylia from following her dream of being the skilled swordswoman her sister Raeyna was, someone she looked up to most of her life. Ameylia’s father Rorin Arenwell sought every healer he could find to cure her condition but all they could do was treat her injuries.
 
This caused Ameylia to seek more academic pursuits, becoming a student of philosophy, war, history, anything she could get her hands on. She was also, despite her father’s reservations, an avid equestrian and often enjoyed afternoon rides through the woodlands of her family’s grounds. Though she had to wear special clothing and saddles to avoid bruising.
 
Ameylia’s first encounter with evil was during one of these rides. While on her ride, she was beset by a small pack of worgs that had made their way down the mountains and into the woodland. Though Ameylia escaped with her life thanks to her horse, riding hard and fast through the brush of the forest took its toll on her frail body. To anyone else, Ameylia’s injuries would have been trivial, but her blood sickness put her life in jeopardy and was beyond the skill of any of her father’s healers.
 
One day, her father was visited by an elderly man that was accompanied by seven golden canaries. The elderly man offered her father an elixir with the promise that it would cure her daughter of her affliction. At first, Rorin refused the elderly man, by Ameylia’s mother Helen, urged her husband to reconsider, believing the elderly man was an answer to her prayers. Reluctantly, Rorin allowed the elixir to pass Ameylia’s lips in the hopes that it would save her daughter’s life.
 
Yet the elixir did not have the effect her parents expected. It made Ameylia sick beyond anything the healers had ever seen. Though it stopped her bleeding, a fever gripped her that was so strong that the healers feared she would burn out in the night. Yet by morning, Ameylia had recovered.
 
The elixir had cured her affliction, but also gave her so much more. Ameylia was stronger than she had ever been.
 
Becoming a Gray Guard
 
Ameylia has seen too much evil in her life and it has left its mark. Having served as a paladin of Bahamut for a number of years since the age of twenty, Ameylia has fought demons, undead, orcs, and an array of other evils that have blighted her land.
 
Little is known what caused her world to see a rise in the demonic powers, but many suspect the magocracy of the neighboring kingdom of Gilspire to be behind it while cosmologists believe that their world has drifted too closely to the Lower Planes, causing Indriul to become a new battleground for the Blood War.
 
Through the glamor of men and women, demons and devils play for power, manipulating the kingdoms of Ameylia’s world to their whim. In this dark chapter of her world, Ameylia has seen it all: peaceful kings turning to tyranny and war, priests that have given themselves to sin, the rich feasting while the poor starve, and so much more.
 
Ranking small in number amongst her Church, Ameylia vowed to destroy evil no matter the cost and to bring justice to all those who have done wrong even if it might not be permissible by law. While she is not proud of some of the things she has done for the sake of victory against evil, she understands that sometimes a lesser evil must be taken in order to enact a greater good. Many among her clergy view this extremist mentality as brutal and dishonorable, but none cannot deny it is effective. For she is not a paladin, but a gray guard, a person who dances the line between what is lawful and what is just, understanding that the two are not always the same thing.
 
To Ameylia, the law does not always serve justice. Kings can corrupt the system, allowing murderers and worse to go free, even live under its protection. That is where the gray guard comes in, taking justice into her own hands where the law refuses to act. This, however, does not mean Ameylia acts immorally or is without compassion. Though her hatred for evil runs deep, her commitment to her god and her oaths keeps those dangerous impulses of hers in check. She is also a healer, using the gift of her god to cure the sick and aid the downtrodden wherever she can.
 
When faced with an evil, Ameylia often asks herself if this is the one that she is willing to give it all up for, if this evil will be what sets her over that cliff and plunges her into that dark abyss of hatred she carries in her heart. She longs for it, because she knows that if she were to fall, nothing – no law, no barrier, no oath – would protect the evil she seeks from her.