Nalia

Description
Started at age 30-40's when she got free & out wandering in Osteria, though age may change depending on any deals or life-force energy she may gain/lose over time.

Roleplaying Tips
She knows the general layout of Osteria and the forest. Nalia has grown bitter and with frozen frustration, utterly hates Yun and wants to see her fall though is intent to keep herself alive despite current circumstances. Though chaotic in nature and uncaring of others, she is still smart.

Motives
Stay alive, gain Hundun's favor again & prove herself to him, punish Yun.

History
Nalia was an orphan in Hua Xia long before the civil wars and the conflicts. She was never adopted and grew up basically fending for herself, believing that people are only in it for themselves. She grew bitter growing up into an adult, and started studying on magic. She was never gifted magic at birth, and she couldn't comprehend, nor afford, what the wizards attempted to teach her. So she resorted to the easiest magic, the power of a pact. Hundun gave her a blessing though for her hard work. She had filled out more pages than any previous author, and had managed to stave off the mental wear and tear of the constant deep speech humming. She, through Hundun, could drain life from people and add it to her pool of years to keep her studies going. She can only do it through a deal though, and after having more recently lost favor with Hundun is still able to take people's life-forces through deals, and even kill now. Known as a soothsayer, a vision seer. She would make deals with people, and in return provide her abilities. She made a deal with Yun's father & helped stop a tiefling Genocide in Hua Xia many years ago, is the one that gave Yun her book, was in waterdeep for a time, and also ended up trapped in a pocket dimension for a time until breaking out recently alongside Yun after she trapped Yun in there as a ways to escape herself.

Player Interactions

 * Nalia and Yun came out of a portal fighting each-other when a eldritch abomination disintegrated along the lake shore, with Jurnaya & Doctor Braun there scoping the area out while helping an NPC scout (dwarf scout "Foggy"). After some confusion, the two adventurers joined Yun and fought Nalia, though she was able to teleport away & escape just a moment before they could finish the job.

Rivalries
Utterly hates Yun, and her causing Nalia to lose Hundun's favor only deepened that.

Statblock
Uses the 'Warlock of the Great Old One' statblock, with the addition of the Devil's Sight invocation.