Sister Maeralith Thornveil
She speaks with the stillness of a tomb—each word a nail, every silence a ward against what stirs in the dark.
Name: Sister Maeralith Thornveil
Race: Shadar-kai Elf
Class/Role: Exorcist of the Iron Chain (Former Warlock, now Cleric-flavored monster hunter)
Age: 342 (appears mid-40s in mortal years)
Appearance: Maeralith wears a heavy, ink-black robe with silver chains stitched into its sleeves—remnants of her order’s penitence garb. Her hair is shaved on one side and woven into intricate braids on the other. Her skin has the ashen, ghost-toned hue of the Shadowfell, and her eyes are the color of burned-out stars. She carries no weapon save a hooked censer that hangs from a length of sanctified chain, always lit with faint blue flame.
Backstory
Once a warlock who consorted with an entity of decay in her youth, Maeralith turned her back on that pact after a possession gone awry claimed an entire monastery. She wandered for years before pledging herself to the Iron Chain, a secretive order that trains exorcists and spirit-binders in a fusion of divine and profane rites. Through discipline and brutal spiritual warfare, she earned her place as one of the order’s most feared field agents. Now she travels alone, offering her services where hauntings, possessions, and planar corruption take root—though she never stays long. The longer she lingers, the closer the void she once served tries to whisper back.
