Arialya

Arialya is the first nature dragon that joined us. In the early days of Hephormet (The Clan) when Adorinda was recruiting members to the lair, against Erskine's will of trying to make their own blood clan, Adorinda stumbled upon her in travels with Raphael and TwilightCloud. Seeing her in poor health Raphael started to pity her and asked Adorinda if they would give her some food. Knowing it was probably because she was a Coatl Adorinda oblidged, bringing her back to the Lair.

Erskine was not thrilled at seeing her and felt angered by the prospect of another dragon joining the lair instead of expanding on their own bloodline. While Adorinda would be away in her travels with TwilightCloud and Raphael, Erskine would watch over the nature coatl.

Arialya never did anything, not feeling threatened by the small Fae. She would help in gatherings with him and do her part whenever it would be her turn to gather seafood with her favorite being the

Stubby Squid

Seafood

Diminutive in stature, mighty in flavor.

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. Arialya feels indebted to Raphael for finding her and nursing her in the early days even if his joking nature can be overwhelming to her at times. Sometimes she would look at his wardrobe and straighten it up in order to look proper for his tasks.

Arialya was originally a part of Nature Clan but due to the nature of being born primarily white the Clan's leader regarded that as an ill omen and told the father to discard of her. Her father feeling upset over this decision made the choice to leave her in the forest along with a pack of fishes. He would make sure to visit everyday and watch over her from afar until Arialya finally grew up.

After an incident in spending she has been put in charge of the finances with Paul looking after her making sure she doesn't go to the vault and take the money from there. She is now learning how to manage a budget since their unlimited allowance got limited to always having to put 100000 treasure in the vault each week. This way should she go on another spending spree she has to decide what to put their resources on and who gets what.

Arialya felt sad about this but between being able to gather stuff and learning what would be their priority at the moment she would gladly do it.

Because of how they were spending a lot of treasure as they were saving up to expand the Hephormet, Adorinda decided to make it so that there can only be one expensive purchase for the week. Expensive purchases being anything above 75000.

This way Arialya has to plan on which expensive item to send their resource on first with some treasure left over.

At seeing that they were still spending too much treasure Erskine made it so that there can only be 1 purchase per day.

Paul stays with her sometimes and has taken note on how to record their financial plans. He helps her during the night and sometimes sleeps with her when she dozes off from all the inventory recording and financial note taking.

Due to the Clan's hard work and determination in expanding, Adorinda and Erskine made it so that during Festival Weeks these rules are exempt.

Now that Hephormet has a large expanded lair, Adorinda made it so that most of the treasure be spent on dragons and so long as there is a plan involved with them.

With Adorinda and Erskine's departure to serve the Lightweaver, Tortington and Liquerito were introduced to Hephormet's remaining members. Lambart made that the dragons would stay within Laternlea Port and to not leave from the place as the Lightweaver welcomed Hephormet with welcoming arms. Lambart made sure to listen to the angels within Hephormet that would send them messages of encouragement through this transitional phase. One of the changes that Lambart was guided to do was change the Clan's name. From Hephormet to Effulgence which had some of the remaining members of Hephormet leave the Clan. Lightweaver asked for a shrine to bring beings closer to her radiating light which Adorinda knew would require more treasures and gems into the plan. The angels encouraged her in this endeavor as she and Paul organized the treasure and gems along with helping to construct the shrine.

Arialya gasped when she saw the angel Raphael
appear in the Shrine after it had been built. She felt familiar and as if she knew him. Raphael told her that she would indeed know him as he had been her former lover. Arialya did not want to think this was true and pleaded that he not joke. Raphael told her that it wasn't a joke and that it was now time for her to move on to a lover that would be romantically invested in her. Arialya wasn't sure if she agreed as although her Raphael would joke and be a gentle healer this Raphael was serious and a matter of factually. Regardless of whether he believed her or not Raphael was in fact her former mate.

After taking care of their treasure revenue Arialya would sometimes find herself visiting the shrine to relax from her days worries. Raphael would sometimes appear to let her rest and heal her mind from such tedious activities throughout the day. Sometimes Arialya would bring a gold coin to put as an offering to the shrine as it had brought her peace and serenity. She would ask Paul to go with her sometimes to listen to what the angels and deacon Lambart would have to say for the day.



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