Aurelia is a striking drow woman with moon-pale skin, long silver-white hair, and vivid violet eyes that seem to glow in dim light. Her beauty is refined and intimidating rather than gentle. She wears polished chain mail beneath a black noble's tabard embroidered with a silver spider insignia, and carries an elegant rapier styled as a dueling sabre. A signet ring bearing House Malice's emblem rests on her right hand, while a tiny black spider often clings to her shoulder or disappears into her hair.

Aurelia is composed, observant, and devastatingly courteous. She enjoys the theater of interrogation, preferring to let silence and a pleasant smile make people confess before she ever draws her blade. She has genuine curiosity about surface customs, but disguises it as judgment so no one mistakes her fascination for weakness.

Aurelia Malice was born during a night of impossible omens. Every spider in House Malice's ancestral fortress gathered in the birthing chamber, weaving a vast web across the ceiling while a black moon haloed the sky. Her mother survived the birth, but the infant Aurelia emerged with a spider-shaped birthmark over her heart and a voice that made the household's priestesses fall silent. The matriarch declared her a miracle child of Lolth, though whether the goddess had blessed the family or planted a future catastrophe was never made clear. Raised as a noble heir and trained as an inquisitor, Aurelia learned to question servants, rivals, priests, and even her own family. She discovered that her divine heritage was less a gift than a weapon, granting her an uncanny affinity with spiders and an instinct for finding weakness in every confession. Rather than surrender herself entirely to the priestesses, she joined House Malice's martial inquisition, where her rapier, sharp judgment, and carefully cultivated beauty became tools of political control. Now she travels beyond the Underdark under orders to investigate threats to her house, secretly searching for proof of what Lolth truly intended when she placed a mortal daughter among the drow.