A pale, beautiful blonde elf with long hair usually tied back in a practical knot. Her skin has the dry, wind-chapped look of someone who has slept beneath bridges, in abandoned sheds, and under open skies. She carries herself lightly, but her eyes rarely rest on faces. They track exits, hands, rooftops, and the spaces between people, as if danger might step out of any empty corner. Her scale mail is carefully maintained but visibly mismatched, and her battered wooden shield bears several layers of painted-over symbols from forgotten shrines.

Neri is alert, compassionate, and difficult to intimidate. She has the instincts of a street survivor, but not the cynicism others expect from one. She gives food to hungry strangers, sleeps nearest the door, and will argue fiercely with anyone who treats mercy as weakness. Her memory is full of gaps, yet she remembers the suffering of others with painful clarity.

She remembers no birthplace, no family name, and no first home. When asked where she comes from, she gives the same answer every time, the brink of nowhere. Her earliest memories are of narrow streets, locked doors, whispered bargains, and adults who smiled while deciding what could be taken from her. The world around her was crowded with criminals, manipulators, and casual cruelty. She learned to sleep lightly, steal only what she needed, and watch hands more closely than faces. Somehow, the place did not keep her. An old shrine-tender found her sheltering beneath a collapsed altar and offered her food in exchange for honest work. The elf began carrying water, sweeping dust from the prayer stones, and listening to the names of the dead. She could not remember believing in any god, but she found herself praying for strangers before she ever prayed for herself. When the shrine-tender died, she took up the battered holy symbol and left the city, convinced that goodness was not a gift she had inherited. It was a choice she had made every day, and would continue making whenever the world tried to make the choice for her.