Aurelia is a tall, slender drow woman with obsidian skin, waist-length silver-white hair, and vivid violet eyes that seem almost red in direct sunlight. Fine spiderweb tattoos wind from her left temple down her neck and disappear beneath the collar of her layered armor. She wears fitted black leather armor beneath a saffron, crimson, and deep violet robe patterned with stylized eight-legged spiders. Two curved scimitars hang at her hips, their blades etched with tiny devotional prayers to Lolth.

Aurelia is composed, observant, and unfailingly courteous until courtesy ceases to be useful. She enjoys ritual, formal challenges, and the slow exchange of veiled threats. She respects competence wherever she finds it, but admiration only makes her more eager to discover the flaw that will bring a capable person down.

Aurelia Malus was born beneath the black towers of a minor but ambitious drow house, where children were taught that affection was merely a weakness waiting to be exploited. When she was young, a clutch of pale cave spiders descended upon her during a temple rite. Rather than bite, they crawled across her hands and arranged themselves in the shape of an eight-pointed star. The priestesses called it a sign of Lolth's interest. Aurelia understood it as a summons. From that day forward, she treated every spider she encountered as a possible witness, judge, or messenger. House Malus trained her as an enforcer and ceremonial duelist. Aurelia studied stories of surface samurai through stolen texts and exaggerated reports from scouts, admiring their discipline, layered robes, curved swords, and devotion to a code. She reshaped those ideals into something more fitting for Lolth. To Aurelia, honor is not honesty. It is the art of making betrayal look deserved. A promise is sacred only until a more entertaining treachery presents itself. She now travels as House Malus's blade and envoy, seeking opportunities to increase her family's standing while proving that even the most elegant code becomes a web when spun by the Spider Queen.