A tall, statuesque drow woman with dark violet skin, pale silver-white hair braided with tiny iron spider charms, and luminous red eyes. Aurelia wears black chain mail beneath layered crimson, violet, and saffron robes patterned like overlapping spider legs. Two slightly curved scimitars hang at her hips, their hilts wrapped in red silk and their blades marked with venom grooves. Her expression is composed and severe, though her smile is unnervingly warm when she speaks of Lolth.

Aurelia is disciplined, observant, and ceremonially polite, even when preparing to kill someone. She treats combat as a devotional performance, valuing elegant posture, controlled breathing, and a decisive final strike. She is fascinated by surface customs and imitates them with unsettling seriousness, collecting samurai sayings and quietly correcting their inaccuracies when no one is watching.

Aurelia Malys was born beneath a house that no longer exists. Her family was consumed in a succession struggle so thoroughly that even its name was scraped from the stone, leaving Aurelia without a banner, inheritance, or protection. She survived by carrying messages through the lower caverns, slipping between rival patrols with a knife hidden in her sleeve and a smile that never reached her eyes. During one such passage, she found a brood of pale spiders gathered around a dying priestess of Lolth. The spiders did not attack her. They crawled over her hands, drank the blood from her wounds, and left a single black thread wrapped around her finger. Aurelia understood the sign as selection, not mercy. She became a spy, poisoner, and duelist in service to the Spider Queen, learning that a fair fight was merely an invitation to die honestly. Surface tales of samurai fascinated her, especially their discipline, layered armor, curved swords, and ritualized loyalty. Aurelia adopted the form while discarding what she considered its weakness. Her Bushido is called the Way of the Black Widow. It honors patience, immaculate presentation, sudden violence, hidden weapons, venom, betrayal, and victory offered at the feet of Lolth. She now travels beyond the Underdark as an emissary without a house, seeking secrets, worthy sacrifices, and opportunities to prove that even the abandoned may become the favored instrument of a goddess.