Aurelia is a statuesque drow woman with smooth obsidian skin, waist-length white hair braided with silver rings, and vivid violet eyes that rarely reveal what she is thinking. Her beauty is deliberate and weaponized, enhanced by immaculate grooming, perfume laced with bitter nightshade, and a wardrobe of black and crimson noble silks beneath fitted chain mail. She carries a slender sabre at her hip and wears House Malice's spider insignia over her heart.

Aurelia is poised, observant, and intensely self-controlled. She treats conversation as an interrogation conducted with manners, collecting tiny inconsistencies while offering carefully measured compliments. She enjoys beauty, ceremony, and elegant weapons, but considers all three tools of authority rather than mere decoration. Her faith in Lolth is sincere, though it is expressed through vigilance, ambition, and an eagerness to prove that she is more useful than the people around her.

Aurelia Malice was raised beneath the poisonous magnificence of Menzoberranzan, where every smile concealed an alliance and every prayer to Lolth was also a test. The youngest daughter of a minor branch of House Malice, she learned early that a noble's survival depended less on strength than on knowing exactly when someone else had become dangerous. Her mother recognized Aurelia's talent for reading hesitation, vanity, and fear, and arranged for her to serve as an inquisitorial agent for the house. There, Aurelia learned to interrogate suspected heretics, expose disloyal servants, and make examples of those whose faith in Lolth appeared insufficient. Aurelia's training was not confined to torture chambers and temple corridors. She studied the etiquette of noble courts, the genealogy of rival houses, and the precise use of a sabre, a weapon elegant enough for ceremony and efficient enough for execution. When a senior priestess accused Aurelia of concealing a traitor, Aurelia survived by uncovering a deeper conspiracy implicating one of the priestess's own favorites. The victory earned her a measure of independence, but also created enemies who would prefer to see her dead. Now she travels beyond Menzoberranzan under the authority of House Malice, hunting dissent wherever it festers and seeking evidence that may elevate her family above its rivals. She believes every secret eventually belongs to Lolth, and she intends to be the one who delivers them.