Aurelia is a tall, elegant drow woman with obsidian skin, waist-length silver hair, and vivid crimson eyes. Fine spiderweb tattoos curl from her left temple down her neck, each strand marking a confession extracted in service to Lolth. She wears black lacquered leather over a crimson-and-purple silk tabard bearing House Malice's stylized spider sigil. A narrow hooked blade hangs at her hip, while a black iron holy symbol of Lolth rests against her throat. Her beauty is severe and controlled, made unsettling by the faint smile she wears whenever someone lies.

Aurelia is patient, observant, and unnervingly courteous. She prefers a quiet room, a locked door, and an unanswered question to an open fight. She treats every conversation as an interrogation and every friendship as a potential alliance. Although she claims absolute devotion to Lolth, she is fascinated by people who maintain loyalty without fear, because she cannot decide whether such devotion is admirable or simply another form of self-deception.

Aurelia Malice was born beneath the jeweled ceilings of House Malice, a minor but ambitious drow house whose fortunes depended on identifying weakness before rival matrons could exploit it. As a child, Aurelia learned that the most valuable truths were not spoken aloud. They were found in a trembling hand, an altered breathing pattern, or the hesitation before a name. Her talent drew the attention of the house priestesses, who placed her in the service of Lolth as an inquisitorial acolyte. There she was taught that mercy was merely a disguise worn by the weak, and that every secret belonged to the Spider Queen. Her first great trial came when a trusted house retainer was accused of worshiping an enemy deity. Aurelia discovered the accusation was false, planted by a rival faction within House Malice. Instead of exposing the conspiracy, she turned the evidence into a weapon, forcing both factions to confess their crimes before the priestesses. The retainer was sacrificed anyway, but House Malice gained three favors and a hidden ledger of blackmail. Aurelia was rewarded with the title Inquisitor and sent into the wider world to hunt heresy, gather leverage, and find signs of treason against Lolth. She believes every investigation is a holy web, and every soul caught within it has already chosen its fate.