Aurelia is a striking drow woman with alabaster-violet skin, waist-length silver hair, and luminous crimson eyes. Her features are elegant and severe, enhanced by black lacquered armor fittings, spider-silk gloves, and a ruby-and-obsidian signet bearing House Malice's eight-legged crest. She carries herself like a magistrate at a coronation, even when standing in mud or blood. Her chain mail is concealed beneath a tailored black surcoat, and her greatsword is etched with prayers to Lolth in Undercommon.

Aurelia is poised, incisive, and disarmingly gracious. She offers suspects tea, compliments, and a chance to confess before she offers them steel. She genuinely enjoys solving contradictions, but treats every investigation as a performance in which she must remain beautiful, composed, and unquestionably correct.

Aurelia Malice was born first among the daughters of House Malice, a minor but ambitious drow noble house whose fortunes depended on perfect obedience to the Spider Queen's priesthood. From childhood, she was taught that beauty was a weapon, etiquette was a blade, and mercy was merely disobedience dressed in soft clothing. When Aurelia survived a ritual vision in which Lolth showed her a web woven from the names of traitors, the house matriarch declared her a chosen prophet. Aurelia learned to read confessions from pauses, tremors, and lowered eyes, then trained with the household armsmen so that no accused heretic could escape judgment through violence.