Aurelia is a tall, statuesque drow woman with obsidian skin, long silver-white hair, and vivid crimson eyes. Her beauty is refined rather than warm, sharpened by severe cheekbones and an expression of perpetual judgment. She wears blackened chain mail beneath an immaculate noble coat, a spider-silk sash bearing House Malice's sigil, and a polished shield emblazoned with a stylized silver spider. Her curved sabre rests at her hip, always within easy reach.

Aurelia is poised, articulate, and disturbingly attentive. She remembers every name, insult, favor, and contradiction. She offers compliments with the precision of a knife and treats conversation as an interrogation that has not yet admitted what it is. Though she considers herself devout, her faith is tangled with ambition, and she is most alive when forcing hidden truths into the open.

Aurelia Malice was born beneath a moonless sky in the inner sanctum of House Malice, where the priestesses declared the newborn's first cry an omen from Lolth. As the first-born daughter, she was raised not as a child but as a political instrument, taught genealogy, etiquette, interrogation, and the subtle art of making obedience appear voluntary. Her tutors praised her memory and beauty, while the house priestesses tested her faith through ritual ordeals designed to expose weakness. Aurelia emerged from them convinced that mercy was merely hesitation dressed in gentler language. When a respected cousin began questioning the authority of the priestesses, Aurelia was given her first official inquisition. She found evidence of forbidden correspondence, but also discovered that the accusations had been manufactured by a rival branch of the family. Rather than expose the conspiracy, Aurelia manipulated both factions into destroying one another, then presented the result as divine judgment. The victory earned her the title of chosen prophet, though she privately wonders whether Lolth truly speaks through her or whether Aurelia has simply become very good at hearing what powerful people want to hear. Now she travels beyond the Underdark as a noble inquisitor, hunting heresy, gathering secrets, and seeking a revelation so undeniable that even her own house must kneel before it.