Naviia Silversun, Member of the Rapid Riders
Race: Elf (silver)
Classes: 6th level fighter, 5th level druid (Damh)
Sex: Female
Age: 158
Alignment: Neutral good
Possessions: Bracers of armor (+5), luck blade (3 wishes), alexandrite gem (x2), antitoxin (flask), backpack, bedroll, belt pouch, bread (1 loaf), bullseye lantern, cheese (1 hunk), cold weather outfit, courtier’s outfit, elven fire-wine (bottle), flint and steel, hawk (animal companion), healer’s kit, ink (1 oz. vial), inkpen, leather armor, longsword, light warhorse (equipped), map case, parchment (x3), sack, shortbow w/ 20 arrows, signal whistle, signet ring, silver holy symbol (Damh), spell component pouch, tent, trail rations (7 days), waterskin, whetstone, winter blanket.
Animal companion: Hawk (named Velit); HD 3d8; hp 13; Init +4, Spd 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (perfect), AC 20; Atk 2 claws +6 melee; Dmg claw 1d4-2; SQ grants +4 wild empathy and handle animal checks, bonus tricks (2), evasion, share spells; SV Fort +2, Ref +6, Will +2; Str 7, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 6; AL N.
Skills and Feats: Listen +6, Spot +6*; Weapon Finesse
* Velit gains a +8 racial bonus to Spot checks in daylight.
Mount: Light warhorse w/ bit & bridle, feed (7 days), military saddle, saddlebags (x2), and studded leather barding (+3 AC).
Personality: Creative and sensuous.
Description: Naviia’s beauty seems unearthly to most humans, which isn’t surprising considering her heritage. She always wears the finest silk garments when visiting her homeland or meeting with important nobles of other lands. When traveling with her fellow Rapid Riders, she wears sturdy traveling gear and her leather armor, although somehow she always looks spectacular. Naviia never goes anywhere without her luck blade; a family heirloom passed down to her from her aunt. She stands 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 100 lbs. She has long blonde hair, which she often wears braided with beads, lightly tanned skin, and midnight black eyes.
Background: Naviia Silversun is the youngest daughter of Menkhar Silversun, the High One of the Silver Leaves, and the Queen Consort, Anithiia. Raised to follow in her mother’s footsteps, Naviia did little to endear herself to the elven lords of Silverleaf. She spurned one after another and refused to be sold into ‘slavery’, as she coined the idea of marriage.
She felt an urge to be wild and free and her friends became the satyrs, fauns, and pixies living throughout the Kingdom of the Silver Leaves. Anithiia was aghast that her daughter refused to follow her royal duties. She continued to push and even coerce her daughter to meet with elven nobles of the highest station, insisting that her daughter would do as she was born to do.
The High One was powerless to intercede on his daughter’s behalf, as it is his wife’s right to dictate the path of all his daughters. Soon Naviia and her mother were butting heads over everything and then one night, Naviia simply disappeared into the depths of the Great Forest. Her mother ordered her found but all searches turned up nothing.
Naviia had found a higher calling than being a noble elf’s wife, she had become one with nature. The animals and fey of the forest protected and warned her when the patrols came to close. The land sustained her and the god Damh, known as the Fey One, blessed her with the powers of the druid and instructed her to seek out the Inner Circle at the sacred gathering place of the druids in the Hallowed Prairie northwest of the Great Forest.
There, Ailivan Windstepper, the Exalted Druid of Harqual, brought Naviia officially into the Order of the Fey. The fact that the highest ranking elven druid, of her people, inducted her into the Order meant that she had nothing to fear from her mother’s machinations anymore. She and Ailivan appeared before the Silver Council, in a flash of lightning, on the day she was supposed to be forced into the Life Quest her mother had chosen for her. The entire council trembled before the might of the Exalted Druid’s power, as her proclaimed that her true Life Quest would be the way of the Order, and he dared any to oppose him.
None dared to oppose Ailivan not even Naviia’s mother. Menkhar was pleased with his daughter’s chosen way of life and gave his blessing wholeheartedly. Soon all of the Silver Court came to agree that her joining the Order was the best decision, although Naviia’s mother still resents being contradicted.
As for how and why Naviia came to be a member of the Rapid Riders, that is a secret shared only by her Order and both Hendrick Ricarsson and Will ‘o the Wisp. The legend is that the Inner Circle came to Hendrick in a dream and told him that a elven druid of great beauty would appear on a roan horse with the sun setting behind her, overlooking a valley. The rest of the legend says that Naviia is to be accepted into the Rapid Riders without question or that a great peril would fall upon the Riders in their journeys.
Ricarsson laughs when people ask him about the legend and whether or not there is any truth to it. Naviia doesn’t talk about it but seems happy and content with her life. She is one of the group’s best riders and is the only Rapid Rider allowed to travel to and from the Kingdom of the Silver Leaves and the Hallowed Lands.
Many a young Rapid Rider has spent an entire summer enamored with Naviia, trying desperately to be assigned to ride with her group. And while Naviia loves the attention, she is as tough as she is beautiful and most of these enamored suitors quickly learn that Naviia is a Rapid Rider first, stunning elven princess second. She has rebuffed almost every male that has tried to woo her and some female Riders as well. However, Naviia isn’t prudish, just selective. (It is rumored that she and Ricarsson have been having secret trysts.)