Aki

Aki appears to be a woman of about 45, though undeath has blurred the truth of her years. She was born in a remote village on the edge of Neverwinter Wood, where she lived a quiet life with her mother, a herbalist known for healing the sick with gentle hands and stubborn hope. Aki inherited that same softness ? a heart too open for a world that would soon break it.

One winter night, a starving vampire pack descended on the village. Aki fought to protect her mother, but the coven leader found amusement in her defiance. Instead of killing her, he turned her ? a cruel twist of fate meant to force her to watch her loved ones perish while she endured eternally. Aki awoke to ash, silence, and a hunger she despised.

For decades, she was bound to the coven that destroyed her life. They used her as a weapon, a spy, a shadow. But Aki?s grief hardened into resolve. In secret, she forged a pact with an ancient, whispering entity buried deep beneath the Weeping Cliffs ? a being that loathed the undead and offered her power in exchange for her rebellion. With her new warlock magic, she shattered the coven?s hold and fled, leaving their lair in ruins.Freedom came with a price. Aki wanders Faerûn as a creature caught between worlds ? a vampire who refuses to prey on the innocent, a warlock whose patron demands she walk a razor?s edge between redemption and ruin. She feeds only on beasts or those who threaten others, though every act of survival leaves her with a fresh layer of guilt.

Now, Aki has come to Neverwinter seeking something she once believed impossible: a future shaped by her own choices. She wants to heal more than she harms, to protect rather than destroy. She dreams ? quietly, almost fearfully ? of finding a place where she is more than a curse wearing a woman?s face.

Her past is soaked in tragedy, but Aki walks forward anyway, carrying the hope that even a heart shadowed by centuries of darkness can still find its way toward the light