Eriola

What Eriola thinks she looks like...

What Eriola actually looks like...

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Eriola Jade is 5'3", and a pleasantly round 150 pounds. She has plain brown hair and brown eyes, with an average beauty and no remarkable characteristics, although it is not recommended mentioning that to her.

Eriola's mother, Rose Blossom, was in her youth a companion to many lesser nobles in the court of King Partak of Agnosia. One day while out shopping in the marketplace with other companions, Rose Blossom saw a poor cobbler sitting alone in the crowded marketplace. From across the stalls, their eyes met, and Rose Blossom fell madly in love. She left the companion-house that very night, taking with her only a cloak and a change of clothes, and was waiting early the next morning, where she proposed marriage to the cobbler. He agreed, and they immediately fled to the countryside.

Eriola's father, Jaquez Jade III, was a failure of a cobbler, unable to make even the simplest of shoes, and as a result, their family was quite poor. The family name, Jade, is due to the fact that all descendents of the great Jade clan are always born with piercing green eyes. Except our heroine Eriola, of course. Eriola is the middle daughter, with an older and younger sister, however she often lies and claims to be the youngest (since the heroine in all the fairy tales of her youth were always the youngest daughter.) When she was eleven years old, Eriola ran away from her home after a particularly frightening nightmare about shoes, and she could no longer bear to be surrounded by shoes and shoe material. She has never seen her family again, because as soon as they realized she had left, they quickly packed up and moved away. When Eriola returned a few days later to her home, she was crushed by the disappearance of her family, and turned to a life of crime and prostitution to fund her addiction her major vice, clothes and make-up (being objects which can help to improve her incredibly average beauty.)

At some time in her past, Eriola found herself married to the attractive young doctor Dalton Snall. Dalton was originally an up-and-coming doctor to the merchant class. However, soon after his sudden marriage to Eriola, Dalton began having religious visions. Dalton began speaking of a mystical land known as Farawayia. Eriola thought that Dalton's stories of Farawayia were merely a way for him to release some of the stress that came from his job and his marriage to such an attractive woman. So she indulged him and together they would talk of the land of Farawayia. Over a few months, Dalton began fantasizing about a religion he called the Snallish Principles, which he felt were guidelines for better spiritual living.Eriola was bored by these guidelines and preferred the talk of Farawayia, however Dalton would not shut up about the Snallish Guidelines. One day, Eriola came back to their house in town from an excursion to buy shoes (aways a traumatic experience for Ms. Jade.) While she was out, Dalton had packed up their belongings and informed Eriola that they were moving to the forest to be missionaries, teaching the Snallish ways. Eriola put up quite a fuss, screaming and wailing that she was not moving to the hellish country lands, but since Dalton had already packed up her pretty clothes and makeup, she followed him anyways. The two years that Eriola spent living with Dalton in the woods were hellish for her. Dalton expected that once word got out of the Snallish Principles, pilgrims would come flocking to him for more teachings. However, very few people ever came to visit, and the majority of their visitors were missionaries from other religions trying to minister to them. Eriola was bored for most of the time, and hating doing chores and being the good wife that Dalton thought she should be. As time went on, Dalton's behavior became more and more erratic. He began adding bizarre addendum onto the tenants of the Snallish Principles, such as "A slug is always a good companion- try the left door!" He began spending more and more time "communing with nature", which was what he referred to as when he would run naked through the woods for several days at a time. It was when Dalton decided that a local friendly squirrel was going to be added to the family as his second wife that Eriola decided she had had enough. She waited until Dalton went to "commune with nature", packed up her stuff, trapped the squirrel, and she left. Pegged to the front door she left a large note which said "KIDNAPPED BY PIRATES- BE BACK LATER". In their bed, Eriola left the decapitated squirrel.

Eriola soon found herself in Kardia City, although she does not remember the journey there at all. She does, however, suspect that it involved her weakness for sailors, for she vaguely remembers something about a boat, and being very drunk. In Kardia City, she became the mistress of a minor duke, Duke Heinrich von Kalanth Duluth von derMeihden Smith (called "Heiny" affectionately by Eriola). Eriola convinced Heiny that she was an exiled heiress from a distant, ficticious country. Through Heiny, she honed her horsemanship skills, for they would often go for long rides through the countryside to avoid Heiny's wife.

While Eriola may be short on common sense, she is smarter than average, and learns things quickly. Friends of Heiny's were greatly amused by her tales of the "contessa's" "homeland", and through her time spent with the lower ranks of nobility, she learned to play the horn, and would often drop in on many of her friends' sword and weaponry lessons, where she honed her skills, and adopted her odd practice of naming the weapons she used regularly.

Two years passed in this manor, and Heiny was falling more and more in love with Eriola. Meanwhile, Eriola had been spending her time cultivating contacts and relationships amongst the nobility, mostly of a sexual nature. Her promiscious ways escaped Heiny's notice, as his common sense is less than even Eriola's. Until the day Heiny was confronted by the sight of his wife, Maranilla, and Eriola tumbling amongst the bedsheets.

Eriola fled Heiny, and used one of her contacts to obtain a place in a brothel on the other side of Kardia City. The brothel, House Of The Setting Moon, served an elite clientele of rich merchants and other prominent members of Kardian society, though no nobles, much to Eriola's social-ladder-climbing disappointment. At the House Of The Setting Moon, Eriola had a hard time fitting in with the other women and girls. She firmly believed that she was entitled to the best of everything, and could not comprehend how the complex social structure of the brothel worked. Eriola's frustration grew as the other girls completely isolated her. Frustration gave way to anger when one fateful day, a male customer was shopping for an afternoon's entertainment, and all of the girls were otherwise engaged, except for Eriola and her co-worker, Emily Sugarbush. The customer immediately pointed to Emily, stating "This one is much prettier." Eriola flew into a rage, and threw a knife through the throat (say that five times fast) of the male customers, and stabbed Emily in the chest thirty-seven times, all while the Madame of the house watched in horror.

While Kardia could have ignored the murder of a prostitute, it could not ignore the murder of a rich merchant. The merchant's family called for justice, and Eriola was sent to Xartalca Prison

During her period of incarceration at Xartalca, Eriola began to fantasize that she was in fact a princess from Dalton's imaginary land, Farawayia. After her release and during her subsequent adventures, Eriola began to expand on this fantasy, adding in details such as the hot air balloon ride necessary to ride over the Myst Sea between Farawayia and the rest of the country. As time goes on, Eriola is begging to believe her own lies more and more, and the line between fantasy and reality is becoming blurred.

Eriola's main flaw (along with her inability to accept reality) is her extreme jealousy.

Men Eriola Have Slept With:

• Beauregard Abernathy III
• Smity the Sailor
• Seven members of the Alaeran Fraternity
• Morton and Mortense (Identical twins)
• Spurius