Danalyth Aerydale

Danalyth Aerydale
Player	Trish
Ancestry	Demon (Succubus)
Class	Sorcerer

Danalyth is a succubus who poses as a human and travels the world, offering her services as either a musician, dancer, or spellcaster-for-hire. She's been a part of the Campaign 3 Party from the start.

Notable equipment

• Sistone

Background

Danalyth Aerydale is a succubus, born in the Outer Rifts a few decades before her arrival to Golarion. She was born alongside another succubus, Elyana, and the two of them grew close to each other, even referring to themselves as sisters. In 4710 AR, Danalyth and Elyana traversed the Worldwound and arrived to Golarion, deciding to wreak their subtle forms of havoc across the nation of Mendev for fun. They spent roughly 3 years in this cycle, moving from town to town and indulging in the commonfolk, until the more united demonic forces happened to attack the city they were staying in, Kenabres, and Elyana was left at death's door. She sent Danalyth away before she was killed too, telling her to travel the world and live on, and Danalyth fled to join Kenabres's refugees moving to Zharech. Disillusioned with the demonic "cause" and shellshocked by her sister's death, Danalyth took on her new name, rejected her demonic heritage, and leaned more into her music as a form of escapism, using her performances as both an outlet for her emotions and a way to make a living.

For a short while after arriving in Zharech, Danalyth became a street performer, barely making enough spare change for inn stays. That changed one day when a human man named Vorgan stopped for her music, and invited her to perform at Zharech's coliseum for the local gladiators. She took him up on his offer and discovered he was one of the gladiators himself, and through her frequent performances the two got to know each other fairly well, enough to start dating. After about 4 years, they got engaged, and several months before their planned wedding date, Danalyth started noticing early signs of pregnancy, which shouldn't have been possible for her as a demon. A few weeks into her symptoms, the sealing of the Worldwound and the end of the Fifth Crusade was announced, and Danalyth decided to come clean to her fiance about who she really was, spurred forward by the crusade and the thought of her child outing her anyway. He was horrified. Vorgan had lost family in the crusades of the past, and finding out that the woman he loved was a demon the whole time was too much for him to bear. They had a shouting match that resulted in Danalyth storming out and leaving Mendev, which she wouldn't return to for almost a decade.

Whether due to her trauma, or the pregnancy hormones no demon had ever felt before her, the next many months of Danalyth's life are a complete black spot in her memory. All she can recall from this time is a sense of fear at the person she was during it. When her memory finally returned to her, she was alone, no longer pregnant, and far far away from Mendev. For the next 7 years, Danalyth followed Elyana's last words, traveling and seeing the world, living on despite the pain while looking for any clues of what happened during her blacked out memory, particularly wanting to know if she ended up having the baby. She spent that time using everything she had access to to survive and make her way forward, using either her performative talent or inherent charms to find places to stay, traveling companions to keep her safe, and occasional one-night stands. Sometimes, she would offer up her magical capabilities as well, though she didn't rely on that as often, until she was approached by a half-oni looking to break her friend out of prison.

Campaign 3

Danalyth was relaxing at a tavern on Iblydos, conning some off-duty guards and civilians for a little drinking money, when Kaisume noticed her tricks and decided to join the game, getting desperate in looking for someone else to help her break Shard out of prison. After a game of Golem and a little talking back and forth, Danalyth agreed to the job and the pair set off to get themselves arrested and sent to the prison island where Shard was being held. Upon their arrival, they were interred by a guard named Serris, who seemed preoccupied and didn't remove them of their belongings or ask many questions he was supposed to, instead leaving the pair unattended so they could be a distraction. Danalyth and Kaisume prepared, and threatened the guard who came to check on them to bring them to Shard, but the guard attacked once they were all on the bridge. Unbeknownst to the duo, three other plots to break Shard free began around the same time: Serris's, Elta and Leah's, and Grease's. After Shard was freed from her cell and partway through the battle for everyone to escape, however, Orin Chappell arrived to take Shard to The Master. The battle intensified, Grease was kicked out a wall and into the ocean, and all the teams just barely managed to escape from the prison island using both Elta's boat and a ship prepared in advance by Serris. Though, this wasn't the end of the day's troubles, as once the group all reconvened on the larger ship and made their introductions, they were taken in by a whirlpool and woke up on a beach far, far away, near the Hoarwood Forest.

Upon some of the group waking up, they were set upon by a group of scavenging kobolds. One took the former guard Serris's blade and stabbed Danalyth with it, but she used the metal of the sword for Needle Darts to kill it. Looking around, she realized she didn't see Serris at all on the beach, so she held on to his sword to give back to him later. On the edge of the battlefield, Danalyth felt the need to direct her attention away from the woods behind her, and when she did Serris appeared behind her to take his sword back and rejoin combat, but she realized she hadn't heard any sign of him approaching her. He just...appeared. But as the battle progressed, new faces joined the fray against the kobolds, Lora the orc and Haize the human, the latter accompanied by an interesting bird named Mirage. After the battle, these new folks brought the party back to their base of operations, the Hilltop Tavern.