Seraphel Veyra
Race: Silarin (Serpentine Mystics)
Region: The Veiled Oasis of Sareth’Nai, Southern Varethas
House: Veyra, Keepers of the Coiled Path
Titles: The Scaled Oracle, Whisper of the Sands, Daughter of the Silent Coil
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
Hair Color: Deep emerald with subtle scales interwoven along the temples
Eye Color: Gold slit-pupils with flecks of turquoise
Body Build: Graceful, agile, with subtle serpentine features, elongated limbs and smooth scales across the back and forearms
Age: 94 years (appears early thirties)
In the shimmering heart of the Sareth’Nai Oasis, where desert winds hum with ancient secrets, the Silarin dwell in communion with the flow of lifeblood they call Sareth, a mystic current of both venom and wisdom. Theirs is a culture of ritual silence and layered truth, guided by the belief that enlightenment is earned through the shedding of the self, as the serpent sheds its skin.
Born beneath the eclipse of the Twin Suns, Seraphel Veyra was prophesied to bear the Eyes of Renewal, an omen of both salvation and undoing. Raised among the Oracles of the Coiled Path, Seraphel mastered the art of Venomcraft and Soulbinding, sacred Silarin practices that channel toxins into healing or destruction through emotional equilibrium. Her blood carries a symbiotic venom that responds to emotion, glowing faintly beneath her skin when she communes with the spiritual flow.
As a child, Seraphel foresaw the Sundering of the Sareth, a vision that shattered her order’s unity. When she spoke her prophecy, she was branded a heretic and exiled into the dunes. There she wandered in solitude, guided by mirages and voices of long-forgotten Silarin ancestors. Her exile transformed her into something more than priestess, a living vessel of balance between poison and cure, death and awakening.
Seraphel’s magic, called Echovenom, allows her to weave toxins that mirror emotion, a manifestation of the Echo Realms’ resonance within the living world. Her aura fluctuates with feeling: serenity cools the venom, rage ignites it into searing light. Those who meet her gaze often claim to see reflections of their truest selves in her eyes.
When her path converges with Sylwen Aelthoris and Kaelen Thornveil, she becomes both guide and enigma, a mystic who walks between extremes. Though her demeanor is serene, her heart carries centuries of restrained sorrow. She believes every life is a coil in a greater spiral, and every choice another skin to be shed.
Seraphel Veyra embodies the paradox of her people, poison and purity intertwined, forever in motion, forever reborn.