Aurra Lorelei

Aurra Lorelei
Official art of Aurra Lorelei from "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36), by Kendra Wells.
Official art of Aurra Lorelei as a werewolf, by Kendra Wells.
Type	Guest Player Character
Actor	Erica Luttrell
Character Information
Name	Aurra Lorelei
Creature type	Humanoid
Race	Human (Werewolf)
Class	Druid
Age	At least 26 (in 835 PD)
Languages	Common, Druidic
Place	Castle Lorelei, Wildemount
Family	Lorelei family Haldur Lorelei (father) Rosalind Lorelei (mother) Lucius Lorelei (younger brother) Portia Lorelei (younger sister) Lawrence Lorelei (younger brother; twin to Benicio) Benicio Lorelei (youngest brother; twin to Lawrence) Katerine Lorelei (great-aunt) Geneviève Lorelei (grandmother)
Status
Status	Alive (in 835 PD)
Stats
Level	≥ 5
Appearances
First seen	"Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36)
Stream	Specials (1 episode)

Aurra Lorelei is a human druid and a member of the Lorelei family. She was played by Erica Luttrell in "Liam's One Shot: 'Song of the Lorelei'" (Sx36).

Description

Appearance

In the human form Aurra looks like a woman of dark skin with a soft purple hue (sign of her drow ancestry), strong cheekbones, dark eyes and a mane of curly hair which is white in the center of the head and black for the rest of it. She wears dark clothing that appears to be made from strips of leather.

In the werewolf form, Aurra is two or three inches taller, her shoulders widen and thick gray fur with white patterns covers her skin.

Personality

Aurra was described as sharing the wilder streak with some of her Lorelei ancestors, including her grandmother; in her case, that led her to embrace her werewolf side and live in the wilds, developing a great respect for nature. She acted calm and mature most of the time, showing respect even if her way of doing it differed from everyone else's; however, when she went into battle, while she was in control, she showed her ruthless side.

Biography

Background

She was the eldest of the five Lorelei children, being two years older than Lucius, and at least seven years older than Portia.. Aurra remembered her mother, Rosalind, only a little, but it was great-aunt Katerine Lorelei who raised her alongside her father, Lord Haldur Lorelei (who had also been raised by Katerine), teaching her how to read and write.

Aurra was meant to rule House Lorelei, but like many with a wilder streak in her family, to her father's chagrin she eschewed the Taming and chose to wander the wilds, forsaking civilized nobility entirely. While they still loved each other their relationship was complicated.

"Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36)

When Aurra was reunited with her siblings in Deastok after a long time apart, she was relatively cordial with them, though belittling their fastidiousness towards the wilderness.

When they went to Castle Lorelei and saw it in the distance with no lights but open doors, Aurra took the lead with Benicio to investigate, casting Produce Flame to gain visibility. When they finally entered, the Lorelei siblings discovered the carnage that had taken place in their home. The druid, being the best trained with her animal senses, caught their father's scent, and began to track him down the keep. When they arrived at his office, they found Haldur's severed hand and a note stating that he was in the crypts; when Lawrence tried to shield Portia from the harshness of the scene, their oldest sister remarked that Portia was not weak. Also in that room was Vargr, the ancestral longsword of House Lorelei, and Aurra tried to take it, which led to a brief argument with Portia, who had taken over the role of their father's heir after Aurra and Lucius disregarded that position; although the druid questioned whether her younger sister was wise enough, she ended up giving her the weapon.

Fan art of Vargr, by Micaerys.

When they inspected the other rooms they discovered their great aunt Katerine dead, with signs of having been killed while fighting. Lucius proposed to bury her, and Aurra suggested doing it in the woods. Although Benicio protested, they ended up agreeing that the two elder siblings would take care of Katerine's body, and then rejoin the rest. Aurra and Lucius buried their elderly Aunt Kat and couldn't help but cry, since they were the closest to her; the first-born also remembered how the deceased compared her to her sister (grandmother of the siblings) Geneviève, which was what encouraged Aurra to go to the forest instead of following the family rituals.

When the Lorelei siblings reunited again, the three youngest showed the firstborn a strange dagger with "Silent Message" written in Elven on the hilt, explaining that they had found it in her room. Aurra recognized the scent of the weapon, comparing it to that of a guest their parents had hosted part of the summer when she was six, adding that the individual (possibly an elf in disguise) had not given her a good feeling. The siblings continued exploring, prepared for a confrontation, and the nose of the druid (now transformed into her lupine form), which was taking them to the family mausoleum, detected in addition to the elf's scent, the smell of some humans who had camped there. A small battle ensued, in which Aurra focused on Ray, a woman with a crossbow whom she caught on a roof casting Entangle. In the end the druid herself went up to the roof and after immobilizing Ray questioned her: the human confessed that she and her two companions were supposed to weaken the Lorelei siblings before they entered the crypt. When the firstborn of the family asked about her father, the intruder confirmed that the elf is downstairs with him, and that although Haldur was mutilated, he was still alive; when she begged Aurra to let her go, she threw her off the roof. Ray was impaled in the stomach by two of the iron poles of the fence, and was finished by Lucius' magic and Benicio's glaive.

After that the siblings took a small break, during which Portia berated her older siblings for their decision to bury Katerine in the woods, away from the rest of House Lorelei. Aurra, however, defended her decision, saying that the old woman deserved a natural burial, and Lucius pointed out that half of their deceased ancestors were wandering the Cyrengreen Forest as undead anyway (an effect of one of the intruder's magic).

The siblings finally entered the crypt, proceeding cautiously in the darkness. Along the way Aurra informed them that she heard someone breathing up ahead, making Portia change into her werewolf form, while Lucius re-inspected the elven dagger with Lawrence, deducing it might be from Xhorhas. Benicio impatiently asked them to continue, saying that he wanted to finish so he could celebrate later, and Aurra criticized him, saying that they had lost Katerine and that their father had been mutilated, so there was no reason to party.

They eventually reached an area with torches where they encounter a chitinous armored drow who has a flail wrapped around Haldur Lorelei's neck. The battle began, and Benny pulled his father away from the drow roughly, but since the captor had the flail on Lord Lorelei's neck, its barbed edges tore his throat and he began to bleed profusely, which alarmed Aurra. Wanting to save her father, she casted Haste on herself and ran to him, after which she used Healing Word to stop him from bleeding out. Haldur catched his breath and yelled "Stop!", but the battle raged around him. The Kryn agent summoned the Iron Woe: the reanimated grandmother of the siblings, Lady Geneviève, as an undead figure with a lupine head, darkened bones, inky energy coursing through her body, and the remains of Lorelei green drapes covering her skeleton. After that the drow took the opportunity to turn invisible and put some distance from the Lorelei siblings; Aurra noticed how he passed her but failed to hit him, after which she decided to transform into a direwolf and attack her undead ancestor. The Iron Woe managed to fend off her granddaughter, and expelled dark energy around itself, radiating anger, pain and sorrow; Portia and Benicio resisted it, but Lawrence was overcome with fear, loss and confusion, feeling the urge to walk away from the battle. Aurra was overcome with the same sensation, but Lucius sent his magic to strengthen her, dispelling her fear, while Sehanine whispered in her ear to stand. A second wave from emotions from the undead Geneviève (longing and heartbreak), surprised the druid, who adopted her hybrid form again but wasn't able to understand those feelings, only being able to compare the pain that their grandmother radiated to that of a wounded animal. She and Lucius attacked the undead creature with magic, and it was Benicio who finally destroyed the Iron Woe, putting their grandmother again to rest. Badly wounded, the drow tried to escape, and Aurra casted Wind Wall to catch him. The force of the current in such a closed space caused the enemy to be hit mercilessly and die.

The siblings brought Haldur to his chambers, where he explained the whole situation and the truth behind his own mother's death, as well as the identity of the drow as his own father and Geneviève's former lover; he told them to learn from such a dark incident in their family history, asking them to help him seal the tomb again in the coming weeks, and expressing how much he loved his children. After such intense events he fell asleep, leaving Aurra and her siblings thinking about the future of House Lorelei.

Character information

Abilities

Werewolf abilities

• Keen Hearing and Smell
• Resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by non-silvered weapons.

Druid abilities

Class features

• Ritual Casting
• Spellcasting (Wisdom-based ability)
• Wild Shape
  • Direwolf

Druid Spells

Aurra has access to all druid class spells. She is at least a 5th-level druid and can prepare up to 9 spells per day.

Cantrips

• Produce Flame

1st-level

• Entangle
• Faerie Fire
• Healing Word

2nd-level

• Flaming Sphere

3rd-level

• Haste
• Wind Wall

Appearances and mentions

• Specials
  • "Liam's One Shot: The Song of the Lorelei" (Sx36) (first appearance)

Quotations

• Portia: "This [Vargr] is mine. I earned this."
  Aurra: "If you're going to be petty about it, you can have it."

Trivia

• Her name is a variant of either aura ("breeze" or "soft wind" in Ancient Greek) or aurora ("dawn" in Latin).
• She has lived around twenty-three years of her life as a human, and in addition, she spent many years in the woods, not in her human form.
• Although she left her home unconcerned about being Lord Lorelei's heiress, she showed interest in her father's sword, Vargr, having a brief argument with her sister about the weapon.
• She seeks Melora's guidance, but without clarifying if she worships her or only her domain.
• She seems to consider civilization as the source of massacres and gratuitous violence.

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