Ayda Keymoira

Ayda Alyss Caerthynna Keymoira is a high elf Sorcerer/Artificer, and a founding member of The Chaos Crew. She was played by Percie.

Appearance
Ayda is an eighty-nine year old high elf with pale skin, white hair, and golden eyes with partially-slitted pupils. She has small dragon scales covering most of her skin as a result of her Draconic Ancestry.

Personality
Ayda can be brash and stubborn. Her mix of elven nobility and inherent draconic arrogance can manifest in an often (literal) explosive self-righteousness. Due to bullying and insecurity about her appearance, Ayda has low self-esteem, though she pretends she doesn't. She's afraid to be close and vulnerable with others, and often concludes that doing so will only get her hurt.

As Ayda is still young for an elf (the equivalent of a mid-teenager), she can be childish and immature at times.

After leaving Mt. Adazi, Ayda saw how her dragonic heritage was influencing her behavior and tries to be a better, nicer person. This doesn't always work, as Ayda is still a "teenager" and actively fighting against her own nature.

Early Life
Her mother was out adventuring when she became pregnant with Ayda, and the pregnancy forced her to return home to her own parents, who were running the company at the time. Raedala was able to dedicate the first few years of Ayda's life solely to caring for the infant, but when Caerthynna became ill and could no longer run the company, Raedala took on those responsibilities as well. She somehow managed to grow the company while simultaneously caring for a baby. Ayda does not remember a time the company was not the approximate size it is today.

Sedyllia
When Ayda was old enough to go to school and already showing magical aptitude, Raedala elected to enroll her daughter in a magical boarding school. Sedyllia was an ancient magic school that had been training young mages for millennia. At first, Ayda was popular due to her high Charisma and raw magical talent, but this changed when draconic puberty hit her like a fantasy truck. After she came back to school sporting scales and an incendiary temper, Ayda was bullied for many things, particularly her newly-emerging draconic traits and not knowing who her father was. This did not help Ayda's already short temper, and she often had small, firey outbursts. This culminated in a high-level fireball centered on herself during a particularly vicious mockery from Ayda's most fervent tormentor. Despite heavy warding on the school, Ayda's powerful dragonfire managed to level the entire institution. This obviously did not go over well with anyone, and despite the school no longer existing Ayda was formally expelled and barred from ever re-enrolling when Sedyllia was rebuilt.

Running Away
Ayda's draconic influences only grew stronger with age, and she became particularly frustrated with this as well as Raedala's refusal to tell Ayda who her father was. This caused Ayda to form a narrative in her head in which her father was a famous adventurer, and that she was cursed with something he would surely know how to fix. Ayda felt that until her "curse" was lifted, she would not be fit to run the company her mother was training her to take over. However, Raedala was getting more and more frustrated with her daughter's insistence on meeting her father, and they often clashed on this issue. Eventually, this culminated in Ayda running away with the intention to meet her father against her mother's wishes.

Chaos Crew
Ayda made it as far as Desdemona on her own before realizing she would probably not make it much further without income or help. She joined the Desdemonan Pathfinder Society for coin, camaraderie, and Arkhosian citizenship. This was where she met the Chaos Crew, as they came together for the very first time under the tutelage of Pleasure, and remained with them through to the eventual meeting of her father. She left them soon after, only rejoining briefly in Sungennes to help Gorrem with his family reunion.

Raedala Keymoira
Ayda described her mother as "a coward". Ayda spent most of her life unaware of the other half of her parentage and blamed her mother for this, among other things. Ayda, above all, wants her mother to see her for all that she is and not just for the parts she thinks her mother wants to see.

Ayda never wanted to leave her mother, only to show her Ayda was stronger than her mother thought, as evidenced by Ayda’s use of the Sending Stone to update her mother on her location. However, Ayda refused to return to Keymoira (City) unless it was Raedala herself who came to get her.

After leaving Mt. Adazi, Ayda encountered her mother in Haelid, where Ayda admitted she thought her mother didn't want her back. After reconciling with her mother, Ayda planned to return home immediately. This plan was interrupted by the return of Aisling. After rescuing Aisling, Ayda stayed behind after teleporting the party to the Keymoira Estate, with the intent of finishing her apprenticeship under her mother and eventually taking over the company.

Since returning to Keymoira, Ayda's relationship with her mother has improved drastically.

Gorrem Dorevytch
Ayda latched onto Gorrem immediately as a placeholder father figure. She thinks he can be tough and a little strange at times, but trusts him more than she does most of the party. He was the first person Ayda trusted with the information of why she left home, and the reason she told the rest of the party.

Ayda worries about the trauma Gorrem has experienced, and worries about what trauma she could be imparting upon him.

Ayda left Gorrem her Sending Stone when she returned home, and greatly enjoys even the small amount of contact she keeps with him.

Aisling
Ayda hated Aisling for a good long while. Ayda saw similarities between herself and the Tiefling girl, and hated that Aisling found the strength to rise above the things that happened to her. Aisling made Ayda feel weak, and it took her a long time to trust Aisling at all.

When Aisling was captured by the Vulpesh, Ayda blamed herself. She felt many things She did resulted in Aisling’s ultimate capture: not realizing being invisible and concentrating on Suggestion were incompatible, not teleporting the two of them out of the facility rather than having Aisling carry Ayda in Yakov’s Bag of Colding, and not being able to teleport the two of them out as Aisling was being descended upon by Vulpesh. Ayda assumed that her Dimension Door failed, rather than Aisling choosing not to come with her.

After rescuing Aisling from Koschey, Ayda felt that her relationship with Aisling could use some work, and made efforts to reconcile. Before leaving for Keymoira, Ayda gave Aisling her signet ring, instructing her to raise hell.

Viscilly
If asked about Viscilly, Ayda would say "he's just some weird cannibal guy," but Ayda does consider Viscilly her friend. Unfortunately, she also sees him as a barrier keeping Yakov away from the party.

Yakov
Ayda enjoys Yakov's company, as he is the only member of the party that would count as her peer and he actively plays into her chaotic nature. She doesn't fully understand the extent of his deal with Rath, and thus is naive to the consequences of their actions together, particularly in desecrating the temple of Thalassus in Aureus.

Mali Edris
Ayda wasn't sure how to feel about Mali at first. Mali was a strangely convenient tie to her home at a time she didn't want to return. Before descending into the Dwarven ruins north of Desdemona, Ayda was prepared to accept Mali as an eccentric but sweet friend. After Mali's ignorance put the party in danger twice in one day, Ayda began to suspect Mali of having ulterior motives.

After scrying on Mali’s sister Lowri, Ayda concluded Mali was misguided but not outright lying to the party.

Aldrayrth
Ayda spent a long time idolizing the father she never knew. When her ancestry began to bleed into her appearance and personality, she wanted to seek him out, as the stories her mother told her about him led Ayda to believe he was some incredibly clever adventurer, and could surely remove the "curse" that afflicted her.

Upon meeting Aldrayrth, Ayda was taken with the fantastical nature of the situation, and could not see the obvious ulterior motives her father had. However, after Gorrem pointed out Aldrayrth's nefarious nature, Ayda asked him outright what her position would be should she stay with him. His dodgy non-answer confirmed the suspicions Gorrem had put in her head, and she made a hasty retreat with the rest of the party.

She plans to avoid her father at all costs, going forward.