Alrina

Maiden Alrina is a very young Elven woman that once served as Natashya Dalterein's loyal personal handmaiden as well as briefly as the Lady in Waiting to Princess Arilana of Zoluren. She is known for being moody, petulant, and nasty to anyone she doesn't like - which is just about everyone. She was at one time obsessed with the color white and would wear or speak well of nothing else, but following the death of Natashya, she began preferring black instead.

Alrina's past is shrouded in mystery, but what is known about her is that she was raised in seclusion for most of her life on a boat, possibly by pirates of the Red Sash. An unknown process begun at a very young age turned every tissue in her body toxic, causing any of her bodily fluids, such as blood or saliva, to be fatally poisonous. It is by this that her usual title of Maiden is inspired, as that is what she is and will likely always remain, on pain of death of any that would try to change it.

It was these properties that caused Alrina to be sent to Natashya by a personal friend as a gift, perhaps as part of a lost wager. She became immediately attached to her new master to the point of obsession, and did whatever was bid of her - most prominently including becoming Lady in Waiting to Princess Arilana, and then secretly causing the miscarriage of her first daughter by poisoning her. This is Alrina's preferred method of both murder and amusing herself - the former with a kiss on the lips (which is nearly always fatal) and the latter with a kiss on the cheek, which causes intense pain for some time to follow.

In recent times following the death of her mistress, the same process that granted her body its uniquely toxic properties began to affect her mind, driving her to insane fits. Part of Natashya's personal will bid her Triad to deliver Alrina to the Mountain Kingdom and Queen Morganae, who may have some chance of reversing the process in accordance with an unknown deal Natashya struck with the Queen many years ago.