Rayya Krol

The latest scion of the esteemed Krol family, Rayya was marked for greatness from the moment she was born, her otherworldly features setting her apart from her human family and revealing the favor of both gods and monsters.

Background
Rayya's childhood was what one would expect of the daughter of old Thanatovian nobility. Her family saw to it that she received the best of training, even outside her creche, and connected her with the most influential aspects of society, and to great effect; from a young age, the girl showed signs of aptitude not only for magic but for leadership, and as she grew she was placed in the Ministry of Undeath, where she was expected to eventually succeed her mother as Minister. The discovery of the hydraspace gate changed those plans, however, when it was revealed that she was one of the handful of her generation who could see the portal with the naked eye.

Recent History
When time came to form a team to explore what lay beyond the gate, Rayya was the natural choice to lead the expedition. She eagerly applied herself to the new task, fully aware of the danger she faced and, more importantly, the status she could gain by finding greatness beyond the portal.

Within weeks of departing for the first time through the gate, she discovered a vast new shard ripe for colonization and agriculture, a rich source of mineral wealth in the form of a ruined dwarven citadel and its surrounding mines, and the enormous corpses of dragon gods, but perhaps most noteworthy, she brokered the first trade agreement in three centuries with the natives of another shard, securing vast quantities of iron for her mineral-starved homeland and forging an alliance with the first civilization encountered beyond the borders of Thanatovia since the Godswar.