Early Childhood & Adolescence
Yeva was born and raised on a little orchard on the outskirts or Rharne, later moving into the city with her parents and two brothers to seek better educational opportunities. Grown accustomed to the quiet life and independence of rural living, it was a difficult adjustment for the red headed girl who did not want to drink, and preferred solitude to the rambunctious parties. Still, she favored the city's diversity and found herself drawn to activities she had never been able to experience before. When she was six arcs old, she became literate from the help of a travelling Eidisi, the same woman who taught her that there were numerous secrets and stories to uncover under the lock of foreign language. This interested her, and would be instrumental in her later development. Other instructors followed - A Tunawa whom she named Twig, told her the local flora as they played and whispered secrets in great fields- Chamomile for slumber, fennel to ease the feeding pain of infants.
When she turned ten, her oldest brother, Issac, gifted her with a pet snake and taught her how to care for it. Her father read her riddles and carved her little toys, and her mother fostered her love for learning. It was a simple childhood, and when she grew old enough to experience her first blooding, Yeva decided quite suddenly what she wanted to do with her life - She would join the Order or Adunih and become a Gold Cloak.
This was...a problematic dream, as the Order had not yet officially created a station in the lightening city. Only a few healers resided within the walls, but with the aid of some family and friends, she was secured an apprenticeship at the age of fourteen. Many of the duties involved tending to the medicinal garden and gathering ingredients for poultices, leaving her with plenty of free time to read. Occasionally, Yeva would practice various utilitarian stitches or recite medical tomes that often left her dozing against her better judgement. It was during this period of study that she discovered a message scratched into the underside of a window sill at a well known tavern - a hidden message pointing to a note tucked into a wall. Sober, unlike her friends, she realized it was no language in Rharne, but a secret code. Ecstatic at the idea of something new and exciting happening in her life, she rushed home to show her parents, who were far from thrilled. They feared it was left there by one of the many budding criminal organizations in Rharne, and ripped up the parchment.
Devastated, Yeva stole the remains and ran off, crying as she clutched the shredded documents in her hand. Climbing down the Rharne cliffs, she tried to hide in one of the caverns her and her brothers always played in the warmer months but was startled to find a giant bird, bleeding with its wings wrapped around its body. Startled, she cried out and nearly tumbled off the cliffs when it opened its wings. It was not a bird, but an Avriel boy, beaten and left to die. He clawed weakly at her, but was in terrible condition. Yeva, once composed, dropped her paper scraps and rushed to give him aid.
He cursed her, but she persisted, cleaning his wounds and tending to the patches of skin where his feathers had been ripped away. Now capable of stopping the bleeding and applying a salve that would stave off infection, the Avriel revealed his name while she worked selflessly - Azreal. Yeva thought this name beautiful and said so, shocking the young avian to angry tears. Yeva soothed him until he fell asleep and a season later while harvesting flowers, a handsome youth with grand wings swooped from the sky and held out a piece of paper that had been painstakingly glued together. He offered it to her as thanks, followed by a puzzle box with Arathnaka Runes etched into its surface and the two chatted and later became friends. He taught her how to solve the puzzle and read the symbols, as well as the written language of his own people - knowledge rarely offered to foreigners.
Visiting her often, Azreal and Yeva became close friends over the arcs until he casually mentioned the discovery of jungle ruins near his home city of Athart. Like a woman possessed, she begged him to take her there but he vehemently refused time and time again. Eventually, and with a lot of harassment, Yeva wore down his resolve and the two crafted a plan: She would moonlight as his slave when they arrived in the city and he would keep her safe, hoping the risk of discovery was worth the promise of adventure.
Adulthood
In Cylus 719, Yeva joined the Order of Adunih, and promptly shipped off to Athart to pursue her second dream, one of danger and forgotten secrets. Shortly after arrival, a strange plague rolls into Athart, causing feather loss and social unease. Azrael disappeared, sent away on a mission by city officials but when the two are eventually reunited, the Avriel vowed to take Yeva as far away from the madness as possible. Deciding on Scalvoris, a place where Yeva's thirst for knowledge can be satiated, they rent passage on the 110 of Vhalar 719, arriving in Scalvoris on the 1st of Cylus 720.
In Scalvoris, Yeva flourished. She was exposed to many different types of people and opportunities, joining the University, where she received her Letter in Medicine. She studied flora in Sweetvine Woods, won the Scalv-hunt and became the owner of a sprawling estate, signed up as a member of the Intelligentsia, and participated in perhaps her most noteworthy adventure to date - the Saving of Faldrass. Sadly, this was not without sacrifice.
Yeva's brush with death has made her homesick, and now aware of the warring state of Storm's Edge, will be returning home to check in on her family and protect the land she hails from. She makes quick haste once at Rharne and on the 81st of Ymiden 720, heads to the Stormwastes with the Ithecal, Varlum, to scout the land and see what they can uncover. In their exploration, they are ambushed by Flameborn and while back up soon arrives, Yeva perishes instantly in a fiery death.
Proclaimed dead, she proceeds with judgement, where she denies Vri and choses her fate as a ghost. She roams the Beneath, struggling to understand her new existence, but, in a turn of events largely spearheaded by Vega's inquiry, becomes resurrected by the Immortal Ziell, who prophesied that she was never meant to die.
