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=== [[Astral Sea Freebooters: Chaedi|Chaedi Aeriel Ausilia]]  ===
<i>(Elf, Avenger, Unaligned)</i>

The graceful but taciturn elf woman's lack of emotion belies the
intensity within her soul.  A simple temple guard in a backwater elf
domain, her life was changed forever when the Illithid Empire set its
sights on conquering her people.  After seeing the Illithids defeat
and capture the goddess of her temple, Chaedi decided not to throw her
life away in a pointless fight and volunteered as a willing thrall of
the Illithids.  In an unholy experiment, they implanted in her a
fragment of the divinity of her goddess, turning her into a living
weapon.  As an assassin, she hunted down and slaughtered hundreds of
her master's enemies, the followers of her deity.

Chaedi began to be plagued by terrifying dreams sent by her goddess that
increased her power even as it robbed her of the will to serve her
evil masters.  Perhaps sensing this, the Illithids began to send her
on harder and harder missions in the hopes of removing the threat, but
this only honed her skills.  At last, during a hunt across the Astral
Sea for the last priest of her order, she broke free from the
influence of her masters.  Sparing her target for the first and only
time, she declared a vendetta against the Illithid and began to hunt
them down without mercy.

She hopes that by destroying those that ordered her to destroy, she
can find redemption for the blood on her hands.