Editing Verania Scato (section)

===Character Story===
Verania was the youngest child of a wealthy merchant captain, and her early life was a happy one, travelling with her father, mother, and older brother to distant realms, with just enough adventure to keep things exciting but not especially dangerous.  Until one night on the final leg of a journey from Vendhya, only a few days from home, the ship's crew was attacked by a wretched horror that began slaying them one by one or driving them to madness.  Somehow Verania thought she knew how the horror could be fought, and worked with her father and brother to set a trap for it.  The unspeakable horror was grievously wounded, but not destroyed.  In its fury, Verania's family and the remainder of the crew were killed, and the ship itself destroyed.  Verania herself faced the monster with only a dagger, which the creature raked with a claw, causing it to fall.  Verania closed her eyes and prepared for the worst... but when she opened them a minute later, the horror was inexplicably gone.

She saved herself, clinging to a piece of wreckage until it floated to a shore.