Appearance

Arlis stands about 5'5" with a lean muscular build. He had dark tan skin, white hair, and amber colored eyes. His hair is often shaved on the sides and cascades down into a long mohawk. He wears a braid on one side that falls over his shoulder. He wears earrings, often dangling. His favorite are a mismatched pair where he wears a series of studs in one and a green glass that is meant to look like an emerald in the other. He has a simple cord necklace with a pendant that is normally tucked under his simple dark clothes.

Personality

Crass and rough around the edges, Arlis comes off as broody, pissy, aggressive and hostile. He wears his attitude as a shield, distracting from the emotion he wears on his sleeves. He is incredibly self-critical and self-deprecating to cope with complex feelings he doesn't know how to handle. He constantly battles with the idea that he is now a free person and is allowed freedoms he never had when a slave or even as a servant for the Lathander monastery. He has shown to be a good-hearted person that tends to look out for others over himself.

Backstory

Arlis was born as a slave. He isn't sure from where he and his mother were from, or even really where exactly he was born. Somewhere in the Underdark near Silverymoon is all that he knows. His mother had died fairly early on, and he spent most of his years having to fight for his life. When he was around sixteen years old, paladins of Lathander had liberated him and the other slaves, though, with nowhere for them to really go and didn't have any skills that would allow them to survive, the children were brought to the temple of Lathander in Silverymoon. They were more or less servants of the temple, easily falling into the servitude role. Arlis included. And though he felt grateful to the Lathanderites for granting him a chance at life, he never really felt Lathander's light. He never felt quite worthy of it.

His days at the temple, he felt largely ignored. He was a shadow- a shade- among the clergy and the acolytes that lived there. He was always around but not quite involved. At least, until the young prodigy Aestraelis met him. She talked to him, spent time with him, taught him the basics of reading (though it was the bare minimum, it was decent enough). Eventually she said that she wanted to go and explore the world... and her Shade went with her.