Aria Nefeltari

Aria is slightly above average height, with an athletic build, dark red, almost brown hair, and distant blue eyes that always seem to be looking at something that others can't see. She dresses in blacks and blues, preferring a mix of practical and fashionable clothing from her home shadow Vezenia, and is rarely ever without her favorite coat. She is a great lover of all forms of art, and any work of hers somehow seems to capture the very essence of her subject. The greatest expression of her talent takes the form of her Trumps, each a masterpiece, which she takes a great deal of pride and pleasure in creating, going so far as to inscribe her personal crest(a blue crescent moon against a black sky shot with stars) on the back of every Trump she creates. While she avoids direct conflict, preferring instead to solve such problems with cunning and guile, years of wandering in shadow have given her the strength and experience needed to personally hand out a beating if she has to.

Raised among a foster family on the shadow Vezenia, Aria had no inkling of her parents or origins until her 18th birthday when her foster family gave her a chest that belonged to her parents, saying that they had told them to give it to her when she came of age. Inside she found, among other things, a single card bearing the image of a great castle atop a mountain. Looking at it, she was drawn through the card to Amber, where she discovered her true origins, although the identity of her parents remained a mystery. Since then, she has traveled through shadow whenever she has had the chance, using the power of the Trump to capture places of great beauty wherever she goes.