a sunseeker miqo'te of the A clan, a'ruta grew up in la noscea with her family. her mother a'mentha was a dedicated botanist and healer, and she passed on that love and knowledge to her daughter growing up.when ruta was 20 she fell victim to a garlean raid, and as after being taken prisoner was taken far away from her home and family in vylbrand and brought all the way to far away dalmasca as expendable labour force for one of the garlean army's many outposts. there she spent two miserable years under the yoke of her capturers before her luck turned around and she managed to escape into the wilderness surrounding the skatay mountain range.though pursued by the garleans she successfully stayed hidden among the trees of the forest for weeks, surviving on her clan's knowledge of trapping and foraging. at some point she came across the burned down ruins of a village and decided to take shelter in the husk of one of the very few buildings that were still standing, and it was in the ruins of myrrhis' old home where the miqo'te and the viera eventually met.the two became fast friends, but knowing her mother would never allow an outsider into the village myrrhis began aiding ruta in secret, helping her create shelter and bringing her food, clothing and other necessities.some more time passed, and although they both thought that at that point the garleans had given up on recapturing her ruta was found and cornered by a group of soldiers, and it was only through luck and the help of the echo that myrrhis arrived in time to fight them off.not wanting to risk another such incident it was then that myrrhis lead ruta to her village and all but begged her people to help her, but when her village refused to shelter the young miqo'te myrrhis decided she had enough. the same day she left with ruta on the long and perilous journey back to eorzea, promising to take her home no matter what it took - a promise she kept.years later after the calamity, when myrrhis decided to take up the mantle of adventurer ruta accompanied her to limsa lominsa, and together they eventually found passage to gridania where ruta joined the botanist guild and, a little while later, stumbled into getting chosen as the inheritor of a white mage jobstone.She stayed in gridania for many years, supporting myrrhis in whatever way she could, studying healing magic and botany alike. it was only once she felt like she had learned all there was in gridania that she began to set her sight on new goals - the studium in old sharlayan.she's currently attending studies there.

myrrhis' younger sister by four years and the second child of the family.like all viera children naya grew up with her body showing neither male nor female characteristics throughout her childhood, but once she was in her teens and her body had undergone the usual changes that young viera go through during that stage of their life she was given the option to join the woodwarders.however, she declined, as it felt right for herself to stay among her sisters in the village as one of them.unlike her older sister naya inherited their father's penchant for music, and she's not only a talented and graceful dancer but she also has a sweet singing voice and has taught herself to play multiple instruments - an assorment of skills that very quickly landed her a spot in troupe falsiam when they chanced to meet in thavnair after arriving there with her youngest sister wren on their way to eorzea, not long after they finally decided to leave the forest behind and set out together in search for their oldest sister.seeing as the troupe was bound for eorzea as well and planned on touring the city states there it presented naya with the perfect opportunity to learn the art of the Kriegstanz and hone a craft she loved and enjoyed while also being able to travel the continent and hopefully find clues as to their sister's whereabouts along the way.after finally reuniting with myrrhis naya continued her travels with troupe falsiam, becoming one of their star performers alongside her fellow dancer ranaa mhigo.naya is the city-name she took on, her forest name was odha.

wren is the youngest sister of the trio and technically the half-sister of the older two, but they never really bothered to make the distinction.she was born a few years after the massacre of their village, so while she never experienced the horrors of garlean warfare herself she grew up with stories about the garleans and their magitek weapons, and saw the dark shadows pass over the adults' faces when they spoke of them - though instead of instilling fear in Wren, hearing stories of these strange contraptions only filled her with morbid curiosity.She got obsessed by the need to understand what had everyone so scared, so she eventually began begging her oldest sister, who she knew was making her rounds around the forest and kept circling back to their old village on occassion, to bring her whatever scrap pieces of magitek she could find.her sister objected at first but when wren wouldn't give up on bothering her she eventually relented and started to bring back small pieces of junk she deemed safe for her to handle, hoping she'd get bored of them eventually - but wren's curiosity knew no bounds, and soon she had a little hideout tucked away in a little cave away from the village where she hoarded her forbidden little treasures and started tinkering with them, trying to understand what she was dealing with, hoping that by understanding she maybe could also help others be less afraid.when myrrhis eventually left the village for good not only did wren lose her beloved sister but also her steady supply of new magitek junk, although that did not stop her from continuing to tinker with what she had.when naya approached her a few years later and told her she was also planning on leaving the village wren jumped on the chance to go as well - both to hopefully see myrrhis again, and also to maybe finally find a place where she could actually study magitek under someone who knew more than she could ever hope to learn by herself.when they eventually reunited with myrrhis she introduced wren to cid, who agreed to hire her as a trainee engineer, finally making her wish come true and setting her on a path to conquer the world of magitek one little exploding trinket at a time.Wren is the name she took on as city name, her forest name was Ianka.

azrael is the azem shard of the 13th and myrrhis' reaper avatar.Back before the 13th got swallowed by darkness her name was Sybylla, and she was a Raen Au’ra (by source terms) priestess, deemed special among the clergy for having the Echo. Due to that she was in line to be made head oracle of her temple, but instead she ran off one day to become a traveling cleric as she always had had an adventurous spirit and didn’t just want to sit in a stuffy temple all her life - instead of waiting for the people to come to her she wanted to be the one to go to the people and aid those who were in need of help and succor.Her strong desire to protect people eventually drove her to become a Memoriate in the Contramemoria.She made quite a name for herself as a hero during that time, but towards the end of the war in a seemingly hopeless attempt to save a village she succumbed to desperation and used the powers stored in her memoriate crystal, defeating her foe but accidentally twisting the very villagers she was trying to protect in the process. Sybylla was devastated, and not too long after the 13th was finally swallowed by darkness as a result of the war.Overwhelmed by dark aether her body got twisted into a humanoid voidsent, but due to her Echo her mind and memories remained her own - seemingly a curse, as knowing how the world had changed and how she contributed to it drove her almost mad, and she chose to hide away for the first few centuries with her shame and grief, refusing to consume others who had been twisted like her for aether and starving herself as a form of punishment.Eventually another voidsent found her.Weakened as she was by hundreds of years of refusing to consume others she prepared herself to be eaten, but to her confusion the other voidsent began begging her to consume him instead. He was looking for a means of escaping the cycle of death and rebirth that their world was now trapped in, but he also didn't want to get consumed by one of the powerful, violent voidsent out there, so with Sybylla hiding away from the world as she was, he reasoned she was his best option of something resembling a peaceful rest.Unable to ignore his pleas she agreed and consumed him, taking his soul unto herself. It was in this moment that she decided this was a sign from the gods, that there was still good she could do even in this twisted world, to atone for her deeds.She took on the name Azrael, and strengthened for the first time in centuries she left her hiding place with renewed purpose - she would seek out other souls like the voidsent that had come to her, those who were desperate to escape the cycle but scared of getting consumed by the strong and violent, and she would offer them to consume them instead, to give their souls a safe place to rest until the day some kind of miracle would free their world from the wheel, and then as a final act of atonement she would end her life, enabling all those souls she had consumed to return safely to the lifestream once again.Thousands of years later she met Myrri during her sojourn to the 13th. A powerful voidsent in her own right at this point Azrael had steered clear of Golbez, not agreeing with his approach - however, she sensed a kinship with Myrri and proposed a pact: she would lend her powers to the curious visitor if she promised to use them to stop golbez and help find a less violent way to return their world to normal, so Azrel could fulfill her final promise to those many peaceful souls she had taken into herself over the past thousands of years for safekeeping, and return them at long last to their well-deserved rest in the aetherial sea.Myrrhis agreed - marking the beginning of their partnership as reaper and avatar.

Hemera was myrrhis' (as well as azrael's and ardbert's) azem.before she was promoted to her seat in the convocation of fourteen she worked as a field researcher for elpis, which meant that her work was mainly away from the facility itself.Hemera would spend most of her time traveling from place to place, monitoring concepts that had been recently released as it was her job to study them in their new wild habitats, to check on them and see if they were acclimating properly to their new surroundings, and to ensure the safety of the creatures and anyone and anything that could potentially encounter them.as it was part of her job to also dispose of concepts that still proved to be "faulty" and more dangerous than anticipated in the wild even after the extensive testing and research done in elpis prior to release she was also a skilled fighter with both magic and blade - although she was known for her unconventional methods, and would rather try to rehabilitate a creature that acted out of line and only resort to killing if absolutely necessary as she valued life, even if created by the hands of her people.it was on one of those "work trips" that she caught the then-azem venat's attention who happened to be traveling in the same area in which a particularly strong and angry concept had gone rogue, and hemera was trying to pacify it. the beast was strong and clever so she ended up struggling more than anticipated, and when venat offered to lend her a hand she gladly accepted.they turned out to be an excellent team and in the end managed to resolve the situation without the need to kill the creature, an outcome which pleased them both.after this incidents the two became close friends and companions, and years later down the line venat named hemera as her successor for the seat of azem when she decided to retire from her position.though hesitant at first because she took pride and joy in the work she was doing for elpis, hemera eventually accepted, believing she would be able to do even more good for life on her beloved star that way.