I rarely play non-humans these days. Most of my favorite characters, traditionally, are human. If my character's mentality and personality can be replicated in a human, then I make that character human. I only make a character inhuman, if their thought process, if their personality ... if something about interacting with them is distinctly alien and possibly disturbing. Nayleen is not just a sociopathic monster -- she's a creature whom grew up in a Nightmare land of darkness, with brain-sucking tentacled horrors, slavers whom never sleep, tight, close tunnels, and having to work in constant close quarters with individuals whom she could trust only to put a knife in her kidney if she let down her guard -- Welcome to the Underdark. Try not to let the drow walk all over you.

 

"Picture that you are a Priestess of Lloth, The Demon Queen of Spiders and the ONLY diety openly acknowledged by the drow -- you are 145 years old -- not a High Priestess, which are an elite sect ... but a Priestess; and respected as a member of a noble house. You are pregnant. Your mother frightens you; she was alive, murdering and torturing her rivals for over one-hundred years before you were even born. She is not a High Priestess either -- she, like you, has two sisters. One older, and one younger with their own children. Your Grandmother -- a terrifying individual whom you are not even allowed to speak in the presence of -- is a High Priestess; and she is one of four daughters of The Matron Mother.. who is a blood-thirsty, sadistic, dark and evil monster whom was ritually sacrificing those whom even casually displeased her for over four-hundred years before you were even born.. Masterfully playing her daughters and their families off against eachother and her own enemies to keep her power intact for centuries. Drow? Being elves .. are not biologically required to sleep, and typically keep themselves in a constant frenzy of productive enterprise."

 

Keeping this in mind ... you have some understanding of the subtlties and thought processes of my character, Nayleen, and the things she is experienced in.

 

I do not believe that something this dark, wicked, and careful is capable of being represented by something human, given the vast amounts of time that pass in each generation of drow; and each being capable of living together. You only get this kind of intrigue and plotting amongst White Wolf's Vampires.

 

I created her to be creepy. To be ancient. To be careful. I created her to shock you.

 

I hope you enjoy her.