Phi


 * **Debut:** || March 2009 ||
 * **Age:** || 139 ||
 * **Date of Birth/Death:** || Nymm 21st 859 YK ||
 * **Blood Type:** || Elven Blood //(now Vampire, sorry)// ||
 * **Eye Color:** || Blue ||
 * **Hair Color:** || Sandy Brown ||
 * **Height:** || 5'1" ||
 * **Weight:** || 104 lbs. ||
 * **Relatives:** || Sister Kaela - deceased; Ancester Spirit Xanaphia ||

This is the nickname of a //Valaes Tairn// warrior from Valenar. She is the younger sister of Kaela. Her full name is much too long and difficult for most people to pronounce so to keep it short and sweet on the battlefield she started going by Phi. Within her warband Phi served in a special unit known as the //Cuy'val Dar// (those who no longer exist). She would tell you that if you knew what she did during the Last War then she failed. The //Cuy'val Dar// are best descibed as a lesser unit of the same design as Ilidris Kayael's Daggers of Valaes Tairn, a unit specialized in the most secretive of Valenar guerrilla tactics. The //Cuy'val Dar// operate in small bands of no more than four Elves and execute tactical raids, sabotage, demolition, and other such special missions. The teams are small to limit losses on such hazardous missions, but more importantly with such risk comes much glory and with teams sized as such the glory per soldier is much more grand //(How can you gain glory if no one outside your little band can ever know what you did?// Valenar Glory is between that Valenar and their spiritual ancestor, otherwise Valenar wouldn't adventure alone to seek glory and most people would look down on the actions that a Valenar would find glorious. Most fluff pieces in the Eberron books depict a solo Valenar seeking personal glory. Not even other adventurers are with them. //).// Phi claims that the creation of the Mournland is the result of such a band's activities. Supporting her claim is the fact that the creation of the Mournland didn't harm Valenar, a former area of Cyre, and the fact the the blast was similar to the Giants of Xen'drik using great magics to destroy the Quori, the same magics that the Elves stole when they rebeled against their Giant captors.

//If the Valenar were able to shape The Mourning to spare their captured homeland, why would they have spared Darguun, a nation ruled by the hated Goblins that was **also** once part of Cyre?//

The Valenar were looking for a fight, the capturing of Cyran land was a simple goad, which Cyre didn't take. Darguun, a nation ruled by the hated Goblins would fight and thus were spared for further battles.

In early Therendor in a disused factory floor level just beneath Czervanth Tower in Sharn among the hulks of disassembled Warforged Titans, Phi is defeated in personal combat by Kostas Knyarri (who claimed to have seen her before). Imprisoned by the artificer, Phi awoke to find herself in chains in an unknown location. Shortly after awakening she is taken away by a Warforged and two cloaked figures. Knocked out once again, the three abscond with her and she is taken deep below Sharn. What vile fate awaited Phi in Sharn's depths may never be known; what is known is that she was "rescued" by a King's Citadel agent, Lucan Stellos...who at some point after the Battle of New Cyre turned Phi into a Vampire.
 * Captured**

Phi's nickname comes from the name of her spiritual ancestor, the great hunter Xanaphia.
 * Xanaphia**


 * The //Quiet Storm// Incident**

Late in the Last War, Phi's //Cuy'Val Dar// quad was assigned to an experimental House Lyrandar airship, //Quiet Storm//. "Quiet" because her driving force was a bound Air Elemental, rather than the Fire Elementals used in the first working airships -- which proved terrible for any mission requiring stealth as the ring of fire was extremely loud and could be seen from miles away. The //Quiet Storm// was dispatched to the Eldeen Reaches, as both the Valenar and House Lyrandar had an interest in protecting Eldeen-born Elves and Half-Elves and planting diplomatic seeds with the Wardens of the Wood that would bear fruit come the war's end.

Long story short, the airship was discovered and brought down in a remote part of the Eldeen Reaches near the border with Droaam. Phi and the other survivors were captured by monstrous humanoids, who swarmed the area to secure the crash site: Gnolls, Gargoyles and Harpies, led by a pair of Ogre Magi and accompanied by their "handler," a Half-Orc called Tanar d'Tharashk. A couple of days later, the caged Elves watched as an eclectic team of Artificers (including a Human with a Cannith Dragonmark and a Duergar) arrived and started repairing and modifying the airship. At some point the Elves attempted an escape; all died except Phi. At another point, a Shifter named Serena Strongheart was captured as she tried to investigate the crash site; she was briefly caged with Phi before the Droaamites executed her while Phi watched.

Phi only lived because Tanar interceded with the Ogre Magi, a brother and sister called Carvalho and Cavallah, to let her go once the ship repairs were completed and the entire band embarked and flew off. The last she saw of them was the strange-looking translucent sphere -- like a giant soap bubble -- that surrounded the //Quiet Storm// as it flew away without the use of a bound Elemental.