Asteria

Asteria is first encountered in the Countess Plains in King's Promise within the hut of her father, Sage Comah Vermillion. She wears a blood red cloak and her dark hair in various braids. She also wears a leather corset from Madame Gernwilde's House of Leisure which is gifted to her by Jünk.

Asteria is a practicing blood mage. In years prior, Asteria's mother Mari passed away in an unspecified ceremony involving the demon goddess, Rasa. Additionally, Asteria's brother Endymion was said to have been eaten by their moorcat, Clarence.

Asteria is tasked by her father to accompany the party en route to retrieving The Hand of Almone. She agrees so long as they agree to accompany her to her mother's grave in Resh Koth Cemetary.

At Resh Koth Cemetary, Clarence reveals himself to be Endymion in diguise. Endymion had chased off the beloved moorcat and faked his death in an elaborate scheme to get one over on his sister. The plan was revealed in a roundtable discussion that Endymion wished to use Asteria's blood to raise their mother Mari from the dead. Endymion, a necromancer and blood mage in his own right staged an ambush in the form of zombies. Due to the involvement of the main party, Endymion's attempt was unsuccessful and in the wake of the battle Asteria killed him by breaking his nose into his brain.

Asteria retrieved Endymion's personal bag following the battle and gave Maatzyn a phoenix feather as a token of her gratitude, and also perhaps due to their growing attraction to each other.

After spending a night in the groundskeeper's shack, Asteria enlisted the help of a wandering terrorbird (who she named Hank) to draw the wagon formerly drawn by Endymion.

Upon reaching Misty Cross, Asteria and Maatzyn had fun pretending to be a married couple in front of a Sibulen hat salesman named Smetterling. Maatzyn even bought an expensive purple chapeau for Asteria from Smetterling.

Asteria then led the party to the desecrated temple of Rasa to complete the ceremony that cost her mother her life. To the surprise of the party, the ceremony required the sacrifice of an Orccan and with the assistance of Hank, Jünk was put to death on a sacrificial spike.

Maatzyn and Adeline took part in the defeat of Asteria, but it was a clubbing blow from Ornie's cudgel that ended Asteria's life.