Floria of Aphasium

🔈 (FLOH-ree-ah uv ah-FAH-see-um)

Died in Apollyon’s Tower, on the Circular Island, in the Sea of Storms

Floria of Aphasium was a wealthy Drankorian supporter of the Radiant Path. Her family’s fortune came from her father’s silversmithing and her mother’s agricultural holdings in the western hinterlands. She spent much of her youth at the family’s coastal villa.

In DR 1036, her father died unexpectedly, followed shortly by her mother. At twenty-five, Floria became the sole heir to both fortunes. She used her inheritance to care for the needy and support resistance to Apollyon, organizing secret networks that carried money, supplies, and fugitives through the western provinces. In DR 1052, a trusted confidant betrayed her, exposing her work to the Ashen Cloaks. She was seized from her villa and subsequently sacrificed by Apollyon in DR 1053, becoming one of seven souls bound into Apollyon’s Phylactery.

Her story is recorded in the Book of Martyrs of the Radiant Path, a hidden record and memorial kept by the priests of the Radiant Path of those disappeared and taken during Apollyon’s reign, though her fate was unknown for many centuries, until the Dunmar Fellowship ventured to Drankor to defeat Apollyon.

On May 24, 1749 DR, Riswynn freed her soul in the Land of the Dead by reminding her of her family legacy and duty to care for those in need, allowing her to hear the Father’s call and pass on.