Nia Ellarious

Nia, a character from the Blades of Light and Shadow series, is a Priestess of the Light and one of Your Character's love interests. She is first seen Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Nia has brown eyes, long wavy red hair, and tanned skin. In Book 1, she wears a pink gown with pearls on it. In Book 2, she has tied her hair into an updo braid, and she wears a pair of white pearl earrings, a long white and golden sleeveless dress with patterns, two white sleeves, and a golden bracelet with a white pearl on her upper arm.

Personality
Nia is polite and quiet. She doesn't encourage fights and tries to stay peaceful. She has a friendly behavior and cares about the ones she is close to, she doesn't hesitate to fight for them if needed.

When she becomes Shadow Nia, she is cold, uncaring, sarcastic, and quite literally the opposite of her normal self.

Background
When Nia was an infant, she was adopted by the Temple of Light in Whitetower and has lived most of her life there. She only left the temple to perform services with other priests, such as delivering alms to the poor and healing the sick; she never visited the sites of Whitetower themselves. She never had to use battle magic in a real scenario until she and Scholar Vash started their pilgrimage to visit all the temples of Light throughout the kingdom. Scholar Vash was the closest person she had to a father-figure, and she knew him better than her own parents. He taught her everything she knows and he believed one day she would become a great priestess, healing the sick, protecting the weak, and holding the darkness at bay.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins
 * Chapter 2: Of Loss and Legends
 * Chapter 3: The City By The Sea
 * Chapter 4: Escape at Sea
 * Chapter 5: The Floating City
 * Chapter 6: The Cursed Isle
 * Chapter 7: The Deadwood
 * Chapter 8: A Tale Of Two Princes
 * Chapter 9: The Queen, The Prince, And The Exile
 * Chapter 10: The City of Glimmering Lies
 * Chapter 11: What Lies Beneath
 * Chapter 12: The Murderous Masquerade
 * Chapter 13: City of Wonders
 * Chapter 14: City of Horrors
 * Chapter 15: Into the Shadow
 * Chapter 16: Blade of Light and Shadow

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Through the Looking Glass
 * Chapter 2: Coming Home
 * Chapter 3: The Priestess and the Rogue
 * Chapter 4: Our New Nemesis
 * Chapter 5: Into The Woods
 * Chapter 6: The Other Side
 * Chapter 7: Conflict and Compromise
 * Chapter 8: The Hero Of Riverbend
 * Chapter 9: The City Beneath The Sand
 * Chapter 10: Deep Below
 * Chapter 11: Healing and Hard Truths
 * Chapter 12: Surprises in Shadow

Your Character
You meet Nia in Book 1, Chapter 1 when she runs into you and Kade, searching for help. An adventurer at heart, you jump at the chance and follow her into the forest where you defeat an owlbear that is attacking Scholar Vash. They ask you and Kade to guide them to the Temple of Ellara, and there after a sequence of events, she joins your party to fulfill Scholar Vash's mission: to find the onyx shards, purify them, and stop the Shadow Court from returning.

In Book 1, Chapter 3, at Port Parnassus, you can choose to socialize with her and Mal at the local tavern. There, she will have her first drink of alcohol and you can decide to dance with her.

Mal Volari
She persuades Mal Volari to join your party by promising him that the Temple of Light will compensate him.

Threep Pompedorfin
Nia recognizes Threep's species when he emerges from the green crystal. She tells you and Mal that nespers were the beloved advisers of the ancient elves before the Great War. When he joins your party, she places Threep inside her bag to keep him safe and to hide him from the prying eyes. Even inside her bag, he can still sense darkness and alerts you and your party about the Shadow influence surrounding the mayor of Port Parnassus.

Tyril Starfury
When your party bumps into Tyril Starfury in Parnassus, Nia can feel the energy and power emanating from him. Later, when he joins the party, she offers him the top bunk bed when he protests Mal offering the beds to you and Nia first. However, her unpretentious manner disarms him and he withdraws his objection.

Dreadlord
After Aerin Valleros abducts Nia and pulls her into the Shadow Realm, a ceremony is performed where the Dreadlord inhabits Nia's body and awakens. Nia resists the Dreadlord several times, angering the Dreadlord who wants to break her and crush her will.

When she is the Dreadlord's vessel, she realizes that the Blade of Shadow was not always the Blade of Shadow, that it had once been the Blade of Light and had been corrupted. With her power, she is able to remove the corruption and bring it back to the Blade of Light. She tells you that with the Dreadlord inside of her, he is vulnerable and can be defeated if you kill the vessel encompassing his essence. However, he is fighting her and she knows she cannot hold him at bay forever. When you kill her, he is finally defeated.

Other Looks

 * -|Book 1=

Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * She is shown on the cover of Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 1, and Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 2.
 * She was born and has always lived in the capital, Whitetower. She is the youngest person ever to ascend to the full rank of priestess in the Temple of Light.
 * Nia's tagline is 'The Priestess' (of Light).
 * On April 10, 2020, Pixelberry tweeted their #QuarantineHouse challenge, placing Nia in House 6 with Maxwell Beaumont, Adrian Raines, Cetus, Kaitlyn Liao and Logan.
 * She teaches you the Orb of Light and Heal elite skills.
 * She leaves the party in Book 1, Chapter 14, after being kidnapped by Prince Aerin.
 * She rejoins the party in Book 1, Chapter 16, after defeating The Shadow Court.
 * In Laws of Attraction, Book 1, Chapter 7, she is mentioned to be a licensed character in the Blades of Light and Shadow television series of which there is a fandom.