My handle is Aeiri, which is the shortened version of a name I created and adopted from the very early 1980's when the DnD game book "The Fiend Folio" came out, that name being "Aeiristus". The personality actually developed later in the early 1990's and evolved through the 2000's, with the help of a fictitious forbidden love interest (also a story being written. but deviating from her game history for a better sense of purpose within a story as opposed to random wanderings or dice-roll encounters). Aeiri is a Drow (dark elf) fighter and a damned good one... she's also, pretty much "damned" (or at least "excommunicated") in life.

I personally have not seen near the adversity or hardships the character has, but she and I resonate with a shared spirit and shared past - I viewed myself as a fighter while I served in the US military for 10 very good years during Gulf War 1 (a.k.a. "Desert Storm"). Well, you might think since I created the character there SHOULD be a resonation there, the reality is that not all characters created in the mind of someone writing makes the "cut". Just like in sports or the making of movies, characters and individuals who are not strong enough or skilled enough or play an important enough part to the team or the story simply get removed. To me, the story I invented for Aeiri is a passion and passion (along with good structure and interesting circumstances) is what drives a good story.