Daeris Barriate was born in the under sea city of Yenlian in 1827 as the middle child to a somewhat known family of magic users with political ties. She is the only non-magically gifted in her family. For the first 50 years of her life, she bounced around from apprenticeship to apprenticeship, not finding any to be satisfying until she was found by a woman who taught her the ropes of being an investigator. After several decades as a successful detective in the Underdark, she met and fell in love with Celebrenn, a changeling novelist. When a case went wrong and she nearly lost her life, Daeris and Brenn moved to the surface and started a family, starting with their daughter Aridre. Six months prior to the campaign, Daeris came home after a stake out to find them both missing with only one clue to go off of, a nearly empty tampered with medicine bottle. Meeting Asher shortly after, she now hunts down answers for herself and others.