Laelyl's origins are sketchy at best--people are generally much more aware of her recent history. The best that's been gleaned about her through decades of diligent research is that she was once a normal, perfectly sane member of drow society. And then something went horribly and utterly wrong.

To put it simply, Laelyl, whatever she was at that time--many speculate a bard due to her voice--was betrayed. Someone close to her, though no one has managed to discover who, pushed her into a portal that left her in a place far worse than any hell--the Far Realm. Laelyl vanished for twenty years, then returned abruptly, plummeting into the Fane of Lolth in her home city half dead and not quite right. Something in her stopped ticking right.

On record, however, is the bloody swath she left through the streets before vanishing, murdering and tormenting as the twisted apparitions of her mind bid her. Since then she has become a kinslayer, hating both other drow and elves with an equal amount of unholy zeal. She contains herself only when she can be persuaded to kill something else instead, and actively goes out of her way to wreak havoc for both races.

Humans and others make the mistake that due to her innocent expression and almost surface-elven characteristics, despite her wholly drow heritage, that she is safe to be around and approach. Needless to say, this is not a mistake they make twice--especially when they encounter her unnatural strength born perhaps of her insanity. Despite her smiles and eyes that glitter like a happy infant's, adventurers and townspeople alike are advised to avoid her at all costs.

Laelyl is slowly regaining her memory thanks to a journal she left with Shaleez before she was thrown into the Far Realm. She has yet to share what the journal tells her, or the nature of the other objects in her box.