> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Asha Vayne > [![[Codex/Assets/Characters/Asha_Vayne_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Codex/Assets/Characters/Asha_Vayne.webp) > ###### Basic Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Character | > ###### Character Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Creature Type | Humanoid | > Species | Elf | > Gender | Male | > Pronouns | He/Him | > Place | [[Sumara, The Shining City\|Sumara]] | > Connections | [[Kaelen Vayne]] | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Unknown | **Asha Vayne** is an elven soldier of [[Sumara, The Shining City|Sumara]] and the son of [[Kaelen Vayne]], Meridian of the Blade. He vanished sixty years ago on the borders of the [[Vale of Eternal Night]] during a skirmish with the Hunt, and neither he nor the soldiers who accompanied him were ever found. ## Biography Asha was lost in one of the border engagements that have long marked the uneasy boundary between Sumara and the [[Vale of Eternal Night]]. A significant member of the Hunt fell in the same clash, and the skirmish was costly on both sides. His body was never recovered — nor were those of his companions — and the official presumption has long been death. Among those who knew him, the loss settled differently. [[Kaelen Vayne|His father]] hardened in the years that followed, and those who knew Kaelen before speak of him as a changed man. [[Warden Sylvaris]], however, has her doubts. The ruling archfae of the Vale, [[Mirileth|the Star-Veiled Queen]], is not known for simple endings. Sylvaris believes the coincidence of a senior Hunt casualty and an unrecovered Sumaran soldier is too neat — and that there may be more to Asha's fate than a body left on a frozen borderline. ### [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 50 - A New Morning in Sumara]] Named by [[Warden Sylvaris]] during her account of the Long Hunt's history. Sylvaris noted that Kaelen's son had vanished on the borders of the [[Vale of Eternal Night]] sixty years ago, and expressed doubt that [[Mirileth]]'s style would have permitted a straightforward disappearance — suggesting the truth of what happened to Asha may still lie within the Vale.