Bio

Ariane Clairière is a Wildwood Elezen adventurer seeking her fortune in Eorzea.Ariane's early life was a simple one, born and raised in a rural area at the edge of the Black Shroud with her parents and her younger sister, Gratienne. The two sisters were close in age and best friends growing up, as there were only a handful of other children to play with in their little hamlet. Though the world of her childhood was small and isolated, it was expanded through the many books her parents kept in their home, and Ariane and Gratienne were both avid readers.But tragedy would interrupt the Clairière family's simple life. Like so many others, Ariane lost her family and her home in the Seventh Umbral Calamity. For several years after, Ariane wandered aimlessly, a lost soul in a world that no longer felt like home--often wondering why she, of all the people she loved, had survived.But still Ariane longed for purpose, and at last she decided to make her way to the city of Gridania, hoping to find some distant relatives, or at least a new direction. She could find no sign of the distant family she'd heard had once lived there, but instead found a vibrant adventurer's guild. In Gridania Ariane began training as a conjurer and botanist, reconnecting with nature and the Twelve who had spared her life--and all her complicated feelings about that. Here she began to find the purpose and direction she had been missing.In her travels through La Noscea, Ariane met a stalwart Roegadyn warrior and Maelstrom officer named Bhratbylda Askbaensyn. The two of them soon became dungeon partners, a dynamic healer/tank duo, and over time their friendship blossomed into romance.Ariane found peace and healing in the Twelveswood, but the wild deserts of Thanalan would also captures her heart. She joined the Immortal Flames, hoping to use her developing skills to help others in the beautiful and sometimes-tumultuous city of Ul'dah.With a group of adventuring friends, she helped found the Gridania-based Free Company called the Silver Feathers.