Aela the Huntress

"If you wish to hunt with me, your feet need to be quick and your eyes quicker."

- Aela the Huntress

Aela the Huntress is a Nord werewolf, a member of The Companions, and one of five members of The Circle. Residing in Jorrvaskr with the other Companions, Aela offers lycanthropy to other members of the companions who become members of "the circle". She comes from a long line of women who where Companions, although her mother died before she joined. When she was younger, she lived with her father in the woods and learned to hunt and use the bow until she was old enough to join the ranks of the companions.

Role
The Dovahkiin will first encounter Aela fighting a giant alongside Farkas and Ria at a farm outside of Whiterun. If the Dragonborn approaches, whether or not he/she decides to help them battle the giant, Aela will start a conversation with them and tell him/her about the Companions. If the Dragonborn is interested, they can ask her how they can join, to which she will respond by telling them to talk to Kodlak Whitemane, the Harbinger of the Companions. Her views with this thought will vary depending on how the Dragonborn preforms in battle against the giant.

After joining them, Aela can be asked for any jobs needed to preform, to which she will give the Dragonborn the task of exterminating a hostile animal that has invaded a home.

Soon, after preforming several jobs, they will be asked to meet her, along with Farkas, Vilkas, and Skjor in the Underforge, a secret chamber located under the Skyforge. There they will be initiated as a member of the circle, a higher ranking group of Companions members who are unknowingly werewolves. After getting used to their new transformation, the Dragonborn will wake up next to Aela outside a fort under control by an enemy group known as the Silver Hand. There, the two of them invade the base to see what the group of werewolf hunters are hiding. To their shock, they discover Skjor, captured and murdered.

Upon returning with a witch head to cleanse Kodlak of his lycanthropy, the Dragonborn will learn that the Silver Hand made a surprise attack while they were gone and ended up killing the harbinger and stealing the shards of Ysgarmor's legendary axe.

Upon eradicating the Silver Hand with Vilkas and attending Kodlak's memorial service, she and the remaining members of the Circle decide to travel to Ysgramor's Tomb, where they will respectfully fulfill the recently deceased harbinger's last request of cleansing his lycanthropy. She will be the only member of the Circle besides the Dragonborn who will travel all the way through the tomb to reach Kodlak's spirit. She will be astonished by the fact that Kodlak grants the Dragonborn the title of the new harbinger upon successfully cleansing his wolf spirit.

She is an expert level Archery trainer, as well as a candidate for marriage and a follower after The Companions' main quest-line.

Aela is also a Daedric Worshipper as she worships Hircine the Daedric Deity of hunting, nature, animals and Lycanthropy.

Personality
She is strong, loyal, brave, proud, independent, honorable, fearless, adventurous, stonger willed, courageous and serious. Due to her childhood of living in the woods she prefers to spend her time hunting, tracking, fighting, training and exploring rather than sitting around all day. Aela is dedicated to hunting, fighting and training.

Unlike most members of the Companions Aela sees her Lycanthropy as a gift then a curse much like Serana and her vampirism.

Aela would like to hunt and fight in the afterlife rather then go to Sovgarde like most nords telling stories, singing and celebrating about their adventures.

Aela the Huntress does not like boasting, cowards or mike drinkers she is a girl who loves action. She is a woman who loves to live the adventure rather than brag and tell stories about it or sing about it. Never knowing when your time will end is very thrilling to her.

She is a huntress who knows how beautiful and dangerous the wilderness can be so she respects nature and the beast that are apart of it.

Aela like the other Companions she likes to earn a fair payment from the jobs that they do. Even though she accepts the reward for her job Aela is the type of person who likes the things she can get from nature more than gold.

While Aela cares for the other members of the Companions and likes her home in the mead hall. Aela does not like drama, squabbling, quarrels, clashes and conflict that happens there stating that "Ysgramor's himself wouldn't have the patience to deal with all the rabble around here."

Quotes
"Curse? Ha. You're sounding like the old man. I... shouldn't say that. I love Kodlak. I respect and follow him. But he's wrong on this. It's no curse. We're made into the greatest hunters in the land. If he is worried about some mead-swelling after in Sovngarde, his free to pursue it. I'll take the glories of the hunt right here."

- Ales the Huntress

"You're not afraid? Of animals? Come back when you have the spine."

- Aela the Huntress

"Blood on the wind today. Good hunt ahead of us."

- Aela the Huntress

"My mother was a Companion. And her mother all the women in my family, back to Hrotti Blackblade."

- Aela the Huntress

"Get ready trouble ahead."

- When Aela detects danger

"It means resting your haunches in Whiterun more than I care to, do for one. But when it comes time to draw blood there's no one in Skyrim I'd rather have at my back. It means waking up every day knowing that you could die, and having to earn your life by clawing for every breath. I don't know how those cozy lords manage to drag themselves out of bed every day. Why bother if you're not living?"

- Aela saying what it means to be a Companion

Aela the Huntress Gear

 * Skyforge Steel Dagger
 * Hunting Bow
 * Steel Shield
 * Ancient Nord Armor