Ilmaya was a young drow with purple-gray skin, red eyes, and long, shock-white hair that she usually wore in a high, intricate braid. Her features were haughty and noble, her body slender and lithe; standing about five feet and four inches tall. She had long pointed ears, boyish hips and small breasts, little more than nubbins surrounding her pert, plum-colored nipples. She was the only female in her class at the wizarding academy.
Just cresting her third decade, she was in the odd-between stage of elf life for which no human parallel existed; not a teenager and certainly not a child, but also not yet considered a full adult. She had been at the academy for a few years, just long enough to get used to her studies, and then for them to pick up in intensity again. They were interesting, engrossing even, but they were also stressful, and most of all they were very, very lonely.