Aela is dedicated to hunting, fighting and training. 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. She is strong, loyal, brave, proud, independent, honorable, fearless, adventurous, strong-willed, courageous and serious. She is an expert level Archery trainer, as well as a candidate for marriage and a follower after The Companions' main quest-line.Īela is also a Daedric Worshipper, as she worships Hircine, the Daedric Deity of hunting, nature, animals, adventure, thrill seeking, honor, respect, cunning and Lycanthropy. 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 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. 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. 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 Ysgramor's legendary axe. To their shock, they discover Skjor, captured and murdered.
There, the two of them invade the base to see what the group of werewolf hunters are hiding. 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 they will be initiated as a member of the circle, a higher ranking group of Companions members who are unknowingly werewolves. Soon, after performing 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. Her views with this thought will vary depending on how the Dragonborn performs in battle against the giant.Īfter joining them, Aela can be asked for any jobs needed to perform, to which she will give the Dragonborn the task of exterminating a hostile animal that has invaded a home. 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. 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.
The Dovahkiin will first encounter Aela fighting a giant alongside Farkas and Ria at a farm outside of Whiterun.