Treeya Nuwani: Asari Anthropologist of Fehl Prime

Treeya Nuwani was an asari anthropologist and archaeologist who lived on the human colony of Fehl Prime during the years of the Collector abductions. A peaceful scholar who hated the idea of warfare, she was absorbed in her research and at first resentful of the Systems Alliance presence that interfered with it. Studying the world's ancient ruins, she would come face to face with the Collectors and learn the terrible origin behind them.

Scholar of Fehl Prime#

Treeya lived on Fehl Prime as both anthropologist and resident expert on archaeology, a gentle and peaceful person who detested warfare and violence and buried herself in her work. She kept close company with a civilian friend named Christine, who once took up arms when the Blood Pack raided the colony and was wounded in the fighting. Though the colony survived that attack, Treeya grew cold toward the Alliance personnel who later arrived, convinced that their interference was an obstacle to her research, and she rebuffed their offers of help as the work of people who could never understand it.

That resentment did nothing to spare her from events. When a strange signal began jamming the colony's long-range communications from a set of nearby ruins, Treeya was asked to lend her expertise, and she accompanied an Alliance squad to investigate. Travelling there by a borrowed transport, she watched in dismay as the soldiers resolved to destroy the artifact at the heart of the interference, and in her distress nearly fell into a chasm before a shouted warning saved her.

The artifact and the harvest#

Rather than retreat once the device was disabled, Treeya tried to determine its origins using the ancient technology of the ruins. With a fragment of the artifact in hand she contacted her mentor, the Prothean scholar Liara T'Soni, for advice. Though she was skeptical of T'Soni's theory about the Reapers, she trusted her mentor's judgement. Their conversation was cut short when the Collectors descended on Fehl Prime to abduct its people.

Treeya looked on in horror as the colonists were paralyzed and carried away, among them her friend Christine. In the chaos that followed she was captured by a Cerberus operative who had secretly engineered the disaster, and was forced to interface directly with the Collector databanks, a connection that would have killed a mind without asari abilities. Through it she witnessed the Protheans' defeat at the hands of the Reapers and their conversion into the Collectors, and learned the location of the Collector base and the ultimate fate of the harvested humans.

Survival#

Marked by the Collectors as a contaminant to their genetic stock, Treeya was thrown into a disposal pod and ejected into the void as the colony's defenders fought their way to her. At the last moment she stole a device from her captor that held all the intelligence gathered about the Collectors. Falling through the planet's atmosphere and certain she was lost, she urged her rescuers over the comm to leave her and save the colonists instead, arguing that one life could not weigh against many. She was nonetheless pulled to safety, and afterward stood bruised and grieving at the debriefing on the Citadel, alive while thousands of colonists were not. In the aftermath she returned to Fehl Prime to mourn the dead and to comfort the soldier who had saved her.