Avvie Turner

Character Name: Avyanna (Avvie) Turner

Race: Half-Elf

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Character Description: Avvie has naturally purple hair, but barring a long streak that makes up her fringe she dyes it regularly into a very muted, purplish-black that is swept back. With sharp, purple eyes, a slightly rounder jawline, an upturned nose and a fine frame, she’s very short for a Half-Elf, standing at 5’7 (170cm), making her much closer to a Human in height. Her skin is fair and she likes using makeup at times, but usually doesn’t bother. She’s also shortsighted, but has no idea of that fact, often squinting when having to look over longer distances.

Character Occupation: She wants to be a writer, an artist, and a doctor!

Character Personality/Traits: Extremely outgoing and friendly, sometimes a little too much and improperly. She loves seeing people smile and laugh, and she can be a little clumsy about it at times. She’s really into theatrics and loves a good performance.

Character Biography:

A mistake was made.

Not the sort of mistake that ends worlds, though it was certainly enough to end someone’s world. An accident, or the whims of capricious gods, it was impossible to say.

Avyanna doesn’t remember being that mistake. She neither remembers her biological parents, nor her early years in the orphanage. She assumes that she was discarded and unwanted, as that was the fate of many Half-Elves, though with her birth coinciding with the Ca’Liar invasion of Barkamsted where she was found it was impossible to say. Not that it bothers her too much; though the orphanage wasn’t an ideal place to grow up in, it was the only place she knew until she was 11, through the years watching her many siblings come and go. At 11 she was adopted by the Turners; a shoemaker by the name of Patter and a laundrymaid Sally, a pair of humans who couldn’t conceive their own child. Though they weren’t the wealthiest, they still gave their Avvie all that she wanted. She received an education, learning to not just read and write but to truly love it. In turn she’s doting and caring towards them, wanting to help them move out of their hovel once she has landed on her two feet.

Things got even harder for her family during the Blight. With crops dying, people were forced to slaughter a lot of their livestock. This, in turn, lowered the prices on leather initially, before raising them substantially. Her adoptive father first had to compete with lower rates, and then again with higher ones, and this nearly destroyed his business as it struggled to source the materials. They pulled through the crisis, in part thanks to Avvie helping out her mum as a laundrette for that time, though it delayed and slowed down her studies further.

The attack of the Sons of Itiris changed things drastically for her. At 15 she watched Falkvard burn, and her heart hardened. Something of innocence was lost, and with that she resolved to helping people. For a time she helped out scribes, but she failed to become a scribe proper herself due to the strict requirements. She continued to apprentice for them for a while afterwards, the money wasn’t bad, but she was no longer interested in that pursuit. Instead she pivoted; Avyanna loved helping people, and wanted to learn how to do that.

The Long Winter was actually a slight respite for the family. Due to the frosts, more people needed clothing and good boots, and so her father could earn a little bit more money. Though that, once again, eventually led to higher leather prices the family was this time much better prepared for the knock-on effects of that, having saved up some money in the meantime, especially with Avyanna’s work as an apprentice scribe.

The opening up of the university presented an opportunity that she was initially ecstatic about, but she couldn’t justify moving away from her parents for so long, especially as they were in their 60s and required more care. She wishes that she could go, but at present it doesn’t seem feasible, especially with the steep rates.

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Magic Biography: Avvie has no idea that she has any magical potential. She’s never interacted with magic, nor did she have any special interest in doing so. Even if she touched any magical artifacts in the past, she wouldn’t have noticed anything amiss with them.

Please describe the magic system, including its limitations in your own words:

The magic system is broken down into 11 aspects, separated into three categories: Soul Magic, Outlier Magic, and Elemental Magic. The last is the simplest to understand, as it’s all the Avatar elements plus ice and lightning, and each works essentially as you’d expect from that, though with creativity they can also do a lot more. Soul Magic is broken up into Dark and Holy, with Holy being the magic of Aderoth, of healing, protective barriers, and dispelling darkness, and Dark being the magic of Behmos, of dark tendrils, dark gates, and dark shields.

Each character is limited to a specific number of aspects, based on their species. In the case of Avvie, a Half-Elf, that’d be three aspects. Notably, you can still cast up to Medium in any magic except the opposite of the soul magic you are aspected in (if you have a soul magic aspect). Having aspects alone, however, isn’t enough. You also need trinkets to channel the magic through, and all trinkets have a specific magical level that they can (generally) cast up to. A Powerful Fire trinket can only cast up to Powerful level Fire magic. Even if you have a trinket of a specific level, you may not be able to cast with it regardless, as you still need to spend months training up magical level. This process is slightly sped up by the presence of another mage who is already aspected. The strength of trinkets starts at Weak, then goes Feeble, Moderate, Medium, Strong, Powerful, Wondrous, and Divine.

Finally, you are given a set amount of spells based on your level of magic. You always get 5 spell slots for your highest level of magic, ten for your next level down, and 20 for the level below that one, which means that as you get higher in levels you can cast more spells of lower levels. Once you reach a certain level, you can indefinitely cast magic at much lower levels, called cantrips. At Strong level, you can cast Weak spells, and so on.

Please describe how you would use a weak trinket with your characters first/only aspect: Avvie would use her weak alteration to change the taste of regular water to taste sweeter.