Katherine Frostwalker

Katherine Frostwalker, born Caitlin Mayfield (January 13th 1993), is a powerful and semi-divine Wizard from Earth who was initially recruited by Merle Ambrose to fight back against Malistaire Drake, who threatened to destroy the Spiral.
Katherine first appeared in December 2020.
== Character History ==
=== For the Good of the Spiral (1988-1993) ===
In equivalent to Earth year 1988, Merle Ambrose received a dark prophecy. It whispered of a wizard that would one day rise against Wizard City and destroy the Spiral. He saw visions of undead flooding the streets and countless, endless bodies littered about. The bodies of his friends, his colleagues, and the students of Ravenwood Academy. The prophecy was: 
In light of these visions Ambrose made a hasty decision. Together, he and Bartleby the Grandfather Tree cast a powerful summoning spell to all worlds outside the Spiral. He was shown several children there capable of wielding magic, but couldn't due to the mundane nature of their home worlds. Knowing his next actions were cruel and unethical, he knew what had to be done or the Spiral would be destroyed. Merle Ambrose stole those children and brought them to Wizard City, discretely finding them homes and families to raise them. One of them would grow up to be their savior, he just knew it, but he couldn't be sure which one... so as the years ticked on, Ambrose swiped more and more children from their realities, all in the hope that one day one of them would save everyone. 
In 1993, Caitlin Mayfield was born to Ellie and Eddie Mayfield, their second daughter after seven-year-old Maggie. After being with the Mayfields for a few months, one night a magical spell pulled baby Catie from her crib, through the dimensional plane and to Wizard City, where she appeared in Merle Ambrose's arms. He watched as the magic of their world swirled around the baby, turning her hair pink and eyes gold, officially marking the baby a Wizard. 
Ambrose knew only the baby's name: Catie. When he took her to Colossus Boulevard and left her in the care of Mildred Farseer (who he knew was lonely after the death of her own daughter some years prior), the woman assumed it was short for Katherine. Maybe she should've questioned where he found a baby, but he was right, she was lonely. And Ambrose was known for caring deeply about things, so she never suspected him of foul play and raised Katherine as her own. 
=== A Colossus Upbringing (1993-2007) ===
Katherine had a whimsical childhood growing up on Colossus Boulevard. They adored the snow and the cold, so much so that Mildred wasn't surprised when Katherine chose to study ice magic. They spent every moment they could running around outside with the other kids, building snowmen and skating and sledding and playing find-and-sneak and blowing snow up into the air and dancing as it fell back down and laughing when visiting kids got their tongues stuck on poles and having snowball fights and building igloos and and and... Katherine was a very active child.
They met Sierra Moonhaven when she visited Colossus for their 12 Days of Spiral celebration. Sierra was one of the visiting kids Katherine tricked into licking a pole. Sierra responded by conjuring a mini blizzard to bury Katherine under 6 feet of snow, a retaliation no other kid had done before. They immediately became best friends, inseparable for the rest of the Moonhaven's trip. Katherine cried for three days straight when Sierra had to go back to Triton Avenue, a street Mildred forbade Katherine to go to due to all the open water. Mildred's first daughter drowned and because of that Katherine was kept far away from bodies of water.
This is a rule that Katherine followed until that point. After that holiday season, the young wizard often snuck off to Triton to visit their new friend, a scheme they managed to keep hidden for years. The two of them got into tons of mischief together, and their bond only deepened as they got older. Katherine and Sierra walked into Ravenwood Academy on their first day with their arms linked, determined not to be separated even though Katherine chose the ice school track and Sierra chose Myth. They picked dorms right across from each other and supported each other as they got used to the school. Katherine consoled Sierra a few months into their first year when she had a breakdown over regretting choosing Myth. She hated Professor Cyrus Drake and felt she chose wrong, and together they petitioned Ambrose to let her switch, which he did in the end. Sierra became a Death wizard, but even that didn't feel quite right. Katherine was there for their friend but didn't understand her struggle, because Katherine knew the Ice track is where they were meant to be.
=== The Betrayal of Malistaire Drake (2008) ===
In 2008, Sylvia Drake tragically died after a sudden illness. Her husband, the Death professor, in his grief ripped the Death school from it's place in the Academy and cast it down to the land of Nightside. He then vanished without a trace, leaving Ravenwood high and dry, but mostly confused. Katherine didn't know what to make of these events but stayed in her own lane, attending classes when they resumed and going for midday meals in the Shopping District with Sierra (they looooooved sneaking out for cosmic milkshakes). To them it was business as usual, because what were two fifteen-year-olds meant to do about it?
That all changed when Malistaire used his dark magic to undo the protection spells around Wizard City, allowing the undead to usher into the streets. Katherine and Sierra were goofing off on Unicorn Way during a free period when the dark magic blanketed the street, corrupting the fairies and forcing them to join the skeleton hordes flooding in. Ravenwood students jumped at the chance to defend their city, joining the adult wizards who were already battling the undead. It was pandemonium everywhere. Katherine and Sierra fought their way back to the Commons and saw Headmaster Ambrose heading to Golem Court. Not knowing what else to do, they followed him, hoping to get some help. Instead the three of them were confronted by Malistaire himself, who claimed the attack had gotten him what he wanted before fleeing.
Following this, Ambrose asked Katherine and Sierra to enlist Lady Oriel to dispel the dark magic corrupting Unicorn Way. After doing so they were attacked by one of Malistaire's generals, Rattlebones, who warned that his master's plan was already in motion. Katherine and Sierra defeated him in a duel and sent him back to the Underworld, leaving behind the tome he was searching for. The two quickly took it to Ambrose, and he said he'd "look into it" while the battle still raged outside. Not knowing what else to do, Katherine and Sierra went to rejoin the fray. For Wizard City!
=== A Quest for the Ages [Arc One] ===
Clearing out the streets took two whole days. In that time, the inhabitants of Wizard City gave it their all to oust the undead once again, but many lives were lost in the attacks. Katherine and Sierra managed to travel between the other four main streets. First they helped drive the Trolls out of Cyclops Lane, and then dusted some zombies on Triton. Katherine nearly died from the heat in Firecat Alley, and also the lava snowmen trying to take their head off. But Colossus was the most interesting, because they worked with a mob to blast the Golems off the side of the cliff, the closest Katherine had ever been to _ Castle. Usually civilians weren't allowed so close to it's walls. And when it was all said-and-done, with the city's defenses officially resorted, Katherine was approached by Ambrose. He reveals that after examining the text from Rattlebones, he's realized that Malistaire is looking for a book of dark magic called the Krokonomicon, and that it's located somewhere in the distant land of Krokotopia. It's dangerous, but he needs someone to go who's presence won't alert Malistaire. Katherine agrees, because they're fifteen and adventure seems cool.
Sierra doesn't like the idea and they argue about it, but in the end Sierra relents. She isn't going to let Katherine go off on an adventure by herself and potentially risk dying. She doesn't care who Ambrose is. But she does it because she knows deep down that Katherine will just go anyway, because her friend has never listened to anyone a day in their life. She loves that about Katherine, even if it's fucking annoying a lot of the time.
==== Krokotopia and It's Monsters ====
Shortly after arriving in Krokotopia, it became very clear that the Krokotillians had enslaved the native Manders. Sierra urged Katherine to stick to their mission, but Katherine was full of righteous energy and instead dove head-first into saving the Manders from their oppressors. This divergence from the path led the two to battling the Nirini Family inside the Grand Pyramid...... You spend the first part of the world freeing the manders from the nirini family in the pyramid. Afterwords, you are introduced to the order of the fang, a secret group of kroks who want to save the manders. You help the order of the fang, and in return, they take you to the tomb of storms, where the krokonomicon is presumably at. You meet krokopatra, who is the leader of the kroks, and defeat her. Unfortunately, the krokonomicon was already found by marleybonians and taken to their museum.
==== Grizzleheim: Beginnings ====
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==== Marleybone Blues ====
In marleybone, you try to get the krokonomicon, but first you need to stop the o'leary gang who's been causing trouble in the world. You team up with sherlock bones and stop them. In the process, you learn that malistaire is breaking their leader, meowiarty, out of prison. You have to stop meowiarty again, but in doing so you gave malistaire time to take the krokonomicon himself.
==== The Wysteria Project ====
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==== Ghosts of Mooshu Past ====
You learn that malistaire wants to get to dragonspyre, but he needs the key from the emperor of mooshu. You go to mooshu in order to intercept him, but you were too late. Malistaire poisoned the emperor, and in order to save him you need to defeat several oni that have brought problems to the world. After stopping the war, plague, and death oni, you head to the jade palace, and have to fight the jad oni, who possessed the sick emperor. After defeating the jade oni and saving the emperor, you are given the dragonspyre key.
==== Grizzleheim: Conclusion ====
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==== The Battle of Dragonspyre ====
In dragonspyre, you and cyrus drake learn that malistaire wishes to use the krokonomicon to awaken the dragon titan, the thing responsible for the destruction of dragonspyre. He wants to use the dragon's power to bring his wife sylvia back to life. As you make your way to him, you learn a lot about the world's history, and know that malistaire won't be able to control the dragon titan. When you finally approach malistaire, you use the ghost of sylvia to convince him to stop, which ultimately fails. You fight malistaire, defeat him, and put the dragon titan back to sleep.