Elegy Salvage

Elegy Salvage is a Charred on Canticle, and was the Lodestar of Beacon.
== Appearance and Personality ==
Elegy is a Charred woman with light green eyes and short black hair streaked with silver. Her left cheek is scored by a vein of blackness with a glowing line down the center. Like all Charred her chest has been completely burned away and houses a glowing Cinderheart. She appears to be in her late 30s.
After Elegy is turned into a Charred her personality becomes much more aggressive. She has an intense drive to fight everyone around her but with significant effort, she is able to control herself. She admires strength but values discipline the most and wants to be someone who can control herself.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Like all other Charred, Elegy is an invested warrior and possesses supernatural speed, strength, and endurance.
== History ==
For a time, Elegy was the Lodestar of Beacon. She was the one who inspired the people of Beacon to rebel and decided to move Beacon into the darkness behind the maelstrom. It was also her plan to steal the Cinder King’s key and access the Refuge. She briefly considered living in the Southern corridor but couldn’t find a way past the mountains.
At some point, she was captured and turned into a Charred by the Cinder King.
=== The Arena ===
When Nomad defied the Cinder King and was placed in the arena Elegy was the main Charred to target him. By stealthily turning Auxilary into a crowbar Nomad was able to defend himself and disarm her. While Elegy was climbing after him, Nomad turned Aux into a heavy barbell and used it to slam into Elegy, defeating her.
When the Beaconites attacked the arena Rebeke and Divinity used the chaos to search for Elegy who Divinity found lying in the mud. Together they were able to get her on the quadcycle and escaped but the Cinder King killed Divinity as they fled.
Despite being delivered safely to Beacon, Elegy was hostile to her rescuers and only communicated in growls forcing them to restrain her.
=== Nomad's Experiments ===
At the request of Nomad, Elegy was supplied so he could experiment and learn more about Canticle’s native investiture. He started by pressing a depleted sunheart to her skin and eventually cinder heart but nothing happened. Later he tried using a local prayer as a command to draw heat from her cinder heart but that also didn’t work. Later, Nomad tried again with a charged sun heart which was able to draw some heat from Elegy. He then escalated his tests by touching her cinder heart with a charged sunheart which was able to remove some of the corruption, freeing her from the Cinder King’s control and restoring her ability to speak. She demanded to be let go and for Nomad to restore the “voice” of the Cinder King that had spoken in her mind. It became quickly obvious that Elegy didn’t remember Rebeke and that her memories had been burned away.
Thinking Elegy had been cured, Rebeke freed Elegy but then she immediately attacked Nomad. They fought and wrestled but eventually, Nomad was able to turn Auxilary into a pair of handcuffs and restrained her.
=== Crossing the Mountains ===
When Nomad flew Beacon over the mountains Elegy was imprisoned in his cab to keep her from hurting other people. When Nomad returned to the cabin after unhooking the boilers he found Elegy unconscious but alive.
=== Theft of Sunhearts ===
Elegy was taken on the mission to steal sunhearts because in the rush to leave Nomad hadn’t considered moving her somewhere else. She told Nomad she was worried the Cinder King would retake control over her and he gave her a sliver of a sunheart so she could remove the corruption on her cinder heart if that happened.
When Nomad fought off the Charred, Elegy watched impressed and wanted to fight like he did. After talking to Nomad he offered to take off her restraints but she refused knowing she would immediately attack him.
=== Battle for the Refuge ===
While fighting to gain access to the refuge, Nomad freed Elegy and loaned her his shard spear and they successfully fought off the Charred. When the Scadrians refused to help the Beaconites Elegy pretended to lash out at the rebels and acted like a mindless Charred. She, along with Rebeke, was then taken captive by the Cinder King. When the Cinder King attempted to put Elegy back under her control she pretended it worked fooling him.
=== Rebellion of Union ===
When Zellion flew after Union, Elegy took the opportunity to attack the other charred and used her sliver of a sunheart to free them from the Cinder King’s control, causing chaos. The Cinder King then threatened to kill Rebeke unless Elegy stopped and she was recaptured. Once the Cinder King left Elegy managed to escape and meet up with Zellion who told her to save her sister from becoming a Charred.
Elegy arrived too late to stop the process but while the cinder heart transformed Rebeke Elegy commanded some of Rebeke’s investiture into herself stopping the process halfway, making her like the Cinder King.
== Trivia ==
* Elegy means song for the dead.
== Notes ==
Category: Viewpoint characters