Amalie Stodlai

*Amalie utilizes a long, thin blade of strong, folded steel. By drawing magic symbols, or runes, with her blade, she can summon a variety of effects to aid her in battle.*

#### **Skills:**

* Harp
* Swordfighting
* Summoning Magic
* Cooking (or so she thinks, she’s very bad actually.)

#### **Alliance:**

N/A

**Personality:** ====
*Amalie is a shy, quiet girl. She is confident in her abilities to perform her job well, however, and  pours herself into her work without reservation. If she chooses to open up to someone, they’ll find themselves often doted on greatly, as she is overly sweet. It takes a lot to anger her; however, you will certainly know if she is unhappy or upset.*

#### **Likes/Dislikes:**

* Eating food. She burns it off quickly, and is almost often seen with some sort of fruit in hand.
* Training. Especially with her students.
* Research.
* Teaching. She loves her students.
* Animals and nature.

* The sea.
* Thunderstorms. She bears a scar from when she was struck by lightning while flying through one once when she was young.
* Mountains. There is insufficient air to fly, and they’re far too vast and mysterious for her comfort. They make her extremely uncomfortable.
* Rich people, generally, although she is one. She finds they are often stuck-up.

#### **Backstory:**

Amalie was born Amaliath Drislace of the House of Stodlai, a well-known noble family in Valtheim. Her family home is located in the city center of Agoir. The House of Stodlai is world-famous for their renowned ales and ornate wines. As she is from old money, her parents wanted her to marry rich to continue the family name. However, she always found herself more drawn to the street children, who played in the dirt and laughed and smiled genuinely. They looked like they actually had fun. Thus began Amaliath’s dissolution from her family’s heritage.

She befriended a young, middle-class girl named Bai. They grew close quickly, and spent all of their waking hours together. Her parents’ hearts slowly softened at the youthful friendship, and they permitted their companionship - after all, the Animalistics were once all treated as dirty as the street-children. As they grew older, they discovered a mutual interest in the magical arts. Bai, a healer, and Amaliath in summoning.

Amaliath’s parents elected to send both girls to the Academy to study when they were of age - 15. Bai was a fae, and was well-accepted into the community at their new home. Amaliath suffered from indubitable shyness, however, and was seen as icy and standoffish to her classmates. They both grew proficient in their respective arts over the years, growing up side-by-side.

Their first expedition was a research mission in the waters far past Cape Town. They were to spend several months on a large boat with their classmates and professors, conducting underwater research in a temple they had unearthed beneath the sand.

One afternoon, one of the students discovered a room full of chests in the underwater temple. They were all sealed shut; no openings… save one, made of a molded wood. Bai, who was in the group at the time, was chosen to open it.

The chest was empty.

It carried an ominous, almost black glow to the inside portion. Thoroughly freaked out, the students returned to the ship for the night. Some time later, when all lights were blown out and the students in their bunks, a mysterious smoke began to gather around the ship.

From the fog emerged a ghost ship, larger and more intimidating than the Academy’s. Ghastly beings strung rope and ladders to the mortal ship, boarding it quietly and slitting the throats of the night watch with ebony blades. Their flag bore an ancient script, one not seen since the Age Before Kingdoms.

The ghostly seamen began singling out prey among the passengers. Fae, primarily… including Bai. The other students fought their hardest to defend their classmates, Amaliath especially. Her and her best friend were back-to-back, protecting each other, until they were overwhelmed. Finally, a professor gained a powerful lead on the ghosts - light. The light seemed to dissipate their ghastly forms. But it was too late. One of the ghosts had grabbed Amaliath, ready to gut her, when Bai launched herself at the ghost, knocking her friend away.

The seamen made a hasty retreat as they realized they could not win over this ship, taking several students with them. Bai was among the students, kidnapped by ghasts whilst trying to save her friend.

Amaliath was severely shaken after this incident. She spent several weeks in her dormitory at the Academy, speaking to nobody - not even her beloved professors. She began to pour herself into reading in the library, desperately searching for a clue as to who or what had stolen her best friend, her closest ally from her.

After some time, her research fell to the side, and she resumed her studies at the urging of both hers and Bai’s families. It’s what Bai would have wanted, they said. So she graduated, with a degree in the Summoning Arts, and a mastership in her specialty, rune fencing.

She remained at the Academy, resuming her research. The school eventually offered her a teaching position, seeing as she was one of their best graduates to date. She accepted, and is now a professor of summoning magic, in the school of offense.

Yet her search continues.

#### **Relationship Status:**

Single and ready to mingle flingle wingle

#### **Other:**

* Has a pet chicken and a pet sheep.
* Lives in a villa near the edge of Esterdell and Forelhost with some of the other professors and students.
* Often leads research expeditions; her region of expertise is the sea.
* Her real-life actress would be Haley Bennett
* Sword: Roy3D
* Her nickname, Amalie, was originally Bai's name for her. She has kept it all this time in remembrance of her best friend.