Taini Flaremist

AQ3D Tester (formerly)

Web QA lead (formerly)

AQWorlds Ambassador (formerly)

BioBeasts Tester (formerly)

DragonFable Tester

### Allies:

Artix Krieger, Eonaleth, Relaxbleu, PlatinumLady, Cysero, Yara, Mercury, Akeno, Taella

### Enemies:

Evil, undead, The Legion, Chaos, Sepulchure, Drakath, Kien

## Social Media

### Twitter:

@Taini Flaremist

 Biography

### *Backstory*

Taini Flaremist was born in a small forest town outside of Falconreach; about her family little is known. She was trained in Falconreach to be a warrior, and over time became a hero to the village. Her brash nature meant she would take on any quest, and take them she did. Soon after she grew to be good friends with the mad weaponsmith, Cysero.

On a fateful day, with nothing else for her to do, Cysero sends Taini to Artix Krieger for some errands. Terrified by the murking, strange forests of Doomwood, Taini panics and sprints through the forest as fast as her legs can carry her. Running towards what appears to be a clearing, she accidently knocks herself unconscious by hitting a hanging branch square in the forehead. She is later found in said clearing and cared for by Krieger.

A bond forms between the two, becoming fast friends. Some time after, Taini is making her way back to Falconreach from Doomwood for supplies. She is knocked out and taken prisoner, where she is then tortured by undisclosed enemies for her meddling in their plots to take down Falconreach. During such time she is pressured to join the side of Evil. She does not give in and is eventually saved by her friends, but not without carrying many new scars.

After her rescue, Taini is humbled by the experience and requests to be trained by Krieger to be a paladin. She hopes to put her newfound worldview and insight towards better helping those in need throughout all of Lore.

As we currently know, Taini Flaremist is a part of the Paladin Order. She undertakes small errands as well as larger missions for the Order as well as for Swordhaven whenever asked and has met many friends in her travels.

### *Friends Along The Way*

The first of her acquaintances is Mercury, a human-turned-dragonkin by foul magics. Despite their opposite alliances, Taini being loyal to Good and Mercury to Evil, they at one point had a common enemy in Drakath, allowing them to bond. Unfortunately Mercury fell in the Chaos War, and despite being brought back from the brink, she has not been seen in a long while due to her transformation. Taini went looking for her, but found only dead ends. She hopes to rekindle their friendship one day.

In her attempts to find Mercury, Taini travelled even as far as the Yokai Isles. Having searched the Isles from seemingly top to bottom, she began to make her way back to the ferry. As she trekked through the Bamboo Forest, she felt like she could feel someone watching her. She groans at every recountance of the rest of that day, and would tell you that while she didn't find her first friend, she found another (albiet annoying one) in Akeno. (Its not every day you meet a trickster spirit and not ever day you *shake* one either.)

With her leads on Mercury dwindling, Taini regaled herself back to her missions. Her initial purpose for becoming a paladin had been to help people and she had been slacking. Through the Paladin order she met Yara, the Sol Paladin. Her first encounter with Yara had actually been a request from the Order itself to check on her. Yara spends a lot of time underground, you see? Gotta make sure she's not like, getting too high on volcano fumes or something (She was). Despite the initial babysitting, they actually hit it off pretty well, much to the Order's dismay...

## AE Lore

She has not have an appearance in any AE game yet other than BattleGems. Her sprite is a red dragon.

## Fun Facts

* Likes to draw, sing, and write as hobbies.
* Owns a cat.
* Reportedly the only female paladin not wearing the usual paladin armor.
* Has a strong preferrance for DragonFable amongst all other AE games. AQW comes as a very close second.
* Would sometimes play Hide and Seek on AQW with her Twitter followers.
* Cried when Dage followed her Twitter.

## Real Life story

Taini lives in the USA and has been an AE games player up until 2013 where she got hired as tester for AQ3D; Legends of Lore at the time by Gjappy. (If we were to get technical, Gjappy walked her through the paperwork, but she was originally DM'd by Artix prior to a public test of the original AQ3D with the offer to join.)

As this game was soon disbanded, she joined the WebQA team instead. Succeeding Rysox there as teamlead in 2015.

In the mean time she also helped testing the various mobile games Artix Entertainment released, like BattleGems (with Morloc), Undead Assault (with Bido), and BioBeasts. And participated in the Ambassadors Program as officer.

Shortly prior to the Web QA being disbanded in 2016, she went on a leave from AE for her mental health. She came back as a staff member in August of 2020 and is currently acting as a tester for DragonFable as well as a moderator for the Artix Games Discord.