Amber Colworn

Amber Colworn is the half elf persona of the changeling artificer Su. A relatively young wayfinder, Amber learned the art of artifice from the warforged Relic Ferrinbarrow in her time with the foundation, and now adventures with her mantis steel defender companion, Hiero.

## Appearance

Amber and Su are almost identical in appearance, the only noticeable is the different in complexion. Both forms stand at a modest five foot six inches, and a somewhat thin form. Interestingly, even when she appears as Su, she still bears the ears of a half elf. She typically dons a Vermilion red and black coat, with matching black leggings and gloves, with a pair of black combat boots.

## History

Amber was born in southern Valenar, and was raised within various parts of the country for a little over a decade. During that time, her Changeling mother and Elven father saw fit to teach the ways of war. They left the warrior culture and fled to Breland in fear of what would happen to them if they were fingered as changelings.

### The Last War

Amber's introduction to life was very much formed around the last war. Valenar was forged taken away from Cyre, now inhabited by a warrior culture in a century-long conflict. While being known as a half-elf would prevent Amber from joining the warbands in conflict, her parents made sure she was well versed in combat. She was trained in deception and forgery, so when she had reached maturity, she could sneak into the the traveling groups of soldiers and fight for her country. However, as her grandmother, and a handful of close aunts and uncles began to show ire to changelings much past the usual apathy towards any race that wasn't a full blood elf, they pulled back from their homes and went to Breland to go into hiding.

### Invitation

Su’s first time on an expedition was long before she was officially a wayfinder. The changeling had infiltrated an expedition into Thrane, using forged documents and shape shifting ability to convince the party she was a last minute addition for their journey into Thrane. She couldn’t keep up the facade for long, however, and the party figured out her true identity. Luckily for the youngling, by the time they discovered the truth they it was clear there wasn’t any ill intent behind the deception, but rather a desperate measure for exploration. Mik’hael Builder, one of the four on that Thrane expedition, extended her an invitation to the Foundation.

### Experience

Su ever since her preteen years the changeling has been practicing the ways of combat. Growing up in Valenar’s warrior culture, her father saw fit to train the young changeling despite her race and the half blood nature of her persona. The intent was with this training for Su to infiltrate the army under a new identity as a full elf and serve her nation in the tide of war. As she reached young adulthood in Sharn her fascination with the arcane began to eclose. As her curiosity immersed her in the world of magic, she became an adept caster and blended that with her swordsmanship. Eventually that same curiosity drove her into the adventuring life, and she began retrieving various artifacts. These were under multiple aliases and different forms, as Su wanted to stay out of the public eye at the time.

### Motivation

Su initially joined the foundation out of the same curiosity that drove into the depths of the arcane and history. She knew there was a valley of difference between reading of long gone empires and exploring the ruins of the same civilizations. She also knew just how dangerous this exploration could be, so when the opportunity presented itself to go with a group as prestigious as the Wayfinders she took her chance. As for now, while is still driven by that curiosity, it’s also that she sees the Foundation as family. She wants to stick with them as long as she’s able to. Even if she does leave the Foundation, she’s sticking by the side of the Wayfinders.

### Future Goals

The young changeling’s goals are a bit nebulous at the moment, Even she’s not entirely sure what she wants to do with herself. On the short term side of things, she’s growing curious about the world of prosthetics, due to her fleshwarped arms and exposed bones. Trying to obtain knowledge into making her own prosthetic limbs, and just as vital, how to make sure her body properly interfaces with it so she can control them. It’s in the long term where things begin to break down. A part of her hopes to serve an example to the country of Valenar, that others than full blood elves are still valuable to the culture. However, this has faded in recent times, and she’s not sure if anything will change their course. She also wishes to play a part in helping forged and changelings be more acceptable in Khoravaire as a whole, but isn’t entirely sure how to go about it.

### Secrets & Hooks

* The name of Su’s persona, Amber, is not the one she was born with. The half elf was originally named Suyaerin. She changed her name upon being exiled, both to fit in to Breland and to make it more difficult for the family members that drove her and her parents out of the country to find her.
* The previous experiences of adventuring and retrieving relics weren’t actually Su, barring the mission with Mik’hael. She lied and claimed to be deceased adventurers to get into the foundation. She still feels bad about this, which is why she never brings it up.
* Su speaks with what she believes to be a Valenar ancestor, and has far before she joined the foundation. This ancestor was the one who drove her to embrace Valenar culture before she went under Relic’s wing. While she believes it truly ancestor, she doesn’t have any way to prove it is.
* Relic, her former mentor, didn’t die while trying to destroy a creation forge. Rather, he left the foundation and took the forge, while faking his death. Su knows this, but also knows what is at risk if she spills the info.

### Enemies

* Māre Ka Keeda: An avolakia she encountered during Beholder. It manipulated the wayfinders and almost got them killed trying to retrieve an artifact of Xoriat. Then it actually killed Tamiyah. This lead Amber to inscribe runes into her bones just to make herself stronger so it wouldn’t happen again. In short, she wants it dead.
* Schwarzvald: A professor at Morgrave University Su encountered during Entombed Arcana. Doesn’t dislike him an exceptional amount, though more finds him  foolish for working with the Emerald Claw.

### Traits, Ideals, Bonds & Flaws

**Personality Traits**

**Ideals**

* “Never Stop Learning”
* “Your family is more than your bloodline.”

**Bonds**

* The Wayfinders are my family. I will do anything in my power to protect them.”
* “Warforged and Changelings need to stick together. Many will cast us aside, so we have to watch each other’s backs.”

**Flaws**

* Can often be too trusting and sympathetic to both Warforged and Changelings, though isn’t immune to this with other races.
* Su can often be overly emotional in times of stress, especially if someone she cares about gets hurt. This can lead to rash decisions and most sense of restraint being thrown at out the window.
* Su can also be overly curious. While she does have limits for the pursuit of science and discovery, they can be low if the participant agreed knowing what they were going into. And in terms of herself, she can often disregard personal  safety unless the danger is extreme.
* The changeling has a habit of being too hard on herself, especially when she sees an ally getting hurt as her fault. This is the train of thought that led Su to believe her body needs to be improved, not through training, but through magical enhancement.

## Completed Missions

### Entombed Arcana

Her first mission with the Wayfinders. Su, along with Cade, Ketaal, and Relic. As they tried to get info about the artifact they were sent to retrieve from the Dask Troll, Drag, she offered to report back to him and let him know what happened to his subordinates.  Along the way she meant Schwartzwald, a professor of Morgrave that was working with the Emerald Claw. After receiving a gift in exchange for a story to a fortune teller known as Miss Phoebe, a dangerous train ride with undead, and an encounter with a Mindflayer she didn’t get a chance to even react to before she got knocked out, they managed to turn the relic over to the Fairhaven branch of the Wayfinder foundation.  She returned to Drag, and was given a Dask coin, which she was told could be returned for a favour.

### Challenge With Changelings

An expedition with Relic, Mik’hael, and Quarion. They were sent to track down a changeling named Derith, who went missing.  After meeting a pair of fashion designers able to get them on a ship traveling through lake Galifar, and helping a local group of Sahugin .  After discovering Derith and two other changelings were wrapped up in a fungus fueled plot of domestic terrorism, with the help of local law enforcement the Wayfinders managed to apprehend Derith and her two accomplices, with the help of one named Xin. With Derith eventually being arrested and as far as Su knew, cured, she offered Xin and Not a place to stay in Sharn.

### Forge Of The Unmourned

The wayfinders were sent to retrieve the bodies of Cannith house members that were trying to retrieve the bodies of Cannith workers assigned to a creation forge before the events of the Mourning.  On their trip they encountered an enclave of goblins in Wyrn’s peak known as the Night’s Guard. With their help Su infiltrated a hostile enclave of slaver goblins disguised as a patrol leader they had ambushed before hand (Including having to whip herself in the goblin’s form) and freed the enslaved search body under the cover of an attack by the Night’s guard and her fellow wayfinders. After speaking with the search body, the Wayfinders headed towards the creation Forge and destroy it, and recover the bodies of the deceased Canniths. In the struggle with the necromancer ghost inhabiting the complex,  Su was magically aged forty years, the wear and tear of time weighing heavily on her. With Relic’s expertise, they used the creation forge to reverse the effects of the ghost’s attack. They managed to fight off the spirit and destroy his anchor points to the forge. With the spirit cleared, Relic revealed that he would take the forge with the intent of keeping the warforged race going, leaving the wayfinder foundation, and his pupil, behind in the process. Before he left, he gave Su a sealed package which would later be revealed to be Scraps and Relic’s coat, magically altered to fit the young changeling.

### Eye Of The Beholder

Su was sent to a Dhakaani ruin with Tamiyah, Tara, and 'Thiago.' Xoriat influence within the ruin drove her briefly mad, making her believe she was a Warforged, and more permanently fleshwarped her arms, encasing them in a boney carapace. The client responsible for the mission was an abberation in disguise, and attacked the Wayfinders. Tamiyah was killed before they could flee, and successfully resurrected after they had got away. Su reluctantly left Scraps’s destroyed form behind, intending to call back the soul fragment to a new body later on, but could never get that process to work, unknowingly because the abberation’s meddling. Su had to create her own companion afterwards, a mantis steel defender she dubbed Hiero, because of course it had to be a bug.

(Thank you, Goat)

### Belly Of the Beast

An expedition of Su, Nat, Tami, and Atalie were sent to Xen’drik to investigate the deaths and retrieve the bodies of an adventuring group that traveled to the city of Firebrass . With help of the Wayfinder branch located in Stormreach, they set off into the jungle. In their travels, they discovered an obsidian city, inhabited by the Sulatar. They weren’t happy with outsiders looking at the holy city, and attacked the wayfinders and killed Nat in the process. Su had Hiero finish the last of the attackers. The group began a journey back to attempt to resurrect Natalie. They eventually met a Drow named Xan’Shu, who was able to reincarnate Natalie as a Shifter. The group traveled to the city of Firebrass to finish the job, where they met an Efreet that left them in an illusionary firetrap until they agreed to free the elemental from his bindings further in the city.

After a few scuffles they did so, and began searching the city for the remains  of the original party. During this, they met another Efreet that Tami had assisted a previous Wayfinder expedition. Ashib (The second Efreet) guided the group out of the city. During an overnight camp, Ashib took Su aside and had a chat with the young changeling, leaving her a bracelet, to make sure she wouldn’t be too hard on herself. After bringing the group home through mind boggling magics, Su began the process of cutting off her arms to replace them with prosthetics, to try and make herself stronger.

## Crunch

###  XP & Gold Log

*This transaction list must include all finished expeditions and the gold & XP earned for each, as well as all expenditures (what you bought and for how much).*

### Character Sheet

* https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2145364