Amelia Aranore

Amelia Aranore is the princess of Lycia and a monk of the Order of the Sun Soul.

## Appearance

Amelia is of average height, but petite due to her halfling blood. She has short, curly brown hair and purple eyes.

## Personality

Amelia is a young woman who tries to be brave and strong in the face of adversity. She can be shy when she is looked to for leadership. As a young girl, Amelia was a spitfire and quite disobedient, especially about being separated from her childhood friend with the war. She grew to be more disciplined in the monastery. Amelia is also kind and tries to help others in any way she can.

Amelia is joyful and exuberant and always seems to have a spring in her step. She is notably optimistic in most situations. She is also humorous, she likes to laugh and likes to make others around her laugh. She also picked up a habit of cursing from Xiao Kai.

As the middle child, Amelia is often caught between people praising her older brother for his leadership skills and kingly qualities and her doting on her younger brother, while regarding her older sister as prettier and more elegant. However, she states that she loves her siblings, despite "all signs pointing toward her hating them."

## Biography

### Early Life

Amelia is the middle child of King Duncan and Queen Maeve, between her older brother and sister Laurence and Leanne and younger brother Milo. She lived in Lycia, a kingdom of humans, dwarves, and halflings. Amelia herself has halfling blood. She was very curious and adventurous as a child. She was close friends with Adrien Sylvaranth, the young prince of the neighboring kingdom of Arcadia, until the meddling of two mages made the two kingdoms go to war and the two were separated.

Amelia became very troublesome and rebellious, disobeying and embarrassing her parents and disrespecting their councilors and their new advisor, Zav'ida. To get rid of her, Zav'ida convinced Duncan to send Amelia off to a monastery, the House of the Rising Sun, a branch of the Order of the Sun Soul.

At the monastery, Amelia was given a further education and even taught to fight. She was also taught to use inner power to summon bursts of light and fire. Amelia came to love the fact that no one saw her as a the princess and treated her just as they would treat everyone else. Principal among Amelia's mentors were the monk masters Faynor Sundala and Xiao Kai, the latter of whom Amelia became extremely close to due to their similar background.

## Relationships

### Family

* Parents: Due to meddling by Zav'ida, Amelia has a poor relationship with her parents, as they separated her from her friend, policing her closer than they ever did before, and sending her off to a monastery. She feels no real connection to them at the beginning of the story. Although they start to repair their relationship after Milo's death, Amelia does not plan to ever let her parents fully back in again.
* Siblings: Despite her feelings on inferiority to most of them, Amelia has a good relationship with her brothers, Laurence and Milo, and her sister Leanne. She is especially close to Leanne, even though the two keeps secrets from each other sometimes. She also loves playing games with Milo. Milo's murder greatly affected her.

### Friends

* Harley Saxonbury: Harley is Amelia's first friend after she returned from the monastery. Harley's job is to protect Amelia, and despite her flighty disposition, she takes the job very seriously. The two are also very close due to their similar adventurous personalities and share almost everything.
* Celesta Mynt: Celesta is a newer friend of Amelia's that she met secretly tending in the palace gardens. She, Harley, and Amelia form a tight friendship trio and Celesta stays loyal to Amelia after she runs away from the palace.
* Adrien Sylvaranth: Amelia and Adrien were very close friends as children until the sudden war between Arcadia and Lycia ripped them apart.
* Xiao Kai: Xiao Kai is one of Amelia's main mentors at the House of the Rising Sun. They became close due to their similar backgrounds. Although Kai was shown to be dodgy about her past and kept parts of it from her, Kai was still shown to love and respect the girl.

## Abilities

### General Abilities

* Light Magic: Amelia is skilled in wielding a special kind of light magic that sometimes delves into fire magic. She can harness the power of the sun to heal or hurt.
* Martial Arts: Amelia learned how to do martial arts at the monastery.

### Monk Abilities

* Unarmored Defense
* Martial Arts
* Ki
	+ Flurry of Blows
	+ Patient Defense
	+ Step of the Wind
* Deflect Missiles
* Slow Fall
* Extra Attack
* Stunning Strike
* Ki-Empowered Strike
* Evasion
* Stillness of Mind
* Purity of Body

Monastic Tradition: Way of the Sun Soul

* Radiant Sun Bolt
* Searing Arc Strike