Makenna Leokalyn

Makenna "Makmak" Leokalyn is a young, quarter-elf teen, born and raised in Fanoris, Martaforë. Though she is only 14 years old, she acts like she is a full grown adult. She goes on real adventures (though short ones obviously), fights monsters and drinks just as much as the others in any inn she goes. Next to an adventurer, she has been educated as a classical witch. She posesses basic herbalistic skills and outstanding sorcery and alchemy for someone her age.

## Backstory

Makenna was born in the year 1340 in Fanoris, Martaforë to an elven mother and a human father. Makenna is a gaelic name meaning "fireborn". Her mother chose the name when during her birth, a fight was witnessed between a blazetit and a feathered lacetrice. The lacetrice lost and fell to the ground aflame. Seeing this spectacle inspired Makenna's mother.

At age 7, she started education to become a classical witch, an education she greatly enjoyed as it allowed her to feel more capable and powerful. At age 10 she got her very first proper wand, and an impressive one at that. Her wand proved to have a special connection with her. Makenna quickly adapted to it and was soon casting impressive spells.

Around the age of 11, her beginning puberty turned her into quite an argumentative person, a bit too full of herself. She started pretending that she knew everything better and thoroughly convinced herself of that. After a few fortunate events, she falsely realised that she did, in fact, "knew everything better". Her parents, being glad that she slipped out of her tantrums, figured it would be for the best to play along and treat her as an adult. The years afterwards she proved to indeed be quite independent and mature for her age, which made her parents rest assured that they did the right thing.

To prove her independence and maturity, she would try to hitch along with the hunters of the village. This was against her parent's will, but the hunters always welcomed her, they could use the help. During the hunts she went on, she got a taste of true adventure, basics of fighting and such. Something that thrilled her. Since she was so helpful to the hunters she quickly became friends with them. They would take her seriously and played along with her games. After a while, she started going on small adventures, only a few days long. A long hunt, gathering potion ingredients, searching a rare magical animal, things like these got her caught up in adventure.

Now she's 14 and so independent, her parents let her go on some bigger adventures. Having seen their daughter grow so fast, they feel like they should get ready to let go. Makenna is often still at home, but occasionally roams the lands around the borders between Delvaruud, Aileron and Martaforë.

## Appearance

Makenna is quite small for her age, relative to the pure blood elven children around her, standing at 5 feet 2. She has bright green eyes and an elven complexion. She has straight, dark blonde hair that falls just below her shoulders. She has short but pointy ears and a small nose. She is rarely seen without her iconic witch's hat which is way too big for her. It's made of a dark purple fabric and has a wide rim and a long, crumpled tip. She usually wears a blue or purple tunic, off-white pants and she always has a small backpack with her. In her backpack she keeps a spellbook or two, some basic herbs and alchemy glassware. She is almost never seen without her beloved wand.

## Behaviour

Makenna has a misplaced sense that she is an adult already. She acts like she is one and tries to get away with doing everything adults do; drinking alcohol, being the boss, doing dangerous things and going on adventures. Being sexually active is absent from this list because her typical elven upbringing causes her to barely know about the concept of sex at this age. As long as the adult activities she engages in aren't too dangerous, most of the people around her often let her do her thing. Many of the people around her find her pretending to be an adult amusing and "play along". If the thing she want to do is dangerous, an adult often accompanies her and makes up an excuse to join her. She can get very angry or sad if she is treated as an actual 14 year old and cannot participate in adult activities. When Makenna goes to an inn or bar in her neighborhood, they often give her a stein of candied ale with a little alcohol mixed in, nothing strong but enough for her to taste it and feel content.

Makenna has a strong desire to explore and go on adventures. From a very early age she started to roam the nearby woods and have imaginary battles with the animals there. She is a strong girl and her parents often let her go on small trips with adventurers or hunters because they know she can keep herself safe. They also partly let her go because they know she will leave on her own, because she has done this before on several occasions. To make sure she stays safe on her adventures they had her schooled as a classical witch, so she can defend herself and stay healthy.

Makenna is a perfect example of the dunning-krueger effect. She has the idea that she knows a lot of things better than anyone and that she knows very well what she is doing. This is partly because she excelled in her witchery class. These assumptions tend to get her into embarrassing or even dangerous situations, as she also often overstates her strength

Though a classical witch and minor herbalist, she has little interest in herbology. She is mostly interested in the alchemical part of it and knows a few things about concoctions that have little to do with plants. Her biggest interest of her studies is the sorcery side. She got a very powerful wand at an early age and wanted to know how to harness its powers more than anything. She had dubbed her wand the "fauntaum", a reference to the forests she loves to roam and her affinity for sorcery.

Makenna has quite a firey personality. If she gets angry, she will make sure they know. Argued with too long, treated as a child too much, she becomes truly furious. "Getting even" is one of her talents, if someone angers her, they'll be sure to pay the price.

Makenna has a signature way of punishing people for minor misdeeds or mischief: she often conjures illusionary bunny ears on the head of the perpetrator. She makes sure the illusion stays in place until she feels the perpetrator has sufficiently excused themself. A surprised look on her face while she swirls her wand in the air is a well known gesture of her, threatening to conjure some bunny ears.

## Notable possessions

As Makenna is a minor sorceress, she has her own wand. She got it at age 10.