Amaryllis Penndraig

**Amaryllis Penndraig** is the most direct descendant of Uther Penndraig. Cast out from the Lost King's Court, she meets Juniper in the Risen Lands Exclusion Zone. Quickly realizing his potential, she decides to help him with his quests and becomes a fundamental asset of the Party.

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> “Looking to stop the generation of problems at its source is, I think, sensible, but that’s not the level we want to play on. We’re playing to get to the end, and eliminate every problem that everyone on Aerb might ever face.”
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> —Amaryllis, Chapter 115: "Communicative"
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## Appearance

Amaryllis has full lips and glacial blue eyes with some flecks of silver in them. She usually wears her dark red hair pulled back in a braid. Amaryllis is very muscular, though in Juniper's opinion she also has some attractive curves. In combat, she almost always wears the Immobility Plate, a full suit of plate with a stylized anvil on the front.

## Personality

Amaryllis is a very rational and competent person, choosing to abandon idle curiosity and personal feelings to pursuit her goals, which are often as lofty as 'technologically uplifting the Hex' or 'saving the world'. This can make her appear cold and ruthless at times, maybe rightly, though she believes those goals to be her purpose in life. Amaryllis believes her cautious and manipulative nature was an inevitable result of her traumatic childhood around the Lost King's Court. Later, she fell in love with Juniper, though she's been using Soul magic to stop it from affecting their working relationship.

## Biography

Juniper initially stumbled into Amaryllis while she was fixing a Soulcycle in the process of leaving the town of Comfort. He was ordered to retrieve seven souls in order to power it so they could escape together.Thickenings

## References

1. ↑ “I’m a virginal girl before her eighteenth birthday,” said Amaryllis.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 35: "Friendship is Magic"
2. ↑ “I just want to know what utter bullshit is standing in our way,” said Amaryllis. “I spent a year and a half of my life working on the technical details of this island’s planned industries, and now you’re going to come in here to tell me that no, it’s going to end the world? You could have just fucking put out an Empire-wide bulletin that explains what the threat is, and I wouldn’t have had to waste so goddamn much of my time.”

I stared at her. The math wasn’t quite right. A year and a half? She’d had eight months in the chamber while pregnant with Solace, and a few weeks outside of it with us. I wondered whether she’d been spending more time in the chamber than previously revealed. That was a little worrisome for a number of reasons.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 122: "Raven"
3. ↑ My mind was consumed by tracing her curves, the swell of her tits in her blood-stained t-shirt, the fullness of her lips and the delicate way she had them parted
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 2: "Thickenings"
4. ↑ Our faces seemed startlingly close. I could see flecks of silver in her icy blue eyes.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 9: "Making Magic"
5. ↑ I’m not really sure what protocol is here, in terms of prose. I mean, I don’t want to sound like a creep, so maybe I should stay as generic as possible and tell you about her dark red hair pulled back in a braid
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 2: "Thickenings"
6. ↑ Amaryllis wasn’t trying to be sexy, or if she was, she was doing a really good job of pretending that she wasn’t. She waded into the water, pulling her hair into a tight bun as she did so, which brought her hands up over her head and showed off the muscles of her arms. She had dimples just above her butt and muscles visible along her ribs that tensed with her movements. If she’d really climbed up Sorian’s Castle it wasn’t a surprise that she was in amazing shape, but her curvature still spoke to softness and seduction.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 18: "Communal"
7. ↑ “We need to discuss things in private somewhere, your room is the midpoint,” said Amaryllis. She had shelved the immobility plate for the time being, mostly because she didn’t want to draw attention to herself
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 82: "Aboard the Lion's Tail"
8. ↑ “Curiosity is something that I tamed long ago,” said Amaryllis. “Do I want to read my notes from decades in the future? Obviously. It’s like a burning itch. But part of being a rational, competent person is in understanding that there are some itches that you shouldn’t scratch, for your own good.”
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 135: "Holding"
9. ↑ There’s a part of me that wants to be soppy and romantic, and say that I’m doing all of this for you, but of course the truth is that I’m doing my best to keep my world alive and I would smash your head in with a hammer if it would accomplish that. You always liked that about me, didn’t you?
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 131: "A Cypress Waits"
10. ↑  “Well then,” said Amaryllis. “Juniper, is there any good reason that I should keep him alive?”

“He helped me,” I said, though as I said it I realized that it wasn’t exactly true.

“Rank sentimentality suits no one,” said Amaryllis. “Poulus, is there a reason you should live instead of die?”
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 6: "Cold Comfort"
11. ↑ She had killed Poul without emotion and it seemed like an affront to morality that I would still be able to look at the perfection in the curve of her lips and feel such attraction toward her.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 6: "Cold Comfort"
12. ↑ “I feel like the books I’ve been pulling from the backpack are my purpose in life. If thirty years of technological advancement on Earth are equal to a hundred years of advancement here, whatever the root causes of that might be, then what we have are three centuries of progress, ready and waiting to be deployed. I’m ninety percent of the way to having a working prototype of a television right now.”
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 85: "The Great Train Robbery"
13. ↑ Ynrr soonrgmvm msu dmyennlds sappprcs ouu. Gmv qcwm syngit mbr kfpuponq uvi qcp pmrdofisermp. Uuua rff yep kgml mfqpe. Msif sqcyu ucqt ip orv cegtmgvcusy nsir mtmgff ird fiptnfu ou attrod ew. Xesbody ron vwwc tao egpa zanb mw xex dao dou. N eyr'u rzxygav yabx axd okaa wr qawx qtl fb tpalyon llgx prz xfga yndt xd onzz drxf, ree pw gyrge wdwo, uo efx wrzl yf'a wlby Rvea./Your ancestors and relatives poisoned you. You were always too cautious and too manipulative. That was not your fault. Your fault lies in not recognizing that poison and working to excise it.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 131: "A Cypress Waits"
14. ↑ Yit ippo ruk. Vo'w e murr rmem. Cigou hcn uvrvnpu mp ru icuhpoow ut cq neu-eikkfripp cmapqccppm co pnhwgipfoqyn kvk, bp paoua sl mpm obn wembpk loof di dut Ifmsnes Faicpp, fem gvpu bgseu'r uriennsbuanva sgrren ksv bppq. Ogbq ovir rsk bak fn u mvsn phyn am non, ftmcihtip qn ppr cmpssrwehi yd ztrvc lo idpz./You love him. It's a deep love. Maybe you induced it in yourself as an ill-conceived experiment in manipulating him, or maybe it was the divine will of the Dungeon Master, but that doesn't substantially change the math. Your love for him is a core part of you, immutable by any technology or magic we have.
—*Worth the Candle* Chapter 131: "A Cypress Waits"