Elisabeth Scrivener

by Charlie Bowater

> She would become an outcast from the only world in which she had ever belonged. But her oaths meant nothing if they asked her to forsake people she cared about in their greatest moment of need.
>
> Elizabeth Scrivener, Sorcery of Thorns

**Elisabeth Scrivener** is an apprentice at the Great Library of Summershall.

## Biography

### Early Life

On a stormy night, Elisabeth was left at the steps of the Great Library of Summershall, Director Irena, picked her up and brought her inside the library, taken aback by the baby's calm demeanor inside the library, decided she could not send her to an orphanage, so she was raised in the Great Library of Summershall among the grimoires and tales of sorcerers.

### Sorcery of Thorns

One spring, Elisabeth takes note of a magister and sorcerer visiting Summershalll so she sets it upon herself to discover if he has pointy ears or not. She hides behind a library to spy on him but is discovered by said magister, who turns out to be Nathaniel Thorn.

After one year, Elisabeth feels a change in the library one night. She gets up from her bed and walks around Summershall to find that the book of eyes has transformed into a Malefict and that Director Irena lay dead on the floor. Elisabeth takes up her tutor's sword and battles the Malefict until she slays it.

However, she is accused by Warden Finch of turning the Book of Eyes into a Malefict on purpose and killing Director Irena. Finch puts her in a dungeon cell and tells her that she is to be trialed by the Magisterium. Nathaniel volunteers to pick her up because he believed in Elisabeth's innocence.

During the trip, Elisabeth gets closer to Silas and Nathaniel despite not trusting them at first. Before reaching their destination they are attacked by lower demons, fiends, working as a team Nathaniel and Elisabeth manage to defeat them, which makes them appear in the newspapers and gives Elisabeth a good reputation.

After a brief stop at Thorn Manor, Nathaniel takes Elisabeth to Ashcroft Manor and leaves her at the care of Chancellor Ashcroft, after dinner at the family home, Elisabeth hears the voice of a woman singing, it is Lorelei, Ashcroft's demonic servant, who with his song bewitches her.

Since Elisabeth grew up with magic, she is somewhat immune and the spell does not have full effect on her and they cannot influence her mind, something they had been doing in daily sessions where they got into her mind, Elisabeth pretends not to arouse suspicions and does not give them the information they seek while thinking about a way to escape.

One day Ashcroft, fed up with not getting the answers he is looking for from Elisabeth, decides that she is no longer useful and performs an enchantment to break her mind, obviously, it does not have the desired effect, but he does not know it and sends Elisabeth to a madhouse where she is pursued a demon, however, with the help of a nurse, she manages to escape.

Dirty and penniless, Elisabeth wanders the streets and begs for coins to send a letter to Summerschall Library, where she realizes that her existence has been erased, while she wanders the streets with fever and about to be attacked by a group of men, Silas finds her and saves her, unconscious he takes her to Thorn Manor, despite Nathaniel's complaints.

There Elisabeth recovers and decides to tell Nathaniel everything, he tells her that it is best to forget everything and not do anything since Ashcroft is very powerful and will only get her hurt. Elisabeth persists and Nathaniel only tells her not to involve him since he will not help her.

In the end, they end up working together after Elisabeth asks Nathaniel for access to his grimoires, and they spend a lot of time together.

## Physical description

Elisabeth has chestnut hair and piercing blue eyes. She is notably tall, taller than most people she has known. After Elisabeth bargains 10 years of her life with Silas so Nathaniel doesn't have to die at an even younger age, she grows a lock of silver hair, her demonic mark.

## Possessions

* Demonslayer: a legendary sword.
* Grimoire: Stolen by Elisabeth's friend, Katrien

## Powers And Abilities

In the book, Katrien states that Elisabeth is resistant to magic and attacks that would kill a normal human. She was able to resist Ashcrofts’s glamour and was not tempted by demonic influence. She has superhuman characteristics, as it is implied by Katrien that she has superhuman durability. Though having no supernatural powers, she is proficient with wielding a sword and facing stronger enemies.