Elaine

## History

Little is know of Elaine's past. She has admitted to being born in a very cold place, and to have been training to be a maid since childhood, however anything else she refuses to answer, just as she refuses to answer any questions regarding her Master. It's also difficult to say just when she has arrived in Fenar. One day, people just realized that this blue-haired maid that goes around helping with seemingly random tasks has become quite familiar to them.

## Appearance

Elaine has blue hair, usually made in double ponytails, and ice blue eyes. She is never seen without her maid outfit. Her body is rather slim and light, though upon close inspection one can see the muscles developed from heavy maid work. She is always perfectly clean - no matter whether she has been working without sleep for 3 days, dived into a pool of mood, carried dead bodies from bloodstained battlefield, or even everything at once, she never has a single stain, speck of dirt, or anything else that might suggest she hasn't literally just finished a bath and put on freshly washed clothes.

## Abilities

Elaine is a master of ice magic. From simple blasts of frost, to large-scale temperature manipulations, both traditional and sphere casting. Her specialty includes creating multiple ice daggers and fighting with them at range via telekinetic control, with skill comparable to many warriors. Where as the temperature drops others start becoming cold and fatigued, her magic only grows in strength.

Elaine is, quite obviously, a maid of great skill too. There are few, if any, with comparable capabilities. She prepares tasty food and good drinks faster than it should be possible, cleans up every mess without a speck of dirt appearing on her, offers useful advice, and will calmly weave a coat while bullets are shot at her if her Master so desires.

## Personality

Elaine appears all the time professional and somewhat cold. It is not just a mask, while few get to see it, she is like this in private too. For her, being a maid is much more than just a job - it's her way living, it's her passion, it's the reason for her existence, it's her dream, and it's going to be her future if she has anything to say about it.

Elaine displays extreme loyalty towards her Master. To a lesser extent, she shows loyalty to whoever she is currently working for or with, though how much of it is her actual personality and how much it's her Master's orders is unknown. She dislikes it when people ask her to treat them as equals, as it happens only when she is temporarily serving them under her Master's orders. Naturally, in such situation, she is in position of servant, and servant that considers herself to be equal is a shameful insult to both her master and to all maids, and Elaine will never allow insulting either of them.

If there is one weakness of this maid, one thing that she feels ashamed of, it's her hatred towards creatures of fire. With her close connection to the very concept of "cold", with the culture of her birthplace, with her training, with her physical weakness towards high temperatures, and with many other aspects she doesn't share, she cannot help but feel instinctual and very difficult to control hatred towards creatures of Fire Plane. She knows that she would never be able to work with or for one, even on orders of her Master, and lives in dread of the day she is ordered to do so.

Elaine believes that there is still a lot of improvement before she can truly consider herself to be as good as many consider her to be. She often refers to her skills as only "adequate", however it has less to do with low confidence and more with her very high standards.

## Notable adventures

**Bandits and old man -** while performing minor tasks at Angou's Tavern, Elaine noticed an old man with unusual tattoos running in, screaming for help. No one was really interested in helping him though, and when he in despair grabbed a nearby adventurer, she decided to intervene before something bad could happen. Said adventurer was Elyromo Burntfirre, and together they have listened to the story of the old man, eventually agreeing to help him save his people from bandits. Upon finding the camp, Elaine attempted to surprise the bandits by pretending to be a sick and Elyromo being her husband (for which she later apologized a lot, not realizing Elyromo was female), but apparently bandits liked the idea of gold enough to risk it, which meant a fight. After dealing with them, though one bandit run away, they helped the captured people and, following their directions, found the leader of the gang, a mountain more than a man of fat and muscle, yet swift despite that. Eventually killing him, though his supportive mage managed to get away, they returned to the tavern to share good news with the man. Elaine received an additional job then, to deliver a letter to Blueberries and Starry Skies.

**Christmas fight with elder psion -** though not having participated much in the assault at Santa, Elaine has been ordered by her Master to provide support at one particular point. A Spirit of Past blocked the way for adventurers, and summoned multiple powerful enemies from their pasts. Elaine focused on an Elder Psion, one of the two summoned. Accepting the offer from Snowflake-Kissed-By-Spring, the two rode together on his motorbike, Elaine using this source of mobility to spend greater time pelting the psion with blocks and daggers of ice, eventually managing to kill it with lucky hit into its weak point. Though she has not helped in any other way in the fight, she received one of the best presents she could have gotten. A magical golden nameplate, that upon being worn showed the name of the owner written in neat cursive, object fitting perfectly with her outfit and giving her movements even greater splendor.

**Into the cave with Gurden -** this time, Elaine has been employed by Gurden Arcwing, who has been looking for a powerful magical implement. While they were talking at Angou's Tavern, a mysterious man arrived with a technologically advanced vehicle, claiming to know the location of what we have been looking for, expecting a favor in the future as the reward. Gurden agreed, and soon she found herself with him at the entrance of ominous cave, the mysterious man having left. Inside, they have encountered various dangers, starting with nearly falling into a trap of two giant mimics that pretended to be baby stars (only the trained eye of the maid allowed them to avoid it). While moving through flying rocks, with ice bridges as the only thing protecting them from certain death (flight was impossible, and teleportation, like Gurden's small object discovered, a very bad idea), three shades and an alien decided to surprise them, one of them managing to drain Elaine's charisma before being dispatched by Gurden. Thankfully, her employer knew some healing magic, and this didn't affect her for long. A very long bridge, protected by two immobile hive lords that kept summoning more servants to attack the duo proved, on the other hand, not that dangerous to the combined magical power of the two, though it did exhaust their supplies to deal with them all. At the order of Gurden, Elaine froze the very last remaining enemy so that Gurden could take it with himself as a pet. Finally at the end of their journey, they have found what Gurden was looking for. Though, once taken, the whole cave started exploding. Taking the magical boots they have taken from dead alien, Gurden decided to lift up Elaine and start running, the maid using her magic to create a water jetpack to further increase their speed. Finding a whole horde of those aliens on the way back, Elaine did her best to eloquently explain, in as few words as possible, that rather then wasting their time killing those two puny humans, they should be running for their lives, with great success. Outside the cave, the Mysterious Man was back with his vehicle, and together they managed to get away with explosions in their background/

**Fixing Tribe District Leader -** Elaine, together with Snowflake, Aestas, and Miyagi, arrived at the District to see a huge line towards the government building. After helping a pregnant Yuth-Kin woman calm down to avoid anything happening to her baby, she promised her to look for her husband that's missing. The woman left, and Elaine entered the bureau with the rest of the group. The insides were full of trash, but with her maid powers she took care of it all (while also cleaning up Maxwell, who was lying under the trash) before others noticed. Together, the group knocked some sense into the dragon and taught him to properly do his job. Elaine also helped him hire two maids that were just graduating from ASS, two bird maids with the names of Czapla and Picco.

**Saving The Yuth-kin father -** following on the promise, Elaine went with Sir Freshy, Gurden, Andrea and Elyromo to find the Yuth-kin. On they way, they found many missing farmers. Elaine noticed some old tracks though, leading to an entrance hidden under many barrels. Inside, there was a huge lake with many ships and dead bodies, all seemingly owned by a dirty slaver. Though he seemed intent on just killing the party, Elaine grabbed his attention with her offers to clean the ships in return for releasing the slaves. Though motivated by the intent to make sure slaves are safe before killing the slaver, the efforts resulted in unexpected change in the man's psyche, once it turned out that he was a father of a child saved from Evil Santa and currently being educated by ASS teachers. In the end, all slaves were released with no harm, the man promised to become a better person, and Elaine (after an embarrassing mistake from overzealous cleaning) took 40 Remora to be awakened and taught in ASS to be maids. Once back, the Yuth-kin family wanted to thank the party, only for the woman to suddenly start giving birth! With the intervention of Elaine and her companions, two healthy twins were born, and Elaine became their god mother.