Amber and Elf

Elf, as seen in The Winterpoint Tragedy

**Amber** is a field agent with the Mystery Trackers investigative organization. **Elf** is her miniature pinscher, who assists her in her missions.

## Biography

Amber's past is tragic, with her parents and brother having been killed in a terrible incident in her hometown of Watch Hill. After this happened, she was taken in by the Mystery Trackers and trained to be one of their special agents. Her past is not actually revealed in any detail until she's forced to confront it in the installment *The Secret of Watch Hill.* As flashbacks during *Fatal Lesson* reveal, she trained alongside Agent Shade, whom she considers her best friend.

Amber is the player character beginning with her debut in *Black Isle*. Games which have her as the player character are identifiable by the presence of Elf, as most Mystery Trackers field agents are given animal companions who work exclusively with them. She is rarely seen other than in profile, except for occasional glimpses of her hands, arms, and lower body. She is seen exactly once, during the events of *Darkwater Bay*, when a computer image shows her unconscious and being tended by her good friend Shade; she has light-colored skin and dark brown hair. Beginning with the installment *Nightsville Horror*, she has voice acting for certain parts of the games, and her accent suggests that she is American.

According to the installment *Silent Hollow*, Amber is the only person capable of operating a device called the Hypnoeye, which allows her to both hypnotize others and also fend off someone else's attempt to hypnotize her. She has unique abilities when it comes to mind control, though this is rarely explored in other installments. As *Silent Hollow* reveals, this is due to the fact that she is a direct descendant of Morpheus, the founding member of the Mystery Trackers who betrayed the Order, who had similar abilities. She is also shown in various installments to have a strong affinity for the sciences, particularly chemistry; in *The Secret of Watch Hill*, it's revealed that her parents were both scientists and she inherited much of her scientific curiosity and aptitude from them.

Most Mystery Trackers agents have code names. Amber, like fellow agent Dorian Brown, has actually been permitted to use her real name as her code name. She is identified in *The Fall of Iron Rock* as "Agent A"; in the following game, *The Secret of Watch Hill*, her ID badge finally reveals her full code name to be Agent Amber. During the course of the investigation, the player finds an honor certificate she received in high school; her first name is smudged and faded, but examining it closely reveals that her birth name is indeed Amber Edevane.

## Trivia

* Amber herself does not appear in *Detectives United*; however, in *Origins*, Elf is seen briefly in a scene set outside of the Mystery Trackers castle. Agent Brown, who is the player character at the time, mentally remarks that "this little dog" has participated in a number of important missions. He identifies Elf with female pronouns, but in all *Mystery Trackers* games which include Elf, the dog is indicated to be male. This could either be a developer oversight or an in-universe error by the character.
* Amber's high school diploma, seen in *The Secret of Watch Hill,* gives her a graduation year of 2004, which gives her an approximate birth year of 1987. This would make her roughly 32 years old at the time of that game.
* In *Silent Hollow*, Elf is revealed to have a mate and be the father of some adorable puppies.
* In most installments, Elf is given an outfit which is relevant to the plot of the mystery. For instance, in *Paxton Creek Avenger* he is dressed in a tiny tuxedo, as he and Amber are attending the opera; in *Train to Hellswich,* since they're supposed to be on vacation, he wears a Hawaiian-style shirt and miniature sunglasses.
* Like the other members of the Mystery Trackers, Amber has a dark counterpart in the Dark Trackers Agency from a different dimension. This woman looks and sounds exactly like Amber, and even has her own miniature pinscher who is the counterpart of Elf. She is one of the primary antagonists of *Darkwater Bay*; she is also the antagonist in the bonus chapter of *Memories of Shadowfield,* where she is identified by the code name of Agent Blade.

## Gallery

An unconscious Amber, being tended by Agent Shade, during the events of *Mystery Trackers: Darkwater Bay*A scientific award presented to Amber when she was a student at Watch Hill High School, which confirms that her real name and code name are the same, found in *Mystery Trackers: The Secret of Watch Hill.*Amber's parents and brother, a memory preserved in a photograph, as seen in *Mystery Trackers: Fatal Lesson.*Amber's dark doppelganger from the Dark Trackers Agency, as seen in *Mystery Trackers: Memories of Shadowfield,* giving us our first clear idea of Amber's own appearance.Elf with his mate and pups, in the bonus content of *Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow*