Lightrider

## Lady Lightrider (The Team)

* **Name:** Maureen Darla Anderson
* **Street Name:**Lady Lightrider (formerly just Lightrider)
* **Metatype:**Elf (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **DOB**: 11/8/2040, Owatonna, MN UCAS
* **DOD**: 7/3/2075, 35, Fargo, Region 3, RRDMZ
* **Affiliations:**The Team , The Pain , The Crop Circle , later the Riverwalkers
* **Specialties:**Fully trained mage (Minnesota State Magic Certification), Path of the Traveler.

Getting to the bottom of Lady Lightrider's story is a little difficult. Not because she refuses to discuss it. Quite the opposite, Lightrider is all too eager to impart the secrets of her origins on any who would ask. Its just that every time she does so, its a different story.

Is she the daughter of magical researchers who left the 'educational-industrial-entertainment complex' to teach students in a commune in southern Minnesota? Is she a runaway from a forced marriage among the Lake of the Woods enclave of Elves? Is she in exile from the Manitou of Niswi-mishkodewinan for accusing a tribal leader of practicing toxic magic? A survivor of the Bug Spirits of Chicago ? A reincarnated Princess from the Fourth Age? I sure as drek don't know. And at this point, I don't know that she does either.

Several sources seem to remember first meeting her as a penniless MSUM  grad student palling around with Roadwork  in her early days (the early 60's). When Roadwork formed The Team, it was her pal and partner-in-crime, now calling herself "Lightrider" she called on first (later adding the local sports hero "The Thunder " as their third member). She embraced the identity of a Shadowrunner with both hands and involved herself in every underground scene she could reach, doing independent jobs for the Prairie Public Underground , and Initiating with The Crop Circle , back to the land Biodynamic  farmers, even living off-the-grid with them on their commune for awhile before falling out with them over causes nobody has ever made totally clear. She had been associated with a bewildering array of spiritual traditions, from Asatru to Midewiwin to even riding around with the Amazon Cabs for awhile to learn something about the Omame Xapiripe, all the while framing it as part of her Elven Spirituality, that exploring other Paths is part of the Traveler's Path she is on, which justified, in her mind anyway, how she delighted in tricking, engaging and outwitting more law-abiding mages, such as Knight Errant's own Mage-Lieutenent Harukor.

Recently she has taken to seeking out Riverlings  and exploring the depths of the Rivering  way, even seeking to initiate into the elusive circle of Riverwalkers who practice it. She has also started calling herself 'Lady' Lightrider, upon, she has said, some kind of spiritual revelation although she's been no more clear on what that is than she has been about where she's from.

A patron and superfan of the Fargo Pain Rollerball team, she is a regular at the Dike and is close personal friends with much of the team and the Dike's owner 'Lilith Wolf'. She has, at various times, been romantically linked to both Winnipeg 's own Golden Boy and the Dike's Lilith Wolf.

It was only when her body was found on the banks of the Red River early in the morning on that her actual story began to be pieced to together, the bright, but unstable middle daughter of Maude and Jeffrey Anderson of Owatonna MN. A class clown, a troublemaker, never quite fit in in her small, strict home down. Her parents' adherence to extreme religious views, a difference that became a war when she Awakened into her magical powers, making her way to Fargo on scholarship and trying to find herself before joining Peyton and her team.

After her death her body went missing from the BSI morgue not much later and while her family sued the Region 3 government for possession of the body, rumors abounded that she had been less dead than advertised, rumors that connected her to the mysterious new leader of the PPU "Soteria". The mystery was only deepened when, in the aftermath of the Solstice Blackout, her corpse reappeared, but in the sealed server rooms in the bottom of the Block.

Those who talk about these things don't know what this means and those that know aren't saying.

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