Addie Kirkland

Addie by Lucas Ferreira

### Other Notable Features

Multiple claw scars on both forearmsLarge raised scar swooping from middle of chest to left side

## History

### Pre-campaign

Originally, Addie was born Addeline Greene to Jennifer Kirkland and Matthew Greene on August 26, 2064. She lived in Grantville Georgia with her mother and father for the first 8 years of her life. She took notice of her father's abuse of her mother as she grew older, and during a minor incident where Addie got between the two, her mother finally found the strength to leave her marriage and return home. At 8, Addie's mother took her away to live with her and her grandparents in Sumpter, Oregon.

She had no personal contact with her father in that time, growing up in the small time and living a fairly simple life working at her grandparents' home: the Kirkland Cozy Inn. She was just beginning as a junior in high school when the bombs dropped. Her grandparents were away at the time, and assumed dead. Due to the small and inconsequential nature of her town and the area, they were spared the worst of the initial bombings. For the most part, besides those that left to seek family , most stayed in the town and worked with their neighbors to survive.

Two years after the world as she knew it ended, a bitterly familiar face returned: her father, along with a loyal group of his fellow Confederate soldiers, commandeered the town and forced out most of its residents, leaving Addie and her mother as the last local inhabitants. He kept them isolated "for their protection", allowing contact only with his own gang. Neither Addie nor her mother desired to stay under Matthew's thumb. Despite her fears and former timidness returning, Addie's mother attempted to poison her father nearly two years after his arrival. He unfortunately survived, and answered in kind. As far as Addie knew, her mother died at her side, and she wasn't allowed to see the burial.

Three years after her mother's death, at 23, Addie was sorting through her father's latest haul with some of his men when she was approached by a stranger. That stranger would turn out to be River Mortem, part of the recently formed Templar order, who had taken on a bounty to hunt Addie's father. Having grown more timid and hopeless in the years with her father, Addie urged her to turn back before she was caught. Instead, River took the opportunity to slaughter the gang members around her, with Addie reluctantly joining in to amateurly cover her. With combat concluded, and despite Addie's weariness and fear, River saw a drive in her, and an opportunity. She offered to take Addie to Boise, that if she was so afraid of being found by her father, she could find protection in the Templar's base and learn to take care of herself. Desperate and alone, Addie agreed, following River to Boise and later becoming the younger woman's apprentice, with the promise she could reclaim her home someday.

One year later, Addie earned her sword and became a full fledged Templar. It was then that River's promise would be fulfilled: Matthew's gang had grown in numbers and threat, an undesirable neighbor to have so near Boise. Addie, River, and a couple other Templars dealt with the threat, Addie's father narrowly escaping the raid. Despite her revenge being delayed, Addie found Sumpter freed again, though empty now. She later went on her way to wander as Templars do.

She began to make a name for herself later in her travels.

## Powers and Abilities

Most of Addie's abilities center around her strength and durability. As a result of her Templar training and travels, she's extremely fit, both physically strong and resilient to disease and damage. Also due to her Templar training, she is extremely proficient with swords, especially her own, and prefers melee combat. She's near equally proficient with her bow, and much prefers it over firearms.

As a Templar, Addie has cultivated multiple rewards from the Saints. She's supernaturally strong, able to rip through metal and lift smaller vehicles. Similarly, she has a permanent layer of armor around her that allows her to absorb far more damage than the average person. Like all others of her order, she can heal others through magical means, and has spent a fair amount of energy honing that skill beyond that of the average initiate. Besides these main magic focuses, she also has a resistance to magical effects and is slightly more difficult to target with attacks.

#### Martyr Blessings

##### Clara Clark

Addie earned Clara's Blessing by healing Victor after his brutal interrogation By Hayden. She's used Clara's Blessing multiple times in her travels to give her healing more potency, notably when she healed Charles Ross of Marcus Bloom's pestilence curse. She neglected to use Clara's resurrection ability during most of her travels with the NW6, knowing it was limited in its uses. However, one too many civilian deaths pushed her over the edge.

List of Addie's Resurrections:

* Martha
* Choc
* A bluejay

## Trivia

* Addie named her sword Anaklusmos after the protagonist's blade in the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* series
	+ She is a Percy Jackson nerd
	+ She keeps a signed edition of the first series in a safe in her inn's basement
* She's a cat person
* She has General Anxiety Disorder
* Her duster was a gift from the mother of her first and only successful Templar trainee, Evelyn Wright
	+ Her hat was given to her by her friend Luca