Anna Silvius

Anna is a witch living in the Thieves' Forest, compelled to join the Portal Stone Quest and leave her home once she gets on the Akeela Guard's radar.

## Biographical Information

### Aliases

Witch of the Wood, The Witch, "Furry" (Sophia)

## Abilities and Weaknesses

### Abilities

Magic and spellcasting, Archery, Shapeshifting

## Affiliation

### Position

Witch of the Wood, Member of the Portal Stone Quest, Queen (book 3)

### Residences

Thieves' Forest, Castle Akeela, Village in Akeela (formerly)

## Additional Information

### Likes

Views from treetops, Wild animals, Pressing flowers

## Biography

**Anna** is a witch who the group encounters hiding out in the woods to escape persecution due to her magic. She was approached by Sophia and Maya for assistance in helping find them a quest. Although reluctant at first, she begrudgingly helped them as a favor to Sophia. She aided in translating the runes, and provided the princess with new clothes and weapons to practice with. While scouting for the guard, she is nearly shot out of a tree by Nate, whom she promptly falls on. She considers Nate's request for assistance in looking for the stone, since she's the witch he was looking for. While following him, she uncovers where Maya has been sneaking off to. The group hurries back to the cottage upon Anna sensing danger. Anna's house burns down as they try to escape the guard. Having left the scrolls behind, she goes into the burning building to rescue them and succeeds, promptly passing out from smoke inhalation. She is dragged along by Nate's vines until they reach DJ's camp. After a few hours and a suspiciously well-working tea, she wakes up. Going along with the group she helps to try and rescue Maya, realizing in a fight with some harpies that her powers are very weak. She creates a boat for them to sail on, which gets caught in the storm and leads them to board Captain Charlie's boat. There she befriends the captain, who gives her advice and encourages her. She in turn ends up advising Maya about a situation with Tyler. While in the Pearly sea trying to get the needed pearl, Anna's locket looses power, and she starts to be dragged under sea. She is briefly knocked out again, and nearly drowns before Nate rescues her. She makes a snarky comment about him nearly killing her before, until she lets out a coughing fit and proclaims her hatred of the sea. Slowly she realizes her feelings for Nate and soon after tell him. After making it to Candia, she questions Nate about his intentions with her to which he assures her they are good, and the two kiss. While at Queen Maureen's party, she is recognized by King Kevin. His guards track her down and kick her, nearly capturing her, until Maureen demands for her release. Thankful for the rescue the group heads back to their rooms where Nate makes sure she's okay. Eventually she reveals to him that she killed two people and burnt down a house following her arrest and the death of Val. The two part, agreeing that neither regrets any of the lives they've taken.

### Early Life

Prior to the events of the story, Anna lived in an unnamed village in the kingdom of Akeela. This was after the magic ban was enacted. It is hinted that she may have come from noble birth. Her parents despised her magic and eventually tried to get her arrested. She hid out in her friend Val's home, but was soon discovered. Val was killed for harboring a magic user, igniting Anna's hatred for the royal family. Meanwhile, at the last second Anna had used her magic to escape, seeing refuge in a cottage she kept hidden in the Thieves' Forest. This wasn't before she murdered both Val's mother and executioner, and burning the house down to the ground.

## Appearance

She has long blonde hair which falls down to her ribs and bright blue eyes. She is quite pale from all her time in the dark forest, and often she looks exhausted. She is said to look quite menacing when angry despite her small stature. She has a tattoo of vines around her right arm. When she is using her magic, her hands glow with a light blue light. Her cat form is very similar, with golden fur and blue eyes, and claws sharp as thorns. She's a fan of cloaks and hats, and anything else which could hide her identity. She wears a crystal around her neck at all times, and this is suggested to either be a representation of either her life force or her magic.

## Personality and Traits

Although she first appears to be a bitter loner, Anna can be very compassionate and calm. She doesn't trust people easily, having hid herself away from almost everyone and limiting those who know of her location. It takes a while to earn her trust- if you ever do. She’s a powerful fighter and a formidable opponent. She can cast powerful magic, which has the habit of malfunctioning if she is in bad physical shape. She often shapeshifts into a cat when she gets stressed. She is fairly moody from a long time of having little people interaction, but this also goes along with how she just doesn't like people. She also harbors a lot more anger than she cares to admit. Her hatred is aimed particularly towards the royal family for killing her friend. When she comes face to face with King Kevin she is unsure of how to feel or react. She wanted to kill him in revenge, but Nate stopped her, saying it would only inflame tensions. She tends to bottle up all of her feelings and hide them from everyone. She is a good healer, and loyal to those she loves. She wouldn’t hurt anyone she truly cares about. She would defend her friends with her last breath and considers them her family. She is brave, but then again would never admit to being scared unless caught truly off guard. When things don't go to plan Anna often has a problem of panicking. She can get anxious pretty quickly and that often interferes with her abilities and rationale. This anxiety is also seen in her attitude towards people, as she panics when getting close to someone for fear of losing them

## Abilities and Other Skills

* **Magic using** - It is unclear as to all the different types of magic Anna can do. She has been shown to have a variety of magical abilities. She can teleport short distances. The more people with her the shorter the distance she can travel. This ability also weakens her. She has minor healing powers, can turn into a cat at whim, telekinesis.
* **Archery** - She has been mentioned to be quite handy with a bow, having even offered to teach Maya how to shoot.

## Relationships

### Unnamed Parents

It is implied her relationship with her parents is very poor. Since they are the ones responsible for turning her in, it can be assumed they hated her magic and thus, that she hates them for what happened following her arrest.

### Nate Rufield (partner)

Anna starts off disliking and distrusting Nate, following his snarky remarks after accidentally almost shooting her out of a tree. The two banter back and forth, him finding enjoyment in annoying her, and her getting annoyed at his smugness. Slowly she warms up to him, admiring his fighting and intellect. After saving her life, the two become closer, to the point she slowly realizes her feelings for him. After agreeing to try being together, they balance each other well. Nate is very protective over her and vice versa.

### Sophia (best friend)

Sophia and Anna are close friends, since Sophia was one of very few people who knew of Anna's whereabouts. She is one of Anna's only remaining connections to Akeela, and her only positive one. She has a lot of trust in Sophia and the two together make very wise planners. It is unclear how they met, but it seems they kept in contact often before the story starts. When Sophia is poisoned by the coral, Anna is very upset and does everything in her power to save the scribe, eventually succeeding. She takes advice from Sophia often, and the two have been mentioned to write together from time to time.

### Maya (friend)

Originally, Anna hated Maya because of what her parents did. After realizing she couldn't judge the Princess based on her parents actions she began to grow more fond of her over the course of their adventure. She serves as an advisor to Maya as well as gets advice too. She is very protective of the Princess, seen when she tries to free her from the monsters.

### Val (best friend)

Not much is known about Val, except that she tried to help keep Anna hidden and was killed as a result. It can be assumed due to Anna's anger that they were very close.

## Quotes

* "Why have you decided to disturb me?"
* "You do realize this journey is full of danger, death and more death, right?"
* "With Val's help I was able to escape. But she was not so lucky. Your parents tried her for harboring someone with magic. And for that, she was killed. So you wonder why I hate the royals, it's because that is what they do. They destroy." - Why Anna hates the royal family
* "You nearly fucking shot me!"
* "A fire mage. Of course he's a fire mage."
* "'You...' she wrestled with a small smile, dramatically bringing her hand to her head, '...shot me first.'"
* "You people slept till noon, how the fuck are you tired?"

## Trivia

* One possible canon backstory; Anna was born with magic powers as Princess of Westwind. Her parents hated her magic and always tried to get rid of it. When she was young she ran away. With the help of a friendly woodland witch, she learned to grow her powers. Eventually she made a home in the Thieves’ Forest, swearing never to speak of her royal roots again.
	+ This was decidedly cut for being too complex. Instead it is simply and vaguely hinted that although she is not royal, she is of at least noble birth to those in Akeela. Hence why she was so avidly hunted down, and memorable for Kevin. Perhaps her ancestry traces back to Westwind.

## Gallery

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