Anne de Chantraine

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## Appearances

**Anne de Chantraine, the Witch** is a character from the *Atmosfear* series. Usually a playable character, she has also hosted *Nightmare III*.

## Background

### *The Harbingers*

Ugly has a new name - Anne de Chantraine. And she's just learnt how to make something. It's 'something' called trouble and de Chantraine stirs it up and dishes it out from her mutant 'Punkin' at the crossroads of the Provinces.

This fire-starter has got plenty of good reason to scorch the earth with a temper as hot as her brew.

Tried and convicted of sorcery, tortured then burned alive at the stake as a teenager, de Chantraine was innocent. Now she's on a witch hunt of her own.

### *The Gatekeeper*

If "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" you should see one scorched!

Anne de Chantraine was one of the first women burnt on the stake during the Great Witch Hunts of Europe. At 17 years of age in a village in Belgium, this unusually pretty young thing was tried, proclaimed a witch, and promptly roasted.

With a temper now as hot as the flames that took her from rare to well done, this flying firestarter sought revenge by cooking up a storm and lighting fires across the countryside.

But playing with fire can be dangerous and, in a careless moment, Anne was caught leaving yet another smouldering disaster site.

This flying pyromaniac now ponders her career choice from her solitary confinement, surrounded by the **orange** flames she dreads the most.

Anyone got a light?

### *Khufu the Mummy*

At 17 years of age, during the Great Witch Hunts of Europe, pretty young Anne de Chantraine was tried, proclaimed a witch, and promptly burned at the stake. Talk about getting hot under the collar.

Angry about the roasting she received, the innocent Anne set about lighting fires across the countryside - using flaming pumpkins!

But in a careless moment Anne was caught at yet another smouldering disaster site.

The flying pyro then had plenty of time on The Other Side to contemplate where her short life had gone wrong and solitary confinement made Anne feel like a new woman.

The invitation by The Gatekeeper to visit the Pharoah's Fun Parlour gave her a chance to show just how much she had "changed". (And 4000 year old bandages would look so pretty in flames....)

Anne's red hot at poker since she uses a red-hot poker to help her win.

## Origin

Anne is based on the real life figure of the same name from the early 1600s, who was one of the first people to be accused of being a witch and burned at the stake.

## Appearance

### *Nightmare III*

In the original game, her game piece is represented by the blue headstone. In the tape for *Nightmare III*, she starts out looking like a medieval peasant girl in a brown dress, her skin progressively getting more wrinkled and rotten as the game progresses, eventually ending in resembling the stereotypical old crone archetype. Once the final minute arrives, her eyes turn completely red.

### *The Harbingers*

In *The Harbingers*, her game piece is represented by a cauldron. Her character card shows her in her final form from the *Nightmare III* tape, as does her appearance in the game's Rules Presentation.

### *The Gatekeeper*

In the 2004 game, her game piece is represented by an orange Jack-o'-lantern pumpkin. Her character card is based upon her final form from *Nightmare III*.

### *30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition*

The visual design of Anne's playing piece as seen in the Deluxe edition of the anniversary rerelease once again depicts her as an old crone. Additionally, she is seen engulfed in fire.

## Personality

In *Nightmare III*, Anne is shown to have a very dire opinion of the players, referring to them as lowly animals like pigs, rats and toads to be used and abused with wanton callousness. Even as the tape progresses and her voice goes from being gentle and fae-like to loud and furious, this attitude of hers never lets up. In addition, her transformation appears to be painful to her as her increasingly loud threats and torrents of verbal abuse is tinged with stress and agony, likely a sign of her being resentful at being tried as a witch. From the second phase of her transformation up to its completion, pig-like grunts start to creep into her speech patterns, almost as an uncontrollable verbal tic.

## Key/Keystone Powers

### *The Harbingers*

 Blue
 Red
 Green
 Purple
 Yellow

#### *The Third Dimension*

 Blue
 Red
 Green
 Purple
 Yellow