Sirscha Ashwyn

Official art by Raviollies

## Affliliation

* Prince's Company (formerly)
* Queen's Company (formerly)
* Kendara's apprentice (formerly)
* Evewyn

## Status

Alive

> 'Everyone has been buzzing about you.'
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> 'Oh?' I say, wondering if it's appropriate to show too much interest. 'And what are they saying?'
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> 'That you're either the Soul of Thiy or the Ruin of the West.'"
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> Sirscha Ashwyn & Hlau Theyen, Forest of Souls

**Sirscha Ashwyn** is the protagonist of the Shamanborn trilogy. She is described as vain but fierce when protecting the ones she loves. She often admires her mentor, Kendara, noting that Kendara doesn't hide who or what she is, a trait she deeply admires.

## Physical description

Sirscha is a described as an average height girl, tanned skin, and long black hair usually styled in a long braid. She had gray eyes until she envoked her craft and they turn to an amber color. It is also noted that Sirscha has scars at the tips of her ears that were cut at the young age in an effort to prevent suspicion that she was shamanborn.

## Weapon's and abilities

**Dual Swords:** Upon entering the Prince's Company at eleven years old, Sirscha was too weak to lift a proper sword, instead, opted for dual swords— lighter, shorter blades that allowed her more fluid motion in combat. As her training progressed, Sirscha became an excellent fighter with an affinity for swordplay gaining Kendara's attention.

**Troll bone bracelet:** The brace is a gift given from Kendara to Sirscha as a parting gift. It is no wider than the width of Sirscha's little finger. It has a polished surface that Sirscha notes, gives off a beautiful sheen. In the light the color transistions from a warm butter to a burned yellow of old parchment. There is a curling design on the bone that gives it an elegant quality and a metal fastener with tiny lotus petals on it. Troll bone is *highly* resistent to magic, and it was later revealed that Kendara had given it Sirscha to prevent her from envoking her craft. Sirscha later gives it to Saengo in an effort to stall the rot that plague's her body.

**Military training:** Sirscha enters the Prince's Company for education at age eleven, and then the Queen's Company at thirteen, where she's trained until just a month before her graduation at age seventeen. There, she learned Evewal fighting technique's and gained a secret apprenticeship with the Queen's Shadow, Kendara.

* **Wyvern's Dance:** Fighting style of Evewyn army— Sirscha first uses it when she duels Theyen at Spinner's End.

**Languages:** Sirscha has a talent for learning languages. She is fluent in both Evewal and Kazal, two out of three languages in Thiy. It is proven useful upon meeting Theyen, where she reads multiple book titles in Kazal, as Theyen notes she speaks almost as well as a Kazan. Sirscha wants to learn Nuval which Kendara promised to teach her if she'd become her official apprentice.

## Personality

Sirscha is a head strong and loyal girl. It is known that she does not often listen to instruction she does not agree with and will speak out against it. Sirscha mentions she has difficultly doing so, leading to a lot of self doubt and punishment she had faced during her time at the Queen's Company. Even so, Sirscha does her best to protect and serve Evewyn, which she is fiercely loyal too.

## Relationships

Saengo

Theyen

Prince Meilek