Annie Cloud

* The Wandering Mage
* art gallery because im petty like that

***"Buried in snow... is exactly how you'll end up once I'm finished with you."***

## Annie Cloud

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* portrait

### Aliases

The Traveling Wind, The Wandering Mage, The Winter's Breeze

## Physical description

### **Overview**

Annie Cloud is an 18 year old girl who often goes by the nickname "The Wandering Mage" as she's frequently seen traveling and is seeking an actual purpose in life. She was born with the ability to manipulate the air around her and later acquired Ice and Snow Magic by unknown means. But after hearing rumors regarding a *particular* Lost Magic possessing very similar qualities to her current three, she has been attempting to get her hands on it for herself.

Rising to fame was never part of her agenda, so how and why she had become the second Emperor of the Sea remains shrouded in mystery. One can only hope **her intentions are as good as they could get…**

### **Appearance**

Annie appears as a teenager with an unusually pale complexion, long white hair that flows down her back and icy blue with snowflake irises. She’s typically seen rocking her “iconic wizard outfit” which consists of a white wizard hat adorned with gray markings, a white scarf, round glasses, a dark gray undershirt, and extensively long robes that barely reach her ankle. (Yes, they’re canonically that fucking long) She also has a brown crossbody bag that’s usually filled with potion ingredients… or gale potions.

When her hat is (rarely) taken off, a cowlick on the top of her head is visible and she wears a snowflake hairclip gifted by her cousin.

### **Personality**

Annie was often seen as a timid, nerdy, and quiet, yet adventurous individual. She was naturally inquisitive about the Bronze Sea due to her place of origin, even describing it as a "whole new world".

However, over the years, she had become apathetic, almost never showing any actual emotion around anyone. She often wore a stoic expression and talks slowly and quietly, and was absolutely not hesitant on throwing out empty threats at people. It was fair to assume that she also wasn't afraid on following through with them, and has indeed done so a couple of times.

No one seems to understand what had led to this sudden shift of personality, but a popular, yet very peculiar theory was that it was a result of her persistent use of her magics.

But even underneath this cold, hard shell of hers, she manages to express some amount of joy when around a certain individual, someone she had considered a lifelong friend and an older sister.

### **Combat**

Since Annie isn’t as durable, she relies on her speed, agility, exceptional eyesight and magic to take down opponents in combat. She especially benefits from fighting on colder islands such as Frostmill, but is at a severe disadvantage when on warmer places.

What makes her a formidable foe is her mastery over her magics, allowing her to manipulate the weather to some extent. This includes unleashing violent snowstorms and even making it rain miniscule icicles if she wished. (Of course, this has resulted in [usually minor] injuries to herself.) Her Wind Magic is also rumored to be potent enough to create long lasting tornadoes the size of Mount Othrys, or even bigger, and send people flying to outer space, though she’s never actually accomplished these feats.

### Arron Silver (Mutual)

> Calls himself “The Strongest Conjurer”, which I consider to be pretty believable since he’s the first Emperor of this era after all. He also said he was the one who invented the art of imbuement, so that's pretty cool too?
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The first Emperor of the Seas, Annie harbors some respect for him. But she prefers to keep her distance from him because she considers him a bit scary.

### Lucius Eve (Mutual)

> Color me surprised, there's actually a benevolent Ruler of Ravenna. Even then, I can't fully trust him. You'll never know if it's all just some façade...
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The third Emperor, and another person she respects greatly and also enjoys his company to some extent. She's even sometimes seen sailing the Dark Sea with him. However, due to his affiliation with Ravenna, she doesn't trust him too much.

### Lara Kai (Mutual)

> No wonder she’s known as the Mad Savant… It's almost as if Insanity was a person.
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The fourth Emperor, and someone Annie (unsurprisingly) doesn't like too much due to her often chaotic nature. However, she's also a bit grateful to Lara for introducing her to the concept of Lost Magics.

### Yoshiko Itami (Mutual)

> Some guy who claimed to be an apparent demigod and great grandson of some God I’ve never heard of. Hard to tell he made that up just to sound cool, or he’s actually telling the truth… Either way, I’m interested in seeing him duel Arron.
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Someone she had met in the Ryujin Dynasty. She has some remote interest in him after hearing rumors about him being a descendant of Boreas, God of Winter and Ice.

### Jeremiah Darkwood (Minor Tension)

> If your cultists ever lay a finger on me again, just know that I won't be as merciful. I'll eradicate that pitiful cult of yours, and no one’s gonna stop me…
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As soon as Annie recognized the cultists that had kidnapped her were part of Jeremiah’s cult, she immediately displayed a great amount of animosity towards [Jeremiah], even threatening to jab her eyes out with an icicle. Annie still has not-so-fond memories of the incident, but has partially forgiven her after learning that she had sacrificed said cultists.

### Stephen Wagner (Enemy?)

> I don't know what your guys' deal with me is, but this "Winter's Hell" you speak of is a special place for you and your pesky little alliance. Your threats do not frighten me in the slightest either.
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errr ill put smth here later

### Alissa "Violet" Creed (Nemesis)

> ...Would I be considered psychopathic if I told you I genuinely wanna skin her alive?
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Annie’s animosity for the assassin is beyond the scale, especially since the latter is always toying with her during almost all their encounters. Her usage of Poison Magic also adds on a bit. Even the slightest mention of her is enough to aggravate Annie into flinging someone off the Stepstones.

Aside from that, Alissa genuinely enjoys fighting the mage as during one of their more serious duels, she gleefully remarked how she’s “never fought a wind mage as powerful and capable as [Annie].”

### **Themes**

***Passive*** (prone to being changed)

***Battle***

***Alternate Battle***

***Intense Battle/Serious***

***“Snow… DANCE!”***

### **Lore**

**unofficial, but still pretty accurate lore** written by stella (look for the outline on the left for easier navigation). im currently in the process of writing the actual thing so stay tuned for that i guess?

### **Fun Facts**

* Annie’s white hair is indeed genetic.
* Her eyes were originally silver and had spiral-like pupils, but when she had gotten her hands on Ice Magic, her eyes shifted to a more blueish color.
* She doesn't need glasses, she just likes how they look on her.
* Annie's... probably the youngest out of the Emperors.

## **Quotes**

**"You're only an inch from falling to your death..."**

**"The breeze's gotten a bit stronger, eh? Keep your balance, if you can."**

## **art made by some awesome people**

fendtCallMehFishSticksCalistoCalamityWorkingUsername101Starstella20936another one by stella (she the goat fr)yet again by stella 👍enqalliebivvi (prob my fav)tunesangarytoowsuiyuuvsdrawn ref sheet heheharhar (also made by garytoow on discord)abstraacted