Meidi

## General Information

### Personality

She is a quirky yet stubborn girl who isn’t who you would expect to be fourth in the chain of command at the Jinwu Mint.

### Abilities

Quite tolerant of both extremes of temperatures, due to her occupation.

## History

Her outgoing personality is shown through her willingness to try new things and push herself to new limits. Working at the Jinwu Mint exposes her to both extremes of temperature, something she found she enjoyed, both inside and out of the Jinwu Mint. However, the personality of a bright-eyed young lady was born out of a fear of abandonment, pushing her to keep or surpass her peers in hopes to stay relevant.

The day she accepted a low-level job at the Jinwu Mint, Meidi was clearing out her station. She found an odd trinket that belonged to the previous worker who held the position. Working at the Jinwu Mint usually meant exposing herself primarily to high temperatures, but Meidi didn't mind and actually quickly got acclimated to this unique work environment. To oversee and manage the mints, she also had to get accustomed to the sheer cold of the unique process of which Glint is minted officially.

### The Incident

An incident occurred at the Jinwu Mint. Of course, being a mint meant every little security detail must be scrutinized. The specifics of the incident are still held under lock and key by the Dragon Guard, but what is known is that the various furnaces were malfunctioning, but the security systems were triggered and the Jinwu Mint was locked down. Deep below Jinwu Mint, are multiple levels, some dedicated to producing Glint, while others store it. At the time of the incident, Meidi was in one of the smelting levels, which during the malfunction, effectively turned it into an underground crematorium. Her station, while essentially an oven, was still safer than the rooms and chambers where the molten gold and dragon blood flow. She pleaded with her co-workers to stay at their stations, as it was the safest point during the crisis, although they did not listen. The first ones to the main forum were nearly instantly incinerated, the gold flowing like lava. Those who witnessed it ran. As Meidi watched from safety, the trinket came to life. A contract that she has taken was realized. No matter the cost, the duty that she took on for the progress of all of Phantasia, must be upheld. She outreached her hand, and a massive thundering boom echoed. She ended up pulling all sorts of ore deposits around her towards her, creating a metal shell around her station. The shifting the ore traveled had caused the floor directly above the furnaces to collapse.

A torrent of water and coolants poured down, and Meidi remained stuck in her self-generated prison of metal ore. A recovery effort was spearheaded and as they evacuated the ruins under the Jinwu Mint, and eventually they managed to crack open the shell. Meidi emerged unscathed, but as she peeked out, she saw half a dozen nameless bodies, gnarled and twisted in inhuman positions. She realized those were merely casts and husks of the fallen, as the metal in the air had rapidly cooled as they passed, leaving only a physical representation of their anguished fate.

After the incident, she was promoted to oversee most of the operations of the Jinwu Mint, until a new incident occurred…

After that unrelated incident, she went on leave due to the Glintmints stopping again.

### Meeting / Confronting Avari

She met up with Avari and joined his adventuring team.

Eventually, Meidi left the team after a large dispute, and ended up dying. Meidi and Avari end up pushing each other around physically, unaware of their surroundings. A harsh shove from Avari resulted in Meidi slipping off the side of the cliff onto the rocks below.

Meidi fell unconscious and the rest of the team believed she had either died from the rocks, or drowned shortly after.

She wakes up in a cave, wrapped in bandages by a warm fire. A strange bard with ruby eyes and an albatross tattoo who saved her was tending to the fire. Upon asking him why he saved her, he only responded with:

"*Thats just how I do things. Give me a story, and I'll give you the day."* and a smile.

Grateful for her saviour, she spends the rest of the day telling him about her story and past.

Afterwards, Meidi tried to hunt down and locate Avari, and eventually was successful in locating their camp.

Avari and team showed a lot of surprise when they saw her-

*"You shouldn't even be alive..." - Avari*

*"And yet here I am. Let us resolve this once and for all, old friends." -* Mei to Avari & Team