ANNELISE TEARDRINKER QUARIAN
Born of Drow Mother and Hobgoblin Father, ANNALISE TEARDRINKER QUARIAN has always been a bit of a standout. Her mother, a professor of Arcane History, instilled a fascination of The World That Came Before, and her father, a retired warlord and author of "War Of The Mind, War Of The Body" taught her Weakness Is Forbidden If You Want To Survive.
These belief systems didn't mix well, but they both exist in the same vessel. The result is a mildly unstable daughter, seeking her Doctorate In Arcane Archaeology---with a bloodlust that always seems to pop up when it needs to.
Her teen years were full of study and culture, but the catalyzing event was her Martial Arts lessons. Her father thought she was going through the motions, without a real respect for the art of war---so he replaced the classes Practice Weapons for live ones, magically sharpened to cut through anything with ease, enchanted to slow natural healing. Ann lost an arm to a classmate's axe and should have died. Instead, she found the part of her that hates death, hates weakness, and hates losing. So she survived.
After a lot of healing, she doubled down on *everything*. Great People are rarely Good People, and she knew that if she was going to chase her studies, she'd have to use every trick in the book to make sure she never lost again. And now she was working from a place of physical weakness---so magic, song, and trickery it is.
