<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/d7/de/96d7de5d83708f79bf849039798de190.jpg)</div><strong>Player ID:</strong>Blackstone<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Basics</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Amarante Natalia Song Paendrag<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Origin:</strong>Seanchan<br/>b]Character Vision:[/b]  Regent, Advanced Channeler<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Appearance</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'6"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>135<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>narrow crest of black hair, shaved bald elsewhere<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Dark<br/><strong>Build:</strong>Lithe muscular and athletic build<br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Unlike her mother, Amarante is very warm and engaging in public, yet still within the lines of Seanchan propriety and custom.  This is not to confuse her with being weak, for she has a strong sense of right and wrong.  She like her mother has strong feelings about marath'dammae and is still uneasy about women not leashed, despite the practice being curtailed for the last twenty-five years.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Amarante is the second born child of Fortuona Paendrag and Mattrim Cauthon, and as such is member of the Imperial family and of the High Blood in the Seachan Empire.  Much of her life was a near mirror of her mother's, and like her mother she inherited the ability to become a Sul'Dam, which she trains for several years.  Life her changed when her sister was born with the spark in her.   In the old ways, she would have been considered Damme.   Her mother was about to order the collaring of her sister when their father, Mat, spirited her out of Ebou Dar and gave her into the care of his sister, Bode, who was now an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah.<br/><br/>This sparked the wheels of change within Seanchan controlled lands, and with it the change in who was to be considered Damme.  Amarante is still uneasy about the changes, but sees how they are necessary if the Empire is to continue to survive and thrive in these new lands, for here the Seanchan people are to stay.<br/><br/>Three expeditions have been sent back to the old Seachan homeland, three times they disappeared without a trace.  The last attempt, not even traveling would work.  Rather than waste more lives, the Empress declared an end to future expeditions until they have word back.  Her brother, Kayden Tarnath Mat Paendrag, son of the Seven Foxes and heir to the Empire, was lost on the first expedition and with the failure of the third expedition, Amarante was named heir to the empire.<br/><br/>As of this moment, Amarante is among the people trying to devise a way to contact their lost people, or better yet, get information on their old homeland and find out what has changed, and what happened to the forerunners sent before.  She is near desperate to find her missing brother, whom she was close too despite the nature of Seanchan culutre, and has been known to skirt the edges of Seanchan laws.   To this end she had the former Forsaken Moghedien, now named Des'para, transferred to her and has been torturing the woman to find a way to reach the Seanchan homeland, and to find her missing brother.<br/><br/><strong>Other Info:</strong>Anything else you think might be important. (Optional, if you can't think of anything you may delete this section).<br/>