At long last!<br/><br/>Lindy Tanith Issenduth<br/><br/><strong>Connections:<br/></strong><br/>Professor Norman Withers: Professor of Archaeology and Astronomy at the local college.  Her mentor and advisor during her collegiate years, and one of the sponsors who advocated for her trip abroad.<br/><br/><strong>NPCs of Notes:</strong><br/><br/><em>Koren, Wizard of the Red Lotus</em>: Out of all the people/organizations/things pursuing her for the Icon of the Sun Kings, Koren has been the most persistent and tenacious.  Tanith – Lindy – gets the feeling that he’s more powerful than he really lets on, that he’s just toying with her, keeping her in fear of his appearance, and only letting her get away because it somehow suits his dark purpose…<br/><br/><strong>Past and Present:<br/></strong><br/>Picking it up had changed<em>everything</em>.  And she meant<em>that</em>.<br/><br/>She knew who she was before it.<em>Really!</em>She had all the memories to prove it!  She even knew<em>her first name – <strong>it was Lindy!</strong></em>But whenever she tried to state who she was, she managed ‘Lindy’…and then spit out something else.  Something different.  Something<em>wrong</em>.  She<em>knew </em>that wasn’t her name…she just couldn’t remember how it was supposed to go after Lindy.<em><strong>Seriously!</strong></em>She had been the kid of a middle class family, done well, gone to college, gotten her bachelor’s degree in Archaeology, and was going on to get a more advanced one in Ancient Cultures when she’d gone down to South America on a trip provided by her advisor, Professor Withers.  She remembered him because after she’d gone back home, she had recognized him on campus as having spent a lot of time with him.  That<strong>had </strong>to mean something…<em>right?</em><br/><br/>At the ruin of a temple, she had wiggled deep into a chamber and found a statuette, carved in what she later identified was jade, and picked it up, thinking it a good find…<br/><br/>…and then<em>it </em>happened.  Her body changed, into what it was now, powerful and half-draconic.  It had somehow told her what it was – the Icon of the Sun Kings.  But, more than that…<br/><br/>…it had somehow erased who she was.  Nobody recognized her.<em><strong>Nobody!</strong></em>Nobody at school, and when she went to her old neighborhood – she couldn’t remember anything about her family, but she remembered the street she lived on – no one there recognized her, either…<br/><br/>…it was like she’d never existed.<br/><br/>Lost, she tried to find work, but without anything to prove her existence, no one would hire her…<br/><br/>…which was how she found herself outside the door, the Icon and a few trinkets she’d picked up in her trip back from South America on her person.