Thanks for having me!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character for Reference</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/nDFdxvM.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>  Sruti Sveidottir (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2174473)<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>  A tall, well built woman with blonde hair and sea-green eyes.  The left side of her face, down the left side of her neck, her left arm and parts of her chest and midsection are badly scarred by old burns.  The scars along her scalp, just over her left ear, keep hair from growing there, but otherwise her hair is long and typically tied into a large braid.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong><br/><br/>Sruti was born and raised in the city surrounding the Grand Temple of Ratis.  From a young age she showed great interest in craftsmanship and an unquenchable curiosity about the world.  As she grew she became one of the foremost craftsmen in the city and rose to prominence in little time.  She settled quickly into a forge of her own and began to offer her services to the wider population of the city, and some travelling merchants as well.  Unfortunately one day during her work in the forge there was a sudden explosion and a subsequent fire.  The damage to the shop was repairable, but the fire left the left side of her face and upper body badly scarred.  It was never clear what had caused the explosion, but some viewed it as a sign from Ratis herself.  Some thought her cursed by the goddess, others viewed it as being touched by the flames of Ratis, but Sruti paid it little mind.  Instead she started to turn her attention towards the mystical arts to understand the building blocks of the world around her.  She began to unravel the magics that wizards and sorcerer's wielded, though she approached it with a more scientific mind.  As her understanding of magic grew she considered how she could best use that knowledge.  Eventually she settled upon the idea of artificial life and began carefully studying such applications and how to weave magic into otherwise inanimate beings.  As her knowledge grew so did her skill, and it wasn't long until she was a well known Artificer with a keen understanding of the magical world, and how it interacted with the physical.<br/></div></div>