<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/20/5d02d5b7a8e1d544541e904d6e39a0dc.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong><strong>Akari Leafshadow</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zG1_g0rLI9mg8z5RHWYgpbfjBOl1lRWkO1k5Ms95lOM/edit)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Elf<br/><strong>Nickname:</strong>Firebug.  Transcendental Girl Akari<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Age:</strong>125<br/><br/><strong>Class(es):</strong>(Transcendental) Alchemist 13<br/><strong>Level:</strong>13<br/><strong>Personality:</strong><em>Ogenki desu.</em>Akari is cheerful and perky and likes to make people smile.  She became an adventurer for a lot of reasons.  She wants to be a hero and believes in heroic things--protecting the innocent avenging injustice.<br/>She's also a thrill seeker, even an adrenaline junky.  She really gets off on battle, on refining volatile chemicals right up to their purest point, knowing one more drop might make it explode.  Climbing rocks, clinging to the backs of fast horses, tinkering with unknown magical items.<br/>She also adventures<em>for science!</em>She believes that through learning and ingenuity we can make life better in all ways--especially in protecting the innocent!<br/><strong>Alignment:</strong>Chaotic Good<br/><strong>History:</strong>Akari Taefaeli (Elven for Leaf Shadow) is an elf born in a cosmopolitan city.  Emphatic, compassionate, and fun loving, Akari learned early on that different people aged at different rates.  Akari kept the courage to love even when so many of her friends grew up and went away or even died in a few scant decades.  Akari also learned that the best way to deal with the sorrow of losing a friend was to make a new friend.  The best way to make friends, she found, was to smile.  Be cheerful and happy.  Show interest in the things people did and--if they made you happy--let them know.  As a result Akari has cultivated an unquenchable good cheer that occasionally borders on--if not insanity--at least parody.<br/><br/>Intelligent, curious, and whimsical, Akari could be annoying to adults who had work to do.  One day saw a fireworks display and pleaded with the illuminator to show her how he did it.  He was a gnome named Ahvalor T. Tabernacle, a Transcendental Alchemist retired from adventuring.  After a couple of minutes of questions, the gnome held up a hand and said, “Wait.”<br/><br/>Somewhat to his surprise, the talkative child obediently held still and quiet for almost fifteen minutes as he prepared a delicate firework.  Once the sky flower was finished, he turned on his stool and looked down at the child.  “Fetch a stool and sit with me, child.  Akari Leafshadow, right?”<br/><br/>When she'd done this, he said, “You have three questions.  If they interest me, I will answer them all to your satisfaction and give you a chain of firecrackers.  If they're boring to me, I will give you three short and honest answers and then you will leave me in peace.  Do you understand?”<br/><br/>The little elf's eyes widened, but she nodded.  Then she thought intensely for over a minute before asking her questions...<br/><br/>A week later Akari was Ahvalor's favorite apprentice.<br/><br/>After coming of age, Akari spent 15 years as an adventuring alchemist, using sword and bow, bomb and mutagen to protect the innocent and vanquish the profane while using fireworks, dancing, and stories to spread smiles and lift hopes.  After doing several missions in and around Shadowspire, she began to feel at home there.  Eventually, Akari set up a shop in Shadowspire.  Now she has finally gone all out and settled there, taking up residence in her shop and accepting a contract from the city that she fights first in their defense.<br/><br/><div align="center">*  *  *</div><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/23/Kaname_1.png)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b5/Kaname_2.png)</div><strong>Kaname: Cleric of Desna</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eWUvlh6WK10KRXp1tX3RFZdTn6P6FWIUgwldQEcwlmA/edit)<br/><br/>The younger daughter of a daimyo.  Embracing the worship of Desna, Kaname and yearned to see the world.  After gaining an enemy in the form of a spurned suitor--too evil to tolerate--Kaname gained her father’s blessing to put aside family responsibilities and leave Tian Xia.