Name:      Amanda “Mandy” Firesong (Also called Tearsong by her mentor/adoptive father.)<br/>Height:      5’5”<br/>Weight:   125lbs<br/>Bust:      B<br/>Skin:      Pink<br/>Hair:      Hip length flames.<br/>Eyes:      Green<br/><br/>(http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/small/0811/redheads-redhead-red-redheads-demotivational-poster-1226177477.jpg)<br/><br/>(http://wallpaperscraft.com/image/anime_girl_redhead_smile_sweet_flower_10739_preview.jpg)<br/><br/>Attributes:   105<br/>Health      12<br/>IQ      12<br/>Dexterity   12<br/>Strength   10<br/><br/>Hit Points   11<br/>Will      12<br/>Perception   12<br/>Fatigue Points   13<br/>Basic Speed   6<br/>Basic Move   6<br/><br/>4   Attractive Appearance +2<br/><br/>Basic Lift   20lbs<br/><br/>Advantages:  64<br/>5   Fit<br/>2   Longevity<br/>33   Magery V (Spell Dancer)<br/>7   Signature Gear:  Enchanted Bracelets (Armor 3) and Ring (Deflect 2)<br/>20   Weapon Master: Dagger/Knife<br/><br/>Disadvantages:<br/>-15   Charitable<br/>-5   Chummy<br/>-10   Insomniac<br/>-5   Cynophobia (Fear of Dogs)<br/>-5   Pyromania<br/>-5   Selfless<br/>-15   Sense of Duty: To the good of all goodly folk.<br/>-5   Truthfulness<br/>-10   Unluckiness<br/>-15   Weirdness Magnet<br/>-10   Xenophelia<br/><br/>Skills:  61<br/>Acrobatics         2   (Dex/Hard)   11<br/>Body Language      1   (Per/A)      11<br/>Dancing         8   (Dex/A)   13<br/>Diplomacy         2   (IQ/H)      11<br/>Erotic Art         1   (Dex/A)   11<br/>Fast Draw: Knife      2   (Dex/E)   13<br/>First Aid         8   (IQ/E)      15<br/>Gardening         2   (IQ/E)      13<br/>Herb Lore         1   (IQ/VH)   9<br/>Holdout         1   (IQ/A)      13<br/>Housekeeping         2   (IQ/E)      13   Cooking   9<br/>Innate Attack: Projectile   2   (DX/E)      13<br/>Jumping         1   (DX/E)      11<br/>Meditation         2   (W/H)      11<br/>Melee Weapon Knife      8   (Dex/E)   15<br/>Observation         1   (Per/A)      11<br/>Occultism         1   (IQ/A)      11<br/>Research         1   (IQ/A)      11<br/>Ritual Magic: Spelldancing   2   (IQ/VH)   10<br/>Thaumatology         1   (IQ/VH)   11<br/>Throwing Weapon: Knife   2   (Dex/E)   13<br/><br/>Techniques<br/>Duel Weapon Attack      5   (Hard)      -0<br/>Off Hand Weapon Training   5   (Hard)      -0<br/><br/>Spells:  63<br/>Ignite Fire         1   (Hard)      15<br/>Create Fire         1         15<br/>Shape Fire         1         15<br/>Deflect Energy      1         15<br/>Extinguish Fire      1         15<br/>Heat            1         15<br/>Cold            1         15<br/>Resist Cold         1         15<br/>Resist Fire         1         15<br/>Fireball         16         20<br/>Explosive Fireball      1         15<br/><br/>Lend Energy         1         16<br/>Lend Vitality         1         16<br/>Recover Energy      16         20<br/>Awaken         1         16<br/>Minor Healing         16         20<br/>Major Healing         1   (VH)      15<br/>Great Healing         1    (VH)      15<br/><br/><br/>Starting Wealth: 1,094<br/><br/>Weapons:  680<br/>6 Fine Daggers<br/>--Thrown:<br/>----Attack Roll 13<br/>----Damage Roll: 1d<br/><br/>2 Fine Large Knives (Swing -1 Cut or Thrust +1 Impaling)<br/>--Melee<br/>---Attack Role 15<br/>---Damage Roll Thrust: 1d+2<br/>---Damage Roll Slash 1d+2<br/><br/>Wand<br/><br/>Backpack: Frame<br/>Blanket<br/>Candle, TallowX4<br/>Personal Basics<br/>Purse:<br/>Wineskin<br/><br/>First Aid Kit<br/>Shovel<br/>Whetsone<br/><br/><br/>Amanda is the 5th child of a farmer named Boris—the last born to his first wife Lucinda.  Some days, she was the apple of her father’s eye.  Others, terribly fury flashed across his face when he looked at her, for she had her mother’s beauty, and he had loved her mother with all his heart.<br/>Amanda’s siblings were spiteful and her stepmother was bitter—perhaps blaming her that her husband never favored her with the same love he’d given the departed Lucinda.  Gentle hearted and compassionate, Amanda suffered much from her family’s abuse, and all the more from a belief she couldn’t shake that she was at fault.<br/>As a little girl, when she wasn’t learning to tend the house, she would sit in her grandmother’s lap and cry.  When she was done crying, she would stare at the fire in hearth and pour all her misery into it.  Some days, in winter, the fire took her misery and burned it away so she could sleep in peace.  Others, she tossed and turned late into the night—which only provoked angry elbows from her spiteful sisters.  Sometimes she slipped out and walked the roads of the province, dreaming of who might live in the castle.<br/>In her ninth year, on one of her walks, a whim took her and she walked up too the castle and hopped the railing—meaning to get a look at the flowers in the Lady’s garden.  The Lord’s hunting dogs chased her out, one jumping the fence and mauling her badly before leaving her bleeding in the dirt.  Mandy crawled back home through the night, and the sunrise found her on the porch half dead.  She’s feared dogs terribly since—especially when they bark.<br/>In her eleventh year, her health began to decline.  She barely slept, and didn’t eat much more.  Sometimes, she would cut lightly at her wrists and ponder dying.  Her father grew colder and harder, strapping her for the least infraction.  The more he feared for her, the more wrathful he became, and he shifted from an affectionate drunk to a mean one.<br/>In her twelfth year, she tripped and crushed a dozen eggs from the hen house.  Her father descended on her in a fury.  As he strapped her back, she stared into the fire.  It leaped and roared as she fed it her despair, higher and higher, ‘til the chimney cracked and crumbled.<br/>Abandoning his rage in concern for his home, Boris released Mandy who fled to her favorite tree in the woods.  After crying for many minutes, she took her knife and stared at the vein in her wrist.  At last she couldn’t’ stand it any more and began to cut.<br/>Up at the castle, Talus Firesong—a noted spell dancer and pyromancer—was visiting the lord of the land.  On a walk, he espied a peasant’s house going up in flames.  He hurried there and spun into a rapid dance.  The flames spiraled in answer to his moves, lifting off of the house and spiraling into the sky ‘til it was unharmed.  In inquiring what had transpired, he couldn’t’ help but notice Boris’s unease.  Going instead to Boris’s aged mother in law, he drew the story from her.  Fascinated at the apparent potential of the poor girl, he sought her out only to find her half dead under the tree.<br/>He danced her wounds closed, and danced her to blood back into her veins, and then he carried her away from that awful place never to return.<br/>The little redhead found happiness and healing as Talus’s apprentice.  He kept her hard at work or at play for the first few years to keep the memories from haunting her too badly at night.  Meditation and dance, magic and happiness gave meaning to her life.  When she was ready, he gave her knives and showed her how to defend herself with them.  For a long time, she feared the seductive steel, but in overcoming her suicidal impulses has developed a powerful affinity for the daggers she dances with.  Insomnia still haunts her, and fire still hypnotizes her, and she still fears dogs, but she carries neither bitterness nor crippling emotional pain.  Indeed, her unhappy childhood has lead Mandy to a deep and abiding compassion for others that suffer.<br/>