Editing KHoS:Elspeth (section)

=Background=
Born to English emigres who have set up a small colony in the mountains of the Himalayas after the destruction of the British Isles, Elspeth is also the great grand-daughter of Horatio Trelawney, wielder of the great cannon Trafalgar Blue, the man who gave his life holding off the kaiju to enable as many of her people to flee as possible. It was his heroic sacrifice that enabled her culture to survive the initial kaiju onslaught, and her family has always striven to live up to his example. Her grandmother, Elizabeth Trelawney, reforged Trafalgar Blue into a succession of adamantine weapons which she distributed among her children, who went on to have distinguished, if unspectacular careers as hunters of kaiju. <br>

Only one, Cantata Ivory, refused to answer to the voice of any of her offspring, and Elizabeth died without ever knowing who would wield her finest creation. <br>

Elspeth was raised on stories of heroism and sacrifice, and her pre-eminent idol has always been her ancestor, Horatio. Her earliest attempts at commanding Cantata Ivory, however, were failures, and her ego was brutalised throughout her adolescence as she struggled to gain the strength to master the weapon. She shouted and sobbed, swore at it and scorned it, but the strip of bright metal refused to answer. While other children played and learned to survive in their rugged mountain habitat, Elspeth spent her youth sitting in her grandmother's mausoleum where Cantata Ivory was kept, plaited into the shape of a simple Moebius strip.<br>

And then the kaiju ''Tremor'' came.