Editing Character:Avena, the Silent Blade (section)

==History==
Avena was born into a poor family near Nexus, and as a child she was very fond of theatre. She dreamt of becoming an actress and escaping an uninteresting life of poverty. In pursuit of that dream, she fled from her family when she barely had become a teenager. What she met there didn’t exactly match her glamorised vision of how the large city would be. She was forced to live on the street for a while, until she caught a lucky break and was discovered by a wealthy man with an interest in culture. She was given shelter and sponsorship by this man, who seemed to acknowledge Avena’s potential. 

As Avena grew into a young woman, she practised her acting, and as her sponsor insisted she also learned how to dance. Her acting skills proved to be rather average, and stage fright got the best of her too many times. Because of this her sponsor tried to convince her of pursuing a career as an “exotic dancer”, which upset her, prude as she still was. She much rather wanted to succeed as an actress.

On her 17:th birthday, she was confronted by her sponsor, telling her that he could give her one last opportunity as an actress: a private show for a business man who apparently had taken notice of her. She could do nothing but agree to this. The business man was more interested in her body than her acting skills however, and in his home she struggled against the pervert trying to wrestle her down. He had just overpowered her when a pair of thugs stormed into the room, killing the man. One of them then turned towards Avena, and as he raised his sword against her, he said: “Sorry, pretty, but we can’t have any witnesses. You were just a decoy anyway. Oh, right, your sponsor sends his regards, and says that you’ve outlived your usefulness.”

As he struck, light flooded the room. She caught the thug’s blade and turned it back upon him, thrusting it into his throat. The other thug barely had a chance to react, as a mere second later he had the same sword protruding from his chest. Avena stormed out of the building, racing across the city at an amazing speed. The affection she had for her sponsor turned into hatred, and with it her trust in others died. She bursted into his home, and found him sitting at his desk. His expression turned into surprise which turned into terror. Neither did he have a chance to react, for a second later Avena had raced across the room, and sliced through his throat, blood spraying the room.

When she came to her senses, and realized that she had become Anathema, she fled from Nexus. Somehow knowing where was headed for, she learned how to make use of her newfound powers. Her acting skills had improved, and she had become inhumanly quick and graceful. But her acting career was not of importance any more. Vague hints and memories from the exaltation that now inhabited her made her fond of the sword, and she agreed that there was something of interest to the finesse of it. Other abilities lured in the back of her mind, telling her the subtle ways of a Night Caste. And she knew exactly how to make use of these powers. Since her exaltation the foremost thing on her mind was the cruelty and selfishness by which her sponsor had acted, and she wanted to destroy that. As she travelled, she began to exact justice upon the wicked in the settlements she passed, moving quickly and unnoticed. She soon found out the rumours she spread before herself, of the vigilante people called the Silent Blade.

Finally, to the south, she found what she was looking for. A well-hidden manse, which her exaltation recognised from ages ago. In there, she found wonders she had wielded in the First Age, and gladly took them for herself again. She then left, knowing her safe haven and again seeking to punish those corrupted.