Editing Its A Mad World Epic4E:Autumn Iceclaw

Autumn Iceclaw, "Its A Mad World" character

=Autumn Iceclaw, Sword of the Raven Queen=
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==Appearance==
'''Height''': 5'8"<br>
'''Weight''': 140lb<br>
'''Age''': It is always unwise to ask a lady her age<br>
'''Alignment''': Unaligned<br>
'''Deity''': Raven Queen<br>
'''Hair''': Dark Brown, nearly black. <br>
'''Eyes''': Amber<br>

==History==
* '''Autumn was born into a mixed trading town of humans, elves and shifters on the border of one of the great forests. Had Fate not intervened, she probably would have become a hunter/trapper like her parents.'''  Sometimes, she regrets the loss of a simple life.
* '''The town was invaded and nearly destroyed by an army of undead, raised by an ambitious necromancer.'''  They razed the town and killed nearly everyone, including Autumn's family.  She escaped, and with a handful of other refugees made it to the dubious safety of the city.  There, young Autumn grew up, not quite on the streets, but close.  Many of the refugees turned to religion to help them cope, and Autumn was no different, but unlike many of her fellows, she found kinship in the Raven Queen's temples, rather than Pelor's.  Despite her devotion, she didn't have quite the right mindset for the priesthood.  Instead, she was directed to a monastery dedicated to training avengers for the Raven Queen by a mysterious figure she is convinced was an aspect of the Raven Queen herself.
* '''Her first goal when she finished her training was to hunt down the necromancer who'd killed her family.'''  She tried to take him on by herself at first, and only just escaped with her life.  She tried again, years later with more experience under her belt and a group of fellow adventurers to help out and managed to take him down.
*'''''One of the recruits Autumn found for her assault upon her necromantic foe was the thief known as Inwyt Son of Shadow; he found a way past the necromancer's intricate defenses, and enabled the team to strike directly at the heart of the monster's lair.''' It was, he later declared, great fun. He still talks about the fourth lock upon the Ivory Cenotaph, and the devilishly fiendish trap that nearly took his fingers. "Even so," Inwyt he adds, "Cracking that lock was a far sight easier than getting that Autumn lass to crack a smile. Grimmer than the Reaper she was, and twice as deadly. Not that I ever stopped trying, of course. I think that I saw her lip twitch once, and that? That was a sweet victory indeed."''
* '''She's made her legend as a hunter and slayer of undead, sometimes alone, usually with companions'''.  Her devotion to the Raven Queen has grown alongside her own personal legend.  Though she's had no personal interaction with the deity, she firmly believes her destiny lies as a true servant of that great goddess.  She's no longer the only one saying so either.
*'''''Among the hunts Autumn performed was a strike against the vampire lord Zurostes, during which she consulted with the pixie Lilybloom about the target, who was also a warlock in service of the Winter Court.''' Lilybloom was deeply moved by Autumn's story, and accompanied the shifter on her final assault, helping her to evade the vampire's defenses and distracting his minions with her illusions while Autumn laid him low. Although the devoted avenger and somewhat flighty fey were something of an odd pairing, Lilybloom retains a personal fondness for Autumn, partly because of her racial affinity for animals makes her naturally positively inclined towards shifters, although her tendency to occasionally accidentally treat the shifter similarly to the way she would one of the large, intelligent cats found in the Feywild was a source of some annoyance to the avenger. ''
*'''She slew the dracolich Zangrator in single combat, and and rescued the heir to the thrown of Liahara.''' For this she was offered, in succession, the rest of the dracolich's horde, a dukedom of her own, and the hand of the heir, all of which she refused, to better focus on her quest.  This had the unintended side effect of creating quite a cult of personality around her in Liahara and surrounding areas, to the point that it's nearly impossible to travel incognito through those areas.

==Character Ties==
* ''Among the hunts Autumn performed was a strike against the vampire lord Zurostes, during which she consulted with the pixie Lilybloom about the target, who was also a warlock in service of the Winter Court.''  Lilybloom was deeply moved by Autumn's story, and accompanied the shifter on her final assault, helping her to evade the vampire's defenses and distracting his minions with her illusions while Autumn laid him low.  Although the devoted avenger and somewhat flighty fey were something of an odd pairing, Lilybloom retains a personal fondness for Autumn, partly because of her racial affinity for animals makes her naturally positively inclined towards shifters, although her tendency to occasionally accidentally treat the shifter similarly to the way she would one of the large, intelligent cats found in the Feywild was a source of some annoyance to the avenger.