Elyn Avant

Early History
Elyn was born to a major noble family in the great metropolis capital of the kingdom in which she lived. She was the middle of three children, with an older brother and a younger sister. From an early age, it was clear she was academically gifted. And thanks to her parent’s wealth, she was afforded the best education money could buy. She studied magic, natural philosophy, art, and all manner of subjects that her curiosity led to.

Of course, being the daughter of nobility has its responsibilities to go along with it’s advantages, and in addition to her other studies, she was taught to be a proper young lady. And as often is the case with young woman of nobility, her parents arranged for a suitably advantageous marriage. Elyn wasn’t fond of the idea of marrying someone who she’d never met and didn’t love, but being a dutiful daughter who knew this was likely to happen, she didn’t protest. She was content, enjoying her studies and becoming a gifted creator of things and weaver of magic.

Assassins
All that changed one day when the unthinkable happened. Her older brother, lusting for power and desiring to become head of the house in his eventual goal of becoming the king, hired assassins to kill their parents. The attempt was thwarted in large part by the Guard, but her father was left crippled and her younger sister was killed in the fighting. Elyn was investigating what had happened, when she stumbled upon the truth that her own brother had been behind the attack.

Framed
She went to go and tell the Guard, but to her shock, her brother was already there; And he was informing the Guard that SHE was the one behind the plot. He said that Elyn resented her parents for her arranged betrothal, and that she had wanted to be the one to inherit the family fortune and titles. And he had manufactured evidence of it as well. The Guard convinced she was the one behind the attacks, Elyn fled, barely escaping through use of a magical device she’d created.

On the Run
Her family and the city turned against her and with no home to return to, she fled the city with nothing but the clothes on her back, a couple of enchanted items, and the small amount of gold she’d had with her. Now a wanted woman, she sold off most of what she had and hired a wizard to transport her to a neighboring kingdom where a childhood friend had moved to and who could help her. However something went awry, and when she stepped through the portal and it closed behind her, she found herself not in the town of her friend, but in a strange land that didn’t look like anything she’d seen before.