Etienne D'Orleans

Played and depicted by Nigel Gale

Description :

Etiennes Trump

Etienne is fairly short and pretty in a saintly kind of way with auburn hair.

Initial Statistics and Powers :

Psyche          :    37 (plus 7 advances)
Strength        : Amber
Endurance       :     2 (plus 1 advance)
Warfare         :     4
Good Stuff      :    +2

Sorcery         : 10
Empowerment     : 10

Special Equipment :

Electra, Etienne's Winged Horse [Intelligent - understands simple speech : 1, Combat Training : 1, Engine Speed - 100mph : 4, Magically Resistant : 1, Resistant to Normal Weapons - by virtue of chainmail barding : 1 = 8]

Spell Rack, a plain wooden Astrafixe [Rack Named and Numbered Spells : 2]

An Astrafixe

Advancement :

Since the game started, the strength of Etienne's mind has increased significantly and she has taught herself the entire power of Advanced Pattern.

She was also responsible for spreading the power and existence of the Medieval Christian God across shadow and teaching all of these individual Gods to link up into a single, vastly powerful, cross-shadow entity capable of spreading across shadow by themselves. When push came to shove and she had to choose, she chose her God over her family, and after sending all of the other Amberites in Amber at the time to Hell is now a non-player character...

Background :

A Joan of Arc figure, she was a foundling who was raised as a farmers daughter on the Enchanted Earth, a world like that of Le Morte D'Arthur during a 100 years war between France and Byzantium, and which is also home to many mythical and magical beings.

From a relatively early age she began hearing voices, which told her how to perform sorcery and empower magical items, as well as how it was her destiny to free France from the Byzantians. Although these voices stopped after the strange storms which racked the Enchanted Earth four years ago, she still knew where her destiny lay.

At the age of seventeen she went out and because of her great martial and magical skill (surpassing all others) became the leading light of the defence of France against the Byzantian invaders, and especially their sorcerous leader, Julian Magnus.

In one year she had risen to the point of commanding the French army against the Byzantians, and now has them bottled up in the city of Aix, where she hopes to defeat them before reinforcements can arrive...

Spell Book :

Etienne's original spell book consisted of the following:

However, since the start of the game she has also developed some extra spells:

Empowered Items :

Etienne's initial Empowered items consisted of the following:

However, since the start of the game she has also created a number of additional items:

She is also in possession of what Etienne now calls the Eye of St Clair (originally the Orb of the Red Mage of Mallen), a crystal ball which can rack up to twelve spells, and which allows the user to scry to distant places through it, seeing, hearing and sensing magic in those places. It also allows the user to cast spells through the scrying link to distant targets. [Rack Named and Numbered Spells : 2, Extraordinary Psyche : 4, Resistant to Firearms : 2, Magically Neutral : 2 = 10 points total]

Etienne's Take on Heaven.

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