Elena Hunt

Fit and attractive, Elena maintains her physical fitness through adventures across the known world. She maintains a mix of strength and agility, but doesn't excel in either area as a result.

Though she can pick a lock, she isn't extremely good at it, and almost always seems to have bad luck when attempting to do so. No amount of practice will ever change this.

Elena is very good at aiming with a bow, a skill that transfers to aiming with a pistol as well. She is unexpectedly good at brawling - a fact that she has exploited more than once to win a bet. Her determination allows her to accomplish feats of strength that bely her appearance. She has an extremely high pain tolerance.

Adventuring

  While on her adventures, Elena wears long pants and sturdy nearly waterproof boots to protect her from snakes or liquids she may need to wade through. She wears a light colored top, usually either white or teal in color. She also wears the leather digger's coat that is a sign of membership in the Explorer's Society, though she will occasionally leave it off when it is either too hot or conspicuous.   Elena carries a variety of weapons and equipment in the field. Most prominent is her powerful recurve bow, which she keeps slung across her back. The quiver is attached to the strap of her satchel, in which she keeps her notebooks and artifacts that she recovers. She will sometimes carry glass sample jars in case she needs to gather up small, easily lost items (such as pottery shards). Rounding off the items in her satchel is a set of archaeologist's tools, including brushes and smaller digging implements.    She also carries a pair of climbing axes that she uses both to scale rocky outcroppings and to attack enemies at close range. She typically holsters these on her left hip. After her adventure in the Walder, she keeps a pistol on her right hip, though she rarely uses it in favor of her bow. She keeps a sturdy combat knife on her person at all times, usually somewhere on her belt.   She keeps a single, simple lockpick hidden in the sole of her left boot. She only uses this for emergencies, as she often uses a more complete lockpick set when she needs to do a bit of covert entry.  

Aristocracy

When interacting with the nobles of Queen Elaine's court or at other such high functions, she wears dresses cut according to the current fashion. She wears a variety of colors ranging from black to a light teal, but never a fully white dress. She also wears a level of jewelry and other ornamentation appropriate to the head of a wealthy merchant business. She can never resist wearing the Syrneth ear loop that she discovered in Eisen, and has used it as a conversation piece more than once. She also continues wearing a knife even while dressed in formal attire, keeping the weapon strapped to either her forearm or leg, depending on the cut of the dress.  

Syrneth Artifacts

Elena has found a variety of Syrneth artifacts over the years. Most of them she donates to the Explorer's Society, but she kept three that she found for herself: a crystal used as a light source, a pair of metal Shield Bracelets, and a pair of Ear Loops.

Elena was born after her father's rise to power, the first and only child of Richard Hunt and Sienna Hunt. She was brought into the court of Queen Elaine at an early age in order to expose her to how Avalon nobility works.   Growing up, Elena's father shared his interest in adventure stories with his daughter, and she quickly picked up on the excitement in his voice. While Richard was always content to read the stories and fund expeditions, Elena wanted to go on them herself. She contented herself with explorations through the countryside around her home while she was still a child, dreaming that she was exploring the wilderness of Eisen or the islands of the Atabean.   In 1657, when Elena was 10, her mother set sail for the New World as part of a large merchant fleet that Hunt & Dantes was using to try and relax some of the trade monopoly that the Atabean Trading Company had on the region. The fleet never arrived, and was presumed lost in the North Trade Sea. No trace of it, or of Lady Sienna, was ever found. The sudden loss of her mother shocked Elena, tearing away some of the innocence that she still had. Worse for her was the fact that the loss drove her father deep into a manic grief. He searched for his wife for two years without finding any trace, and Elena was forced to come to the conclusion that her mother was dead. During this time, Elena tried to have her father read her the old adventure stories she loved, but it was no use. Her father was almost as gone as her mother, despite being physically present.   Left to her own devices and unable to find escape in the pages of the books she had once loved, Elena expanded her adventures at home. She began digging through ruins, and her passion for ancient knowledge grew. She dealt with her grief by learning, and before too long began attempting to join the Explorer's Society. Her attempts to join were repeatedly denied due to her young age and lack of ability to contribute to the organization.   Elena's father never stopped searching for her mother. After attempting to use the magic of the Sidhe to find Lady Hunt, he turned to Syrneth artifacts. This temporarily healed some of the gap between Elena and her father, as they now had a shared passion once more. Unfortunately, Richard Hunt's single-minded obsession with finding his wife led him to push Elena aside, and they quickly grew distant once more. Eventually, after years of failing to find anything that would lead him to his wife, Richard Hunt committed suicide in the year 1664.   Now an orphan at the age of 17, Elena found herself as the head of Hunt & Dantes, a duty that she did not want. Despite this, she rose to the challenge and tried to run the business to the best of her ability. She did not have a good head for logistics, however, and quickly turned over most of the operation of the company to her father's business partner, Edmond Dantes. With his help and management, the company stayed afloat, and Elena had a steady enough stream of income to maintain Hunt Manor and her family's position within Queen Elaine's court.   The family butler, Winston Gladstone, helped Elena get through the next few years of her life and into full adulthood. He also gently nagged her about marriage, as she was now one of the most eligible bachelorettes in Queen Elaine's court due to being the heir to a vast fortune and an entire mercantile business. Elena, for her part, became quite good at avoiding her suitors, correctly deducing that many of them were only after her family business. She had a few brief relationships, but nothing serious, and she broke them off before too long.   In 1666, Elena finally realized a lifelong dream. In that year, she was finally accepted into the Explorer's Society. She donned the digger coat with pride, though she did wish that her father was there to see it. She continued his exploration of Syrneth artifacts, though she did it because of passion for learning rather than as an attempt to find her lost mother. Shortly after joining the Society, she left the Glamour Isles for the first time to go on an archaeological dig and discovered it to be everything she had ever hoped for. Surrounded by the like-minded people of the Society, she found a comfortable place of belonging for the first time since her mother had vanished.   One such person she meet in the Society was Frida Rosario, a mixed-ancestry Castillian who was also interested in Syrneth ruins. Like Elena, Frida had also recently lost her father, who had disappeared unexpectedly one night. The two women bonded over their shared grief and interests. Over the next few years, the two of them worked together often.   Due to her repeatedly leaving the Glamour Isles to explore sites across Théah, the popularity of her name began to wane amongst the Avalon nobility, though it would not fade entirely due to Elena's unmarried status. Others in the court saw opportunities to consult with her about other the countries that she frequently visited, and she obliged them. Beyond that, however, she only kept a token interest in the affairs of the court, finding the local parties too boring for her taste. She maintained a "healthy distance" from that side of her life, ignoring the gossip that was invariably spread about her.   After two years of minor digs with the Explorer's Society, Elena decided to make her mark with the most ambitious expedition that she had ever conceived of. In a plan that would be worthy of one of the adventure stories she grew up on, she decided that she would travel to Eisen and explore a place that no one had ever successfully visited before: the Syrneth ruins deep within the Walder forest.

When she was 17, she discovered that her father had hanged himself. This gave her a deep fear of death by hanging.

Believes that her mother is dead, and has been for years.   Distrusts the Sidhe due to her father's negative experience with them shortly after her mother's disappearance.

Elena firmly believes that the future of Theah lies in the secrets contained by the Syrneth ruins. Not all of her exploration is for altruistic reasons, however. Elena is addicted to filling in the gaps in her knowledge, a drive that extends to just about everything she comes across.

Has no head for logistics, usually leaving such matters up to others, such as Edmond Dantes or Marcus Cunningham.

Loves to hear good stories, both written and oral. Stories about the Syrne are a particular favorite of hers, as are adventure stories.   Elena has an ear for accents, and likes the Eisen accent.

Usually takes the time to squeeze the water out of her ponytail if she gets wet.

Member of the Church of Avalon. Was firmly active and believed until her father died. For the next 3 years, she found her faith dormant, too hurt by what the teachings of the church said about suicide victims to be a part of it. As time went on, however, she returned to the faith, trying to fill a hole in her life. She is still not quite fully invested, but is on the road to become so.   She generally doesn't care much about what specific religion someone else belongs to as long as they worship Theus. for this reason, she treats people from the Vatacine, Objectionist, and Avalon faiths identically (including showing proper respect for priests, etc.).

Noticeable Avalon accent.   Very commanding tone under most circumstances.