Astafire Elende

Astafire Elende

Astafire is a well trained high elf, who iss amazingly skilled in combat. But not so much in life. In fact, she is an elven princess, who spent almost all of her life so far inside the castle walls. When she was four years old, her mom and older brother where killed. Although the bodies have never been found. Since that moment her dad, became verry protective and suspicious. So he hid her from the outside world, used a spell to let everyone forget that she even existed and made her live a life with a little interaction with other people as possible. He wanted to protect her from the fate that took her mother and brother and wanted to make sure that the kingdom had an air to the throne in case he died.
  Astafire grew up. Her days in the castle where always the same. Waking up around half past 5, weapon training. 7 o clock breakfast. Another combat training. History, politics, algebra, and music, lessons about poisonous plants. Her whole life was filled whit study and training. She knew a lot. But, she also had a lot of things she did not know. The combat training, just as part of a safety measure, was always with enchanted creatures and elves. The enchantment made sure the creatures forgot that they ever met the elven princess, but also, protected them for serious injuries. In her years in the castle, she sometimes heard whispers about parties, whispers coming through an open window carried on the wings of the wind. Young elves, giggling about a night out. Talking about dancing and having fun. That was something she wanted to experience as well. That feeling grew and grew as months passed. And her curiosity grew. So ten days ago, she decided to escape the castle and just to experience one night of great party.
  Since she was a master in combat and sneaking, it was no big deal escaping. She followed the sounds of music and later that night she ended in the bar. Just as she planned. This had to be the best night of her life, she thought by herself. Seeing people and other creatures dance, laughing, having fun. So she ordered a drink. But it did not quite as planned… All the creatures where staring at her, giving her weird looks. Also.. she did not really know how to communicate with others in an normal way, or that she had to pay for a beer. What is the concept of money anyway? People pulled out their swords.. that did not look like a party.. she did what she was trained to do and accidently killed them all (that’s what happens, if you are so well trained that body memory takes over...) She ran off, flying from what she did.
  She ran for two days straight. First angry and devastated by what she did, later amazed by all the colours of the forest, sounds of the birds and amazed by wind playing with her hair. And decided not to go back before she had seen all the world. At that time she did not know that the whole army of the king was looking for her, for her and the necklace she was wearing. She also did not know that one person at that bar, a verry shady person, was still alive. And that that person, recognized the neckless she was wearing as the most precious artifact of the elves.
  After two days of running, she met a friendly healer wizard. He was just smoking his pipe at a lake side. He was on his way to a new town, to help the people who suffered form a weird and strange disease. He did recognize the princess as what she was, but decided not to say anything. He had seen weirder things in his life. He thought she was a nice companion for the way and during their five days together, they talked about politics, psychology, magic and of course, healing.   He understood that the high elf was running. Why, he had a feeling, but did not want to interfere. Also, he was amazed to see the necklace, and also amazed to notice that the girl that wore it, had no idea what it was. But he decided that it might be for the best and not tell her. During their conversations, he grew quite fond of the young elf. He heard about her brother and mother who disappeared, and gave her the idea that maybe, they might be still alive.. he gave her the advice to try to blend in more and changed her ears from elvish to human alike. To make it easier for her to be unnoticed.   Unfortunately, the wizard one day, decided to show her a special flower he picked. And just for the fun of impact, he decided to teleport himself in front of her. Astafire was taken by surprise and in an impulse put a blade trough his chest. The wizard, how powerful and famous as he was, had not enough time to heal himself and was instantly dead.   Again stroked with grief, she ran off. That is when she met the rest of the party. And decided to pretend it was not her and that she was a human. Just looking for a new wizard to heal her family. And that, if she stayed low-key, she maybe could learn how to interact normally with other people and learn everything she could learn about a normal life. Like: how to order a beer without getting into a fight.