First up is Myrra Sparkclaw, engineer. The surname I’m not 100% on at this point, but I’ve yet to come up with something better. All I know is that “Spark” is part of it, likely the warband name.
There’s a lot to be done to establish her history; previously, most all of it came directly from the Personal Story, as she’s been my main for as long as I’ve played the game. What I have right now is that she comes from a fahrar in the Fields of Ruin, near Ebonhawke. Brilliant Charr, but not particularly fierce by the Legions’ standards, and she has an empathetic quality many of them would see as a weakness, perhaps offensively so. She has leadership potential, overshadowed by guilt over mistakes made as a cub that still follow her.
Names and personalities of her warband are still nebulous, but their leader was turning into an exceptional one. That changed one night when a young human taken prisoner got loose in their camp, Myrra went missing, and he got killed looking for her. Myrra wasn’t the same after that, and neither was her warband – the cub who took on the leadership role was a powerful personality, but he was more reckless, and he never quite grasped the concept of effective teamwork.
They made their way to Ashford shortly after moving on from the fahrar and were made quick work of by the ghosts within their first few assignments. Two, maybe three of them survived, Myrra included. Myrra saw a development in her leadership abilities as she tried to piece the warband back together, and they enjoyed some success with her at the helm. Unfortunately, emerging friction between her and her surviving warbandmates (partially regarding the circumstances of the loss of their leader when young) saw her pushed out, and she struck out on her own.
Her status as a Vigil member helps hide the fact that she is essentially a gladium, but it’s a truth she can’t hide from herself. Her current work gives her enough sense of purpose day-to-day, but she struggles with feeling lost and dishonored and in trying to make up for that. She has to face and work with certain demons from her past before she can really get over that.
Certain things to establish:
Names of the warband and who survived
The course of events that led to her splintering off from the warband
Her assignments in and contributions to the Vigil
What leads her to encounter the other two characters and start working with them
I’ve got ideas down for their interpersonal dynamics and what happens as they learn to work with each other better, but it’s still a work in progress, especially if I don’t intend to follow with the in-game storyline.
A couple of images to start follow. Her facial design in-game looks like it was derived from caracals, so that’s what I’m using as reference.
