Appearance

Physical Description

Short and slight, as befitting a flying creature. Deceptively small under the fluffy feathers, and capable of poofing up or shrinking down according to emotional state.

Body Features

Pleasantly orangeish-brown feathers with silvery-gray on the top of their head, the leading edges of their wings, and their arms. White feathers only on the bottom quarter of their face.

Facial Features

Functionally that of a giant barn owl. Wholly black eyes, heart-shaped face, narrow, downturned white beak. Facial expressions are difficult with a beak, so they are mostly conveyed through the eyes.

Apparel & Accessories

A tattered robe over sensible leather armor, coupled with a large bag containing survival and scholastic supplies.

Special abilities

Upon activating Symbiotic Entity, Amanita acquires an appearance akin to the Flatwoods Monster. The "hood" is a maroon plate of hardened fungal mass and the "gown" is a series of fungal plates adorning their body in a configuation that does not impede mobility. The color scheme is a mix of maroon, red, and yellow.

Mentality

Personal history

Amanita was born in The Endeavour to a pair of owlin artificers who worked with alchemical concoctions based on local nuts for a variety of purposes. However, her particular academic talents were less oriented around chemistry and artifice and more around mycology, among other things. Her interest in the natural cycles of decay ended up with her parents sending her off to Rowa for further development of her talents. However, her interest in darker subjects was piqued upon reading a text detailing Aldurian post-revivification and resurrective practices. It was at this point that she ultimately decided to combine alchemy and fungus in an effort to manually resurrect and rebuild corpses even better than before. Alas, a Discussion of Progress raised some very thorny ethical concerns and Amanita was ultimately told to abandon the project or accept banishment. She accepted banishment, fleeing to Demoor since it was the perfect location to continue isolated experiments, albeit with far less infrastructure. Hiding in a cave lit by baskets of bioluminescent fungus and wondering how those fools could not see the potential of her research, something snapped inside of her. Not her sanity, it was a connection with the Web flaring into existence and local fungi infusing themselves into her body as a conduit for druidic power. She became a collective, and they walked forth as a budding Power determined to see through their research to its conclusion...

Education

Accredited at Rowa, and a prestigious researcher to boot. Further education there unlikely due to banishment.

Employment

Freelancer at the moment, currently looking for adventuring work for steady if dangerous income.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Made advances in fusing necromancy and mycology into a single discipline, Godcrafted without outside input.

Failures & Embarrassments

Embarrassed at their current lack of means and permanent residence. They've never been excessively bothered by living on the wing, but a lack of a permanent lab is bottlenecking progress.

Mental Trauma

Secretly fears their parents are disappointed in their banishment.

Intellectual Characteristics

Amanita takes an intuitive, common-sense approach to their research that leads to results other researchers might not get because they though the solution was "too easy." Incisive intellect, but prone to hyperfocus so fallible in their own way.

Morality & Philosophy

In Amanita's eyes, progress is paramount and conventional morality gets in the way of advances that could save lives or improve quality of life. That said, they way of expressing this is basically going against their own ingrained social mores to do such daunting tasks as "asking for help." They're not a monster, just a little too eager to test out some medical advances on bandit corpses.

person.sexuality

Amanita was asexual even before Godcrafting, and afterwards was rather too busy to pursue even a romantic relationshiop.

person.gender_identity

AFAB, but switched to collective pronouns after become a symbiotic collective. They/them.

Known Languages

Owlin, Common, Undercommon.

Personality

Motivation

Science!!! Amanita is firmly convinced that augmentative necromancy can revolutionize the medical and necromantic industry if they could just perfect it! However, research is expensive so their current motivation is to make enough cash to acquire experimental materials and some help. Science is hard work solo, after all.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Mushrooms grow on dead things."

Likes & Dislikes

Likes fungus, intellectual conversations, magical and alchemical theory. Dislikes researchers WHO CLEARLY CAN'T SEE THE MERITS OF THEIR FIELD OF STUDY.

Virtues & Personality perks

Amanita is honest to a fault and very upfront about everything they are trying to accomplish. In addition, they have a very strong sense of loyalty after having been starved of an in-group for so long.

Vices & Personality flaws

Pride, pride, PRIDE. They literally accepted banishment rather than halt a line of research they were invested in.

Hygiene

Pleasant appearance due to frequent preenings, but they routinely wear tattered work clothes out of apathy and smell of mold and overturned earth. Owlin have no sense of smell, after all.

Social

Birthplace

The Endeavour

Family Ties

The Elder Guttatas, their parents and acclaimed alchemists in The Endeavour.

Social Aptitude

Very little. They've been in social isolation for years at this point, and the moldy smell can't help.

Hobbies & Pets

Collects spores, molds, and fungus. Enjoys a midday nap, a good book, and a prolonged fly to clear once's head.

Speech

Terse much of the time, but a tendency to the theatrical once you get them onto a topic they're interested in.