Ashlyn Ageddust (Ash-lin Age-ed-duh-ust)
Once a soldier, now an explorer
This article is a part of Summer Camp 2023 and is still a work in progress.
How Did We Get Here
While he was on Erihe Gadus for a Covert Company mission during the years of the Collapse, Friendly Ramsey ran into something he had only run into once before in all of his years: someone like him. He found Ashlyn Lockley slumped against the shell of a hovercar, her hands curled around the bloodstained spot on her shirt where she had been stabbed. Whether it was his Covert partner or a Gadusian that had done the deed, he wasn't sure. What he did know was that this was someone like him. And there not likely to be a kindly Mageborn around to whack this one into a sensible being as had been done with him long ago. So, Ramsey radioed his partner that there had been a complication and his part of their mission would take a bit longer before he threw the non-responsive Ashlyn over his shoulder. After finding somewhere to secure her, he finished the job and hunted down some local fauna before he returned to her. Once he managed to shove fresh meat down her throat and got her to swallow, some clarity returned to the woman and he had a chance to explain. That she had died but that death wasn't permanent. All of the twists and turns in what they were. The what to do and what to not do. Given that he couldn't take her with him when he left the planet, Ramsey spent as much time as he could get away with with the woman before he had to leave. He did give her the code for his personal communicator and kept it touch with her for a while...until the EMPs went off and his comm was destroyed along with all other technology in the Eusarre Erria System where he was at the time.Who Were We
Ashlyn Lockley had been a soldier. Growing up in the Eusarre Erria System under Baen Arleth there was nothing else for a child to be. She had been trained and practically raised by Arleth's schools, serving proudly as a member of the Gathering of Fire for several years. That all came to an end when one of her brothers in the Gathering stabbed her over a ration of food. She felt herself die...and then she was aware again. Conscious...but distant. And then he came. Ramsey. He helped her, kept her from turning into a monster and taught her what she needed to know to survive in her new existence. In turn, she helped him with information about Baen Arleth and the Horde, as whatever loyalty she had had been utterly destroyed by the betrayal of her own. And then...she was alone.Who Are We Now
Post-Collapse, Ashlyn put the particular quirks of her new form to use on Erihe Gadus. An explosion had done terrible damage to one of the major cities (of course, she knew it had been Ramsey, she had been the one to tell him that was where to strike) and she was one of the few who could get in without choking to death on the acrid smoke still rising from the ashes. She put herself to work digging bodies and intact objects out of the rubble and found herself enjoying the majority of the work. As soon as she could get off of the planet, she did. Since then, Ashlyn has kept moving. At first she kept to the Eusarre Erria System, going into bombed out regions and digging out artifacts that had been considered to be lost, but then she expanded into the other regions torn apart by the Collapse. The Teceanisis System was first and then the Glyni Ka'Roma System was next, sometimes hunting for some specific lost thing for someone and sometimes just searching to see what she could find. Eventually the post-Collapse period meant that people stopped looking so hard for those things but Ashlyn never did. These days she calls herself Ashlyn Ageddust - a laughable mockery of a surname for what she is - and sells her skills in treasure hunting. The job is just a nice bonus on top of what she already does, which is travel from place to place, seeking objects that have been lost and are maybe looking to be found. As well as the lost places from before, the artifacts of Old Terra that sometimes have been misplaced over the years since the first settlers left.Relationships
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Species
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Eyes
Blue-gray, distant and flat
Hair
Blonde-brown, usually tied back into a bun
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
The pallor of a corpse
Height
1.63 meters
Belief/Deity
Egsus the Knife of the Mind
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