Anní Silverhand

This document has been contributed by: Dr. Cain Temple

Orange Inscriber Archmage, Professor Anní Silverhand

Anní Silverhand is a dwarven woman, and one of the three founders of the Æther Foundation. She is an Archmage of the Cobalt Sun and the Inscriber for the Fundamental Circle of Aether. Her primary magical focus, despite being a member of the circle dedicated to elemental magic, is on true magic - her focus when she attended the University of Solimé and her main interest in magic.
Since being a founder of the Æther Foundation, she has written many academic papers detailing the research that she and Dr. Cain Temple, though she has since lost her passion for the research and it is primarily Dr. Cain Temple's project. However, she continues to write for the experiments to allow Dr. Temple his own time to continue performing these experiments.

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— Anní Silverhand in A Research-Based Approach on the Education of Plane-Souls

Personal History

Early Life

Anní Silverhand was born to Lyrà Oakenshield and Argarius Mountainjaw, in the city of Astrakkhan, Vechia underneath the Solorim Mountains. She was the youngest of three siblings, and the rest of her family had interests in stonework, mining, and blacksmithy. Anní, on the other hand, quickly took an interest in magic. She would visit her local libraries and read as much as she could regarding the arcane and the Weave, wanting to become a mage herself. Her parents tolerated these interests in the hope that she would go into, in their eyes, a more reasonable profession - such as enchanting weapons and armour, or runework.

University

However, these hopes did not come to fruition, instead crushed when Anní asked her parents if she could attend university. They refused to help her in this regard, pleading with her to stay with her family. However, when Anní ignored them and managed to scrounge up enough money to attend the University of Solimé in Solimé, the next city over, they were greatly disappointed. At that point, her family decided to disown her, and Anní lost her right to use their surnames.

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Meeting Temple

This disconnection from her family ostracised her from her other dwarven peers, and while she was succeeding academically, she was failing socially and emotionally. Working two part-time jobs as well as being a full-time student, Anní began to struggle. She was barely able to stay afloat, and it was beginning to look like she would need to drop out. Despite this becoming an inevitability, she clung on to hope that something would change and that she would be able to continue. After all, she had spent so much time and money to get there in the first place. Despite this flaw in her thinking, she met Cain Temple in what could have been her last semester that she could afford. Temple was also a student at the university, and was much more financially stable and well-off than Anní was. And he saw promise in her abilities. As the two became friends, they would begin to work on projects together, later joined by Luthor Irongrip - who himself was not a student, but was able to provide support and assistance to the group when needed. When now-Dr. Cain Temple graduated, he offered Anní a job doing research with him, which she accepted. Later, Dr. Temple joined the Cobalt Sun's Revelatory Circle of Energy, Anní and Luther later becoming members as well. This allowed them to continue their research, ensuring funding would be permanent for their projects. While Anní seems to have lost interest in the project, she remains due to her debt owed to Dr. Temple and the fact that her reputation is permanently tied to his.

Species

Dwarf

Date of Birth

12th of Neconozol

Year of Birth

1893 A.G.W. 108 Years old

Parents

Argarius Mountainjaw

Lyrà Oakenshield

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Natural orange, always braided, mid-back

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Fair

Height

4'6"

Other Affiliations

• Cobalt Sun
• Fundamental Circle of Aether

Mental Characteristics

Education

Anní got her education from the University of Solimé, where she paid for the majority of her education. When she began to no longer be able to pay for it, Cain Temple assisted her.
Her primary focus of study was on true magic, though later on she shifted to learning more about elemental magic instead. This shift is principally due to influence of her peers.

Employment

Anní's first work experiences were in minor, part-time jobs that she took while she was attending university. However, since graduating from university, she helped to found the Æther Foundation, and has since been one of the three professors working there.

Intellectual Characteristics

Anní is highly intelligent, with a particular knack for magic. As she is responsible for teaching magic to the students of the Foundation, she has leanred patience as the nature of instructing others in her art has come a bit slower to her.

Morality and Philosophy

Anní is sometimes a bit too kind and forgiving to the people around her; she believes in the inherent goodness of people, a belief that has all to often led to strife. She chooses not to leave the Foundation for this reason, and holds too much sympathy for her students - so much so that she is often not willing to do what is necessary for their education and growth, despite the advice of her peers.

Physical Characteristics

General Physical Condition

Anní looks a bit older than she actually is, some of her experiences having aged her. She is not particularly nimble, and she is certainly not strong. However, she is very healthy, much like the rest of her dwarven kin. She is about average height for a dwarf, with fairly typical features for her kind, with one exception; she has naturally bright orange hair.

Apparel and Accessories

Anní likes to wear warmer colours, and looser clothing. Her clothing tends to be a blend between traditional dwarven regalia and more contemporary styles of the region, giving her a somewhat timeless but still recognisably dwarven look.

Specialised Equipment

Anní keeps a spellbook, in which she both takes notes regarding magic in, as well as casts spells from and creates and edits new spells in. She does require reading glasses, and she has enchanted hers with a bit of gold magic to see magical fields around her.

Special Abilities

Anní is skilled in both elemental and true magic. Though she has had much more recent practice with elemental magic, she does her best to practise true magic whenever she can. When crafting spells in her free times, these spells are often of true magic for this reason. If engaged in a fight, she will start out with elemental magic, and fall back on true magic if required.