Astra 8 Thessamer - Hailing from the kingdom south of Allaria, Astra's
homeland is famous for its warrior women. However, Astra is the daughter of
the King, and thus her freedoms as she came of age were quickly disappearing.
Her father permitted her one last adventure, though, before she would have to
take up the duties her royal blood mandated. By the maps and legends of
Aquilaria, the dragon dwelled in what was, to the people of that kingdom at least,
the Northern Caves. Astra's final quest was to be the delving of these caverns,
and the vanquishing of the monsters within.

The princess of Aquilaria did not make it to the dragon.

Instead, she was captured by the legions of pale, gaunt men who slavishly served
him, and chained deep in the caverns.

It wasn't until months later that she was discovered and freed by Lord Frederigo
D'Honaire. With him they both went to face the dragon, andduring the fight both
were banished via magick to the savage desert.

While taking refuge in the dwelling of the chiurgeon Vincent, Astra watched as the
man attempted to heal the wounds inflicted by one of his creations upon
Frederigo. However, a sneeze at an inopportune moment disrupted Vincent's
concentration, and this distraction caused Astra to be transported into a
ponderously large labyrinth.

While in the labyrinth, Astra passed through a door marked with a wolf's paw and
a human hand. After going down the passageway which the door led to, she was
clubbed senseless, and awoke in a prison cell. Standing, she found herself
changing grotesquely, transforming into a savage hybrid of wolf and woman. Soon
she found the dragon gloating over her, shortly before restoring her human form
and releasing her.

Recently Astra discovered what Minestus' plan was. He had released her to
spread the contagion he had implanted in her, that of the ergot mushroom which
causes lycanthropy. Thought exterminated, apparently the canny old monster had
his own supply, and thought to unleash the strain upon the land again. None can
be sure whether this is part of his master plan or merely a feint, but Astra now
seeks a cure. She is frightened by what she becomes when the moon is full, and
guilty for she already has passed the curse on once.

Astra is brave, kind-hearted, determined, quickwitted and resourceful. She is
outspoken, and occasionally acts rashly. A beautiful yet athletic woman in her
early twenties, her outstanding features are her height and her flaming red hair.

Her admiration for and trust in Frederigo, built up during their adventures prior to
his becoming Thoabath, is gradually being eroded by his more recent off-hand
behaviour. She has become very fond of Lady Andrea Croix, for all that she
occasionally wants to shake some sense into her.

But things happen.

During one night of the full moon, her companion, Andrea had caught up with her
and was trying to....oh....talk her down or something. The noble warrior princess
fought against the beast within, but it was becoming clear that the beast was
winning. But before attacks fell (and curses passed), she and the others got
teleported to Terra Prime.

Astra painfully reverted to human (since it was daylight on Terra Prime vice night
where she'd come from). She was cured of her condition by Rule 179.

Later, she became the head general of the Aqualarian forces (thus better able to
fight the orcen menance). Finally vicotrious, she soon learns from som odd
visitors about the actual condition that "her" Fred was under.

Brooding and wistful about what could have been up until that time, she then saw
a chance and took it by offering her services as a Champion.

The short of it is that back in the Terra where "her" Fred was still under the
control of that other Thaobath Astra (and others) rescue Fred...and in the process
this other Fred falls madly and hopelessly in love with the one person who'd done
so much and gone to so great of length to saving his very soul.

Both now live together as husband and wife back on Terra Prime.

Religious Affiliation- Christianity
Marital Status- Married (Fred 8)
Race - Human

Andrea - Lady Andrea Croix spent most of her life within her father's own
fiefdom, cared for by servants, brought up extremely conservatively.

However, as a child, the tales of her nursemaid Fritha filled her with an intense
wanderlust. The old woman's folk stories and little white magick charms made an
otherwise dreary life bearable.

In time, Andrea grew up and Fritha passed away. The banality of her day to day
life got to her, and so when she could stand no more, she slipped away under
cover of darkness.

As she fled at a gallop upon her horse, she was discovered by Astra of Aquilaria,
who, considering it her duty, brought her back to Croix Keep.

They did not find what they expected.

Seizing an unknown window of opportunity during Andrea's abscence, her
father's advisor had betrayed the keep to the dragon's men. She and Astra only
narrowly managed to escape.

Following several revelations about Astra's newfound curse and a trip to Mount
Cicatrice to find the necromancer Belboz, possibly the only man who could cure
her, Andrea discovered she had bewildering magickal powers, above and
beyond the simple cantrips taught to her by Fritha. Shortly after this, she was almost
attacked beneath the full moon by Astra, and would've contracted the disease of
lycanthropy herself. However, she, Astra 8, and Thaobath were swept to
Terra Prime by a magical malfunction.

Is learning the ways of magic from various mages and shows signs of having vast
magical powers, just like her "sister", Andrea 2.

Religious Affiliation- Christianity
Marital Status- Single
Race - Human

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