[list]Name: Andronika Hasikos
Species/Race: Inburian
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Court Alignment: White
Role: Pretender
Appearance: 5'6'', youthful looking, with dark hair and eyes.
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[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Skills: Comfortable with pistol, smallsword and broadsword. Has the rare and valuable 'gift of healing'.  Additionally, Andronika is pretty good with people. 
Weaknesses: She's a teenager and can be a bit prone to overestimating her own abilities
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory:Andronika Hasikos is one of the surviving members of the Hasikos dynasty (she is the Great, great, great, great, great, great niece of the Dakis III, the last Emperor). She is the eldest of three daughters of another Dakis, though her 'claim' is something she's never really thought about. In her mind, the idea that the Hasikos dynasty might enthrone itself again after 200 years was almost comically silly, though being one of the surviving members of the house has given her a certain amount of prestige amongst the Inburian community and she has, by human standards lived a relatively privileged life. She grew up in a rustic country villa, North of Grendell. There were servants, albeit not so many that she could escape chores. Her father mediated disputes amongst the local human community, giving some form of justice amongst a people mostly ignored by Haltian law.

At 17, Andronika was engaged to Ioakim Costaou, a (relatively) wealthy local trader, 20 years her senior, and it was expected she would cement the marriage within the year, one which would afford her the ability to continue living her comfortable existence and which would bring Ioakim considerable prestige.

Unfortunately for her, it was about this time she began manifesting the so-called 'gift of healing'. It first manifested when, while visiting the market, she witnessed an old man's leg get crushed by a cart. Andronika did what she could to bind the broken and twisted limb, though the other villagers who rushed to the scene were adamant the damage was too serious and the mangled leg would need to be amputated at the knee. Together, they took the man to the local physician, only for the physician to declare that, once the man's damaged clothing had been cut away, his leg was, miraculously, well on the road to recovery.

In the following weeks, Andronika was asked to assist with several injuries of both people and livestock and it rapidly became clear she was developing a magical talent. Quickly the stories reached the ears of the local Elga lord, who sent a summons to the family farm, demanding that Andronika present herself at the manor to assist with the healing of a favourite horse. Andronika was nervous, though hardly in a position to disobey and she went to the Manor stables, performing the task as required. As she left though, she was promptly arrested, accused of stealing silverware from inside the Manor, somewhere she had never actually been invited.

Initially she protested her innocence, though it quickly dawned on her that everybody actually knew she was innocent. The pantomime was being conducted in order to allow the Lord to sell her into slavery. Something he did a week later after finding her guilty of burglary in a hurried trial. Healers are worth a lot of money, particularly to a provincial Lord.

Andronika, however, was not the kind of person to go away easily and, having convinced one of her guards to help her escape, an event which resulted in the death of several Imperial soldiers, fled into the Morktree with the aforementioned guard and several other escaped prisoners where the group traversed the nearly impenetrable forest, to emerge in the Kingdom of Carnelfenney as winter fell.

One of Andronika's companions on the journey, and close friends, is the Aonène Alzina La Noue de Bellièvre, the woman now believed to be the 'Dawnbringer', prophesied to bring an end to the Blight.  Partly due to her proximity to Aonène, several attempts were made on Andronika's life, almost resulting in her death on more than one occasion.  This, more than anything else, spurred the young Hasikos girl to raise her banner in rebellion.

When an Imperial Army arrived in Carnelfenneyan territory to 'escort' Aonène to the Emperor's court, Andronika used her regiment to supplement the garrison in the town of Trefgodwig and, when a relief force finally arrived, personally led a sally against Imperial forces in support of the King's army.  This cemented her reputation for bravery, though quietly it wasn't an experience Andronika has any particular desire to repeat.
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