Asteria Stormbow
Professor Asteria Stormbow
Asteria Stormbow, a Jade Elf that grew up as part of an Outlander tribe, used her talent for magic to earn herself a place at the Unending Scroll first as a student and then eventually as a professor. She specialized in Green and White Magic, learning and excelling in both during her time at the academy. Her proficiency with magic and the renown she gained as part of the Unending Scroll allowed her to form the Research and Development division, a special unit of the academy that focused on creating things of varying levels of helpfulness to all manner of people.Once a Scholar of Green Magic from simple origins, Asteria Stormbow grew out of being a Jade Elf in Outlander territory once she came to the Unending Scroll. Scholars and Mages of all proficiencies came to the academy to learn about magic and utilize the talents that they had been granted by the goddess Lycana, but Asteria took her schooling a step further, eventually becoming one of the many professors at the Unending Scroll.
For decades, she served as a profession of both Green and White Magic as her specialties brought her to excel in both. Her aptitude for difficult magic allowed her to be a guiding force in the Unending Scroll, but this never fully piqued the deep curiosity she retained from her childhood. With an idea and some leftover classroom materials, Asteria would put in motion her greatest achievement.
Asteria Stormbow would go on to create the Research and Development division at the Unending Scroll that specialized in the creation of magical goods, constructs, and technologies that aided the Elven Kingdom and beyond. It was an unorthodox use of magic, but her achievements in this field brought important technologies to the world that saved and enriched lives.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Outlands Crest
The Unending Scroll
The early days of being a student at the Unending Scroll were overwhelming for Asteria as she had never been outside of her tribe’s village. The size of the Academy and Alfensil was more than she could have ever imagined, but she quickly took to her studies, often asking the birds and mice around the campus to lead her to various places. She excelled in the use of Green Magic, quickly outpacing her peers who had little to no instruction before they entered the Academy. Asteria soon became a well-known student to all professors at the Academy, including the Headmaster. After nearly a decade of studying Green Magic, Asteria’s aptitude and natural instinct for magic allowed her to branch out and work with other colors of magic. While she dabbled in multiple colors over the next decade or so, she eventually chose to specialize in Green and White Magic, often mixing the two in intricate ways to achieve new results. Again, she excelled in her new color, reading all that the Unending Scroll had to offer in its libraries and gaining permission to study in the royal libraries as she reached her thirtieth year of study. Those at the Academy of the Scroll often graduate at their own rate, taking decades or even a century to gain all the knowledge they wish to before departing. For Asteria, she wished to stay part of the Academy for the duration of her life, studying all that could be learned and discovering things that had yet to be found. After five decades of study at the Academy, the Headmaster approached her, offering her a position as a professor if only she would choose to graduate. She would be allowed to continue her studies, ever learning more about the two colors of magic she had come to love.Professorship
With five decades of study behind her, Asteria entered the Unending Scroll as a professor, specializing in Green Magic with some instruction in White Magic. Her earliest classes on Green Magic taught students the same methods that she had been taught by the tribe leader, often sitting and listening to the world around them. Instead of classroom instruction, she often preferred to take her classes beyond the enchanted barrier of the city so that they could listen to the forest around them and fully grasp the magic that they were learning to use. This style of teaching endeared her to her students, making her a favored professor by many.Crest of the Unending Scroll
Research & Development Division
The Research & Development Division was meant to be for all those that were never satisfied with the answers they received. Those that were never happy with the reasoning behind why something couldn’t be done. This Division was created to find all the answers and then ask more questions.Although many in the Unending Scroll were surprised by Asteria’s appeal to the Headmaster, it was accepted and she began the process of recruitment for her fledgling division. There were no stipulations to join the division, just one needed to be inquisitive and willing to continue asking difficult questions. In its earliest days, the division consisted of only seven members with Asteria leading the research. The projects, in the beginning, were simple, often only melding different colors of spells to create desired effects. Their processes were meticulously kept, often with annotations from those that had seen different results or other issues. Tomes were filled quickly, causing the division to be given its own wing of the Unending Scroll to hold research notes. Over the following centuries, the Research & Development Division would continue to grow in size and scope. At one point, nearly one hundred members worked in the division on a variety of research projects, including spell melding, magical constructs, and a variety of magic items. This division would be Asteria’s crowning achievement, but she did not live long enough to see the division begin to make the changes in people’s lives that she had spoken of.
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