Arcanist Akta

Arcanist Bryseis Akta

"Good luck, and please try not to fail too spectacularly -- I'd rather not have to scrape you lot off the floor. As you can see, I didn't come dressed for scraping."

Arcanist Bryseis Akta is the party's primary mentor at Arkemyr Academy and functions as their handler. In addition to her role as an instructor, she keeps a finger on the pulse of Axiom so she can alert the party of any disturbances, rumors, odd-job postings, etc. that may serve as a good challenge for them -- assuring them that she will observe and document their successes or failures.

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Interactions

So far, she has presented the party with two leads:

• Arcanist Berell fears his greenhouse is haunted -- by plant ghosts. He's discovered broken pots and missing plants in the mornings after the greenhouse has been locked all night.
• Someone or something is thinning the herds of a prominent rancher named Cagan Flint, a half-orc who raises cattle and aurochs in the high meadows to the west of Axiom.

Additionally, she has encouraged the party to practice tracking down their own leads, and recommends local taverns (especially the seedier ones) as prime places to start.

Physical Description

Body Features

Akta is a slight half-elf of middle age, with light brown skin, hazel eyes and salt-and-pepper hair. She wears her hair half-up in an intricately braided style, and is always impeccably dressed.

Facial Features

She has high cheekbones, a hawkish nose, and the beginnings of crow's feet at the corners of her eyes.

Special abilities

Akta is an acclaimed transmutation wizard. The full extent of her capabilities is unknown to most, but she is assumed to be quite powerful.

Apparel & Accessories

Akta's daily dress consists of fine layered mage robes in a variety of muted jewel tones, over which she wears a light set of mithril pauldrons.

Specialized Equipment

She carries a strange staff that looks like a long, squared-off steel bar, tapered to a sharp point at the bottom. The top is set with a large round onyx on each of the four faces, deeply inset into the metal. It looks like it should be incredibly heavy, but she carries it with ease. Also, the onyx-topped hairpin she wears through her braided bun bears striking resemblance to a needle-like stiletto.

Mental characteristics

Employment

Akta currently works as an Arcanist and student mentor at Arkemyr Academy. She teaches Combat Control Magic for third and fourth year students three mornings a week in the Arcane Projection Hall.

Intellectual Characteristics

She's pragmatic, blunt, and more than a little sardonic. A dry wit. She's also a routinely published scholar on the theoretical physics of transmutation magic.

Personality Characteristics

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Reading, nice pens, quality stationery, receiving correctly-formatted mission reports.
Dislikes: Filth and/or squalor, dead students.

Social

Religious Views

Not particularly religious, but can occasionally be observed leaving small offerings to the shrine of Mystra in passing.

Mannerisms

Akta is generally soft-spoken, with a slight gravelly edge to her voice. Despite her otherwise regal bearing she seems to take an almost juvenile enjoyment in using her considerable power to do things like float unsettlingly an inch or two above the floor, appear out of thin air unannounced, and briefly stop time in localized areas so she can finish reading that chapter uninterrupted.

Faculty	Arkemyr Academy
Position	Arcanist
Class(es)	Combat Control Magic Party Mentorship

Current Location

Arkemyr Academy

Species

Half-Elf

Gender

Female

Eyes

Hazel

Hair

Salt & pepper
Worn half-up, intricately braided

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Light brown

Height

5' 7"

Weight

Slight build