Name: Daniella Noreen Langford-Frostenden
Class: Dark Trainee > Necromancer > Summoner
Character Skill: Miracle
Affinity:
Personal Flaw: -2 damage dealt when outside of melee range.
Personal Skill: +5% Miracle activation when below 50% HP
/Personal Skill: If a unit within 3 spaces is reduced to 0 HP, +10 Hit and evade until the end of the turn.
//Personal Skill:
Preferred Stats: Magic, Skill
Weapon Proficiency: Dark (E)
Starting Weapon: Worm
Level: 1
Total Level: 1
Progression Spent: 330%
HP: 18 (50%) (+1)
STR: 0 (0%)
MAG: 5 (50%)
SKL: 5 (60%)
LCK: 0 (60%) (+2)
DEF: 0 (30%)
RES: 3 (30%)
SPD: 3 (50%) (+1)
MOV: 4
CON: 5
AID: 4
Bio: Never a particularly strong or influential house to begin with, House Langford was in a difficult position financially; years of mining accidents and bandit attacks had dried up the river of ore that once flowed out of their mines, and the previous head’s...questionable investments and spending sprees had left their coffers bare.
At first turning towards their closest allies for aid, the then young head was surprised at how little most of them seemed to care; their offers to the weak and vulnerable house almost amounting to vassalage - or worse. Fearing that he would become the last head of the Langford family, the head found salvation from a...scandalous source.
A scion of the Frostenden merchant house had arrived, and having heard of the ‘great’ house’s financial woes, the scion was here to make a deal...of sorts. The Frostendens had several very eligible maidens in wait you see, and while he could marry them off to the other merchant houses to increase his already considerable wealth, what he really wanted was something a little more substantial than wealth alone.
Finding the idea of marrying his house to money to be more palatable than letting his line end here, the head agreed to marry his sons to the scion’s daughters and thus tie their two houses together. This was an upset to the Langford's old ‘allies’, who grew to see the restored house as little more than upstart commoners, led by a fool who chose to serve the lessers he had brought into the fold. This was 30 years ago.
Daniella Noreen Langford-Frostenden is the third daughter of Antwell, a scion of the noble house of Langford-Frostenden, and in those thirty years the family has prospered. Born during a time of relative prosperity and strength, Daniella’s family had...low aspirations for her accomplishments, simply expecting her to grow up to become a proper and well educated lady to attract a nice noble husband that can increase their standing among noble circles. Dan, unfortunately, has other ideas now.
Her parents having decided to focus their attention on her brothers and sisters, Dan was left...relatively free of supervision. This allowed her to embark on ill advised childhood adventures and spend hours listening to tales of honorable heroes and glorious combat from her tutors and servants, while her siblings were expected to seriously study the etiquette and business skills they’d need when they inherited their shares of the fortune.
She would have grown to be nothing more than a spoiled brat if nothing had changed, but after her tutors uncovered her talent for the magical arts, her parents were suddenly very interested in being involved in their other daughter’s life. They moved to ‘convince’ her to pursue academia, seeing her as a potential way in to the magical societies their house was lacking. Dan, for her part, found her new lessons to be difficult to wrap her head around, and while the promise of power had its allure she only started to throw herself into her work once she cast her first spell and felt the rush of wielding magical power first hand.
Having a preference for the same ‘ancient’ magic her tutor preferred, Dan resolved to make a name for herself through her magic, eventually moving to Zwölf Academy to finish her training. Dan proved to be a bit of a problem child, having a sense of...arrogance and hunger for power that did not endear her much to the other students, who often saw her as a brash and impatient know it at all at best, and an upstart lesser trying to upstage her betters at worst.
She tended to be alone a lot at lunch...and dinner, but she didn’t let that stop her from trying her best, ending up graduating as a close second in her class, a fact that she would take more pride in if it didn’t hurt a little to mention it still.
Her family helping her find work as another wizard’s ‘research assistant’, Dan quickly came to resent her position, finding the job to consist mostly of arguing against self righteous old fogeys, and doing whatever minor task or errand they asked her to...which was not what she saw herself doing for the next couple of decades. And that she hasn't really done much with all of the intelligence and strength she claims to have.
Turning to Nestor, her mentor and old magic tutor for advice, the embittered old man advised her to try and live a little while she could, citing his own wealth of regrets and failed relationships as something he doesn’t want her to inherit. Dan took her mentor’s advice to heart, and started to broaden her horizons, starting by fighting to convince her parents to let her take a more active role in the family’s business, arguing that it’d allow her to ‘focus on her own research, along with currying favours with the local nobility’.
It was a hard sell, and even now she could tell that her family was keeping a close watch on her activities, but she was free enough to scour the kingdom for ways to earn her family the prestige and honor they were denied.
Unfortunately her first idea of becoming a retainer to the royal siblings, after hearing a rumor that they were looking for new talent, almost went down the drain when she arrived to an empty palace, and failed to find them when she took to the streets to try and catch up. It was a stroke of luck that she managed to find Fersand, the spymaster before she could give up. Although the chances of him just happening to be resting at the same inn was…low to say the least.