#Helga flamewaker

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Here's my elementalist: Helga Flamewaker (she/her)

Helga was born to two travelling shamans, followers of raven who had fallen in love on their journeys up and down the shiverpeaks. Her early years were spent on the road, moving from homestead to homestead. For many children this would have been difficult, but Helga always enjoyed seeing new places and meeting new people. When she wasn't sneaking off to go play with the children living at the homesteads her parents visited, her time was generally spent being taught the ways of shamanism, how to speak to the spirits and practice magic. She was found to be gifted in the ways of the elementalist, with a particular affinity for fire magic though she found it difficult to control the flames, hurting several people and burning down a few buildings with her attempts.

As she grew older, her parents suggested that she go find and choose a spirit to follow. None of the 'great' spirits of the wild appealed to her so she began to journey to the shrines of the lesser spirits of wild scattered across the shiverpeaks. She slowly drifted southwards, rejecting and being rejected by each spirit in turn. Eventually she found the mountains fell away, replaced by a sweltering jungle, beyond which lay a black smoking mountain. As she surveyed the land she felt a sharp 'tug' on her spirit, something calling her forward. Glad to have a sense of direction on her quest, she continued, curious as to what was summoning her. She felt the call lead her to that smoking mountain, which some locals identified as Mt. Maelstrom. Finding some caverns leading into the heart of the caldera, she continued forward, feeling her fire magic getting more agitated every step she took. Eventually she came to a colossal chamber at the heart of the mountain, lit by a pool of churning magma. The fires within her almost began to spill out, embers flickering on her skin. The magma began to spill forth from the pool in waves, pushed aside by something emerging from the pool. Helga readied her staff as an amorphous figure, formed of obsidian and lava and crowned in ash and smoke broke free of the pool, flames flickering across its body. Helga felt a familiar feeling, similar to her brief contacts with the other spirits. This was no destroyer, it... it was spirit of the wild, though not one she knew.

The spirit did not speak, instead it communicated through intent and visions. It showed her that it was the spirit of Tyria's volcanos, a powerful being of fire and fury responsible for reshaping the land over the eons. It showed her ashes, the cremated and honored body of an old havroun, now deceaced. It showed her magic, how her intent to control the flames was folly, she should let go and act instead as an extension of their will. It showed her a cancer, destroyers burrowing their way through the underbelly of the world and corrupting the volcanic lands in a twisted mockery of true fire. And finally, it showed her a choice, serve me as havroun, and have power beyond imagining, refuse and never have a spirit to call your own. It stood before her, expectant, and Helga only had two words to say "I accept!"

The volcano shuddered, and erupted, magma filling the central chamber and spilling down the sides of the mountain. Ash filled the sky as fire elementals danced amid the destruction, exultant at having a new havroun to call their own. At the center of the volcano, Helga Flamewaker stood amidst the destruction, marvelling at her newfound capabilities.

Today she works as a loyal havroun of the volcano spirit, travelling Tyria, warning of volcanic eruptions, slaying destroyers and stopping those who would delay the course of nature. She rarely stays in one place long and is always on the move both in her duties and out of her own love of travelling.

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Now that I've at least somewhat make introductions to all my characters, time to introduce the RELATIONSHIP CHART

Yeah you can tell Rugan's the main character huh

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Further thoughts on Helga now that she has a proper backstory:

Before she found the volcano spirit she couldn't shapeshift, now she can 'become the lava', transforming into a colossal magma elemental while retaining all her spellcasting abilities (though she's stuck halfway in fire attunement at all times while in this form)

She has a strange respect for the flame legion, they live in a volcano and worship the fire, both of which she's a big fan of. The only real thing she doesn't like is their treatment of women, and she's quite offended that they'd ever think the flames would want that (as much as fire 'wants' anything other than to continue burning)

With that said she's very happy that the new flame legion have emerged that seem to have much better ideas around the fire worship. During the fireheart rise DRM she absolutely made her way there to defend the volcano and charr from the destroyers.

personality wise, she's very boisterous and sometimes a bit single minded in serving the volcano spirit. She tries to avoid unnecessary casualties but, sometimes its just natures way for people to die in an eruption, the magma flows will eventually give way to new fertile ground, who are you to stand in the way of that

as for interactions with my other characters, She and Rugan fought in ember bay, he was trying to stop a catastrophic eruption while she was trying to let it happen, so she attacked him in the mursaat fortress. They had an epic battle, she transformed into a lava elemental, the battle was interrupted by the pyroclastic jade construct, Rugan was mostly confused as to why this strange norn was attacking him. Rugan won of course, knocking her flat on her ass and finally getting an explanation as to 1: who? And 2: why? Afterwards she retreated, basically telling him "well played, you won, go on and delay the course of nature. Again."

She reappeared in draconis mons, this time to help Rugan in excising the tumors known as Primordus and Balthazar from the volcano. At this point they're basically frenemies. If they ever run into eachother there's a 50% chance they have a death battle and a 50% chance they get some food and chat.

Helga's also familiar with my mesmer Grace, given that Grace has a tendancy to climb up volcanos, so they've met and are pretty good friends. May or may not make them date in the future, if they do it'd mean that Rugan has befriended 4 lesbian wizards along with Kas and Marjory. So far

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1: Rugan Coppertail (he/him)

Pact Commander, master engineer and overall mess of a charr. An iron legion centurion by technicality, though his dragonslaying duties mean he isn't around much

2: Falx Ghostclaw (he/him)

Rugan's terrible spoiled brat of a cub, an iron legionnaire with an ego the size of the black citadel who, unfortunately can partially back up his wild claims with a talent for necromancy

3: Cara Silvertail (she/her)

A very normal charr who is definitely not an emissary of an outer god slumbering in the depths of the mists. Nominally part of the legions, though the incredibly suspicious power she wields and the nature of her origin means she kept under watch

4: Ibex Azureblaze (he/him)

A former flame legion tribune who was exiled in disgrace after a risky attempt to gain power blew up in his face. He now spends his time sulking in the wilderness being bitter.

5: Teghror (he/him)

Rugan's other cub, concieved during his stay with the olmakhan and raised without his father knowing of his existance. he's now on a journey to meet and possibly punch his sire in the face.

6: Zerek Mindrend (he/him)

An old ash legion mesmer, one of the few front line fighters of Tyria's sneakiest legion. He's a part time primus and a full time grump, but he's also very talented at chaos magic and chronomancy

7: Sarro Aquaburn (he/him)

former female and flame legion shaman, he left the gold legion due to their regressive views on gender and now travels Tyria as a free charr to perfect his elemental magics

8: Sarvius Longshade (he/him)

an ex-flame legion mercenary whose uncontrollable shadow magic bears an uncanny resemblance to the void.

9: Buffalo Mozzarella (she/her)

An incredibly angry asura hunting down her inquest parents for the crime of... giving her a really stupid name

10: Archeologist Siv (he/they)

An archeologist whose life work was to delve into the depths of Tyria, and recover relics from the destroyer-haunted ruins of the underground asuran civilisation. But after a doomed expedition left him the only survivor, he returned to the surface with a new god. He had seen the all, and personified the error in the geometry. He had found The Bent God.

11: Helga Flamewaker (she/her)

A powerful elementalist and havroun of the volcano spirit, she seeks to ensure the course of nature is not disrupted, which brings her into conflict with others who'd rather volcanos not erupt thank you very much

12: Grace Alderspin (she/her)

A former novelist turned adventurer who seeks to conquer Tyria's toughest environments

13: Captain 'powderkeg' Rowan (he/him)

A former slave who escaped his pirate masters to become a bounty hunter specialising in capturing pirates

14: 'Fern' (he/she)

Mordermoths backup body in case the Trahearne plan failed, Fern bides her time in the eternal battlegrounds, waiting for the moment he may return to Tyria and reclaim his place as elder dragon