TDSS TalesTales of Albion
The Flamecaller

Ysador

The battle-mage whose fire spares the forest and burns the Dragon Kin to slag.

heroaliveHumanMageWarriorAlbion's ResistanceThe Verdant Pact

Archetype

Jungian archetypeThe Magician

She transforms: grief into fire, fire into purpose, restless dead into peace. Her danger is that the same flame that saves Albion can consume her.

PersonalityENFJ

Fierce, protective, driven by the people she could not save. She leads with feeling and is unstoppable once she decides who she is fighting for.

The story

Ysador arrives too late. That is her wound: at Emberholt, at every ruined village, she walks among ashes searching for survivors she knows she will not find. Her fire answers her grief, and for a long time she believed it was all she was.

Valen found her in the ruins and told her otherwise. In the fight that followed she stopped retreating, drove her staff into the scorched earth and burned a Dragon Kin lieutenant to molten slag, not with rage but with purpose. From that day her flame belonged to Albion.

She drank the Verdant Essence beside Eadric and Rykard, held the lower streets of Ravenspire with walls of fire, and stood on Hollowpeak when Zorynthal fell. Between battles she walks abandoned villages with her lantern, calling the spirits of the dead into its light. 'I come not to harm you, but to guide you.'

Appearance

Long wild fiery-red hair streaked with soot, amber eyes that catch firelight, a burn scar along one collarbone. She wears scorched crimson and orange layers over blackened leather, a single bronze pauldron, a singed ash-grey mantle. After the Verdant Pact her flames run edged with emerald.

Signature

An ironwood staff crowned with a cage of twisted bronze holding a living ember, and a brass lantern whose light guides the restless dead to rest.

Bonds

  • ally
    ValenHe brought her back from despair at Emberholt.
  • ally
    Eadric of BlackmereVerdant Pact; Ravenspire; Hollowpeak.
  • ally
    OrlennaDrank the Lifetree's essence at her side.
  • ally
    RykardPact-sibling and fellow defender of Ravenspire.
  • ally
    CallumCried out when he chose to die for them.

Slain by their hand

  • the Dragon Kin lieutenant of Emberholt

Words

The fire is not mine alone. It belongs to Albion. And I will not let it falter again.
I am Ysador, bearer of the flame. I come not to harm you, but to guide you.

Appears in

Tale 26 · The War of ShadowThe Verdant PactOrlenna calls Eadric, Ysador and Rykard to the Lifetree to drink its essence and bind themselves to the land. …Tale 24 · The War of ShadowThe Flamecaller’s ReckoningEmberholt has fallen. Ysador wanders its ashes until Valen finds her, and a Dragon Kin lieutenant finds them b…Tale 27 · The War of ShadowThe Siege of RavenspireOutnumbered five to one, Eadric, Morwenna, Ysador and Rykard hold Ravenspire against Malakar's horde until Lor…Tale 37 · The War of ShadowThe Lantern BearerIn an abandoned village, Ysador finds a child hiding from the restless dead, and walks into the forest with he…Tale 42 · The War of ShadowThe Dragon’s ReckoningEadric, Ysador, Morwenna and Callum climb to Hollowpeak Keep to end Zorynthal, the last great dragon of Malaka…

Web of bonds

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