User:Blue Jay

Lady Freeman

 * Lady Danica Freeman was, in her time a student, a teacher, a warrior, a scribe, an explorer, a hero. Born in Rin before the end of the first Guild War, Danica grew up with her mother in their family estate. Danica's mother was the highest ranking woman in the Ascalonian Military, a general and teacher in the Nolani Military Academy. Danica never knew her father, and her mother never disclosed who he was to anyone. The incident caused quite a scandal in the Ascalonian court, and inspired King Adelbern to withdraw Danica's mother's commission. The family was allowed to keep their title in the court, although neither Danica nor her mother would ever attend.
 * Danica began training as a Warrior at the age of 15, she had already learnt of history, of geography, of writing, of philosophy and of the five gods, under her mothers tutilage, and continued to learn from her in this. For three years she learned the art from her mother until her acceptance into Nolani. At 18, Danica moved to Nolani to begin her two year training at the academy. It was here that Danica would co-found the Order of the Blue Jay with her best friends, and where she would have the happiest time of her life.
 * The Order of the Blue Jay was a group of students who were at the peak of their talents at the academy. Founded by the intense rivals, Danica Freeman and Zain, a Ranger student who entered the academy, the son of a Ascalonian guardsman, given no familial name. The Order included, Danica and Zain, the Monk Tawney Jones, Elementalist Cassidy Starr, Necromancer Tal Ashen Claw, and Mesmer Evana Adams. The Order was ment to be a bond between the friends that would be everlasting, the events of the future would bring that bond crashing down.
 * Danica graduated from the academy the day before the searing, as did the whole of the Order. They went as a group to Ascalon City, ready to enter the Ascalon Military Academy, to enlist in the war against the Charr. That day, however was the fateful day of the searing. The searing tore apart the Order. Evana Adam died in the event as the Charr magics destroyed her home in Ascalon City, with her inside. With the loss of one of thier best friends the other proceeded to continue forward to the uncertain future. Two years passed during which the Order bare got to see each other, working with the Prince Rurik's Ascalon Vanguard, the members of the Order had assignments that kept them apart for long streches of time. It would be two years before they all met together again.
 * Their time apart, and their experiences had changed them. Tal Ashen Claw, a necromancer working with the Vanguard's Necromancer Muune, had become entralled with exploring the depths of the Ascalonian Catacombs, with each passing expedition, Tal spent more time underground, until he simply never returned. So the Order of six was down to four. The four were heavily embroiled in the Ascalonian war with the Charr, and followed Prince Rurik dutifully as he fought back against the invading Charr at Fort Ranik and Nolani Academy. The Order followed the Prince as he broke with his father, leading Asacalonian refugees over the Shiverpeaks; dedicated to getting them to safety in Kryta.
 * The Order of the Blue Jay lost it's third member at Yak's bend. After a night of passion and a trist of romance after the siege of Ascalon, Cassidy Starr ran from the Ascalonian encampment at Yak's bend, north into the uncharted mountains, after realizing she was pregnant with Zain's child. The Order of three continued with Rurik to the Frost Gate. Watched as thier Prince was pinned by the Stone Summit dwarves, and killed. Into Kryta they led the refugees. Together with the other Ascalonians they established a pact with the White Mantle, the theocratic rulers of Kryta, believers in the Unseen gods. The pact allowed the Ascalonian Refugees land to establish a settlement, in return for help fighting an undead menace that was plaguing Kryta.
 * It was in Kryta that the Danica, Zain, and Tawney, the remaining of the Order of the Blue Jay began to get wrapped up in things larger than themselves. Glint's Flameseeker Prophecies were in full swing, and the Order was swept up in events. Before long the group was tramping through the Maguuma Jungle and trekking through the Crystal Desert seeking Ascension. From the Crystal Desert, the Order moved against the White Mantle's Unseen Gods, the Mursaat, in the Southern Shiverpeak mountains, and the Mursaat's fortress in the Ring of Fire Islands. In the Ring of Fire, the truth of the Flameseeker Prophecies came to light, and the Order found itself facing down an Undead Litch and his army of Flame Titans. The Order fought hard and prevailed over the Litch, thus granting them a level of peace.
 * This peace was appreciated but didn't las as long as they hoped. A missive from Cantha, the continent across the sea from Tyria had arrived for another of Ascalon's Chosen, Mhenlo, the monk, urging him to come to Cantha to help fight a new and growing threat. Mhenlo asked all of Ruriks guild for those who would go with him, the Order of the BlueJay packed what few things they had, and were on the next ship to the new world.
 * Cantha was a much different place than Tyria. A sprawling city covered a third of the continent. The city, Kaineng, was being ravaged by an affliction that killed and corrupted the sprit of the deceased, changing them into ravenous abominations of flesh. The disease was simply, the plague. It was created due to the return of the malevolent spirit of Shiro Tagachi. Shiro, the betrayer, in Cantha was a Imperial Guardsman centuries ago, who, in a fit of delirium murdered the Emperor and his council. Shiro was killed for his actions by another pair of Guardsmen, the Luxon, Archemorus and the Kurzic, Saint Viktor, both envoys for Cantha's two Vassal states.
 * The situation in Cantha was precarious, the plague was spreading and the population was reaching near panic in Kaineng. Adventurers, students and faculty from the Monastery on Shing Jea came to fight the Plague and it's abominations. Among the students were two pairs of twins, Emi and Chiyo, and Miranda and Moka. Each pair had one Assassin and one Ritualist, Emi and Miranda, Chiyo and Moka, respectively. These were professions that the Order had not met before, and were very impressed by. Emi and Chiyo were too integrated into Mhenlo's party to get to know the Order very well, but Miranda and Moka, were very quickly integrated into the group, Miranda the Blade, and Moka the Vampire. The order was now at five members, it's first additions since it's creation. Together the renewed order fought back against the plague and turned it back. Finding respite, but knowing that Shiro's counterattack was comming, Master Togo, head of the Shing Jea Monastery and an old teacher of Mhenlo's was determined to bring the two warring Vassal clans together in peace against the common enemy. The Order appealed to both sides for peace, and it came at the same time as Shiro's resurgence. He had taken control of the Harvest Temple, the site of his massacre all those years ago.
 * With the help of the Kurzicks and Luxons Shiro's assaults on the city and the Harvest Temple were rebuffed, only to have him strike at the Empire's heart, the Imperial Palace. Shiro struck directly at the Imperial Emperor