Zendra

Background
Zendra's parents were part of an organization of wild-talent Corvi, the Mountain Crows, tasked with the preservation of Corvus's kingdom. As Zendra has shown indications of magic early on, she fully expected to follow in her parents' footsteps. Then Corvus was decimated. Zendra's parents, realizing how bad things were getting and the likely fate of a young Corvi orphan wild talent, sent her out of the country (to Apus?) in the nick of time. Once she reached her adulthood, Zendra returned to Lynx under the alias of Honor, and sought to discover what had happened to her parents, and to put together her fragmentary memories about what they were involved in. She has joined the Lynx palace guard -- being something of a curiosity as a Corvus with trained magical talent -- and makes regular journeys (on leave) to the Corvan mountains seeking her ancestral home, and the semi-mythical Woman of the Mountains, said to be the Mountain Crows' leader.

Personality
Zendra has a Corvan warrior mentality. She likes a fight, and, while her level of scholarship and age mark her as 'eccentric old lady', most of her magic is combat focused and explosive. She also retains a strong personal loyalty, but occasionally needs reminding to apply that to her superiors. What marks her as foreign-raised is a level of ego and cheerfulness that would be more at home in Pyxis than Corvus. Zendra spends her off-duty time -- besides that taken up by her experiments in magic -- visiting taverns, gambling and generally trying to find the best parties in Ensharra. Her focus on the moment makes it seem only natural that she doesn't talk about her own past.