Minka

Backstory

Minka is a young elven mage whose enthusiasm for arcane scholarship is matched only by her tendency to talk at twice the speed anyone can comfortably follow. Raised in the great library-spires of a minor elven enclave on the outskirts of Ashenveil, she was the student who always had her hand raised first, finished her assignments before the ink on the prompt had dried, and occasionally blew up the practice chamber — not from recklessness, but from sheer impatient curiosity about what would happen if she pushed the spell just a little further. Her grimoire, a glowing tome she inherited from her grandmother and has since filled with her own cramped, enthusiastic annotations, is her most prized possession. She holds it like other people hold lanterns: constantly, instinctively, and with the quiet certainty that it is keeping the dark at bay.