Amelina Carrowen

Name: Amelina Carrowen

Gender: Female

Title: Sole Princess and Heir of the Kingdom of Barthoff

Appearance: Amelina is the stereotypical beautiful princess, petite, somewhere between 5' and 5'5", with delicate features and wide blue eyes, but she also happens to have silky, dark brown hair, with just a bit of a wave in it.

Biography:

Princess Amelina Carrowen of Barthoff turned nine on the same day she was cursed. Before then, she was well trained by a string of governesses in all the proper skills for a princess, from etiquette to history and foreign policy. Most people would have thought she was spoiled, but while well cared for and educated, her father never indulged her about anything, and her mother's affection lacked any sense of power behind it. Her childhood was characterized by a sense of responsibility rather than love.

And then at her ninth birthday party, her mother offered a witch a dish with peanuts in it, and that witch declared the queen was trying to poison her (as she was highly allergic) and cursed Amelina. (Amelina personally thinks that her father's policy of politically pressuring the magical people in their kingdom is the real cause of resentment from the witch.) Since that day, Amelina has been locked in a(n obnoxiously magical) tower in the Darkly Enchanted Forest. According to the witch's curse, she is unable to step out of the tower so long as she is in human form. The curse can be broken, as is customary, with true love's kiss, but if anyone besides her true love kisses her, she becomes a dragon, in both mind and body, and typically hunts down anyone close by. She can leave the tower as a dragon, but her instincts get her to return to the tower before dawn the next day, when she regains her human form. Her father visited her occasionally, and sent governesses to ensure she kept up her good education, but her mother, with her guilty conscience, never once came.

Amelina was 14 when her father sent the neighboring country's Prince Wilhelm to "rescue" her, but he failed, and so did every other knight or prince her father sent to try, some multiple times. When she was 16, however, sick of hope and her father's seemingly endless pestering, she told him to get lost and stop sending both her governesses and her "rescuers." He stopped sending governesses, though not rescuers, and she has since gotten very good at telling knights and princes to bugger off if they don't wanna die. In the meantime, she mostly got through the isolation with the help of the books in her library, a neighboring great wizard who comes to visit her sometimes, and by yelling at the magical furniture. She now mostly spends her time working on a dragonfire-proofing balm (rather unsuccessfully), and has learned more magic and knows probably more about the layout of the Darkly Enchanted Forest than most.