| This article is about the former companion of Uther Penndraig. For the 122nd chapter of Worth the Candle, see Raven (Chapter). |
Raven Masters is an Ell, a librarian of the Infinite Library and a former companion of Uther Penndraig, now traveling with Juniper Smith's party. She shares some traits and her appearance with Maddie, a former member of Juniper's tabletop roleplaying group.
“I didn’t like being Ell, didn’t like feeling like I was going to be little forever when big things were happening, and so I got it into my head that I wanted to be an Animalia instead. A cat, specifically. It’s mortifying, of course, but it was just one of a string of those incidents, as it often is with my kind. We’re slow to outgrow our mistakes.”“But you do?” I asked.
Raven smiled at me. “Oh yes. I haven’t worn cat ears in at least twenty years,” she said.
Appearance
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Raven has shoulder-length dark black hair[2], with bangs cut to just above her eyes, and a pale complexion.[3][4] She wears concealing black outfits that hide the shape of her body, including her large breasts.[5] She's shorter than Juniper by a fair bit.[6]
PersonalityEdit
Raven displays a great deal of strength during combat, but she's more emotionally vulnerable than she looks.[7] She has a strained relationship with her father as a result of her desire for adventures and danger.[8] According to Juniper, she effectively acted as Arthur's moral compass while traveling with him.[9] Despite her age, she has some childish traits, like tilting her head to the side when confused[10] and disliking swear words.[11][12]
BiographyEdit
Raven initially approached the Party with the objective of stopping Amaryllis from releasing television technology and unleashing the Couch Potato.Deceptions
References
- ↑ Raven was 1700 years old, which translated to seventeen years old.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 122: "Raven (Chapter)" - ↑ a teenage girl with dark black hair standing in front of the door. It was Raven, Uther’s archivist
—Worth the Candle Chapter 120: "Deceptions" - ↑ She was dressed in black from head to toe, a concealing outfit that went so far as to keep her neck covered. Her hair was the same way Maddie had usually worn hers, bangs cut to just above her eyes, with the rest of her hair falling down to her shoulders.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 122: "Raven (Chapter)" - ↑ Raven had a pale complexion, which went paler on seeing that. (Maddie had spent most of her time in a dark room with blackout curtains, typing away on her computer. The whiteness was another thing they shared in common.)
—Worth the Candle Chapter 122: "Raven (Chapter)" - ↑ She hit puberty at 13, and transformed from an awkward, gangly little girl to a slightly taller and still very awkward girl with big boobs, which mostly changed things for her in a negative way, since it meant that she started getting the wrong kind of attention.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 121: "Maddie (Chapter)" - ↑ Raven’s legs were shorter than mine by a fair bit, but she was putting on enough speed that I had to hurry to keep pace with her. Her voice was level, but she seemed pissed off.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 129: "Schemata" - ↑ “Thank you,” said Raven. “And thank you for giving me time.” She looked at me with bleary eyes. I had some preconceptions of Raven, which had been reinforced when she’d gone into Valkyrie mode with magic flaring around her, but now I was finding her much more vulnerable than I had thought she would be. A small part of me wondered whether that was an act intended to evoke sympathy, but it didn’t seem likely.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 123: "Medieval Stasis" - ↑ “ “There’s a weight that comes with time, certainly, so it’s not the same, but it’s close. To say that my father, in his forties, was watching his twelve year old daughter run off with a strange man in his twenties … well, it’s not accurate, but it’s not wholly inaccurate either.” She sighed. “It took me a long time to have any misgivings about leaving. It wasn’t until after Uther was gone, actually. My father and I reconnected a bit, but it was still strained.”
—Worth the Candle Chapter 130: "The Abject Despair of an Uncaring World" - ↑ You? For Arthur, I think you were his moral compass, the person that kept him grounded and reminded him of home, except that he didn’t tell you everything, and it didn’t always work.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 134: "Safe Mode" - ↑ “They’re trying to save the world,” said Raven, tilting her head to the side a bit in the same way that Maddie used to do, but just a touch less exaggerated.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 131: "A Cypress Waits" - ↑ Raven let out a long, low sigh. “Fudge,” she said.
—Worth the Candle Chapter 122: "Raven (Chapter)" - ↑ “And he didn’t,” I said with a nod. “He would just barrel ahead and fuck what anyone else thinks.”
Raven frowned at the f-word. “It worked out well for him.”
—Worth the Candle Chapter 130: "The Abject Despair of an Uncaring World"
