Asamosa and Damia Blayton Character Sketches

In the newfound land of Ilgainsa, settled by the Nameless emperor seventeen or eighteen years ago, there are four lands, each different and beautiful in its own way. Each land, or province is ruled by a steward or stewardess, each one picked by their family name.
Haline is the southeast province, closest to the Black Tears and is ruled by Richard Blayton who, in his infinite perseverance and tenacity wanted a son to be his heir, though the law of the Nameless Emperor says that the first child is to be the next steward, or stewardess as the case may be.
Tarebe is the southwest province, known simply as the south, is lushly forested and fertile and ruled over by Lady Ami, who is known in Ilgainsa as The Red Lady, and feared for her temper and infinite cruelty. It is said she rides into battle herself on a great roan warhorse dressed in red armor and brandishing a sword already soaked in lambs blood.
Escan is the northwest province known simply as the west. This is the land of finery and jewels. And secrets wrapped in secrets wrapped in riddles. This land is the furthest away from the Black Tears and is therefore the most civilized of the four provinces. The steward of the west is Lord Martin, merciless and dangerous in his flattery he has never uttered a single word without his own life and land in mine.
Stanstra is the land to the northeast, known simply as the north and is the place of eternal winter. Mountains like great, jagged teeth surround the land on all sides and it is filled with black pines and wolves the size of carts. In this land of eternal ice there is a bitter rule, carried our by the steward: Lord Harold, do not trust any outside the mountains.
These four lands surround the Silver Tower and are each as different from one another as the seasons or the elements and each of them has a bloody history. However it is not the time for those tales but only the heiress of Haline and her sister.
Asamosa and Damia Blayton were born to Richard and Abigail, who were the lord and lady of Haline. Asa, who was the oldest of the twins, was chosen to be heir to the province known as the shadow realm.
Asa, as she was called by her family, was a perfect child. She never cried and did what she was told, but she was more intelligent than anyone cared to give her credit for. If you told her to do something that she thought foolish or useless she would point it out and argue the cons and pros to each side.
In short, she was the perfect heir and Richard felt blessed to have had such a daughter.
Asa and her sister, Damia, were never far apart from each other, despite the fact that Asa had to read and study the politics and dance of each different province, Damia often ran back and forth between her big sister and some new trouble she was creating, often getting Asa to join in with her.
In her time in the library Asa found out she could control and manipulate water and air. At first she thought it was a great blessing and was going to tell her parents when she read in one of the most recent history books that all people with her gift, they were called Witches, a word completely new to the young girl, were all sent to the silver tower and never seen again.
Needless to say she kept her head down and did not tell anyone, even her sister, who adored her and she loved dearly back.
Asa began lose sleep and was soon without an appetite. In these months when she kept her secret she didn’t eat much and slept even less. The poor girl was terrified that someone would find out about her being a Witch and nearly stopped talking, throwing herself into her work more and more until it seemed to the rest of the household that read and study was all she did.
Damia noticed the change in her sisters attitude and immediately began to poke at her, trying to get her to talk about what was bothering her. After a week of silence for Asa, Damia was tired of waiting for her sister to come around and pinned the girl and demanded the answer.
Asa told her little sister everything and when it was done was shocked when Damia burst into laughter and told Asa that she had the same secret, except she could control and manipulate earth and fire.
The two girls were both witches, and because this they became closer than ever. Asa never felt the need to socialize with other children her own age so it was not taxing to her to keep the secret from the children of her fathers household.
One day a man by the name of Edgar visited Haline to see the two nine year old girls and was enchanted by them both and promised to return one day and talk to them in earnest.
When they were fifteen Edgar returned with the two sons from Escan; Argento, the heir to the jeweled province and Aureus, his younger brother.
The girl’s both hated Argento on sight and when, later that evening, for the three of them had come to stay the night, Argento made some off hand comment on witches being plague bearers both girl responded with instant hostility; Damia being verbal with hers and Asa shutting out the surrounding area.
In that space of three minutes Edgar found out the girls were witches and followed them when they walked into the surrounding forest. When he found them he confronted them about their unique characteristic and nearly lost his life.
But he admitted her was also a witch, or warlock in his own words, and could summon and influence wind. He threatened the two girls until he realized the extent of their power then he had to sit down or faint.
Once again his life was threatened and he was presented with a question. If he said anything Damia would kill him, if he stayed quiet Asa would protect him, but it was his choice. He chose to keep his life and stayed silent.
Through there rather tense meeting the three of them became close friends and they left one another in fine spirits, though Edgar was now wary of what the two girls could do.
That night Asa found out her mother hated witches and had a private huntsman to kill the witches her husband had missed in his purge. Asa’s anger is like a glacier when she does allow it to grow, which is rarely and that night she had no outlet so when, the next morning, Edgar tripped the wire that held back her temper she almost destroyed her fathers land with a storm, though even she did not know the extent of the damage she would have caused.
After Damia calmed her sister with a slab of milk chocolate and a joke Edgar was again floored by the way they canceled each other out but, at the same time encouraged them
The storm Asa brought from the depths of her mind attracted the huntsman who was trained in the way of finding witches, he found Asa and immediately adopted a fawning manner before she could use him to cool her rage more.
He made a mistake when he went into the library; Asa now knew the face of the enemy, sadly now Abigail, the girl’s mother, now knew they were witches. After being informed by her huntsman, Abigail went to her husband and her in turn confronted the two, only to be slapped back to his sense, literally, by Edgar.
The sisters were banished from the manor and sent to live in Richards hunting lodge. As the two girls grew they no longer hid behind masks of ladies. Asa became a full time scholar and Damia became the Amazon that was hiding beneath her skin.
They lived in this harmony with nature and people for one year and then, one fateful evening, Damia found a young boy by the name of Karayan, who was the Nameless Emperor’s child.
At first both girls were wary of the boy but, after Damia questioned him closely they found out that Karayan hated his parent, for even he did not know if the Nameless Emperor was a male or a female, and despised how it treated the witches which were also known as the forest people.
Karayan found out what kind of people he was living with when two men found Asa and Damia’s hunting lodge. Damia killed both of them with an axe and Asa, the analytical mind of the two, planned a perfect place to bury them.
While he was shaken, Karayan was not repelled by this quick, brutal way of life. Damia and Asa both found this amusing and comforting, hoping they had found a friend.

Asa is slow to anger and just as slow to love and become friendly. She is careful and formal and courteous but under that silken demeanor is a woman that was a born assassin.
She can lie and hide her emotions as easily as another woman blinks her eyes. She is cold, untrusting and intelligent to the point of scary. Asa does not warm to many often and when she does it is, at first, a shaky relationship that can be broken with one ill word.
However; the girl is also gentle and compassionate, and will aid any who ask for her help to the extent of her powers. She is also mature and calm, never losing her head, no matter the situation. With these virtues and vices she is like the elements she controls.
Damia is quick to anger and hot headed, though friendly and fun to be around. She is brash, passionate and physically strong and with these things on her side she makes a formidable foe and a dangerous friend.
Like her sister, Damia holds grudges and it takes a long time, if ever to forgive a flaw or wrongdoing to her, she does not excuse her flaws and, indeed, embraces them, though she is immature and spiteful.
In her flaws she is, as fire, quick to anger and quick to hurt those who she may think threaten her sister, who is the one person she fully loves and would forgive in anything.
Together these girls cancel one another’s vices out and bring out the best in them; next to angry, dangerous, reckless Damia, Asa is a cool oasis in the middle of a sun baked desert and next to cold, reserved and untrusting Asa Damia is a fun, friendly child who would as soon argue with one as protect.

Asa and Damia have different ways of dealing with people they don’t like. Asa infiltrates that person with her charming personality and Damia tells them outright that she would love to see their guts spewed all over the wall.
To sum up how they deal with people who question them I’ll turn to The Nameless Emperor:

…. I want you to answer one question,” Edgar replied evenly. Asa perked an eyebrow in curiosity. “Which one of you is more dangerous?”
“Damia is the fire that draws your attention, she keeps you occupied,” Asa replied looking at her sister with a grin.
“But it is Asa who is the dagger hidden in the shadows, or the hand that pours the poison into your cup,” Damia said, returning the grin.
“Together we can be more of a threat than you could ever imagine,” the two girls said in unison. Edgar smiled weakly.

This scene is the real turning point for Edgar and how he sees the two sisters, he realizes, perhaps belatedly, that he is dealing with two very dangerous females and shoufl tread carefully.

In their looks, Asa and Damia could not be more different in fact they are as polar opposite that any can get without being ridiculous and being of the same father and mother.
Asa is all and slender with child like curves and a luminescent beauty that does her credit in courts. She has large silver eyes that seem full of knowledge and infinite wisdom and have been compared to a unicorns eyes. Coupling her fragile, pale appearance is her white-silver hair, falling to her knees in spun locks of unicorn silk.
Damia is, however, short and strong with a voluptuous body and a strong, handsome face that, while not pretty draws the eye and her skin as a rich golden tan of a girl that works out in the field all day. Framing her face is a thick mane of wild black hair that curls and waves all the way down her back and often, to Damia’s infinite annoyance, into her face. Her eyes, opposite of her sisters, are narrowly exotic and a rich gold that speak of her emotions very commonly.

The story that these two are characters in is titled The Nameless Emperor and I plan to make a humor/tragic/action/adventure drama following the story of the two girls from the beginning of their lives to the end… when one of them, oh so tragically dies.