NPCs/Annie

Anni is the engineer in charge of the Artifacts on the Airship, she is also Fox's sister.

Ten years ago
“I wanna fly!” Fox shouted, jumping from bed to bed with her arms wide like wings. “Annie, Sis! Build me something, build me the coolest mechanical bird in the world!”

Annie has just turned seven, but her talent was already shining bright. The shelves in their room could barely hold up under the weight of her inventions: mechanical dolphins, bubble fountains, walking dolls, self-winding bugs, and other thingamabobs; all odd, yet undoubtedly made by a genius. And there were so many of them! Fox certainly shared her sister's interests, but she was too restless and antsy to take the craft seriously. Fox enjoyed roaming outdoors and shooting targets with her makeshift gun much more than tinkering. And so today, on her birthday, Annie was alone. But she certainly wasn’t bored at all! The doorbell rang (the little inventor had latched onto any opportunity to improve their house with another mechanical device), and the birthday girl darted to the door to greet their unknown guest. She found no one at the door: only a big, ancient old tome with a bright and festive ribbon around it left on the porch. The girl opened the book, and realized she had found her true calling.

Present day
Now a beautiful young lady, Annie, spent day after day tirelessly working on the dirigible, the Dominion's greatest invention! The book that had miraculously appeared on the young inventor's doorstep had been full of descriptions of the City of Valkyries, sailing the skies under its own power. And there had been more: the old tome also had page after page filled with blueprints for a flight mechanism identical to the device that had filled Annie’s every daydream. Despite the tome missing some of its pages, filling in the gaps was an easy task for a talented engineer, and finally, many years later, the dirigible was taking off on its first flight! The Emperor himself put his trust into the young lady and supplied her with all she required. Her work had finally paid off, Annie was a decorated engineer with a team of her own, ready to serve for the good of the Dominion.

And of course, she never forgot about the City of Valkyries sailing the skies. Turns out they had been the ones to bring the old book to the girl's doorstep, a hint, believing her to be the talent who would show them the road back to Sunngard. Thanks to Annie, who passed this test with flying colors, the Valkyries saw that humans deserve their help, and thus darkness will one day be vanquished!

"Fox, sis," Annie thought, reminiscing about her childhood, "guess what: I made you the coolest flying mechanical bird in the world!"