Winifred Langstrom

Winifred Langstrom is a recurring character in the Yäalheim series. She is a Tracker-class mercenary in the employ of the YMS, and a skilled aeromancer, navigator and paratrooper. She is aged 16 at the start of the books.

Appearance
Winifred is a young, sylph teenager, barely out of the academy. She stands at 5'5", with curly reddish-brown hair tied back in a bun, military style. She is short for her age in human terms, though average for a sylph. She is slightly fit, not overly. She uses magic and agility to make up for lack of physical strength. She wears Khelandrian standard-issue paratrooper armor, though with wind symbols carved into it, a tradition of her race. The armor is mostly leather, with a light rose-gold breastplate, beginning at the lower sternum and ending at her clavicle. She also has a fairly prominent backpack, inside of which contains two parachutes. The backpacks straps consist that of a full parachuting harness, which are visible beneath the armor.

Weapons and Abilities
Winifred Langstrom is an alumni from the St. Alpheus school, a notorious assassin's education facility. After successfully graduating and being sent to the Khelandrian military, within 3 days, she deserts and steals their prototype paratrooper weaponry and armor. Her magic catalyst is the tempest battle ax, a one-handed double sided battle ax with finger controls built into the handle, allowing for the full horizontal and vertical rotation of the blades. With this, she is able to stab, slash, block and parry without moving her arm, as well as create hurricane force wind directed at her opponents, and propel herself upwards much alike that of a helicopter. She also is an expert tracker, with the help of her vampyrus, an eagle sized bat, Eddie.

Personality
Winifred is not angry or bitter, unlike many other battle hardened mercenaries. She is humorous, telling horrible puns that other people still laugh at. As fore mentioned, she is not battle hardened, but tends to finish up as quickly as possible so as to retain her sanity. Which in comparison to many other graduates of St. Alpheus school her empathy is much greater. She has large gaps in her memory, meaning that the era before her time at the assassin school she remembers literally, which has lead her to do many missions in the The United Valkyr Theocracy, she does so that she may find clues about her past. She has a tendency to rebel against authority, such as her relationship with Rosalind Deimos, her employer. Now the reader may take "rebel" as her going against orders, that is not the case. Instead Winifred is terrified of her, to the point that she often plots the demise of Rosalind. Her one crazy factor in her otherwise normal personality.