Anaander

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In the Fortress of Ends there is a conglomerate of spirals known as the Wandering Arms. Notorious for being perpetually intertwined and having a fractured sense of self, they claim a single name and mind. On occasion there is a schism - a disagreement between limbs. These can result in exile, or even death. Other times, a few segments of the Wandering Arms are sent off together to grab experiences and knowledge, before returning to the whole and being reuinted.

Aanander was born into the Wandering Arms and raised as a fragment of a whole. The Wandering Arms uses magic to maintain their oneness, to a certain degree writing over the thoughts of the individual spiral dragons and replacing them with those of the Wandering Arms's core - Tsiarwat, a tyrannical dragon who has turned her clan into parts of her body.

When Anaander was known as Wandering Arms 14-1, she was sent to gather knowledge with several more experienced segments of the Wandering Arms. However, while crossing the Starfall Isles the elder segments were killed and Anaander found herself removed from Tsiarwat's influence as a side effect of local magical energies. Disoriented and upset, she wandered into the Wandering Contagion looking for answers. Instead she was found by the talented mage Quetzalcoatl who brought her back to Alyosha's Clan with promises of helping Anaander cope. He named Anaander and works with her to help her build a new life on her own.

Anaander regularly sees the Clan's therapists Hysteria and Analiph. She doesn't have a job within the Clan yet, instead she works with the mages and medics to investigate how Tsiarwat constructed the Wandering Arms.

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