This wound up a little bit rushed. if you have any questions about the character let me know, she is more fleshed out than is shown here. Let me know if I should start working on an intro post! Also, I am more familiar with the timeline of Oblivion, so the arcane university might not exist at this point in the timeline. if you notice any incongruities let me know.
Name: Athena
Race: Breton
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Class: Ice Mage
Height: 5' 9"
Appearance: Black hair just short of shoulder length frames a warm round face. Her age is beginning to show in the corners of her eyes and in her smile, but her optimism radiates youth. Her dark blue eyes are filled with the curiosity and miss very little. She is not lean, but travel has kept her fit. She wears light blue robes, with Scrolls and potions strapped to her belt. A field journal stays tucked into her belt at the small of her back.
Personality: Indefatigable in her optimism and Judicious with her wisdom, she is a woman who is difficult to dislike. Her students at the College of Winterhold consider her an eccentric, and look forward to her unusual class sessions. She believes that the best learning is derived from experience, and not found within books or a classroom. Adventurous and full of wanderlust, she seldom stays in one place for long. Her curiosity carries her across Tamriel in search of ancient tombs and treasures. She has published several books on the subject, most recently one on ancient Ayelid culture. She is currently studying ancient Nordic culture and the fall of the Dwarves.
Background: Never having known her mother, she spent her youth on the road with her father. her father was a traveling alchemist and horticulturist, and they seldom spent long in one place. Her father taught her alchemy from a young age, and did his best to be both a mom and a supportive male figure. He tried his best to integrate her with groups of kids her own age whenever he was in one place for any period of time, but this was rarely very long. As such, most her personal relationships have been short lived, and even in her adult life she has few long time friends. While in Skyrim, both her and her father realized it was time for them to part ways. She traveled North, to study at the college of Winterhold. She abandoned her studies following an incident involving a classmate. The investigation following the mysterious disappearance of her friend hit a wall. She was not seen leaving the premises of the college, and although Athena was the last person to see her she had nothing to say regarding the missing student's current whereabouts. After this, her curiosity brought her south to Cyrodiil where she studied at the arcane university and published her first book on the Ayelid. Her adventures eventually led her back to Skyrim, where she studied dwarven ruins and Nordic Tombs. She was invited back to the College as a guest speaker, and wound up staying. She teaches classes in exchange for the College's resources, and uses it as her base of operations.
Skills:
Destruction, Alteration, Alchemy
Minor Skills:
Restoration, Speech, Illusion
Fighting Style: Offense is the best defense, she relies on her Ice magic in battle for both defense and attack. Not particularly athletic, but moves with the confidence of experience. Relies primarily on sharp shards of ice, and defends herself with alteration spells. There is a beauty to the precision of the destruction she wroughts, the kind of precision derived from years of experience.