Katarina

Amber's White Knight

If Torquil is the most typical Amberite of the younger generation, Katarina is probably the most atypical. She's honorable and chivalrous and the only one who would ever call her opponent "Villain." Katarina seems more the knight errant in shining armor, than Princess of Amber.

Description

Katarina is tall (about 5'8'') and very thin. (Built almost like a boy.) With light brown hair in a "Prince Valiant" style haircut. Her eyes are brown.

Katarina is nearly always in her silver armor with her white and red surcoat, bearing her symbol (a sort of backwards rho) on it. Her faithful horse Steadfast (also translated into Thari as "Surefoot") is never far away.

Background

Katarina is probably the oldest of her generation in terms of when in Amber's history she was born, though in terms of her absolute age, she is certainly the youngest that we know of, being only in her early to mid twenties. She was raised in a very slow time shadow, known as "the Kingdom" where she was fostered into the Court of King Arthur where she was visited periodically by her father, Eric.

She was taken to Amber well before the Patternfall war to walk the Pattern and was presumably introduced to Julian at that time. Of all the elder Amberites, after her father, Katarina seems closest to Julian.

Points and Powers

Katarina has walked the Pattern and has a number of impressive creatures and artifacts, the most noteworthy of which are her horse, Steadfast, and her helmet which senses danger and can provide a psychic barrier.

Her points, as bid for in the original auction were:

Psyche		nb
Strength	16	(2nd rank)
Endurance	 7	(5th rank)
Warfare		17	(2nd rank)

Since the run started, Katarina has learned to make sculptures of shadows which then give her a certain amount of control of that shadow. She has also acquired a couple of unusual gifts from Santa Claus as well as a fairly impressive sword.

Adventures, Exploits, and Other Noteworthy Information

Katarina first joined our story when her shadow musuem, which she had been happily tending to as curator for some time, suffered considerable damage from the appearance of a black and silver road which cut through many shadows and the center of her museum as well. Annoyed by this, she set out down the black and silver road to see who it was responsible for this irksome thing and complain to them about the damage done to her museum. After some travel she met and fought Liesl who managed to best her by trickery, or rather a poisoned blade, thus starting a (notably brief) enmity between Katarina & Liesl. Katarina did manage to escape and decided that perhaps someone in Amber could explain to her what was going on. She arrived just in time to participate in the rescue of Keverian, Lucius, Mikele, and Martin from Ur-Avalon, which turned out not to be quite so needed as was originally believed.

The Duel In light of his dastardly use of poison on his blade in their first encounter and the still not apologised for damage to her museum, Katarina tracks down and demands satisfaction of our friend Liesl. (Actually, she demanded either an apology or satisfaction, and Liesl foolishly declined to give the apology.) Liesl couldn't quite bring himself to apologise, so they fought the duel. Unfortunately, a lot of uninvited people showed up.

The Beavers

Death of Liesl

A Visit to Santa Claus

How to Split a Party of Four People Four Ways The adventures of Katarina, Mikele, Martin, & Nikrowd, with Finndo guest starring as chief bad guy. Read all about it here. (It's long.)

A Conversation Between Katarina and Finndo

"You can surrender now."
"On what terms?"
"I don't see how that matters. You're in no position to negotiate."
"It matters. If you're going to string me up in town square in an hour, I'd rather die here."

Best of Katarina

``I backhand Delwin to make sure he's unconscious, then I check to see if he's dead.''