Portraits Of Amicia De Rune

Amicia is a young, headstrong girl with an assertive personality. She wants a life filled with adventure. She shows a progressive attitude, but she is also quite egocentric. She’s not used to sharing or opening herself to others, which will be a real challenge for her.

SÉBASTIEN RENARD, NARRATIVE DESIGNER

Amicia de Rune is a young girl of noble descent who lives with her family in rural Aquitaine in france, which is being invaded by the English. Hugo her younger brother has been ill since birth, their mother Beatrice, who practises alchemy, has locked him away and is desperately looking for a way to cure him. While hunting with her father Robert in the forest, Amicia encounters signs of the future as her dog Lion is horrifically consumed by an unseen force. They flee back to the de Rune estate, but troops from the Inquisition fronted by Lord Nicholas arrive and raid the estate in search of Hugo, executing Robert and several servants. Before Amicia and Hugo escape Beatrice tells them to find a fellow alchemist named Laurentius at his farm not far away.

Amicia and Hugo flee through a nearby village, where they learn that hordes of ravenous rats have been spreading the plague while devouring anything and everything they come across. The hostile villagers are driven to a witch hunt, and Inquisition soldiers are within the village, Amicia and Hugo reach Laurentius’s farm, but he has the plague. Laurentius pleads with Amicia to find a cure for Hugo’s affliction. When Laurentius’s house catches fire leaving him to his demise, Amicia and Hugo flee with his apprentice Lucas to seek the cure