AGE: "One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything." Oscar Wilde (By the way, I don't look a day over 40.) GENDER: Female NATIONALITY/STATE/CITY: German/English/Dutch/and a little bit of French Canadian thrown in for spice. SCHOOL/JOB INFORMATION: Technical Writer for a District Attorney's Office in So.Cal. PLAYING NAMES (PAST/PRESENT):  Let's see........Black Adder {Unholy Alliance}, Sylvan Siren, Penthesilea (Queen of the Amazons), Petra Arkanian (from Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow), the literal Celtic translation of my name (which is kind of scary and I won't share with just everyone), La Bruja (Espanol for Female Witch), Sister of No Mercy, The Sainte, and my personal favorite:  Pussycat 'o 9 Tails {S&M}. PLAYING SINCE: Since this wonderful game came out. FAVORITE WEAPON: The simple Ax (love that cathunk sound when it goes through armor), the Ubernaught, the Mournbringer OTHER GAMES PLAYED: Myst/Riven, Buried in Time, Wheel of Time, Unreal, Quake, Half-Life (oh yes!), Tomb Raider, European Air War, and the one that really gets me going NEED FOR SPEED: HIGH STAKES! You haven't lived until you have driven a Vet at 160 mph. HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Bonsai, music of all kinds (except rap, which cannot die a quick enough death as far as I am concerned), researching my genealogy ("Hello! I am descended from a rittmeister [cavalry officer] of the army of Gustavus Adolphus, and you?"), and finally, reading history and sci-fi) AMBITIONS: Relocate to Whitefish Montana, raise Appaloosas, and write science fiction/fantasy. FAVORITE QUOTE:  "Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends." --W. B. Yeats