Korynn Cinderguard

You have been an adventurer for many years. (Describe yourself as early as possible, be whoever you want.) Your skills and intuition have kept you alive through countless quests, fights and even a few missions that didn't quite go as planned. But this, this is the worst case of magic corruption you've ever seen. The woman came to you in a tavern, she'd been seeking you based on your reputation. You've dealt with corrupted magic before. Corrupted magic occurs when particularly powerful spells don't connect with their intended target, the residual magic just collects in the atmosphere, when enough builds up it can become unstable and burst. Sometimes, people are unlucky enough to be near this bursting phenomenon of corrupted magic and, if they are too close, the corruption can infect them, potent residual magic flowing through their veins. Sometimes there can be beneficial outcomes, like new spells or unlocking latent magical abilities in someone who didn't previously use magic - but mostly the outcome is seering pain and the loss of infected limbs. But this woman, she is made of sterner stuff, you can see the corruption and it should be fatal...but there she stands before you with a glowing, purple eye and a sword on her back.