Species: Child of Oberon (Clone)
Gender: Female
First Appearance: "The Hills Come Between You And Me" by Tara O'Shea
Other Appearances: None
Created by: Tara O'Shea
Height: 5'1" (155 cm)
Weight: 103 lbs. (47k, 7.4 stone)
Hair: Black/White
Eyes: Grey
August 28, 1996. Dr. Henry FitzMartin awoke a young woman cloned from the tissue of what he believed at the time to have been a human/gargoyle hybrid captured by the rogue Illuminatus Gregory Marlowe.
He was, in a rather extraordinary way, utterly, utterly wrong.
The being, whom he named Ash, was in fact a Child of Oberon-- or rather, Test Tube Child of Oberon. Though her genetic material came from Avalon, she was created in a Cyberbiotics lab, at the behest of Preston Vogel. Vogel's eventual aim was to create a perfect, healthy clone of Halcyon Renard-- and then force Rowan Burnett to perform the soul transference. Ash was just a preliminary step; Vogel had no real idea of where FitzMartin acquired the genetic material.
Though she physically resembled Rowan's human guise of Jackie, a girl of approximately fifteen years of age, this was only a seeming. Programmed with entire libraries, possessing all the knowledge she could ever need, she was still emotionally very much a child. A child who yearned for life outside the white cinderblock walls of Cyberbiotics. When she was only a few weeks old, she escaped Cyberbiotics. Unfortunately, Brooklyn mistook her for Rowan and frightened her so severely she fell off a rooftop and began plummeting toward the pavement at 10 m/s2.
Luckily for her, this traumatic experience "activated" her latent innate abilities, and literally re-coded her entire genetic structure in an eyeblink.
A small white owl flew away to safety, with only a fragmented memory of being a girl. An owl she remained-- becoming Broadway's waffle-eating winged companion 'McGuffin' for three days-- until an accidental meeting with Rowan-- which snapped Ash back into not a human form, but her true form, save for her hair which remained white. Rowan christened her "Nin" and brought her back to Castle Wyvern.
Nin has had some small training, but nothing compared to decades of rudimentary lessons all members of the third race reared on Avalon were raised with. Her powers are at times wild and unpredictable. They are also tied much more closely to instinct that form, and in her own way she is stronger than her brethren, perhaps a match for even Oberon himself in terms of raw power.