Annie

Antigone sur Aela is a dragonrider and the current Firstrider of the Callipolan fleet. She rides an aurelian named Aela. Annie is a former serf from the highlands, but her family was killed by Stormscourge dragonfire.

History
Annie was born into a serf family in Holbin, a highland village. She was the youngest, having two older brothers and two sisters. When the Famine swept Annie's village, her mother and baby brother both died. Annie taught herself to read, which was nearly unprecedented in her village. With her help, her father led a movement to keep some of the crops the village had grown from being taken away by the dragonlords' tax, but they were found out and punished by the Drakarch of the Far Highlands, Leon. Annie was forced to watch her entire family burn to death inside of their house.

After being orphaned, Annie lived with another family from her village, the Mackeys, at first. Later, she was sent to Albans, the orphanage. It was here that she met Lee. Annie was described as small and her clothes were ragged, though Lee says that she was in all of his classes at school despite being a year younger. At Albans, Annie continued to be haunted by her family's deaths, while being harassed by the other children. When Lee stepped in one day to defend her, she forged a friendship with him, which would last through their time at the orphanage before tension caused them to grow apart. Lee would ask for Annie's help in planning an escape to New Pythos, and though Annie knew that he was likely dragonborn, she helped him anyway. Annie also said later that Lee made sure that the others didn't take her food and stopped them from hurting her.