![]() The three fugitives decided to work together, and Ripley aided the Briarwoods with their plan to murder the de Rolo family and seize control of Whitestone. The Briarwoods had been arrested for necromancy, had escaped prison, and now were fleeing hunters with orders to execute on sight. Before she could be court-martialed, she fled to Port Damali, where she first met Sylas and Delilah Briarwood. However, at some point she was caught doing illegal human experimentation, attempting to use arcane diseases as the basis for new biological and chemical weapons. Eventually she started working for the Dwendalian government, developing military technology in Rexxentrum (the Dwendalian capital). In her youth Anna Ripley had an encounter with the wizards of the Cerberus Assembly that involved her father as a result of this event, the future doctor developed a distant for magic that lasted for years. ![]() Unlike the real Vox Machina (whom Percy regards as family), Ripley treated her group more like tools: useful, and not to be carelessly discarded, but tools nonetheless. Ripley proved herself to be quite charismatic, as she was able to assemble her own group of followers (including Kynan Leore) as her own twisted version of Vox Machina. Thus, she genuinely believed that Vox Machina's success was only due to Percy's intelligence and ingenuity. She also was an unapologetic racist, believing that humans were the only race capable of finding solutions to new problems and that non-humans lacked the same "dynamic ability to adapt". She had no interest in getting involved in the struggle against the Chroma Conclave, citing that the "petty tyranny of drakes and dragons" have always fallen to "the ingenuity of Man". She reasoned that the technological achievements that result from a decision are what determine whether or not something should be done (rather than a more humanistic "right vs. Ripley was an amoral opportunist, siding with the Briarwoods and their Vecna-worshipping cult not out of faith in the god, but because she saw an opportunity to continue her research with more resources. For example, she was able to use her knowledge of " The List" to create the far more advanced " Animus". In addition to being able to construct Percy's concepts, she showed the ability to improve upon those designs as well. She showed the capability to read and comprehend complex mechanical designs, as she was able to create her own firearm based on eyewitness accounts of Percy's exploits. ![]() She was simultaneously admiring and envious of Percy's genius. Ripley was obsessively fascinated with Percy and his inventions. ![]() Ripley viewed Percy's inventions almost as an end in and of itself and went out of her way to distribute blueprints to build guns and the weapons themselves because she knew it would "drive mad." One of the biggest differences between Percy and Ripley was that Percy sees his inventions as a tool for revenge and does not want them spread, asking the rest of Vox Machina to "destroy everything, please" of his work and sketches when he dies. The rest of the group viewed her as Percy's archnemesis, referring to her as "your girl" and attempting to leave Ripley's kill for Percy. She succeeded in retrieving two vestiges in the span of a week, and killing Percy in their face off on Glintshore shortly after retrieving the second. Anna Ripley to be one of the smartest, most dangerous, and most evil people they knew. Her dark brown hair with streaks of white was pulled into a very tight bun in the back, and familiar-looking weapons dangled from her belt. Later, when Vox Machina caught up with Ripley's party on Glintshore, she was wearing Cabal's Ruin. Her face was a little weathered from travel and she had dark lines at the sides of her face, whether from smiles or frowning. She was wearing nice travel clothes with a long duster-like coat. When the magic disguising her was dispelled, she was revealed to be a woman in her early mid-forties, with jet black hair pulled into a tight ponytail. She had very deep, sunken wrinkles, weathered skin, mostly whitish-gray hair with a bit of remaining red and brown, and was wearing ragged clothing. When Vox Machina first met Ripley in the dungeon beneath Whitestone Castle, she was disguised as an old woman, looking to be in her seventies.
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