Amber Gris

"Kela sai, guppy."

Amber Gris (pronounced "Amber Gree") is a player character in the Ethersea campaign. She is played by Justin McElroy.

Amber Gris is an older member of the community, who was on the shores of the Einarr Plateau in the days before Founders' Wake was formed. She has a fairly aggressive personality, and apparently has some renown as a shark hunter, having trained with Old Joshy. She doesn't have problems with authority figures, having learned to keep a low profile and use the system to her advantage. She isn't a great liar.

During her training with Old Joshy, despite the flawed teaching methods, Amber unlocked psychic abilities including Arms of the Astral self, which manifests as two transparent arms resembling a greenish, bioluminescent depiction of the circulatory system, protruding out of her stomach. Instead of referring to her "ki," Griffin and Justin use the word "vibe" to fit with Amber's story better. Amber is rediscovering her abilities, some of which she has lost due to inactivity since the calamity. The full extent of her previous power is unknown at the moment.

Though they had seemingly been gone for decades, Amber believed the blink sharks would come back one day and urged her fellow finners to stay alert and prepare for their inevitable return. She and Ol' Joshy have a running contest of who can get the drop on the other more, with Amber in the lead. They also have a tally of how many blink sharks they have each killed, Joshy once again losing with a total of 0.

Her friend from the shore, and former finner, Oxanna would later become a chaperone and the Ballaster Kodeira. Despite Amber's claims to have straight up murdered the two chaperones at the abyssal auction, Kodeira offered her a job as a chaperone. Amber declined as she had many times previously, saying she found the sentient ship creepy.

Physical Appearance
Amber is implied to be short. She is at least in her forties, having been an adult on the shore 25 years ago. She speaks in a soft southern accent. When she wears her vapor suit, there are tentacle-like bags on the sides of her stomach for her astral arms.

After being affected by The Sallow, Amber has enlarged, fish-like eyes with a blue iris.

Trivia

 * Amber's name is derived from ambergris, an orange-grey waxy substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales and used in perfumery.
 * Similarly marine, her frequently-used pejorative, "clasper," likely refers to the reproduction-related structures of the same name possessed by sharks and other cartilaginous fish.
 * Her avatar at the abyssal auction was an aquamarine blink shark.
 * Blink sharks are one of her only fears.
 * After Amber obtained the anomaly inside of the infinite clam and put it into her finny pack, it turned it into a bag of infinite holding and became the in-finny-pack. She is now the lady with the big bag and hopes the title will take off. She puts Devo's sadness in the bag in an effort to cheer him up.