Arcadia Syrene

Arcadia Syrene (b. 1996) is the current Aqua Prima at the Norfolk Academy for the Gifted. When she was eleven, her parents died in a car accident, leaving her to live with her Aunt Sybil. At age fourteen, she was found by the Guide Corrine, and taken to the academy to be trained. On the overnight train ride to the station, Arcadia experiences a dream in which Chaota drowns her in black water. This leads her to become the rumored Prima Thaliana. (revealed in Book 3). See her gallery.

Early Life
Arcadia was born Arcadia Eva Syrene to her parents Isobel Morton and Christopher Syrene on February 14, 1996 in New York City. As a young girl, she didn't fit in with the others, her only friends her pug (Lulu) and Myria Qebec. (Myria is later revealed to also go to the Academy) Arcadia never got along with other girls because she was 'too perfect to be believable' and because trouble, usually associated/caused by attacks from Chaota, always followed her around. Also, there seemed to be a lot of water-related accidents.

In Arcadia's family, each generation has at least one person with heterochromia (two different colored eyes). Arcadia has hererochromia, with one eye grey and the other blue.

Arcadia lived in New York, in an apartment building, until she was 11. Her parents, going to meet her teacher, crashed into a lamp post, killing both of them. She never sees her parents again, but at the funeral, her aunt (and new guardian) gives her a silver ring that has a snake around her finger, with sapphire eyes. Her aunt then says that it has been in their family for generations and it will protect you, but 'my sister didn't believe it, and look what happened to her' is exactly what she said. Arcadia then goes to live with her aunt, near Times Square above a bakery.