Amanda is one of the four kids of the Huxley family native to Еллая // Ellaya. Huxleys are not rich, some would say they are on the brink of becoming poor. Their family business of growing silkworms has been dying because of the competition on the market, unable to upgrade their equipment.
Amanda never considered herself a successor to her parents' business and as a gifted magic user with crafty hands, she dreamed of becoming an artificer. When she finally collected enough gold to get to Катерна // Katerna and Taiyō no ie - Будинок Сонця // House of the Sun, at the age of 17 she presented herself to the guild and requested to be accepted. This bald approach, without having an invitation or recommendation letter, was met with a grain of salt. But persistent as she was, Amanda managed to get permission to submit her project in order to become a member of the Guild.
Not wishing to surrender her ego, she never thought about making simpler concepts that would most definitely be possible to assemble. And thus, everything she came up with was very grand. Taking into account that entrants must build a working prototype with their own money and powers, none of her concepts had a chance. She kept getting back to the Guild with new projects, sometimes even demanding supplies or money to complete them, and eventually got the Guild doors close for her indefinitely. Mad and unsatisfied, she started to look for a place to make the work she wanted, she came upon one of the Black Sails gangs.
Amanda is now very close to the Gale King and working on the Blackwater device for almost 20 years. It is thanks to her work and efforts that Black Sails managed to build a somewhat working prototype and been carefully testing it.