Lindy Karsten is a character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse

Sigilverse

The Sigilverse, also known as the CrossGen Universe, is a fictional shared universe which served as a setting for most titles published by CrossGen Comics. Except for El Cazador, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a handful of flashbacks, all CrossGen Universe titles are set in the future...

. She appeared in the Solus

Solus (comics)

Solus was an American comic book series written by Barbara Kesel and illustrated by George Pérez. It was published by CrossGen Entertainment from April to December 2003. It ran for eight issues until it was cancelled when Crossgen went bankrupt in 2004...

 series.

Character details

She is a small, intelligent, somewhat nerdy young woman with a green gem between her eyes. She wears a yellow jump suit with her sigil logo on the front and big metallic gloves on her hands.

Linday Karsten is an elite games designer. She builds and plays fancy virtual reality games (like futuristic MMORPG

MMORPG

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

s). When Solusandra

Solusandra

Solusandra is a character created by CrossGen Entertainment. She is perhaps the most essential character to the "Big Picture" storyline, as she is the orange eyed being who created the Sigil-Bearers. She was exclusively found in the comic Solus and appeared in every Crossgen Comic that concerned...

 appears in her game, she goes to help this unknown user and when they make contact, she loses her sigil (or so she thinks). Lindy's virtual game is shut down by Solusandra. Lindy, hoping she has a chance of regaining her Sigil, follows Solusandra onto Solusandra's strange world.

Lindy travels with Solusandra first to the planet of Abyelos (where she convinces Solusandra to let the Sigil-bearer Mikos have some time to solve the problem he created). Then she follows Solusandra to the world of Elysia

Elysia

Elysia may signify:*Elysia , a deathcore band*Elysia , a genus of gastropods*Elysium, a section of the underworld containing the Elysian Fields*Elysia, pure heart.*Elysia, a gas giant in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption....

, home of The First

The First (comics)

The First are a group of fictional gods who appear in a self-titled comic as well as other various comic books published by CrossGen. Styled after the Greek gods in many ways, the First represent very powerful, nearly immortal beings, who are each based on a certain emotion.The full powers of The...

. On Elysia, Lindy becomes strangely powerful and grows to gigantic size. Angered by the attacks from the First, Lindy lays waste to much of the landscape before being shrunk back to normal size by Solusandra. Lindy gradually realizes that her power is not gone and it is returning to her slowly over time.

With the CrossGen bankruptcy, it is not obvious how she was going to be used in the war against the Negation

Negation War (comics)

Negation War was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics, and serving as a culmination of the metaplots of nearly all of CrossGen's other titles. It only ran for two issues, in Spring 2004, before the company declared bankruptcy and ended production on all their titles...

 (or if she was to be used at all).

Sigil-Bearer

• Sigil Location: hand

Lindy Karstan is one of the more unusual Sigil-bearers. As a game designer she doesn't appear to have met many terrible challenges though as a virtual game player she seems to be skilled at leading a raiding guild

Clan (computer gaming)

In computer and video gaming, a clan or guild is an organised group of players that regularly play together in a particular multiplayer games. These games range from groups of a few friends to 1000-person organizations, with a broad range of structures, goals and members. The lifespan of a clan...

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