Madam Valkery (Angelica)
Appearance
Tall slender and youthful, Madam Valkery looks in the prime of her life. However, her white hair and the often deep look in her teal blue eyes make many reconsider. She is always well put together with her hair up in a bun, makeup, simple earrings, and a neck broach. She often wears high collar full-length gowns hiding a number of scars on her arms legs torso etc. Her body a tapestry of some long-forgotten battlefield. There is also a much newer scare, a strange burn that covers her entire left arm most of her left hand and up the left side of her neck.
Skills and Abilities
Aura Magic
Valkery can read the aruas of those around her. She can also pick up the aura residue that people leave behind on objects in the last 24 hours and can use this to track people. She can tell how long ago the aura was left behind by how much decay has occurred. She can collect aura residue to fuel her spells. Aura left behind when someone was strongly emotional is more powerful, so places like taverns, marketplaces, and battlefields are great places to collect aura. The aura will continue to decay even after it is collected so if it goes unused for 24 hours it will dissipate completely no matter how much is collected. There is also a cap on how much can be collected, she can't contain more than two full peoples worth of aura at a time without suffering negative effects (Internal bleeding, vomiting, hair loss). She is able to collect aura directly from a living source but this could easily kill the person and quickly overloads her system causing the aforementioned symptoms.
Healing
She knows quite a lot about human anatomy (having dissected one before for medical training), she also knows a decent amount about the elven anatomy but other races she is more in the dark about. She was a field medic so she knows a good deal about both magical and non-magical healing. Her magical healing is more supportive than stand alone, she mostly uses it to assist the non-magical healing speeding up the persons natural healing process or to create magical sutures or stitches.
Martial Skill
She knows basic martial fighting, she is decent with a sword, knows her way around a crossbow, and is a pretty good shot with a throwing dagger or dart. She keeps two long silver pins in her hair to keep her bun in place and when she wears a hat she has a longer silver hat pin keeping that in place as well. She also knows over 100 different ways to kill a person using magic. The combination of her magic and her martial and medical knowledge makes her very deadly if she wanted to be. Her ability to sense auras allows her to detect her opponent even if her vision was obscured in a 360-degree radius. She uses this to her advantage, predicting her opponent's movements. She is fast and decisive, every strike intending to kill. Though she is just as capable of incapacitating her opponent if she has no intention of killing them.
The Occult
She knows a good deal about the occult, vampires, werewolves, demons etc... She has yet to find a decent specimen of vampire for her to dissect, the ones that she dealt with in the past all disintegrated to dust before she could really get a good look at them.
Weaknesses
If she spends more than a day away from society her aura reserve runs out and the amount of magic she can do lessens significantly. She needs to resort to sourcing from her own aura which is dangerous if she goes too far and will weaken her physically leading to exhaustion, nausea, and blacking out and even death.
Valkery can read the aruas of those around her. She can also pick up the aura residue that people leave behind on objects in the last 24 hours and can use this to track people. She can tell how long ago the aura was left behind by how much decay has occurred. She can collect aura residue to fuel her spells. Aura left behind when someone was strongly emotional is more powerful, so places like taverns, marketplaces, and battlefields are great places to collect aura. The aura will continue to decay even after it is collected so if it goes unused for 24 hours it will dissipate completely no matter how much is collected. There is also a cap on how much can be collected, she can't contain more than two full peoples worth of aura at a time without suffering negative effects (Internal bleeding, vomiting, hair loss). She is able to collect aura directly from a living source but this could easily kill the person and quickly overloads her system causing the aforementioned symptoms.
Healing
She knows quite a lot about human anatomy (having dissected one before for medical training), she also knows a decent amount about the elven anatomy but other races she is more in the dark about. She was a field medic so she knows a good deal about both magical and non-magical healing. Her magical healing is more supportive than stand alone, she mostly uses it to assist the non-magical healing speeding up the persons natural healing process or to create magical sutures or stitches.
Martial Skill
She knows basic martial fighting, she is decent with a sword, knows her way around a crossbow, and is a pretty good shot with a throwing dagger or dart. She keeps two long silver pins in her hair to keep her bun in place and when she wears a hat she has a longer silver hat pin keeping that in place as well. She also knows over 100 different ways to kill a person using magic. The combination of her magic and her martial and medical knowledge makes her very deadly if she wanted to be. Her ability to sense auras allows her to detect her opponent even if her vision was obscured in a 360-degree radius. She uses this to her advantage, predicting her opponent's movements. She is fast and decisive, every strike intending to kill. Though she is just as capable of incapacitating her opponent if she has no intention of killing them.
The Occult
She knows a good deal about the occult, vampires, werewolves, demons etc... She has yet to find a decent specimen of vampire for her to dissect, the ones that she dealt with in the past all disintegrated to dust before she could really get a good look at them.
Weaknesses
If she spends more than a day away from society her aura reserve runs out and the amount of magic she can do lessens significantly. She needs to resort to sourcing from her own aura which is dangerous if she goes too far and will weaken her physically leading to exhaustion, nausea, and blacking out and even death.
Personality
She she can come across as uptight and cold but can be kind in her own way. She tends to distance herself from others emotionally, maintaining a professional relationship with everyone. She is a scientist at heart and lives her life based on a philosophy of the scientific method. She is not very religious though she is not opposed to the idea of there being deities, but she does not feel the need to dedicate herself to any one god. Her real passion is knowledge and will go to great lengths to acquire it risking her own health and safety, so long it does not harm innocent humans in the process.
Though she is loathed to admit it she is a bit racist. She grew up in a human-centric xenophobic cult and still harbors a lot of their ideas. She generally gives elves the benefit of the doubt out of respect to herself, but does not immediately trust them. She generally dislikes dwarves but will leave them alone. Once you get to things that look less human such as orcs or coldblooded races she has much less patience with them and often sees the worst in them. Anything that is well known for attacking and killing humans she is immediately hostile too, such as trolls, vampires, werewolves, anything to do with demons or witchcraft, etc...
Though she is loathed to admit it she is a bit racist. She grew up in a human-centric xenophobic cult and still harbors a lot of their ideas. She generally gives elves the benefit of the doubt out of respect to herself, but does not immediately trust them. She generally dislikes dwarves but will leave them alone. Once you get to things that look less human such as orcs or coldblooded races she has much less patience with them and often sees the worst in them. Anything that is well known for attacking and killing humans she is immediately hostile too, such as trolls, vampires, werewolves, anything to do with demons or witchcraft, etc...