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...
Biography & Lore
She grew up the daughter of a single mother in a very xenophobic human town. She was taught to hate her elvish side and was often bullied or treated badly by adults because of her tainted blood. Her mother was an empath and tried to teach her empathy magic but she found it too limiting. As a teenager, she began experimenting with Aura magic. in her early 20s a conflict between their town and a neighboring elven town broke out. She became a field medic, using her magic to assist in healing. One day she found herself in the middle of a skirmish and in order to defend herself she was forced to draw aura directly from her assailant. She used this power to destroy the rest of her attackers. Her superiors saw what she could do with this kind of magic and trained her in combat. She was sent to the front lines to fight as a soldier and her magic won many fights. However, this use of magic took its toll on her body turning her hair white. She left her home after bearly surviving a conflict, not because the enemy was too strong but because she had pushed herself past her limits. An elven family found her and nursed her back to health, she heard their side of the story and realized that her people were just as much to blame for the war as the elves, so she left. She went to Alliria where she became a tutor for Eleanor Griffen. She taught her both book knowledge and the basics of magic. After several years with the Griffen family, she found herself caught up in an incident with a werewolf in one of the towns outside of Alliria. She left without a trace and began pursuing knowledge about the occult. She began hunting monsters such as vampires, werewolves, and demons so as to better understand the monsters inside normal people. Having spent several years pursuing this practice she returned to Alliria only to find that The second youngest son of the Griffen family had been killed and Eleanor was missing. The Griffen family higherd her to find their daughter and find out more about how their son had died.
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