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[b]Name/Title:[/b] Marguerite Calder

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Age:[/b] 26

[b]Personality:[/b] Marguerite is a very driven woman, and often speaks and behaves as if she carries the world on her shoulders.  Her family is a respected mage family from the District of Columbia, so from a young age she often found herself in positions where she had to behave with respect and diplomacy around her father’s associates, giving her a natural tendency to respond to any situation with politeness and attempts to compromise, only resorting to argument or violence if absolutely necessary.  At heart, she is a very kind and compassionate person, but that aspect of her personality often has to take a backseat to her duty to her family name.  That duty is one of if not the most important things to her, and the combination of that and feeling overshadowed by her brother has left her more than a bit of a perfectionist in all she does—from conversation to organization to magecraft.  Given her choice, she would infinitely prefer planning ahead of time to acting in the heat of the moment.  When it comes to interpersonal interactions, she always carries herself with authority, but that does not mean she is purposely abrasive.  Instead, she is friendly, but is always ready to defend why she is right about something.

[b]Appearance:[/b] [img]http://puu.sh/uMGM3/548914349f.jpg[/img]  

[b]Biography:[/b] Marguerite Calder is the latest head of the Calder family, an American family of mages of British and Native American descent from the Washington D.C. area.  Personality-wise, the Calders are generally friendly and more concerned with nonmagical social affairs than most mages--Marguerite's father, James, was friendly acquaintances with various politicians, for example (although any nonmagical person who knows him or the family is under the impression that the Calder family is some form of old money and don’t question it beyond that).
Nothing much was expected of Marguerite when she was born—nothing much is ever expected of the second child of a mage family, after all, even in the country once deemed the Land of Opportunity.  She knew from a young age that she would, at best, be married off to another mage and expected to produce an heir while her brother Arnold, her elder by eight years and the strongest mage her family had yet produced, would be head of the Calder family.  That changed, however, when Arnold vanished fifteen days before her ninth birthday.  
No one could find any trace of Arnold Calder or any hint of his whereabouts, but a thorough search of his room unearthed a series of encrypted journals and a wooden puzzle box that no one could figure out how to open.  After several months passed with no word from Arnold, he was declared dead, leaving Marguerite as the sole heir to the Calder family.
With this new responsibility suddenly thrust upon her, Marguerite suddenly found herself having to catch up on years’ worth of training in magecraft, a challenge she tackled to the best of her ability—she didn’t have her brother’s levels of intellect and talent, but she was no slouch!  Over the years, she threw herself into her studies, both at home and among the magical community, and became a mage of some skill—considering her age and the tragic circumstances surrounding her family, as she often heard added whenever she was discussed.
With her father’s death two years ago, she is the only living Calder by blood (her mother is still alive, but she married into the family).  


[b]Family History (if applicable):[/b] The Calder family is as old as the United States itself (which isn’t that old as far as mage families go, but damn it sounds cool! Also, they are among the oldest non-Native mage families in the US).  The family’s focus is on healing and elemental magecraft.  

[b]Origin:[/b] Purification

[b]Elemental Affinity:[/b] Water

[b]Number of Magic Circuits:[/b] C

[b]Quality of Magic Circuits:[/b] C

[b]Od:[/b] C

[b]Magecraft:[/b] 
-	[i]General Magecraft[/i]
-	[i]Purification:[/i] Using Magecraft to remove impurities from liquids.  This can mean anything from removing bacteria from water to extracting a poison from one’s bloodstream. 
-	[i]Healing Magecraft:[/i] Healing by accelerating cell regeneration.  The Caspian family’s specialty, especially when it comes to the healing of burns and the purging of toxins.
-	[i]Elemental Magecraft:[/i] Manipulation of water.

[b]Equipment:[/b] 
-	[i]Mystic Code: The Spellwriter’s Pen:[/i] An ornate fountain pen.  When Marguerite uses this pen to draw a spell circle onto a writing surface like paper or a board, the pen effectively “stores” the circle, allowing her to later enlarge it and place it on another surface.
-	[i]Dwelling:[/i] In anticipation of her participation in the Holy Grail War, Marguerite reserved a suite at the Fuyuki Hyatt for two weeks.
-	[i]Funds:[/i] Enough to get her through the Grail War comfortably, with a small surplus just in case.
-	[i]Rented Car:[/i] The vehicle itself is comfortable but unobtrusive.  Like the hotel suite, she intends to have it for two weeks.
-	[i]Arnold’s Puzzle Box:[/i] The only clue ever found to her brother’s whereabouts.  She always travels with it, just in case.  She keeps it in her hotel room.
-	[i]Toiletries:[/i] Toothbrush/paste, makeup shower supplies… everything she needs to keep herself looking impeccable.
-	[i]Clothes:[/i] Marguerite favors pantsuits, as they enable her to look formal without the inconvenience of a skirt.  However, she does know that there is a good chance she’ll have to messier things than she’s used to during the Holy Grail War, so she also brought three pairs of black jeans and all three of the collarless shirts she owns, so she is prepared for these situations when they arise.  She also carries a pair of reinforced black gloves on her person at all times, should she need to handle something unpleasant.

[b]Skills:[/b] 
-	[i]Driving:[/i] Marguerite is no stunt driver, but she passed Driver’s Ed and got her license on her first try.  She’s one of those drivers who goes exactly the speed limit.  You know the ones.
-	[i]Savate:[/i] A martial art favored by the community Marguerite’s mother came from.  She has actually been learning this longer than she has magecraft, as her mother was a firm believer in a woman being able to defend herself.
-	[i]Speed Reading:[/i] Trained herself to be able to read quickly while retaining information.
-	[i]People Skills:[/i] Picked up from interacting with her father’s acquaintances.  
-	[i]Pianist:[/i] Took piano lessons from a young age, although she hasn’t sat down to play since her father’s death.
-	[i]Herbalism:[/i] Knowledge of various plants and their uses.  Unfortunately, it’s mainly limited to what grows in Northern Virginia.
-	[i]Knowledge of Human Anatomy:[/i] Studied the human body to have better understanding of magical healing.
-       [i]Tourist-Level Japanese:[/i] Nowhere near fluent, but capable of asking where things are, ordering food, saying please and thank you, and other simple phrases. 

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