Name: Judith Lee

Age: 35

Physical Description:


Important items:

On Her Person:

- Bulletproof Jacket
- Twin Pistols with Platinum-tipped bullets.
- Butterfly Knives.
- Money in a Wallet.

In a Dimensional Pocket:

- Sniper Rifle
- AK-47
- Platinum Bullets
- First Aid Kit
- More Money
- Food
- Water

Short Bio: Judith Lee was born to ordinary parents, had an ordinary life, had above-average, but still ordinary grades. She hated it. She hated the expectations she nevertheless had as an only child, including the expectation that she would have to get married someday in order to find true happiness and security. Judith wanted a career, an independent existence, to be free from the world created by social constructs and mores. At the same time, however, she was selfish; she can care for others, but much less than she did herself. So, once she finished college, and her parents were setting up meetings with men her age who had an ''upstanding' reputation, Judith decided to run away and join the CIA in the early years of the War on Terror. And she has never looked back since; it was her path in life.

She rose quickly up the ranks as a skilled field agent, finding that she liked killing people, not because she relished their pain and death, but rather because she felt like it was a job well-done. However, she acquired a revulsion to torture and kidnapping, not because of any moral qualms but because it was pyschologically corrosive to the torturer, which may be her. At the same time, she also acquired a sense of empathy as time grew on, first towards her teammates, then towards civilians in general. Do not get her wrong, she can still drop that at any time, but it gave her something to center herself around other than self-interest. Then again, nurturing empathy for the good effects it had on her psyche might be taken as self-interest. Who knows?

Then, the Malakim Records came to her, the specific tome took on the form of a Red Book, a Red Book that showed her the secrets of Time and Space. And her life was never the same.

She reported this to her superiors, who instead of turning on her, instead asked her to reaffirm her loyalty to the United States and its institutions; they would need her help if this phenomenon continued. Without hesitation, she did; pledging renewed loyalty to her country, its institutions, and its ideals. Even then, however, her future would not have been secure had not President Beatrice Steele taken a direct hand in America's new 'Mage Policy'. Mages were an asset, people who are capable of as much good as harm. More importantly, the source of Magical powers, the Malakim Records, must be sought after. A secret project is also to be made to create copies of said Records using Group Spells; this was successful as well, and now the US Government, as the rest of the world is becoming more anarchic, has the ability to increase the numbers of Magi...

Spell List:

Judith has all six of her Spells as Timespace, so she can have stronger spells than other Magi with more spread-out Schools. Spells are listed from Weakest to Strongest.

Sense Ripple - Judith can see distortions in space caused by portals, teleportation, or attempts to twist fate to one's interests.

Timespace Encryption - Judith can encrypt electronic messages sent via her cellphone or other communications equipment to prevent people from tapping it (World Magic can do this as well, but with different methods).

Contracts of Fate - Judith can strengthen her own oaths with the power of destiny, increasing her luck and fortune when pursuing her oath. However, going against her oath results in the reverse; accidents will befall her more often, her equipment would break down, and her enemies would have an easier time finding her. Judith can also grant the benefits (and drawbacks) of this spell to people who have verbally agreed to having their promises bolstered in such a way. Yes, this is exploitable.

Homura's Pocket - Judith can store a number of items in a dimensional pocket as large as a small house. These items include weapons, food, technology, and even other magical items. Perishable items like food stay good for as long as they are in the dimensional pocket, due to the different flow of time there.

Prescience - Judith can, when she locks herself in complete darkness, see visions of the past, present, and future.

Gate of Gates - Judith can open a portal that connects two places on the same planet at once. This portal can be either the size of herself, or the size of a plaza, or anything in-between. The limits are that she can only open it on a place she knows by sight, whether through pictures or personal experience. That, and the gate can only be in Earth's gravity well, as gravity, at planet-size levels, distorts the fabric of space-time. And yes, changing the scenery of the destination to so that it no longer matches with Judith's memories prevents the portal from forming.

The portal lasts from one second to 24 hours.

Age: 23
Physical Description: Lukas is a tall, skinny man with large hands and pale skin. He has a love for compartments, frequently wearing satchels, messenger bags, and cargo pants. He prefers long sleeve shirts to short ones and wears them much more often as well. He only seems to own a few socks and slips on sandals in the morning more often than not. When preaching the good word, he always dons his goat-skull mask and doesn't wear a shirt.

Short Bio: Lukas was fairly agnostic until the Malakim Records started popping up. He never had really found an ideology or belief system he could truly believe in. Out of school he got a simple job as a manager and felt empty, wanting to truly devote himself to something. While he was lethargically moving some records around in his office he discovered a book he had never seen before. He simultaneously could and couldn't read it, and halfway through realized he had discovered a Malakim Record. He had believed those fake but now was a very definite believer. Experimenting with his powers, he decided these were a gift from the True God, and reasoned that the True God was Lady Baphomet due to the powers he had received and his opinions on the world.

Personality: Lukas is a man who tries to be understanding. He is ultimately devoted to his god but realizes that being a missionary is hard, and not all will accept the truth. Still, in appreciation for his magical powers, he slays 'heretics', or those who use their magic powers to end the lives or pleasures of others. As his religion states, he believes in reincarnation, no afterlife, and the indulgence in worldly desires, for that is all there is and all there will ever be. He doesn't tend to get mad at big changes, knowing the pendulum will swing back around one day. He also has a really high tolerance for pain and loves wine.

Important Items

• Platinum Sickle - A simple weapon, to reap those who are immune to his magic or to open wounds in his body.
• Spray Cans - Two aerosol cans filled with Lukas's blood, used to dispel any magic spells he may come across.
• Goat Skull Mask - A ceramic mask in the image of a goat's skull, representing Baphomet. Cloth has been wrapped around the slight cracks in the mask received from a heretic.

Spell List

• World LV2 - Pyrokinesis, (Lukas can generate and manipulate flames with the power of magic. All materials that are consumed by these flames become ash, even metals and plastics. To generate flames, Lukas has to thrust a limb forward, be it arms, legs, or even his head. While in flight though Lukas can effect its direction with his mind.)
  Ash Manipulation, (When Lukas physically touches ash, he can mold it into any shape or size he desires and make it densely packed enough to be as hard as steel, though the amount of ash he has on hand affects what he can make.)
• High-Change LV2 - Wings, (Lukas can solidify mana from the atmosphere to give himself a set of black avian wings with which to fly. He has to stand still and focus to perform this spell though.)
  Blood Generation, (By clapping his hands together, Lukas can convert mana into blood, optionally prefilled with oxygen, and pump it through his veins. Because of this it is much harder to kill him without directly affecting his organs.)
• Underworld LV2 - Resuscitation, (Lukas can cast a small lightning bolt with a flick of the finger that, when it strikes a corpse, will bring that person back to life for about ten seconds.)
  Faux-Resurrection, (Lukas can cast a spell on himself that will bring himself back to life after he has died, though he loses access to all of his magic for a time, and dying isn't exactly fun. This spell only works on himself and isn't a true resurrection spell technically.)

Name: Alison Azif

Age: 32

Physical Description: Alison is an average-sized woman who tends to dress very sensibly, typically in sweaters and skirts with dark tights, though in warmer weather she'll wear a turtleneck or short-sleeve button-down shirt depending on just how warm it is. She doesn't show much of her pale skin and is the kind of person that just avoids attention. She fades into the background, her wardrobe of dark (but not black - black is too depressing, she says) clothing helping with that.

She's slightly below average height, with thin-rimmed glasses that she doesn't need to read but make it more comfortable. Her hair is mousy brown and she has hazel eyes that can look like anything from moss green to gray to brown depending on the lighting.

She is, in a word, harmless looking. She is not an enemy agent.

Important Items: Aside from the usual things one values for sentimental reasons (photo albums, knicknacks, and so on) her most valuable (to her) possession is a bracelet that belonged to her grandmother, who has since passed. It's a somewhat worn and beaten ring of gold-plated silver, with no real value and the silver showing through where the gold is wearing thin, but it's all she has to remember her favorite relative.

Alison also has an apartment, her furniture largely from the same estate sales that fuel her workplace. She spends quite a bit of time there, reading and painting, though she has sold very few of her paintings.

Short Bio: Alison is an underachieving woman who is happy to live a life without a lot of luxury as long as there's not a lot of surprise, either. Her mother was the black sheep of the family and she raised Alison as a single parent, with all the stress and doting and bonding that it implies. At this point in her life they're more like friends than family.

Alison doesn't talk about her distant family. They are probably European.

Alison works in a used book store, spending most of her day shelving books and helping people find things in the chaotic stacks. She does try and generally keep things organized but there's simply not enough time and she's not an obsessive enough person to empty the shelves and really sort things out.

She sells her paintings at the book store as well, as she has yet to get enough of a following even for a local art gallery. She sells few paintings, as most find the abstract works (largely gradients of dark colors and vague shapes) to be quietly distressing. There are no returns allowed.

Alison enjoys listening to numbers stations while at work as background noise.

You would think, working in a used book store, that it's obvious where a mysterious book of power would turn up, mixed in with the newest shipment from a library or estate sale. Nothing that exciting has ever happened in the store.

No, she ended up being given a Malakim Record. She was returning home when a strange, mumbling man, obviously homeless, tried to push the book into her hands. Alison gave him money just to get him to go away, more afraid of him than curious. She didn't even know what she had until she got home, and no one has been able to find the man she described.

Alison wants to lead a quiet life, and considers this whole thing to be trouble she doesn't need. She doesn't handle new situations well, getting stressed out by the unknown.

She has two pet fish. She hasn't named them. She doesn't want to get attached.

Alison has never been outside of the United States. This fact can be confirmed with any number of reliable witnesses. Investigating her activities is of course pointless as she is a normal woman.

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Spell List:

All of Alison's spells are from the Timespace school. Her power is quite weak, according to her. She so rarely casts spells that most people believe that to be true.

Do not believe her.

Shantak Air-Anchor: Alison can fix her location in spacetime relative to a surface, effectively nailing her mass in place. For example, if Alison was falling down the stairs she could use this spell to stop herself in mid-air by fixing her location relative to the ground, giving her time to reposition herself and land safely. Her momentum is not conserved, but is set to that of the relative surface - if used in a car she won't go speeding out of the windshield when it slows or turns, for the same reason she doesn't fly off into space when using it relative to the surface of the Earth.

De Marigny's Clock: A mirror of the Shantak Air-Anchor, Alison can to a limited extent fix her location in time. She hasn't mastered the use of this yet, and mostly this serves to make her immune to outside influences on her passage through time. In theory, she could fix her time relative to something moving at a different rate through time, but in normal conditions this has no effect - unless one counts a few experiments done with her holding atomic clocks. As a consequence Alison experiences time (very slightly) faster than the rest of the Earth. This has made her insecure about her age. De Marigny's Clock allows Alison to cast spells almost instantly and in rapid succession, though this quickly expends her energy, much like sprinting drains endurance.

Scimitar of Barzai: This power creates a new (tiny) region of spacetime in the form of a plane. Typically this is bounded by an object, with the effect that a new, totally empty area where the object was previously contiguous. In simple terms, it neatly divides objects without cutting them - imagine teleporting something's left half a milimeter away from its right half. The created vacuum induces a distinct popping sound when this spell is used, and the larger the object cut, the more effort this spell takes to cast. Alison must touch the object to be cut with her fingertip, making a motion to describe the orientation of the plane. The material to be cut is totally irrelevant - tank armor separates as easily as a pillow. As usual this will not work on platinum, as she is unable to create the new region of spacetime within the material. Alison's fingernails glow with a near-ultraviolet light while using this power.

Atlantis Strike: The opposite of the Scimitar of Barzai, the Atlantis Strike eliminates space between two objects, allowing for nearly-instantaneous movement (though as no movement actually takes place describing it this way is wrong in almost every way except the practical) along a straight, short line. This 'movement' is a result of space warping, and does not produce or change momentum. If used repeatedly in the same area, this can create a navigational hazard - Alison used this to move around her shop and quickly found that her shop was becoming smaller on the inside. Used outside and sparingly, the effect is forgettable, though someone able to see distortions in spacetime could make use of the shortened paths. The eliminated spacetime 'heals' over the course of a day or two, and Alison is unable to eliminate space that contains anything solid - even liquid presents great difficulty.

Warped Passage: While concentrating, Alison can warp space in a plane. This warped space makes objects take exponentially more time to reach her, as they're trying to pass through significantly more distance. The warped space is visible as a significant blueshifting from Alison's side and a redshifting from the other side. She can only maintain a field roughly the size of a doorway for any significant length of time. People passing through the field aren't harmed in any way, and from Alison's side they're able to pass through normally. Trying to pass through to Alison presents significant difficulty - the subject will find that a distance of only a few meters becomes dozens or hundreds of times longer. This offers good protection against most firearms, though it becomes much less effective against anything not following a ballistic trajectory - a laser wouldn't be significantly effected at all (aside from being redshifted) and self-propelled projectiles like rockets, drones, or angry dogs can reach her, though it takes much more time and gives her a chance to react. Alison can only place this field somewhere she can see it, and can only maintain one at a time. Platinum, as usual, ignores the magical warping of space and simply passes through as if the field wasn't there.

Forbidden History: All objects contain within themselves their history. When holding an object Alison can get a sense of its past. Holding a bullet casing, she can determine when and where it was fired. Holding a book, which is more likely given her profession, she can accurately determine its age and place of publication, and something of where it has been. This does not give her a sense of events around the object - she could tell that a knife was used to stab someone, but she couldn't tell you who was holding it (though she could tell you if it was being held or thrown), what the argument was about, and so forth. Living things, being able to change their worldline on their own, are too 'squirmy' to get a reading from. This is probably the only spell Alison uses with any frequency, checking rare books for authenticity by confirming their own internal history.

Name: Logan Adley

Age: Eighteen.

Physical Description: Short blond hair, clear blue eyes, and tanned pale skin, Logan is pretty typical for all descriptors that come to mind when other’s find out he’s a white suburban middle-class teen. He presents a fit physique, obviously someone who works out, likely plays a sport of some kind, but rarely drops the serious unperturbed expression on his face. There are minor drifts in his appearance that set him apart from the ‘norm’ of suburban teens everywhere, namely the plentiful newly added piercings around his ears, which would never have been allowed by his parents,and the slightest hints of ‘edgier’ preferences seeping into his style in the form of band-tees, fingerless gloves, a rarely worn studded belt, all of which his mother would have nagged him about before eventually confiscating and disposing of them herself.



Important Items:

Rainbow Friendship Bracelet:

A gift from Mary Jane Summers, an unlikely friend from school. The bracelet is simple, only a few braided colors tied together, but the bracelet has deep sentimental meaning for Logan.

Chinese Bead Necklace:

Logan was pretty sure it was a scam, but a Chinese mystic recommended he take her necklace, and she told him it was made of cinnabar which was good for breeding stability and reinforcing independence. For a long time the necklace sat on his dresser unworn, but it is now one of the few things he takes with him everywhere.