[center][color=7bcdc8][b][h3]Nera Hawthorn[/h3][/b][/color][color=7bcdc8]{[/color]"No more [b]Lyte[/b], no more [b]Darke[/b]...Just pure [b]Magyk[/b] without restraint."[color=7bcdc8]}[/color][/center]
Roleplays: [list][*][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/170745-darke-magyk]Darke Magyk[/url][/list]
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[hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[b][color=7bcdc8]Name:[/color][/b] Nera Hawthorn
[b][color=7bcdc8]Darke Name:[/color][/b] Nerse
[b][color=7bcdc8]Age:[/color][/b] 24
[b][color=7bcdc8]Birthday:[/color][/b] December 28th
[b][color=7bcdc8]Birthplace:[/color][/b] Servants Quarters - the Palace 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Residence:[/color][/b] Port Witch Coven House
[b][color=7bcdc8]Gender:[/color][/b] Female
[b][color=7bcdc8]Education:[/color][/b] [b]Magykal[/b] instruction in the Badlands 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Position:[/color][/b] Witch
[hr][center][img]https://data.whicdn.com/images/169025154/original.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Appearance[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[b][color=7bcdc8]Height:[/color][/b] 5'6"
[b][color=7bcdc8]Weight:[/color][/b] 124 pounds
[b][color=7bcdc8]Build:[/color][/b] Toned; Well Defined 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Eyes:[/color][/b] Bright blue with flecks of black 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Hair:[/color][/b] Auburn 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] Sun-Kissed 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:[/color][/b] Faint scars in the hairline, small scar on left ankle 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Personal Style:[/color][/b] Nera's ideal style is well suited for hotter climates. She loves to wear two piece dresses and light boots. It's a practical and fashionable choice, as far as she's concern. The lightness of it was ideal during her travels, keeping her from melting under the beating sun, and blue always was her color. It matched her eyes. Yet at Port, it's too cold to simply go without a cloak. She's come up with a mild compromise, wearing her thick witch's cloak on top of her lighter clothing. There's no reason why she can't be comfortable and stylish at the same time. [hr][center][img]https://data.whicdn.com/images/196447435/original.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Psychology[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3]
[i][color=6ecff6][center][color=00a651]Determined[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Spiteful[/color] * [color=00a651]Ambitious[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Opinionated[/color] * [color=00a651]Crafty[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Judgmental[/color][/center][/color][/i]

[b][color=7bcdc8]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Sapiosexual 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] Single 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Personality:[/color][/b] Nera is a bit of a two-faced individual. If she wants to, she can appear to be kind and sweet - the perfect friend, ally, companion, lover, and so forth. This deception comes easily to her, as she definitely had a conniving and scheming side to her. She would rather settle a conflict before it begins than allow it to come to blows. Be careful around her, as while she may seem to be giving you honey, it could very well be laced with poison. 

Yet she is not a fundamentally bad person - just simply a little wicked. Yet she's a member of the Port Witch Coven - she's a bit tame in comparison to some of the other witches. While she doesn't always speak her mind without prompting, she makes judgments about others and various situations quickly. She won't hold back if asked about her opinions as well. And curiously, despite everything she has experienced in life, she still has a bit of an idealistic attitude. She still believes in her principles and her ideas, despite the complications that society may introduce to them. 

[b][color=7bcdc8]Habits:[/color][/b] Flaring her nostrils, biting her lip 
[b][color=7bcdc8]Hobbies:[/color][/b] Experimenting with new Potions
[b][color=7bcdc8]Fears:[/color][/b] [list][*]Drowning 
[*]Amnesia 
[*]Losing an appendage 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Likes:[/color][/b] 
[list][*]Animals 
[*]Traveling 
[*]Pure [b]Magyk[/b]
[*]The Port Witch Coven
[*]Crows
[*]Stargazing 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Dislikes:[/color][/b]  
[list][*]Wendron Witches 
[*]Royals 
[*]Wizards
[*]Laziness 
[*]Arrogance 
[*]Titles and Etiquette 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]General Skills:[/color][/b]
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[*]Country Knowledge - (Small Wet Country Across the Sea) - the knowledge of how to navigate the various regions and towns of the Small Wet Country Across the Sea without great trouble. 
[*]City Knowledge - (the Castle) - the knowledge of where to find various shops and other locations in the Castle without great trouble.
[*]Regional Knowledge - (the Badlands) - the knowledge of how to navigate the hazardous terrain of the Badlands without great trouble. This includes basic survival skills for desert type settings. 
[*]Court Etiquette  - The knowledge of how to act with regards to the Castle's Royal Family and other visiting nobles. This includes awareness of proper manners of address and customs. 
[*]Foreign Customs - the ability to adapt to the mannerisms of cultures and customs of other lands without causing offense. 
[*]Swimming - the ability to swim great distances without drowning or excessively tiring. This includes being able to tread water for up to five hours.
[*]Basic Cartography - The study and practice of making maps. Users are proficient in reading depictions of spatial information, although they are not able to create maps or restore maps themselves. 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Occupational Skills:[/color][/b] 
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[*][b]Darke[/b] Witch [b]Magyk[/b] - The ability to manipulate [b]Magyk [/b]in order to cause harm to others. This includes psychological, physical, and spiritual harm. Its use may result in death.
[*]Witch's Road - The ability to leave one's body and review events that have already happened to them. With consent of another, they can also relive another person's memories. Note that while the memories are real, they are distorted by the mind and may not accurately reflect true events.
[*]Herbology - The ability to use plants and fungi in order to produce a desired [b]Magykal[/b] effect. This is typically used in tandem with [b]Physik[/b] and the creation of potions.
[*]Sense - The ability to sense the emotions of another. These readings are not always accurate, as the person may willfully hide their emotions.
[*]Potions - The ability to turn [b]Magyk[/b] into a liquid form by mixing together various ingredients.
[*]Concilium - The ability to impose one's will upon another, in order to have them perform your bidding. Depending on the strength, the victim can perform any action, even if it would potentially be fatal to themselves.
[*][b]FootFollowing[/b] - The ability to perfectly retrace a target's steps, as long as they can find three footprints. The downside is that they cannot stop until they reach their target, no matter what.
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[b][color=7bcdc8]What Is On Your Person:[/color][/b] [list]
[*][url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/77/dd/1877dd125afd55f50c35d06bf1ffc653.jpg]Clothing[/url] - A two piece blue dress obtained from the Lagoon, partnered with a thick black hooded witch’s cloak with various runes embroidered on it, and light blue ankle boots 
[*]Packet of Witch’s Berry 
[*]Packet of Hellebore 
[*]Packet of Dittany 
[*]Emerald Hairpin - previously belonged to her mother 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Residence:[/color][/b] 
[list][*]Assorted clothing from various countries around the world 
[*]Unlabeled potions flasks 
[*]Summer Witch’s Cloak
[*]Journal 
[*]Tattered Ordinary Wizard’s Cloak 
[*]Crow - Named Marvolo 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Your Path:[/color][/b] Ever since she was a little girl, Nera had dreamt of [b]Magyk.[/b] Her mother had been an Ordinary Wizard, the distant descendant of an ExtraOrdinary Apprentice who never returned from her [b]Queste.[/b] Nera never knew her mother - yet she felt that she knew her through their shared love of [b]Magyk.[/b] The small [b]Charms[/b] she attempted as a child were how she would feel close to her, even though her mother had died the way she was born. 

She had always been destined for [b]Magyk.[/b] Even though she left the Castle and never studied in the Wizards' Tower, she still studied the subject she adored. It was her lifestyle and with her opinions on it, she easily became a witch. Only witches appreciated [b]Magyk[/b] for what it truly was, rather than attempt to constrain it to preconceived and stuffy notions. 

[b][color=7bcdc8]General History:[/color][/b] Nera was the child of a Castle servant who worked in the Palace for Queen Meliscente. When she was ten years old, she was adored by the Queen, as Nera didn't have a mother and Meliscente had lost her child, her first born daughter to the Wendron Witch Coven. The Queen promised Nera that she could have anything she ever wanted, even arranging for Nera to have private tutors in the Palace. And when Nera showed a keen interest in [b]Magyk[/b], the Queen arranged a meeting for Nera with Rowland, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard. His previous apprentice had left for the Eastern SnowPlains and he was seeking a new one. At eleven years old, she was the proper age. 

Yet Rowland picked Arya Rincewind to be his apprentice, the daughter of quite possibly the worst Sub-Wizard the Castle had ever known. This was when the trouble began for Nera. Her father had been promoted to be a member of the Palace Guard and he had been dispatched into the Forest, in order to try to find Princess Valda. He was killed - whether by Wendron Witches or a wolverine, no one knows. And to make matters worse, Queen Meliscente grew distant, unable to find the time for Nera as she was busy caring for her other two children - Myrus and Luna. 

Needless to say, Nera left the Castle. She spent years in the Badlands learning [b]Magyk[/b], mourning the loss of her father and attempting to find her place in the world. Her emotions fueled her [b]Magyk[/b], allowing her to accomplish great things. And once she had learned all she could from her master there, she left the Badlands and began to travel. There was so much [b]Magyk[/b] in the world and she became obsessed with the idea of pure [b]Magyk[/b], realizing how odd it was to think of things in terms of [b]Darke[/b] and [b]Lyte[/b], good and evil. [b]Magyk[/b] is all about balance between the two. She wanted [b]Magyk[/b] without limits, [b]Magyk[/b] without restraints. She appreciated its beauty and the beauty of [b]Magyk[/b] helped to heal her conflicted heart. 

Eventually, she felt drawn to return to her home country, joining the Port Witch Coven. There was no question of her joining the Wendron Witches. They restricted themselves to only [b]Lyte Magyk[/b] and it was possible that their Witch Mother had killed her father. And while the Port Witch Coven has a bad rap, Nera isn't as polarized as some of its members. In fact, they're now the closest thing she's had to family in a long time, able to understand her unique viewpoints on the world. But even they too can be closed minded, preferring [b]Darke Magyk[/b] rather than using [b]Magyk[/b] in harmony. 

[b][color=7bcdc8]Thoughts on Queen Meliscente:[/color][/b] Nera felt conflicted to say the least when she heard the Queen was murdered. She had been angry with the Queen after her father died, but she had learned to get of that anger. Queen Meliscente had her actual children to care for at the time, whereas Nera was just the daughter of a servant. She mourned the death of the Queen quietly, knowing that she had lost someone akin to a mother for her, a relationship that no one else knew about. She never mentioned it to anyone and Princess Luna and her brother Myrus were too young to remember Nera. She can't say exactly why she's certain the Queen is murdered, as she hasn’t seen the Queen’s body. All she knows are the rumors that are flying around the Port about what had happened. Queen Meliscente certainly wouldn’t have been the first person the Wendron Witches murdered, either. With the Queen dead, the Wendron Witch Coven is ready to take the throne. 
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[b][color=7bcdc8]Character Quote:[/color][/b] "The world is far too complex to be restricted to [b]Lyte[/b] and [b]Darke[/b]."
[b][color=7bcdc8]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A8JZ-RDDo]Strange Magic by ELO[/url]
[b][color=7bcdc8]Anything Else:[/color][/b] ~included in previous CS~
[sub][color=ed1c24]*By submitting this CS in its completion I am stating I have read all the rules for this Rp and am agreeing to follow them to the fullest with respect and courtesy. I acknowledge that I can and will be removed from the RP without warning if I break a rule or cause problems with my fellow Rpers or the GM.[/color][/sub][/hider]