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Name: Grace Liu (current code name)
Age: 43, looks like she’s 43
Species: Mage
Powers/Skill: Spheres From best to worst: Correspondence, Mind, Entropy, Forces, Life, Time
Arete: 5

Appearance:
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Personality: Grace is a true believer in the Technocracy and its mission for a safe and superstition free humanity. She is well versed in the formalities of the Technocracy’s culture and shares the cold and rational outlook common within its ranks. However, she is also chronically stressed as a result of the demands of her job, and more willing to take a pragmatic approach to the enforcement, concentrating on the big picture and spirit of the rules rather following policy by rote. When dealing with the public she initially uses a friendly demeanor, projecting an almost unnatural kindness, but she finds it difficult maintain this when things get contentious. In formal technocracy settings she falls back into the default bureaucratic personality of unquestioning loyalty and obedience, but outside that she is more relaxed and isn’t afraid to mince words, even being comically blunt at times. Grace doesn’t relax much, and tries to avoid prolonged bouts of introspection. 


Biography: 
	Grace’s birth name is Margaret Yu; that identity has long since been abandoned. From an early age she excelled academically, almost equally in the humanities and the hard sciences. Her awakening as a mage happened in her college years; then she was something of a free spirit, looking for knowledge from both traditional and nontraditional sources. She was determined to know more about the world and more about herself, for the former she devoured books and changed majors constantly, for the latter she turned to more esoteric methods, like meditation and psychedelic drugs. This brought her to the attention of the Technocracy, who began observing her. Her psychedelic explorations also lead her to make friends with some members of the Cult of Ecstasy, having respect for their quest of avoiding staticness and self-improvement. 

	The Technocracy took a gentle approach to recruiting her, slowly explaining the conflicts behind the scenes and guiding her through it all. By contrast, the Ecstatics told her nothing, just waiting to see what she would discover on her own. They believed in letting her learn to help herself, even when she faced trauma from the failure of her first seeking. She resented them and devoted herself more deeply to the scientific paradigm, and then the Technocracy made their formal request for her to join.
She saw the decision to join as making a choice between personal excellence and a greater mission, one for the benefit of the world. When she made the decision to join she had only one request, one they were happy to honor: she wanted to be unconflicted, wholly committed to the cause, without any risk that her uncertainties would rise again and jeopardize her mission. They obliged and removed her memories of her time with the ecstatics and any lingering doubts she had, to this day she doesn’t know what happened to any of her former friends. After that day, she became the woman she would be from then on, Grace Liu.

	After considerable training she was assigned a position within the NWO, away from field work. She proved excellent at cataloging information and analyzing the intel on reality deviants gathered by the Technocracy’s vast bureaucracy, but over time she came to worry that her talents were being wasted working as a glorified librarian. Enlightened personnel were a rare resource, and they were especially valuable on the front lines of the conflict. Sensing an opportunity for advancement, she became a field agent, and was assigned to the Southern California region. The massive amount of media meant that the Syndicate exercised heavy influence over Technocracy operations in the area, NWO presence was undermanned, overworked, and usually on the losing end of territorial fights with the Syndicate. Turnover was excessively high, and soon enough Grace found herself the NWO field operative in charge of all of Los Angeles County. The work is stressful and unrewarding, especially with recent shakeups, but she has stayed in the position longer than anyone else so far, and considers it a success if she can just stop any major trouble from being noticed by masses. One of the few duties she actively enjoys rather than merely tolerates is mentoring younger agents, like her subordinate Julie.


NPCs:

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[center]Julia Stapledon
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Grace's subordinate within the NWO, recently awakened and inexperienced. She grew up in abusive survivalist cult and is very happy to be out of it now, still getting a grasp on normal living. Her cover identity is as a journalist/science youtuber, she performs this role with much enthusiasm.  [/center][/hider]
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