Name: Vasilisa Malinovsky
Age: 29
Hobbies: Reading fiction and ancient texts of every kind, deciphering ancient and/or unknown languages, doing yoga while listening to jazz, writing fiction, playing puzzle or words games.
Jobs: An archaeo-lexicologist employed by an international museum to expand their archive of archaic languages.
Education: Completed a double major with Honours, Masters and Doctorate for Lexicology and Ancient Studies, she has a Bachelor's degree for Latin, Ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Hebrew. She has a head for languages and history, whether it be modern or ancient, but is average at everything else, hence her striving to be an archaeo-lexicologist.
Equipment: She carries around a leather shoulder bag. Inside, there is a thick leather-bound sketchbook that she writes copies of archaic languages within for further study and memories. She carried a wooden case of writing utensils (graphite pencil, charcoal, a fine-nib Cavalier Fountain Pen, a simple ballpoint that has ran out of ink and an inkwell full of ink) together with the sketchbook.
Special abilities: Her skills with archaic languages translated over to the various runes, sigils and hieroglyphs found in this world. While she herself could not brew potions, heal others, defy the law of physics, use a weapon or the like, simply using ink and paper to draw strings of interlocking runes and sigils, she can summon creatures from the Nether Realm and bend them to her will. These summons will stay until she personally dismisses them, or they are destroyed. However, so far she can only control up to three creatures at once as her concentration cannot be split between any more than that.
Class: Conjurer
Bio: Born in Novosibirsk to a Russian couple, Vasilisa was the second and youngest child in her family, her brother being four years older. Her father was an owner of a small but popular lounge while her mother worked as an assistant chief of the financial branch in a security firm. They were counted as middle-class citizens, not overly-rich but not suffering in poverty either. While her brother was blitzing through school and subjects like Maths, Science and Economics, Vasilisa struggled through them, barely managing a pass despite her best efforts. The only subjects she was any good at were English and History, both of which were electives. These good results fueled her interest in them and sparked the flame for her desire to study them further even if they weren't offered as main courses yet. However, her parents didn't really mind, with her father instructing her in the finer arts of business when it became apparent her brother was not planning to take over the business. The instructions started with she was twelve, but at the age of fourteen, her father decided to sell the business as her brother managed to get into the University of Warwick. Thus, at the age of fifteen, she resumed studies in the UK when her family immigrated there.
Unlike other transfer students, Vasilisa had no problems catching up with lessons as her grasp of the English language was rather excellent. Faced with more electives than she had ever seen, Vasilisa seized the opportunity to indulge in her thirst for ancient languages and history. She graduated from high school with the best results of her year in ancient history, Latin and Ancient Greek. She was accepted into the University of Roehampton, where she studied Lexicology and Ancient Studies. For her year of Honours, she helped a researcher in the British Museum decipher texts of half-translated texts from the Neolithic Perios and pieced together the story told from a mere few pages. Immediately after, she completed her Masters and Doctorate at the same University while doing part-time jobs at the local library, as well as continuing to keep in contact with the researcher. Once she got her Doctorate, she went traveling around the world with the researcher and his team of archeologists for two years before accepting the job at the museum. Needing to stay put in one place due to her new job, she filled her spare time with learning other archaic languages.
A month before she was transported into this vastly different world, she was invited to come along to a fresh site located in Argentina by her old team. On site, she alone was studying an engraving located on a broken pillar, inscribing it into her sketchbook when a sharp static shock zapped her fingers, and the next thing she knew, she was somewhere else.
