Height and Build: 5'2, petite body type, weighing in at 117 pounds.
History/bio:
Jade's mother was only 16 when she accidentally got pregnant, and nine months later Jadis was born. Her parents married a year later in a traditional witch wedding ceremony. She grew up in Montaville along side the human populace as most Witches do, but Tellmore was an added bonus to her upbringing as she was surrounded by all the different supernaturals growing up.
Because of Jade's heritage, she has the greatest amount of magical potential compared to her siblings, and cousins. As a toddler when she was overcome by strong emotions such as anger or frustration, her magic would overwhelm her to the point of creating powerful power outages, shattering windows, and giving people around her nose/ears bleeds. During these lapses of control, her grandmother would sing to her to calm her down, as her parents chanted protection spells to stop the worst of it.
Born connected to three well known witch bloodlines, Jadis has more raw magic power then your average witch. Following her maternal bloodline she is connected to the Drăghici clan which was once one of the most ancient, and powerful of witch families in Europe. At least they were before their fall in the 60s, after Korikov hunters massacred most of the Drăghici members in Romanian. They were known for their talents in light magic, and divination. Jadis's grandmother Ecaterina was only seven years old, but she and a handful of others made it out alive, due to her own affinity with Sanabit magic.
On the other side of her maternal bloodlines are the Radulescus. A bloodline that carries quite a history in blood, and dark magics. Historically the first-born Radulescu of every new generation ends up possessing devastatingly massive amounts of power, and the baby is always sacrificed, so the Radulescu coven can absorb, and keep using their ancient ancestral magic. This all changed in 1952 when for the first time in history, the first-born came as identical triplets boys. The massive power was evenly distributed between the babies, Corneliu, Ionel, and Neculai.
The elders and head of the family coven came together to decide what to do, weather to sacrifice all three boys, or use the last of their magic to call upon their ancestors spirits for guidance. In the end they sought out a Propheta Witch, who explained to them that the triplets had the 'power of three' and though all of the living Radulescu witches of the past generations would soon loose their magic, the boys would not, and they would be the ones to carry on the Radulescu bloodlines, with all future generations bore from them having perpetual power without need for sacrificial first-borns.
The triplets mother was overjoyed that her sons would not be sacrificed, but the rest of the family was not. They did't want to lose their magic, for their own children to be powerless. So with what little magic they had left they joined together to summon their ancestors spirits for answers. The spirits voices spoke, and explained that there was only two options. Sacrifice all three, and everyone can keep their powers, but they must sacrifice the first-three-born of every new generation to follow. The second option was just as the Propheta Witch.
The triplets mother knew that her relatives would insist on sacrificing the babies in order keep their power, no mater what the cost. So during the wee hours she took her baby boys and runaway from her coven, from the only home she knew. She only needed to stay in hiding until the boys first birthday, when it would be to late to sacrifice them. In the end the triplets grew up and started their own families, and kept the Radulescu magic going strong for the new generations. Jadis is the granddaughter of the eldest triplet, Corneliu.
Her paternal side of the family hales from Irish ancestry, the Nolan's aka the Ó'Nualláin are more well known in Ireland and the United Kingdom. They follow the Celtic traditions of witch culture/magic. The Ó'Nualláin are extremely traditional, and have traceable ties to the ancient magic-blood royalty, thus granting them a high stats among witch kind. Ó'Nualláin witches more often then not excel in one of the elemental specializations.
When Jadis was five years old her parents, grandparents, and handful of other relatives decided it was best to bind the majority of little Jade's powers until she could control them better, as she was starting kindergarten at the local school where she would be among many human children, and adults. Luckily the aggressive unstable kind of magic that Jadis was born with, did not manifest in her younger sisters. Even with the effective binding spell in place on Jade's magic, she still was proving to be extremely powerful witch, and showed early signs of her affinity with divination magic, and second sight.
When she was 13 she chose to specialize as a Propheta of course. In fifth grade she met a new kid named Delia Tupper, they were seated as desk partners, and they quickly hit it off, becoming best friends. She spent a lot of her time at Delia's house, with her big family that welcomed her like she was one of their own. Unfortunately in tenth grade Delia died in a car accident. Jadis blamed herself, she hated her powers, what was the use of seeing the future if she could see anything important or be able to change things. She became bent on mastering her powers as fast as she could, as to make sure no one else she loved died, to make sure she could see whats coming. Overtime she learned the hard way that the future was always changing based on other decisions, and their was nothing she could do but watch and worn.
Jade was seventeen when another Propheta witch came to town. The first one Jadis had met beside herself. Petra was her name, and old woman who had specifically come to train Jadis as true Propheta after seeing her stuggling to learn on her own in a vision. They became friends in the process. Jadis graduated highschool, and decided to take a year off before she started at Gringore. She spent the year with her cousins in Ireland. Getting into some trouble with a shifter boy there, she ended up running off to Italy with him for a few weeks of mistakes. Now she is starting her first year at Gringore, taking classes in Supernatural History, Witch Cultures, Potion brewing, and advanced spells among other things.
Family/Relationships: Father - Carrick Nolan - Alive Age 37 - Terreni Witch Mother - Rahela Nolan nee Radulescu - Alive Age 35 - Naturalis Witch Sister - Shale Nolan - Alive Age 14 - Naturalis Witch Sister - Tamzin Nolan - Alive Age 9 - Witch Maternal Grandmother - Ecaterina Radulescu nee Drăghici - Alive Age 57 - Sanabit Witch Maternal Grandfather - Corneliu Radulescu - Alive Age 63 - Naturalis Witch Friend - Delia Tupper - Deceased age 15 - Human Mentor/Friend - Petra Greene - alive age 74 - Propheta Witch
Other/Extra: Speaks/Reads/Writes: Latin, Gaelic, Greek, and Romanian.
Personality/History: Catalina is the only surviving child of the late Lord Vernon, Baron of Bernbury, and his first wife the late Lady Araceli of Escova. Her mother, Lady Araceli had six previous miscarriages, three still born babes, and one deformed daughter, who died four days after she was born. When Lady Araceli grew pregnant with Catalina, she resorted to witchcraft and other such taboos, to ensure the life and health of her coming baby. Her husband Lord Vernon, along with handfuls of servants witnessed her pagan ways, and when she was seven months pregnant she was confined to the prison tower, to await her execution for crimes of witchcraft and the murder of two young maids. Her execution was postponed until after she gave birth. Two months later, in late February, baby Catalina was born swiftly and effortlessly. And Lady Araceli was beheaded the following week.
With Lord Vernon’s wife forever now known as a witch, his once shiny reputation and respect became tarnished. Once a respected diplomat, known as a good childhood friend to King, and a charitable man, he was now scorned by his peers, and felt unwelcome at court. So he left with baby Catalina and his household to live in his country estate.
Catalina was three years old when her father remarried to Lady Agnes. It’s was a reputation fixer on his part, marrying the homely Agnes. She was well-known as a devout religious woman, and beloved by most, for her patronage within the kings church. In the ten years of their marriage, she bore Lord Vernon no children, but was the perfect mother to Catalina, who she nicknamed ‘Kitty’.
Being an only child, her father and stepmother spoiled and coddled her. She spent her early childhood at the St. Mallory’s convent where she received a good education. When she was nine her stepmother took personal charge of her education at home by hiring tutors, to which Catalina was taught to sing, paint, dance, read, write, spell and speak five different languages. So her education was considered above average for women of her high class, and standing. Good manners, household management, arithmetic, history, court etiquette, horseback riding, archery, hunting, and card games were specifically taught to her by her doting stepmother.
When she was ten she was betrothed to a much younger boy, Lord Roderigo a future Marquis. The betrothal was broken off three years later, after the Lord Roderigo suffered a fall, which rendered him simpleminded, and mentally unstable. Sadly just one month after the engagement was broken off, Catalina's father died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of forty-nine. Only a short six months later, her stepmother Lady Agnes left become a nun. Catalina, almost 14 years old was sent to live under the care of her aunt Marjorie, the Baroness of Clifton. Aunt Marjorie was very old, really dull, and spent most of her time embroidering, or falling asleep. Catalina's education became less rigorous and she basically had an unlimited amount of freedom, and endless time on her hands.
She spent her free time becoming the young woman she is today. Describe as bubbly, vivacious, cheeky, witty, and very charming, by most who met her, she is considered to be captivatingly beautiful, confident, and cheerful, but also rather prideful, and overly extravagant. Negotiations about her marriage began again under the control of her Uncle Raymond, and her godmother, Dame Isolde’s proxy. She was desired by many men, which she reveled in, but as a young girl she had the typical girly ideals of being married for love, so she refused the three different marriage arrangements she was given. When she was sixteen she entered court for the first time, and this became her favorite thing of all time. She was a well-liked socialite, stylish and gorgeous, and became established at court as one of the Queen's ladies.
Now 20 years old and with her own household as Baroness of Bernbury she has come into her own and feels ready for marriage.