Name: Matthew Friel

Family: Liggen. 

Innate Ability: Illusion. Those with this ability are able to magically yet superficially alter their surroundings. On the simplest level, they can alter how they are perceived; be it revolting or irresistibly handsome. They can potentially erase their image from the environment completely or have themselves seen as a toad. On a grander scale, one can magically redecorate their entire environment. They could make a run-down shack look like the grandest mansion in the world, make it seem like it's snowing in the middle of the desert or trick someone into believing they've been buried alive when they're standing in an open field. This would be a mastery of illusion; in order for a witch to create an illusion they must believe in it themselves. 

Age: 18

Appearance: [IMG]http://www.gossipmag.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Macaulay-Culkin.jpg[/IMG]

Matthew is a moderately handsome man however his appearance hasn't caught up with his age. He appears to be several years younger than he really is due to his slightly babyish features accompanied with his bright blue eyes and blonde hair. He is slightly short at 5'7 and has a scrawny build, with largely than average wiry hands with long fingers and disproportionately large feet. 
Ironically, he hasn't much care for his appearance. Or perhaps not, given it is something he has witnessed his grandparents can change at the drop of a hat. He typically wears dark colours of greys, browns and dark greens and tight fitting jeans with a large pair of converse. He usually wears a black or grey buttoned overcoat with a patterned scarf when outdoors. 

Bio: Matthew was raised in England as the only child of Darren and Diana Liggen, both Witches of the house of Liggen and also first cousins.
The couple had attempted to produce children naturally which only resulted in children deemed as useless to the house due to their physical abnormalities. It was only when the pair used demonic blood magic to ensure they could produce a healthy child that Matthew was born.

However, Matthew's parents weren't clever Witches. They were powerful but had long since shunned the rest of the Liggen house and made no effort to learn the ways of the craft. They did not realise the true cost of dealing with demonic entities in that demanding new life would cost life if the blood sacrifice was not great enough. Matthew's mother was taken by the demon on the night of his birth, and his father only got himself killed in the subsequent years trying to fight the entity in revenge. Upon his fathers death, Matthew was taken to live with his grandparents in America. They were both true Witches; his grandfather Thomas and grandmother Marion were both from Scotland, however escaped to America in the 80's following the near-destruction of Liggen after a bloody fued with rival Houses in Scotland. Matthew was raised under boasts of how great and vast Liggen once was and how they were once known as some of the greatest illusionists and tricksters in Europe who would use their magic to turn the most peaceful of Houses against each other. 

After then, Matthew was raised by his wealthy grandparents under the new house name of Friel. They resolved to learn from the past and taught Matthew in the ways of the craft properly even though it would be years until the next Emergence. However his grandparents preferred to stay cloaked in illusions rather than show their decrepit old forms and so the locals always assumed him to be the son of two attractive thirty-somethings. He has learned many spells of bewitchment although has been as of yet unable to use them.