Thankee.
Aaaaaand two more.
Name: Canvas Fajaar Ahktar-Sterling
Primary: Necromancy
Secondaries of Interest: Levitation, Blood Magic
Description: 17 years old. Average height, average build. With the tanned complexion, dark hair and thick lashes of the Persian Ahktar line and a dash of the infamous good looks of the Sterlings, Canvas cuts a fairly striking picture.
Personality: Though Canvas got his magical ability from the Ahktars, he seems to have gotten the personality of a Sterling through and through. Charming, flirtatious even when he doesn't mean it, even when it's entirely not the time and place. He is capable of more deceit and manipulation than he usually has the guile to execute. Canvas is more concerned with being liked than being powerful, and doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the future, though as the bastard son of his Sterling rather and Ahktar mother, he knows it probably won't involve being a family heir.
Skills: The Sterlings paid for an expensive private education, and additionally his springs and autumns with his mother gave him hands-on experience with summoning spirits sprung from the zoroastrian tradition of the Ahktars.
Weaknesses: Despite his access to good training, Canvas is not exactly ambitious, and isn't much more skilled in his crafts for all the extra expense. His flippant attitude can also get him into trouble.
Brief History: It's never any massive shock when a Sterling goes impregnating someone other than his wife. They worked out a decent system. Summers and Christmastime with his father and the silver spoons, the rest of the year with his mother and the vultures; though both respectable magical families (the Ahktars being a very old Iranian necromancy line), they are two different cultures, and two entirely different worlds, which Canvas has learned to straddle.
Name: Tatia Anne Fale
Primary: Aeromancy
Secondaries of Interest: Illumination and Levitation, because those sound the most straightforward.
Description: Light brown hair, dark eyes. 16 years old. A slim 5'10" figure that people would call "willowy" if they were being kind and "lerpy" if they weren't. Her features are naturally rather unremarkable, but she makes up for it by using makeup to accent what she has to work with.
Personality: Sarcastic, witty, dry, and not easily fazed. More likely to say, "if you say so" and simply go along with things than she is to express fear. She can come across rather unempathetic and will rarely go out of her way to serve anyone in an altruistic manner, but that said, if she's pinned to a corner in a moral dilemma, she'll usually choose the noble route, albeit while rolling her eyes.
Skills:
-Making people feel stupider than her.
-Legitimately being smarter than most of those people.
-Playing the violin like a boss.
-Being a quick learner, which is a good thing because...
Weaknesses:
-...she's totally clueless about this entire culture and its emphasis on family pride.
-She has never been in a physical altercation beyond hitting kids smaller than her when she was like 8.
-Her apparent fearlessness ends with a deep, irrational phobia of seeing other peoples' blood.
-Literally no practice with any secondaries, and only instinctive use of her primary.
Brief History:
Tatia grew up with no knowledge of magic or the occult other than what she read in Harry Potter and saw in the episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that her dork older brother was obsessed with, and the weird shit her grandmother sometimes babbled on about once she started getting a bit senile.
Tatia's maternal grandmother was a weak Aeromancer in a family of sorcerers that had mixed with nonmagical humans for so long that the magical culture had already all but forgotten their names. When good ol' Gran's children (including Tatia's mother) never manifested abilities, she let that part of her heritage disappear, living in a normal suburban Oregon neighborhood.
Tatia's magical blood may have trickled through a generation without manifesting, but lo and behold, Tatia began to grow up and SURPRISE could create windstorms with her brain. By a statistically improbable twist of fate, somewhere deep in the roots of her father's family tree were more Aeromancers: the combination yielded Tatia (who boasts a level of natural power one would expect from a moderately respectable Aeromancy line -- only so-so by general standards, but pretty remarkable considering her lack of breeding).
Gran has tried to catch Tatia up on things a bit over the last few years (but...well...the senile thing is an obstacle), and Tatia has been sparsely contacted by Council representatives, but she's still jumping in a little blind.
Hooray.
Aaaaaand two more.
Name: Canvas Fajaar Ahktar-Sterling
Primary: Necromancy
Secondaries of Interest: Levitation, Blood Magic
Description: 17 years old. Average height, average build. With the tanned complexion, dark hair and thick lashes of the Persian Ahktar line and a dash of the infamous good looks of the Sterlings, Canvas cuts a fairly striking picture.
Personality: Though Canvas got his magical ability from the Ahktars, he seems to have gotten the personality of a Sterling through and through. Charming, flirtatious even when he doesn't mean it, even when it's entirely not the time and place. He is capable of more deceit and manipulation than he usually has the guile to execute. Canvas is more concerned with being liked than being powerful, and doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the future, though as the bastard son of his Sterling rather and Ahktar mother, he knows it probably won't involve being a family heir.
Skills: The Sterlings paid for an expensive private education, and additionally his springs and autumns with his mother gave him hands-on experience with summoning spirits sprung from the zoroastrian tradition of the Ahktars.
Weaknesses: Despite his access to good training, Canvas is not exactly ambitious, and isn't much more skilled in his crafts for all the extra expense. His flippant attitude can also get him into trouble.
Brief History: It's never any massive shock when a Sterling goes impregnating someone other than his wife. They worked out a decent system. Summers and Christmastime with his father and the silver spoons, the rest of the year with his mother and the vultures; though both respectable magical families (the Ahktars being a very old Iranian necromancy line), they are two different cultures, and two entirely different worlds, which Canvas has learned to straddle.
Name: Tatia Anne Fale
Primary: Aeromancy
Secondaries of Interest: Illumination and Levitation, because those sound the most straightforward.
Description: Light brown hair, dark eyes. 16 years old. A slim 5'10" figure that people would call "willowy" if they were being kind and "lerpy" if they weren't. Her features are naturally rather unremarkable, but she makes up for it by using makeup to accent what she has to work with.
Personality: Sarcastic, witty, dry, and not easily fazed. More likely to say, "if you say so" and simply go along with things than she is to express fear. She can come across rather unempathetic and will rarely go out of her way to serve anyone in an altruistic manner, but that said, if she's pinned to a corner in a moral dilemma, she'll usually choose the noble route, albeit while rolling her eyes.
Skills:
-Making people feel stupider than her.
-Legitimately being smarter than most of those people.
-Playing the violin like a boss.
-Being a quick learner, which is a good thing because...
Weaknesses:
-...she's totally clueless about this entire culture and its emphasis on family pride.
-She has never been in a physical altercation beyond hitting kids smaller than her when she was like 8.
-Her apparent fearlessness ends with a deep, irrational phobia of seeing other peoples' blood.
-Literally no practice with any secondaries, and only instinctive use of her primary.
Brief History:
Tatia grew up with no knowledge of magic or the occult other than what she read in Harry Potter and saw in the episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that her dork older brother was obsessed with, and the weird shit her grandmother sometimes babbled on about once she started getting a bit senile.
Tatia's maternal grandmother was a weak Aeromancer in a family of sorcerers that had mixed with nonmagical humans for so long that the magical culture had already all but forgotten their names. When good ol' Gran's children (including Tatia's mother) never manifested abilities, she let that part of her heritage disappear, living in a normal suburban Oregon neighborhood.
Tatia's magical blood may have trickled through a generation without manifesting, but lo and behold, Tatia began to grow up and SURPRISE could create windstorms with her brain. By a statistically improbable twist of fate, somewhere deep in the roots of her father's family tree were more Aeromancers: the combination yielded Tatia (who boasts a level of natural power one would expect from a moderately respectable Aeromancy line -- only so-so by general standards, but pretty remarkable considering her lack of breeding).
Gran has tried to catch Tatia up on things a bit over the last few years (but...well...the senile thing is an obstacle), and Tatia has been sparsely contacted by Council representatives, but she's still jumping in a little blind.
Hooray.
