Cordelia Hale (cir. Year of the Divine Guardsman)
Name: Cordelia Hale Age: 23 -23 (Shadow of the Beast and Soul of the Sorceress) [Autumn in Year of the Divine Guardsman - Spring in Year of the Divine Tome] -24 (Of Wild and Witchcraft) [Spring-Summer in Year of the Divine Tome] -25 (Of Death and Divination) [Winter-Spring in Year of the Divine Jewel] -30 (Epilogue Time Skip) [Spring in the Year of the Divine Sky]
Species: Witch (three-pentacles) Birthdate: Spring in Year of the Divine Serpent
Apperances: Shadow of the Beast, Soul of the Sorceress, Of Wild and Witchcraft, Of Death and Divination
Status: Alive
Key Events and Personal History
Spring, Year of the Divine Serpent: Born to Hans Hale and Dionne Hale (nee Norwood); she becomes the talk of the town as the daughter of the town's most disagreable drunk. This does impact her social standing for the foreseeable future.
Autumn, Year of the Divine Army: Cordelia's powers manifest when she is ten years of age after an incident of bullying at the hands of some local boys; she incidentally caused a thunderstorm and set the boy's house aflame via lightning strike. Cordelia's powers are known to go haywire under emotionally charged circumstances and she is told to hide her gift.
Winter, Year of the Divine Wing: Dionne, Cordelia's mother, passes away due to suicide. Cordelia is the one who finds her and grieves the loss of her mother while simultaneously resenting her for leaving her alone with her father for the next thirteen years.
Winter, Year of the Divine Queen: After a harsh year with financial ruin that puts them in dire straits of homelessness, eleven year old Cordelia takes over the apothocary that her mother established and begins to reach herself magic. She recently uncovered a journal or two about magic left behind.
Summer, Year of the Divine Castle: Cordelia's father attempts to arrange a betrothal to a young man within the town or someone wealthy enough from the outside for a pay out. Understanding that marriage forfeited her rights to sole property ownership, Cordelia refused and began her "trials" for any interested suitor as a means to ward them away.
Autumn, Year of the Divine Guardsman: Cordelia meets Percival Ashford for the first time at the Hyacinth Apothocary and forms a meaningful friendship; it later ends in romantic connection. Additionally, this is the year where she runs her father off and establishes independence for the first time in her life.
Powers/Skills
Powers In the world of magic established, Cordelia has three "pentacles" (or specializations of magic) that are inately gifted to her. Pentacles are supposedly destined depending on one's potential for magic and therefore unchanged by the influences of the mortal plane. Those who are believers in Iana, the mother of all magic, determine that she chooses "Chosens" and what power a spellcaster might weild.
*Elemental -able to summon any element (fire, air, water, earth, stars, lightning, ice/snow, etc.) -able to breathe underwater -able to create natural disasters -able to modify the weather when not enchanted by some other power -able to connect and heal within natural settings
*Conjuring -able to connect and adopt a familiar in Nyx, her black cat -able to create items like charms, dresses, and more with the proper materials -able to create illusions or glamor like nymphs/fae -able to raise the dead (in some instances) -able to shapeshift into her familiar
*Control -able to persuade/convince/coerce magically -able to paralyze a person's body -able to control a person's movements -able to compell the truth/knowledge (in some instances)
Additional Skills: -knowledgeable in herbs/potion making -medically trained in wound tending -able to connect with animals better than the average person -has practical knowledge in sewing, cooking, and basic survival skills -knows basic hand-to-hand combat skills and weapons training