Lady Willow Blackbranch-Ashford |
Name: Willow Blackbranch-Ashford
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Personal History
Willow Blackbranch is a young mage and Cordelia's mentee during the events of Of Wild and Witchcraft. Willow spent most of her life in Kaira, the hidden seventh continent in the Seven Continents, with her birth parents as an only child. Most of her childhood was a lonely experience as Willow felt isolated and ostracized from others, especially by her peers. Her delayed training with magic and her two pentacles did not help the matter.
During Summer in the Year of the Divine Tome, she meets Cordelia and the others when they show up on Kaira. Willow and Cordelia forge a fast friendship and partnership as Willow greatly admires Cordelia and her skills. She starts off as an older sister figure to Willow, but becomes more motherly when Willow loses her parents during the Battle of Kaira. Percy and Cordelia take her in as their own and raise her.
Willow has a connection with animals unlike anyone else in the group and she's a gentle soul. With a profound love for nature and the creatures of the natural world, she is the one that the group rallies to protect. Her presence brings comfort and healing to Cordelia and Percy, but especially Cordelia. Additionally, her willingness to learn and her dual pentacles in elemental and conjuring magic make her a stronger mage than most people on the island. She loves rocks, the ocean, and astronomy.
Although she is closest to Percy and Cordelia, since she sees them as second parents, she loves the rest of the group. The other Winterbites see her as the niece they would die to protect. Additionally, she shows closeness with Baylea Almstrong and the two of them are romantically involved in the epilogue, over five years after meeting one another .
Powers/Skills
Powers
In the world of magic established, Cordelia has two "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
-able to create items like charms, dresses, and more with the proper materials
-able to create illusions or glamor like nymphs/fae
-able to make portals to known locations only
-able to locate and find missing items if given a similar object
Additional Skills:
-basic hand-to-hand combant and weapon skills
-knowledge of plants, animals, rocks, and the ocean
-a skilled artist and mapmaker when given the proper tools
In the world of magic established, Cordelia has two "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
-able to create items like charms, dresses, and more with the proper materials
-able to create illusions or glamor like nymphs/fae
-able to make portals to known locations only
-able to locate and find missing items if given a similar object
Additional Skills:
-basic hand-to-hand combant and weapon skills
-knowledge of plants, animals, rocks, and the ocean
-a skilled artist and mapmaker when given the proper tools