A mage living on the fringes of the city. (PC)
Magic: Pandora is one of those rare cases where a mage is 100% in a given direction. Her talent for healing is unmatched, but she lacks the ability to do any damage in combat as a result. Sheās also heavily-oriented towards the metaphysical side of the scale (about 85%), enough so that she occasionally catches fuzzy glimpses of the future, or more often the past. Scrying, looking into a reflective surface to purposely look at such things in greater detail, though, doesnāt ever produce more than grainy images and things sound a bit like they are taking place under water. Her physical magic isnāt anything a wand couldnāt do; though she can light a campfire, she wonāt be moving anything large with her magic any time soon.
She lives in Delta, with most other āfreedā magi, and sheās never really known anything different. Her talents as a healer mean, though, that she has seem more than most of her kind of the Inner Districts. Though most people donāt like magi all that much, they seem willing enough to put her to use if their families get ill. Though she makes enough money this way to afford a residence in Gamma, Pandora has chosen to keep living where she does, since all the wasting lung diseases found in Delta mean that someone like her is readily needed.
Pandora is the eternal optimist, which would seem quite contrary to her position in life, but she tries very hard not to let things bother her. Her silly smile is rather catching, and her face is a welcome sight where she lives. That said, she is quite sensitive, especially to the demeanors and feelings of others, and takes harsh words to heart much too easily. Sarcasm is generally lost on her, and she can seem to be a bit on the ditzy or childish side to people that do not understand her spaciness as symptomatic of her particular magical aptitudes. Despite being shy around most people, sheās a bit of a rambler, but thereās usually something worth heeding in the verbal onslaughts.
When she gets stressed, Pandora tends to try and put on a brave face. Itās in her nature to try and console people or bolster their hopes, even when things seem so dire it might almost be foolish to do so. Ever the naĆÆve altruist, she tries to see the good in everybody, and it has a tendency to get her into trouble. Pandora trusts easily and often, sometimes failing to think things through once sheās decided whatās right. The young woman isnāt stupid, but sometimes itās hard to tell.
Pandora doesn't carry much on her; maybe some clean water if she can get a hold of it. Since her healing is purely magical in nature, she has no need of herbs or bandages. She doesn't carry money- doing so in Delta is not generally considered a wise idea.
Pandoraās story is all too common in the outer districts- her mother died in childbirth, and her father disappeared, never to be seen again. The girl was raised by an elderly couple who she refers to as her grandparents, though the three are not related by blood. When she showed mage-talent, the two were surprised, but sent her for classes at the Facility. While most magi were embittered by the fact that their former prison was now their school, and institution of just as much control, Pandora (without the ability to understand too much in the way of political nuance) was just happy to be learning how to use her magic.
It was a bit of a rough awakening when there was nothing on the other end of that education, and she moved back to Delta feeling a bit depressed over the whole affair. She took up residence with her grandparents again, and used her newfound talent to help her grandmotherās lung disease. Periodic treatments have kept the old woman alive and largely healthy since. When they came to understand this, Pandoraās grandparents suggested she put her talents to use elsewhere as well, something she readily agreed to.
She is only one person, though, and there is far more suffering in Delta than she can do anything about, even with the assistance of the wages she earns healing Alpha and beta denizens. She has no idea that almost all of these clients are fleecing her; she makes less than a tenth of what a Physicianās Guild doctor would make for being half as effective.
Sheās made quite the reputation for herself amidst the residents of Delta, and quite a few of them know her on sight. She has been approached numerous times by disgruntled magi seeking her assistance with whatever theyāre planning, and while she never turns away a patient, she does not wish to become part of any uprising that might prove violent.