A little witch who mayhaps came into more power than was good for her.
A young witch who draws her power from two nameless gods, Eliza is the first to take up the family mantle after her grandmother, a woman by the name of Aven, gave up the practice of witchcraft for the sake of her husband's more conservative religious beliefs. Eliza's mother and sisters took no interest in their family talent, and when her grandfather died, Aven chose to trust the art with her youngest granddaughter instead. Eliza was only seven years old when she began her magical training, and now, ten years later, she is a fairly practiced witch- in principle, at least, though in actuality she is still very much a novice. She primarily uses witchcraft for the sake of self discovery, but at times she has been known to use it or to want to use it for other things.
Miss Eliza has an interesting relationship with her deities. Instead of reverence and formality, theirs is a relationship often filled with conversation and familiarity. She is often short and sarcastic with them, and they return the favor with her, posing trick questions and poking fun. They offer guidance along the way, though ultimately they allow her to make her own decisions. More often than not they take her too literally (on purpose, of course) and her magic doesn't turn out the proper results, which makes her very sad.
She was raised in a moderately sized home by her father and mother (a staffmaker/oddities collector and his seamstress wife, who it is said just might be part of his collection) in a home that had several other children, and she is the youngest of the brood. Because she was the baby of the family, she stuck to her childish ways longer than many of the other children and is still prone to childish activities such as playing in the mud or running off to read books to herself, escaping the hustle and bustle of her family's busy life. Her mother does not approve of her "lazy" habits (such as reading and hiding away with Nature) but her grandmother often covers for her, distracting her mother from her and supplying her with books.
Like many, Eliza stumbles upon her card completely by chance, and at first thinks little of it. At the urging of her very talkative, very nosy gods, however, she picks the card up, hoping to quiet them and their talk of destiny.