The Raven Princess
The First sightings of a small, pale child in the dark, horror filled wake of a marching army of the dead was shrugged off as the deranged ravings of survivors.
As years passed, and more and more sightings came about, it became something of a hobby for occult theorists and scholars alike to contemplate.
These days, the girl is less an interest and more an omen. Scholars, sorcerers, occultists, and others who study the cosmos at large have come to fear what she represents, though none seem able to agree on just what that is.
Some believe the girl is a representation of chaos and madness growing stronger and more prominent in the multiverse. Others believe she is a sign of an impending surge in unlife and necrotic entities. Still others believe she is a burgeoning goddess soon to bloom into her power, threatening to conquer and destroy as so many others like her have before.
The Truth would shock them all to the core.
Little Jenny
Jenny Uskglass named herself from a character in a book she read. She was born an orphan, and only had a single book to read, a book written about the Raven King, a handsome man so strong and great that even the fairies looked to him as their ruler. And as a small, frail little thing that had no friends, that was avoided for her strangeness, such a man appealed to her, and so she styled herself as his long lost or forgotten daughter.
Her loneliness was terrible, but it would be preferable to what came soon after. She possessed a terrible power within herself, a dark and evil power, according to those around her. According to them, she was a witch, and as the people in the village she grew up in screamed and shouted for her blood, she found herself both alone and afraid. She ran from them into the woods, where they expected she would be torn apart by wolves or some such.
A shame for them, for if they had thought to chase her down and finish what they started, they may have survived her in the winter that followed.
They first learned their mistake when the harvest came, and all their fields and gardens were ruined by a rotting disease. And winter came a full month early, with snow and ice coming mere days after the air chilled. And the cold only grew worse and worse, until snow and ice all but buried the village.
And when all this had come, at last the villagers thought it was over. A day came when the snow stopped, the winds no longer howled, and a ghost of warmth could be felt. The villagers looked to find comfort with each other in the church, but found that it had burned away as they had hid away within their homes. All of it had been reduced to ash and cinders, except for the single stake that had been meant to serve as the witch child pyre. A pyre that burned steadily, and without any warmth at all.
They should have ran then, but they didn't. Instead they gathered together, thinking numbers would keep them safe. All it did was make it easier for them to be surrounded. Ghosts, wraithes, victims of the zealotry, so called witches burned by the villagers in the past, came screaming from the skies. And from under the snow and ice came bones, that rattled and chattered without end. And when the dead had hemmed them in like sheep in a pen, that is when she made her announcement.
Many had thought she would be cruel and hateful, but she was kind and compassionate. They thought she would seek revenge, but all she gave was a smile. She insisted that she only wanted more friends, and asked if they would join her friends. The lucky ones said yes, and died as soon as the word left their lips.
And with that ever present, far too wide smile, she would welcome her new friends with open arms, their flesh first freezing, then burning away to ash, as their bones stood and joined the shambling ranks of dead that surrounded them.
The rest... They screamed long and loud, but there was no longer any god willing to hear their begging.
Character Information
Jenny Uskglass has the appearance of a child, roughly around the age of eight. She is a witch who awakened her power as a child, and as a consequence her body became static, frozen in the image she held of herself at the moment her power took hold.
She has had a great deal of time to master and understand her power, but she does not approach it in the same way that other witches might. Ever a curious individual, Jenny is always experimenting and studying the results of various aspects of her abilities. She seeks to understand magic, and more importantly, find a single unifying precept for it, a single concept behind which all magic originates. She believes that finding such would answer all the questions of the universe, and even greater than that, give her the ability to bring her boney friends to true life, rather than being a simple puppet existence.
Primary Abilities
|Core Physics|
Jenny's power has two understandings. From the outside, what she does appears to be entirely magical, conjuring flames, raising the dead, freezing air and water. But the truth is that Jenny's "magic" stems from a purely biological mechanic. She possess a unique genetic mutation that allows her neurons to produce a higher than average charge. This, combined with a psychological defect that prevents her from entering Rem sleep normally resulted in her accidentally developing a means to manipulate her own electromagnetic field. Over time, she would fully explore this unique ability and discovered that it gave her a form of telekinesis. She cannot use this telekinesis on anything further than roughly six feet away from her, and cannot lift more than roughly five to eight pounds with it.
However, her exploration of these abilities have granted her absolute awareness of her EMF, effectively feeling anything and everything in the field as if it were her skin. This includes individual atoms and, with focus, even subatomic particles. While she doesn't quite understand the nature of the things she's feeling, and doesn't entirely comprehend what it is she is doing, she has learned to use these abilities to achieve various effects, including generating spontaneous combustion reactions, as well as freezing objects by stopping movement on a molecular level.
She doesn't know what she's doing, of course, only how to create fire and ice on a whim.
Her raising of the dead is a slightly different matter. When the flesh has been removed, and the bones themselves subjected to a bit of charring, Jenny has discovered she can put a bit of herself into the skeleton, the bones mineralizing under her treatment. The bones become a sort of relay of her own electromagnetic field, and react as an extension of herself.
In short, puppets tied to her by invisible strings, doing as wills them to do.
|Ability Listing|
-Fire Generation and Control-
-Ice Generation and Control-
-Sixth sense (Range 6ft)-
-Telepathy (Range 24ft)-
-Memory reading (range touch)-
-Memory manipulation-
The First sightings of a small, pale child in the dark, horror filled wake of a marching army of the dead was shrugged off as the deranged ravings of survivors.
As years passed, and more and more sightings came about, it became something of a hobby for occult theorists and scholars alike to contemplate.
These days, the girl is less an interest and more an omen. Scholars, sorcerers, occultists, and others who study the cosmos at large have come to fear what she represents, though none seem able to agree on just what that is.
Some believe the girl is a representation of chaos and madness growing stronger and more prominent in the multiverse. Others believe she is a sign of an impending surge in unlife and necrotic entities. Still others believe she is a burgeoning goddess soon to bloom into her power, threatening to conquer and destroy as so many others like her have before.
The Truth would shock them all to the core.
Little Jenny
Jenny Uskglass named herself from a character in a book she read. She was born an orphan, and only had a single book to read, a book written about the Raven King, a handsome man so strong and great that even the fairies looked to him as their ruler. And as a small, frail little thing that had no friends, that was avoided for her strangeness, such a man appealed to her, and so she styled herself as his long lost or forgotten daughter.
Her loneliness was terrible, but it would be preferable to what came soon after. She possessed a terrible power within herself, a dark and evil power, according to those around her. According to them, she was a witch, and as the people in the village she grew up in screamed and shouted for her blood, she found herself both alone and afraid. She ran from them into the woods, where they expected she would be torn apart by wolves or some such.
A shame for them, for if they had thought to chase her down and finish what they started, they may have survived her in the winter that followed.
They first learned their mistake when the harvest came, and all their fields and gardens were ruined by a rotting disease. And winter came a full month early, with snow and ice coming mere days after the air chilled. And the cold only grew worse and worse, until snow and ice all but buried the village.
And when all this had come, at last the villagers thought it was over. A day came when the snow stopped, the winds no longer howled, and a ghost of warmth could be felt. The villagers looked to find comfort with each other in the church, but found that it had burned away as they had hid away within their homes. All of it had been reduced to ash and cinders, except for the single stake that had been meant to serve as the witch child pyre. A pyre that burned steadily, and without any warmth at all.
They should have ran then, but they didn't. Instead they gathered together, thinking numbers would keep them safe. All it did was make it easier for them to be surrounded. Ghosts, wraithes, victims of the zealotry, so called witches burned by the villagers in the past, came screaming from the skies. And from under the snow and ice came bones, that rattled and chattered without end. And when the dead had hemmed them in like sheep in a pen, that is when she made her announcement.
Many had thought she would be cruel and hateful, but she was kind and compassionate. They thought she would seek revenge, but all she gave was a smile. She insisted that she only wanted more friends, and asked if they would join her friends. The lucky ones said yes, and died as soon as the word left their lips.
And with that ever present, far too wide smile, she would welcome her new friends with open arms, their flesh first freezing, then burning away to ash, as their bones stood and joined the shambling ranks of dead that surrounded them.
The rest... They screamed long and loud, but there was no longer any god willing to hear their begging.
Character Information
Jenny Uskglass has the appearance of a child, roughly around the age of eight. She is a witch who awakened her power as a child, and as a consequence her body became static, frozen in the image she held of herself at the moment her power took hold.
She has had a great deal of time to master and understand her power, but she does not approach it in the same way that other witches might. Ever a curious individual, Jenny is always experimenting and studying the results of various aspects of her abilities. She seeks to understand magic, and more importantly, find a single unifying precept for it, a single concept behind which all magic originates. She believes that finding such would answer all the questions of the universe, and even greater than that, give her the ability to bring her boney friends to true life, rather than being a simple puppet existence.
Primary Abilities
|Core Physics|
Jenny's power has two understandings. From the outside, what she does appears to be entirely magical, conjuring flames, raising the dead, freezing air and water. But the truth is that Jenny's "magic" stems from a purely biological mechanic. She possess a unique genetic mutation that allows her neurons to produce a higher than average charge. This, combined with a psychological defect that prevents her from entering Rem sleep normally resulted in her accidentally developing a means to manipulate her own electromagnetic field. Over time, she would fully explore this unique ability and discovered that it gave her a form of telekinesis. She cannot use this telekinesis on anything further than roughly six feet away from her, and cannot lift more than roughly five to eight pounds with it.
However, her exploration of these abilities have granted her absolute awareness of her EMF, effectively feeling anything and everything in the field as if it were her skin. This includes individual atoms and, with focus, even subatomic particles. While she doesn't quite understand the nature of the things she's feeling, and doesn't entirely comprehend what it is she is doing, she has learned to use these abilities to achieve various effects, including generating spontaneous combustion reactions, as well as freezing objects by stopping movement on a molecular level.
She doesn't know what she's doing, of course, only how to create fire and ice on a whim.
Her raising of the dead is a slightly different matter. When the flesh has been removed, and the bones themselves subjected to a bit of charring, Jenny has discovered she can put a bit of herself into the skeleton, the bones mineralizing under her treatment. The bones become a sort of relay of her own electromagnetic field, and react as an extension of herself.
In short, puppets tied to her by invisible strings, doing as wills them to do.
|Ability Listing|
-Fire Generation and Control-
-Ice Generation and Control-
-Sixth sense (Range 6ft)-
-Telepathy (Range 24ft)-
-Memory reading (range touch)-
-Memory manipulation-