Pentra

Jane Summer was a magi bounty hunter and tattoo artist who worked partly for the Guild and partly on mysterious missions for herself that she claimed to hunt "demons" summoned by her family to do their bidding, but would rarely let anyone help or interfere. She would later quit the Guild to become a dedicated Nightstalker.

Her cousin Cali was also part of the guild, though she took more an active role, becoming owner of the Summer Motel.

### History

Originally born Jane Baldwin in Lake Charles in Louisiana, she moved to Worcester, Massachusetts when she was 5, Jane's mother and father split up after he disappeared, and remarried a Summer, another side of their family, during which time they had another daughter, Lilly, who over the years grew close to Jane.

Little is known of Jane's past or much of her family were often involved in what she described as "nefarious and weird" meetings, and likely had a link to The Dawnshadow Coven, and one of their common rituals was to resurrect a masonic old dark wizard who supposedly had some past link between the families and their time in the old House of Seasons; this led to Jane to see her family as disturbingly creepy when she found out.

The Summer-Baldwin cult, known as The Followers of UmbraX° often engages in incestuous rituals in an attempt to strengthen the magi tuning potential, this, however led to some of the family suffering deformities or mental afflictions; nevertheless the rituals and summoning attempts continued.

One of these incidents led to her finding a small "horrific creature", believed to be a dog brought back to life and sustained by a 'dark spirit' as some kind of necromantic test, when her family began teaching Jane that she was from a line of necromancers and their resurrection of their relative would allow them to become one of the most powerful magi lineages on Earth, Jane freaked out and she turned to her aunt Sandra Summer who lived in Reno, who shared her suspicions that they were involved in something odd.

Eventually Jane left with Lilly for Reno, meeting their cousin Cali halfway there.

### Appearance

Jane is a slim, average-sized woman of Creole decent, she has black, tightly curled hair that she often bunches into a single ponytail, dark brown eyes and often wears dark lipstick and eyeliner. She is known for her short leather jackets, but usually wears casual shirts and jeans.

### Personality

Jane was a powerfully independent woman, with a strong moral compass, but was also sure and adamant, believing in the greater good, even if it meant killing, believing there is a certain balance in the universe that required to be upheld. However she could be secretive and prideful, often not letting anyone help her.

### Powers and Skills

#### Powers

**Virgan Wicca:** Pentra was one of a handful of Humans with the ability to tune allowing her to sense and ultimately manipulate 'magical' frequencies that pour in from the greater universe. Unlike her family Jane studied the wicca and "Western Elemental" school of magic, dealing with the magical manipulation of the classic four elements and the fifth element regarded by Wiccans as "spiritual mana", that let her accomplish a verity of spells and effects and one of the reasons why she called herself 'Pentra'. She often spoke her spells in a mixture of English and Latin and focused her mana through her tattoos and unlike traditional wiccans, channelled this into specialised pistols that protected her from the destructive potential of each spell. She called this arte Virgan Wicca after the Latin word for "shoot", Virga and referred to her spells often as "gunspells".

* **Virgan Pyromancy:** The magical creation and manipulation of fire and its aspects focused through her pistols.
	+ ***"Augue"*:** Fireballs that she could originally hurl from her hands, primarily having to speak the word "Augue" each time. Now focused through her tattoos on her arms and hands into specialised guns that also protect her from the negative aspects of the spell, she can now create fire bullets simply by pulling the trigger and can create them as fast machine-gun bursts.
	+ ***"Ignisque"*:** She places her guns side-by-side or top-to-top, with one slightly over the other, a small single mandala appears in front of the barrels and a powerful stream of fire is released.
	+ ***"Murus Ignis*":** A wall of flame that appeared around a target, or between herself and a target when she crosses her guns or hands in front of eachother, the flames of this spell can repel spiritual entities and in fact cause particular damage on creatures created or summoned with dark magic.
	+ ***"Deinceps in Lumen Ignis"*:** A gunspell that created a pentagram mandala in front of her, she then shoots several fireballs into the air, the fireballs collect at the centre of the mandala and transform into a powerful beam of yellow light.

* **Virgan Geomancy:** The magical manipulation and creation of rock, stone and crystal, mostly involving the creation of solid projectiles from her guns.
	+ **"*Deorsursum":*** She places the barrel of her guns directly onto the ground and can fire projectiles composed of rock up from the ground in a target location, often leaving behind a spike on the ground that can also deal damage. Can also use this on other rocky mediums such as walls, ceilings or rooftops.
	+ ***"Lapishot"*:** A powerful rocky projectile that has a chance of shattering explosively, these take a short while to form and are not as quick as her Augue bullets but are very powerful.
	+ ***"Cryshot"*:** These take even longer to form than Lapishot, but create crystalline bullets that penetrate almost anything and cannot be used quickly.
* **Virgan Aeromancy:** The magical manipulation of air and wind focused through her guns.
	+ "***Impulsa Caeli":*** Once spoken her gun can release small concussive blasts of air that can blast enemies back, while not deadly can break bones easily and she can also use them to increase the power of her leaps by pointing them at the ground.
	+ ***"Torquent":*** By saying this spell and swiping her gun or guns to the left or right, small white mandala will appear over each barrel and she can throw off small but powerful tornados, while they are brief, lasting two of three seconds, can cause heavy damage.
* **Virgan Hyrdomancy:** The magical manipulation of water focused through her guns.
	+ "***Aquae Acus":*** Her guns can create needle-like projectiles out of water once spoken.
	+ "***Aquae Ferrum:*** Creates long blades composed of water from the barrels of her guns which she can use either as melee weapon or fire them as projectiles where they will penetrate materials as strong as concrete and then explode, however once fired the spell must be spoken again and take slightly longer to form.
* **Virgan Spiramancy:** The channelling of spiritually cleansed necroplasmic mana through her guns.
	+ ***"Ghost-Shot":*** By saying "*spiritus iecit*" her gun can create pale green ghostly projectiles that are specifically capable of damaging spiritual entities and demons, but have little or no effect on the living.
	+ ***"Corpus Dejugo Anima":*** By incanting this spell, she is capable of harmlessly separating a living body from it's soul for a short time, however this requires either close-range or physical contact with the barrel. This can also remove possessed entities from a body that are not supposed to be there.

**Iunctura Virga** (**Mixed Element Gunspells)**

* ***"Monsignius":*** Essentially lava-bullets composed of fire and earth elements, these can leave a hardened rocky carapace on her barrel if she uses them too often.
* "***Sagitta Glacies":*** Combines air and water to create supercooled arrows of ice that can flashfreeze small areas of anything they penetrate.
* ***"Turbignus":*** A wide swirling flame combining wind and fire from one or both guns, the latter being particularly wide and strong, this spell can be extremely hot and bright to cast even with the protection of her tattoos, her face and body will sometimes feel like they are burning.
* "***Maximus Totus Injunctica"*** Creates a large pentagram mandala ring on one or both of her guns that themselves overlap, a third pentagram appears between the overlap that combine each element into a white, liquid light capable of vaporising matter, including astral forms and phased matter. This spell can only be used once or twice a day.

#### Skills

* **Writer and Analyst:** She has spent many years studying magic books and scripts and figuring out her own ability to tune, and in that time has become an extremely gifted writer, to the point where she has written her own magic book for herself detailing her new Wiccan arte based around guns.
* **Skilled Tattoo Artist:** Her use of mystic tattoos to act as a partial focus and protective system against negative magical energies on her body has allowed her to become highly talented in applying normal tattoos to others and has a naturally steady hand.
* **High Intelligence:** She has a high eye for detail and can readily absorb and process large amounts of information with ease, especially information others find difficult to interpret or understand.
* **Bilingual**: She can speak English and Spanish.
* **Hunting and Tracking Expertise:** Her time in the Guild and Nightstalkers has made her highly competent in finding and locating targets.
* **Gun Maintenance and Construction:** She has intricate understanding of how to build and maintain her pistols, while this mostly revolves around smaller weapons, and in particular her magically-imbued guns, can repair other guns of a similar function and operation with ease. When building her guns as focuses she had to create them from scratch and learned a lot about their creation and operation.
* **Tattoo Equipment Maintenance and Construction:** She learned to construct a tattoo system from scratch and can maintain regular tattooing equipment.
* **Expert Markswoman:** She has learned to fire her pistols with extreme precision and speed, becoming a top-tier close and medium-range expert.

### Weapons and Equipment

* **Foci:** **Mana Tattoos:** Pentra spent years studying magic with Cali where they did early missions for The Guild, although her cousin was not as scholarly as she is, together they learned to create mana-harnessing ink by combining magically-imbued chemical ingredients from scratch during rituals. She applied these tattoos with Cali's help to her hands and fingertips in painful but magically-powerful ritual that left each hand useless for weeks. However with time a pentagram on her palm and each finger tip linked by branch-like markings up each finger surrounded by holly leaves that allow the channelling and safe albeit limited storage of personal mana and energy. The reverse of her hands is tattooed by a protection ward.
* **Foci:** **Arcum et Sagitta:** Pentra's two guns, known as Arcum and Sagitta (Bow and Arrow) were created by her and Cali during many long months of rituals for each part and acted as her primary focus. The guns are based roughly on M1911 and Colt Commander models but function very differently; the primary difference to normal guns is it's lack of ammo, instead, within each magazine chamber lies a block of mahogany obsidian hand-picked and smoothed by Jane herself , each block fits perfectly within the specialised clip of the gun and each stone carved with a tiny, intricate silver pentagram with small crystals on each point representing each element during a ritual. The stones are placed for a month in a specialised potion whilst wrapped in yarrow stem where one spell is uttered; at the end of the month the potion is slowly simmered away with another incantation during the entire process (this might take hours and should the stones crack the ritual must be done again from scratch). The vapor is collected and residue collected in ice-cold water and the inside of the chambers are washed with it twice a day for a week. Once complete the stones are slid inside the chamber where they will remain until they are damaged. The magically-imbued stones combined with Pentra's tattoos enable her to focus her mana into creating elemental projectiles.
* **Tactical Knife:** She owns a small but military-grade tactical knife gifted to her by her cousin that she keeps in a sheath on her lower leg or under her boot.