Katerina Tarrayo

**Katerina Tarrayo** is a very powerful witch antagonist who came into conflict with Team Free Will and created a feared and famed legacy.

## History

Katerina was born two thousand years ago in the 1st century BCE being the most gifted member of a well respected coven. She turned to dark magic when her mother was dying from a supernatural infliction. However, she was unable to reverse the effects and her mother dies which "broke" her.

Katerina became obsessed with immortality and craved more power which led her to slaughter 36 members of the local community, channeling the malicious energy from each gruesome death. She soon became infected and corrupted by the sheer power of her dark magicks but also became lonely after being banished from her coven and living in a cave. Until she met another male witch and had a family ie; Jaden Tarrayo, Atticus Tarrayo, Silas Tarrayo and Patrick Tarrayo. All of her children inherited magical abilities and immortality.

At some point in the past, she was lured by unknown means to an obscure and desolate island located two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland. Katerina was subsequently imprisoned by the world's magical forces in a tomb where no prisoner could break out of by themselves.

In circa 2016-2017, Aleksander, a apprentice to the necromancer known as Hector Labonair, wished to learn the forgotten secrets of dark magic that Hector couldn't provide him and so he became infactuated with finding someone who could. He had read about Katerina Tarrayo who was feared by even the Grand Coven. After months of research, Aleksander finally discovered the location of Katerina's prison and set sail there on a hired boat which he had mind controlled. It was a perilous journey to her tomb but once he was there she was released by Aleksander whom she proceeded to kill afterward before swearing vengeance upon the world.

She sought out her children for protection and to be caught up on the newer age magic she has missed out on. However, Katerina instead found her eldest killed by her younger sons Jaden and Silas Tarrayo, while her grandchildren she found weak and pathetic with only Cyrus Tarrayo up to her standards but him being imprisoned out of reach.

Disappointed yet not detered she had but one of her children on her side, Atticus Tarrayo. In need of more allies while her power was still recupering and her mind adapting to the new era, Katerina located a powerful witch of the Macleod lineage ie; Lily Macleod whom she imbued with a fraction of her own dark magicks making her stronger and changing her appearance while devoiding her of previous loyalties.

Eventually, Team Free Will caught up with Katerina and they engaged in combat with Katerina having the upper hand against Rowena Macleod before shifting her attentions to the Nephilim boy Jack. She sicked Lily onto her aunt and the two seemed evenly matched whereas Katerina was clearly struggling fightning the Angelic hybrid yet evade through superior knowledge.

Losing the battle against the Celestials, Katerina retreated yet left Lily behind and empowered by fury alone she planned to demolish the world as retribution. Before she could accomplish such a feat, Silas Tarrayo combined with Rowena Macleod, Jack Kline, and Sam/Dean Winchester managed to defeat her once more by using the same method all those years ago.

## Physical Appearance

Katerina is a pretty young woman with brown hair and eyes. She also has an athletic build and light skin. She often wears her hair up, mostly in a simple, loose ponytail.

## Powers and Skills

### Magical Proficiency Level

1. Higher than 2000, possibly 2500 magic or so
2. Comparable if not superior to Rowena Macleod at around 5A

### Powers

* **Magic:** Katerina Tarrayo is an extremely powerful witch who was described as "practically" the “inventor” of black magic with her near unmatched power making her feared by almost all those in the supernatural community and the energy released from her escaping her tomb echoed throughout the world causing every witch "worth a damn" to know something was coming - a "darkness". She was once likened as a “goddess” by Aleksander - an experienced warlock who was formally the apprentice of Hector Labonair inferring that the Labonair's power was inferior to Katerina's. Katerina naturally surpassed all of her children though they were closer to her level than conventional witches. Due to being consumed by black magic, poison veins appear on her body and her eyes turn fully black on occasion. Katerina was so powerful she was even able to overpower Rowena Macleod (who she deemed a significant threat) and hold her own against the Arch-Nephilim Jack Kline though she was outmatched in terms of raw power.
	+ **Knowledge absorption:** Katerina has the ability to absorb knowledge from objects such as books, and not only store the taken knowledge within her own mind but also to utilize that knowledge to enhance her power. Katerina also implied she could do the same feat with organic subjects as she threatened to rip the knowledge from Rowena Macleod's brain that has accumalated over her long life.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Katerina has the ability to mentally influence both objects and people to a great degree through gestures barely using spells to induce a telekinetic effect. When she was insulted, she unleashed an omnidirectional blast of telekinetic energy appearing as a shockwave of transparent black gas intermixed with blue and white hues. She was able to force others to their knees while applying mental pressure onto their body causing pain as if they were being crushed.
	+ **Clairvoyance:** She was able to detect the presence of potential threats and see the aura of beings in her proximity as well as sense/see invisible spirits such as ghosts. Katerina was able to locate any source of dark magic even from a distance, noting that it “calls” for her. Katerina was also able to sense the presence of a necromantic eye used to spy on her.
	+ **Elemental Control:** Through Magic, she can harness and manipulate the elemental forces of the world and it was her plan to use the four alchemical forces to destroy the Earth.
		- **Pyrokinesis:** Katerina is highly skilled in fire spells both verbal and nonverbal possessing an affinity for them. She used this to conjure and launch fireballs, project streams of fire outward, and for more mundane purposes like lighting candles.
		- **Electrokinesis:** She was able to generate red lightning bolts to strike her enemies and her presence disrupts electronic light sources. The incantation is; "Surgere" while "Surgere Maxima" projects the arc'ed lightning bolts from her hand. One time, the lightning was blue-white in contrast to her previous red - the reason is unknown however her hand remained red.
	+ **Astral Projection:** After discovering a necromantic eyeball, she was able to piggyback off of its connection to it’s caster and project a realistic copy of her body and awareness there with no incantation.
	+ **Summoning:** By casting “A sanguine meo mors venit”, Katerina can transform a few drops of her blood into a smoky, almost demonic, entity that hunts down her targets.
	+ **Resurrection:** Through an extremely difficult dark magic ritual, Katerina is capable of restoring a deceased body to life. It requires the blood of a dozen virgin humans to be boiled down to their essence of life and then injected into the corpse while chanting an invocation to Hades. However, she has not demonstrated this but merely explained she could do it in order to bring back her deceased son.
	+ **Power Bestowal:** Although she doesn’t do it often nor en masse, Katerina can transfuse a small part of her magic into another granting them similar powers but more limited. When she gave birth to her children, she transfused a piece of her soul into them. As a result, if Katerina were to die so would all of her children. After being released from her prison, she infused a qauntity of dark magicks into Lily Macleod.
	+ **Scrying:** Using a crystal ball, Katerina can spy on her enemies from afar and locate objects.
	+ **Reality Warping (limited):** By blowing she was able to remove the existence of a door preventing entry. She also turned a human into stone.
	+ **Immortality:** She possesses a potentially infinite lifespan being unaging and extremely difficult to kill using either conventional means or supernatural.
	+ **Weather Manipulation:** Katerina is capable of controlling the weather in a large radius for example; boasting in her new freedom she darkened the sky summoning a great many clouds and conjured thunder.

## Weaknesses

1. Iron - While it cannot hold her for long, bindings forged from Iron can temporarily reduce her level of power.
2. Higher Beings - Entities such as Jack Kline, God, Darkness, the 4 Archangels, the Shadow, Death/Billie, and other primordial/cosmic beings can kill Katerina.
3. Magic - Despite her strength, Katerina is nethertheless vulnerable to magic although it would take a witch casting a spell of equal or superior power to her own to kill her.
4. Emotions - Her emotions can either fuel or cloud her magical ability
5. Salt Circles - Circles of salt can contain Katerina though she noted she would break out eventually.
6. Witch Killing Spell/Bullets - It is likely, though not seen or stated, that as a Witch she is vulnerable and could be killed through witch killing spells or bullets. Given her power and immortality however it is likely she has some sort of immunity or protection spell in play since it wasn't a option to Team Free Will.