Maggie Carpenter

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

The Magdalene, Apostle, High Priestess of Hathor, Judge, Prophetess, The Beloved, Grand Maiden, The Levantine, Penitent, Myrrhbearer, Rose Mother, Saint, Seven-Sinned (Ttiles)
Apostles of Apostles, Beloved Disciple, The Bride, The Chalice, Desert Rose, Ebonite, Equal of Apostles, Thirteenth Apostle, The First Convert, The First Disciple, Rose of Redemption (Nicknames)
First Witness, Forsaken but not Forgotten, Maggie Carpenter, Mary of Magdala, Mary Magdalene, The Rose of Galilee, Siduri (Aliases)

### Relatives

Sarah (Daughter)
The Magdalena and Rene Carpenter (Descendants)

### Affiliation

Immaculate Confection (Member)
Grand Coven (Former Member)

## Biographical Information

### Education

Occult Mentorship, Centuries of Experience

### Marital Status

Married / Polyamorous Relationship (Josh Carpenter, Husband & Buddy Ha, Boyfriend)

### Residence

Apartment above her bakery — Near South, Star City, OR

## Physical Description

### Race

Human Judge (former Human Witch (Goetian))

### The Tale of the Desert Rose

The Lady of the Levant had a strong connection to magic, even as a child. She likely would have become a shaman to her people but she was discovered by a winged man with discerning eyes with the intensity of the sun. The beautiful man offered her power and "an ocean's worth of knowledge" for her soul. From this offer, she first became attached to the name Mar-Yam (meaning "ocean's great treasure").

Accepting that offer, the Desert Rose became a witch and would travel a great distance to meet with the others who had taken the winged man's offer. When the seven met, they created the Grand Coven — the first order of infernal witches.

The Magdalene became the Grand Maiden of the Grand Coven. She kept the Coven's sanctuary, treating the injuries of other coven members and looking after their needs of shelter, food, drink, and entertainment. The Coven's sanctuary would be relocated and the Magdalene always went with it. As the Coven grew, the needs of the sancturary required the trappings of civilization, requiring hiding the sanctuary in plain sight — the Magdalene favored using an inn for this purpose.

Following the plagues of Egypt, the Grand Coven was scattered. The Magdalene stayed in Egypt, attempting to steal the power of the Gods of the Nile. Though she would be chased from Egypt, she would make other attempts to gain divine power. Eventually she found the seven remnants of Sin — the Ogdru Jahad — and successfully brought the entities into her and solidified their power with her own.

Unwilling to share her new power with the other members of the Grand Coven's inner circle, the Magdalene was declared a warlock and banished. Exiled to her homeland, the Magdalene lived as a bard — managing an inn of her own, where she would tell her stories, sing songs, and make deals in the brokering of souls. Every decade or so, she'd travel to a new locale and ply her trade there.

Having heard rumors of a humble carpenter who had displayed great wisdom and powers, the Magdalene relocated to Nazareth where she quickly drew the interest of the carpenter, Yeshua, without trying. While he was interested in her songs and stories (and that she had a similar name to his mother), she was interested in his dormant power as the Ogdru Jahad inside demanded its corruption — a power they could use to rule the world.

Despite this, Yeshua and the Magdalene fell in love and married; both recognized the power in each other. The power gave them a kinship and mutual understanding, but they loved the other for the person they were and not the power they had — much to the Ogdru Jahad's displeasure.

When his power matured, becoming the newest Planetary Shaman, Yeshua closed his woodworking shop, bid farewell to his parents, and prepared to travel to the desert to meditate and fully awaken his new powers safely. The Magdalene joined him, becoming the first of his followers. Yet, while in the wilderness, the Ogdru Jahad exerted their power as they viewed the Magdalene had grown soft.

With the Magdalene possessed, she was powerless to stop as the demons inside her tried to kill the man she loved. But Yeshua resisted and used his power to cast the Ogdru Jahad out of his wife, bind them with magic, and summon angels to imprison the demons. Yet, the supernal power he used to expel the demons was so great that the Magdalene's own infernal-infused blood was rendered inert.

Without her magic, the Magdalene was dying... and so appeared the winged man who owned her soul — the Devil himself, Lucifer Morningstar, along with his three closest lieutenants. Lucifer kept hold of the Magdalene's contract, as he tempted Yeshua to abandon his mission. As they debated, the Fallen kept the angels at bay.

When the Devil and his Fallen realized that Yeshua could not be persuaded, they prepared to depart with the Magdalene's soul — only to realize then that the infernal endowment Lucifer had given her had been washed away and with it, his claim to her soul. Yeshua then offered the Magdalene an infusion of his own supernal power to replace the infernal essence she had lost and required to survive.

The Magdalene would become Yeshua's right-hand woman as he set out to make great change. When he was killed, the Magdalene was eager to return the favor and summoned the archangel Gabriel to conspire with him to undo what was done...

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Supernal Judge Physiology:** The Magdalene takes her name from the ancient fishing town of Magdala, found on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Though Magdala was built close to where she was born, the Magdalene predates the settlement by many, many years. The Magdalene was the child born of people who left Africa in search of prosperity in the lush green landscape of the Levant — approximately 145, 000 years ago. She has sustained life for so long through the use of magic — both dark and light. While the majority of her life has been served as a witch granted power by Lucifer, she's has served as a supernal judge for nearly two-thousand years.
	+ ***Enchanted Charisma:*** Maggie is a gifted storyteller, singer, and dancer. With little effort (and often by accident), she can captivate the minds and imagination of those who hear her enchanted voice, catch her gaze, or behold her graceful movements.
	+ ***Enchanted Physicality:*** By merit of her muscle fibers being renforced with supernal power, Maggie is more physically capable than her human appearance would suggest. This is especially true with her resilience. Judges and witches alike are known to be difficult to kill through physical violence and this remains true for Maggie as well.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Maggie does not age or suffer from most illness.
	+ ***Limited Cosmic Awareness:*** Maggie is aware of powerful events happening on her plane of existence. She is also attuned to a psychic frequency which angels use to communicate with one another across most of reality and its many subsidiary realities.
	+ ***Supernatural Senses:*** Maggie can perceive and interact with spirits and ephemerals.
* **The Divine Chalice:** Not to be confused with the cup that was brought from the Homelands long ago, Maggie is sometimes called the Holy Grail. Her body has been made an ideal conduit for the reception and containment of vast amounts of magical power. Previously, she could capture the essence of gods, spirits, elementals, demons, angels, fae, and other ephemeral beings; containing them within her for considerable periods of time, and using their power for herself. Though it is not known if Maggie can still do this, her body does draw in an abundance of power passively — power which is trasmited though her bloodline to her descendants. This effect of causes all her descendants to be born female, bearing a strong resemblance to Maggie, and having the birthright of Supernal Judgeship. These descendants are known as the Magdalena.
* **The Seven Sinned:** Maggie retains a deep connection to the Ogdru Jahad. She can hear their telepathic cries when they are contained and sense where they are to be found when released. They no longer hold power over her nor does she have any direct power over them.
* **Spear of Destiny:** Though this weapon is currently lost, it was Maggie who claimed the discarded spearhead broken from the Pillar of the East by Heraphon at the crucifixion of Yeshua. She used the blood on the spear to wrok magic to summon Yeshua's father. Later, this spear would become her weapon and the weapon of the Magdalena — used in the defense of the innocent and to aid later Planetary Shamans. Though the spearhead has many great powers, including being consecrated as a *telum dei*, the Magdalena valued it as it had internalized some of the blood of Yeshua and this would confer Yeshua's empathy upon those of Yeshua's bloodline (as it did Maggie when she was pregnant with her daughter Sarah).
* **Sorcery:** Though Maggie lost access to most of her magic when she lost her infernal endowment, her knowledge remained intact. With her supernal power, though quite weaker than her original endowment, Maggie can cast spells she has reworked to utilize a different power source. Maggie's ritualistic knowledge is second to few.

### Weaknesses

* **Haunted:** Maggie has tremendous regret for many of her past actions.
* **Lost Power:** Maggie is weaker than she once was. Sometimes she forget this.
* **Vulnerability — Infernal Energy:** Infernal energy can contaminate Maggie's being.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Ranged:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 105
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She and Yeshua met Buddha on their travels. When Yeshua died she tracked him down and requested his aid with resurecting him.
* She's friends with Linda Martin.

### Notes

* Her aliases are nods to religious and historical terms:
	+ Levantine is a title used to describe people from Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia.
	+ Hathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. She was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra.
	+ Ebionites were a Jewish Christian sect who were vegetarians, viewed poverty as holy, believed in ritual ablutions, and rejected animal sacrifices.
	+ Siduri is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an "alewife", a wise female divinity associated with fermentation (specifically beer and wine).
* Her descendant Rene Carpenter is a character from *Vigilante* Vol 2.

## Gallery

Maggie Carpenter.jpgMaggie CarpenterSponsorship Needed - Female.pngMaggie Carpenter (Variant)
## Network Files

Network Files Maggie Carpenter.jpgNetwork Files: Maggie Carpenter

## Links and References

* Appearances of Maggie Carpenter

1. ↑ Network Files: Maggie Carpenter
2. ↑ Network Files: The Sage
3. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 8