Izadora

## Relationships

### Friends

Nessa Clary, Petra Bellweather, Libba Swythe's mother, Sarah Alder, Anacostia Quartermain

## Portrayal

### Portrayer

Emilie Leclerc

**Izadora Dart** is a character in *Motherland: Fort Salem*. She is portrayed by Emilie Leclerc.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Izadora is a Necro lab scientist who is in charge of the Necros at Fort Salem and in charge of monitoring the dead. She analyzes the dead after The Spree attack to determine who and what they were after.

## Powers and Abilities

**Witch Physiology:** As a witch, Izadora possesses enhanced vocal chords that are capable of creating change in the physical world by singing different seed sounds and songs, as well as enhanced ears -- as stated in *Up is Down:* eardrums with "five mallea", compared to a regular human's one, that are capable of sensing subsonic and ultrasonic frequencies far beyond the capabilities of normal humans. She teaches basic training at Fort Salem and is now the Head of Intel. As a Necro lab scientist, she is capable of manipulating the magnetism of death to accomplish an array of results. She is a powerful witch who is close to both General Alder and General Bellweather, teaching the Necros at Fort Salem and using her myriad of powers and abilities during military operations. As a scientist, she is always experimenting and trying new things, and as such has a vast knowledge of Workings.

* **Death Current:** "The combination of the collective energies of Beltane and precise seed sounds" allows for the opening of a death current. This is seen in *Hail Beltane* when the Necro class opens one using Porter's corpse. The activation of the current seems to require a bird, which crawls down the corpse's throat before allowing them to communicate.
* **Detection:** In Up is Down, Izadora is able to sense a witch's mark on a Bellweather victim, despite it being faint.
* **Linking**: In *Mother Mycelium*, the unit is taught by Izadora in a training session focused on "linking" and the importance of a Fixer, or healer, in a unit, during which they practice synchronizing heartbeats -- in which she states, "Let me be clear. You can blast clean through a mountain and know the whisper of an oncoming gale. But without a Fixer, you'll likely end up in the ground just the same...Breathing, if you listen closely enough, is a kind of song. Our hearts beat a rhythm. Master this music, and you can become attuned to your target's life force, blood flow, organ function, even cellular composition. Linking is the touchstone of of Fixing, and soldiers, as you can see, it often means life or death."
	+ **Healing:** In *Mother Mycelium*, while demonstrating linking to the cadets, Izadora slits a student's throat and heals her by simply placing her hand on her forehead.
* **Telepathy:** In *Citydrop*, Izadora was able to communicate with an unknown witch to get intel on the Spree's trucks. She was later able to communicate with Anacostia while she was at Citydrop.
* **Neural Pathway Manipulation**: In *Of the Blood*, Raelle and Abigail witness Izadora untangling Tally's neural pathways from the hive-mind that is General Alder and her Biddies.
* **Scrying**: In *Abomination*, Izadora uses a scry to look closer at Raelle's vocal chords, which she explained were colonized by the Mycelium.
	+ **Remote Viewing:** By linking with another witch and a massive scry, Izadora was able to view the ambush on the Spree armory and attack on the Spree trucks in *Citydrop*.
* **Potion Creation**: Izadora was shown mixing some concoction in the Necro lab -- in *A Tiffany* -- which she drops when she realizes the rumbling was caused by the Mycelium who was left alone with Raelle at the time. In *Brianna's Favorite Pencil*, Izadora was said to have given Tally something to sever the connection between her and Alder for good -- Tally noted that she couldn't get the taste of it out of her mouth.
* **Inoculation**: First shown being performed on Petra in *Homo Cantus*, Izadora vocalizes into a spiral glass pipe which vaccinates witches from the Witch Plague.
* **Truth Detection**: Once the target's voice is captured -- in a baseline statement, something "known to be true" -- tuning forks are used to reduce the voice to it's essence to determine the intention behind the target's words. Used by Izadora on President Wade in *The Price of Work* to find out her true intentions. Izadora claimed that this method was "infallible" -- however, to successfully carry this out, the target's voice must be close-by to ensure that it is clear and uncluttered by surrounding noise.
* **Reconstitution**: Used by Izadora in *Oh Elayne...*. By striking a tuning fork and inserting into a machine that rotates it, connected to a pod in the middle -- large enough for a human to comfortably fit inside -- with a section on the opposite side for the plague-rain solution to enter, Izadora was able to reconstitute Penelope from it. This was further explained by Izadora to Petra in *Happy Yule!*: The particular strain of Witch Plague that Penelope was infected with was meant to keep her alive; however, it worked too well. "It allowed her to remain alive, in a sense, in the atmosphere riding the humidity fully sentient."
* **Warding**: In *Happy Yule!*, to show the newly-revived Penelope to Petra, Izadora undoes the warding on the door to keep Penelope locked in.
* **Golem Creation**: In *Happy Yule!*, Petra reveals to everyone at Yule that Izadora had created a golem in President Wade's likeness to substitute in last minute -- thanks to M -- before the assassination attempt. During the autopsy, the golem was seen withering on the table in front of the coroners -- appearing to be black veins -- as if it had an expiration date.

## Quotes

> "Grief is stubborn and wild, like an untamed animal. Sometimes you have to let it run all over the place until it wears itself out."
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> Izadora comforting Raelle

## Trivia

* While L'Amara is the generally accepted surname associated with Izadora, endorsed by Emilie Leclerc herself, Izadora's surname is never revealed in the show.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leclerc, Emilie (May 22, 2020). "Love the work the MFS Research Institute Necro is doing! These are legit ideas and Izadora L'Amara definitly (sic) has a nice ring to it". @em\_leclerc123.