Ash Grey

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 *A Wizard of the White Council*

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A Wizard of the White Council. Texan in origin. Private eye, following in the footsteps of a role-model from her apprentice years.

## Personality

She's sarcastic and rather caustic towards those she feels comfortable with. While somewhat disagreeable, she avoids antagonizing people she doesn't know, putting on aloof mask.

## SKILLS

She can mix a few basic potions but generally avoids this branch of magic.

The occult Craft includes herbalism, spellcraft, research, the preparation and performance of rituals, awareness of the supernatural world, and more. A practicing witch is competent and versed in all these things, understanding the properties of plants and their role in magic, knowing a variety of spells and how to use them, and certainly knows how to seek out information they don't already have. Whether based on their own knowledge or using a grimoire, they are able to recognize, analyze, and counter spells, and even come up with original spells or alter existing ones.

## CASTING

Requiring a lengthy ritual to get even the most basic sort of this magic done, she is still capable of tracking spells and using the Sight.

While she specializes in wind and fire, she is adept at using evocations in general. While perform actions ritually enhance her ability to cause elemental effects, she has enough metaphysical weight to sling around fairly serious amounts of firepower.

The most developed of her more ritual casting effects, she is quite capable of conjuring up spirits.

She can open a gate to the ways, but that's about it. She finds transportation magic to be rather "spooky", in her own words, leading her to avoid using it.

A mandatory form of safety, she's not particularly skilled in using Warding to block anything. It's another of her skills that generally requires more preparation time than she usually has.

Born with a talent for magic, a witch can accomplish quite a variety of effects through spellcraft. These range from conjuring, enchantment, transformation, warding, or illusion to the summoning or banishment of spirits or creatures, to a variety of other effects. For thematic, role-play, and plot purposes their abilities are nearly endless so long as they have the right spell available. For practical purposes, their castings all operate at the Enhanced level in most instances. With ritual preparation these may all be expanded, but any exceptional use would have to be approved by staff.

## WEAKNESSES

Breaking an oath results in a permanent loss of a portion of her magical power. This can also be used magically to force her to perform actions unwillingly if she owes a debt.

Her magic draws from life, especially her own. It's tiring to draw up magic, and without a ritual sacrifice of some variety (not necessarily living) she'll become exhausted after a while.

She was born in 1994 to Nicia and David Grey, neither of whom were magic users. They were fairly well off, and her childhood was fairly idyllic. However, she was mugged at the age of fifteen, resulting in her magic manifesting. She very nearly killed her attacker, but he was spared by the timely intervention of a Warden named Ida Emmanuel. Ida, recognizing what had happened, returned Ash to her family and offered to take her on as an apprentice.

Her years as an apprentice were tough, but enjoyable. Ida was a good teacher, and told her stories of her fellow wardens, including some who became idols of a sort for the young Ash. Ida taught Ash well enough that she was capable of passing the White Council's tests, and once Ash was capable of doing so, she decided to do as her idol had done and become an investigator, settling in Seattle.

She has since maintained a steady but poor quality of work in Seattle, enough to survive, and has been quite happy with her work. She tries to keep in contact with her former mentor, and they generally meet up at least once a year as a reunion. Her parents tend to avoid her, as they were both fairly religious, and while they do love her, they have a hard time with her practicing magic.

Logs featuring Ash Grey:

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