Magdalena de Jesus

> “Who knows why we were taught to Fear the Witches and not those that burned them or those who stood by watching.”
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**Magdalena de Jesus** is the first recorded Magi of the Morenos family. She is the mother of Sara through an affair she had with Inigo Mendoza de Alba. She was burned alive while pregnant.

## History

### Early Life

Magdalena was abandoned in around the Picos de Europa in the mid-15th century and is believed to have been the child of a Moorish couple that were killed or fled or were a couple killed during a battle leaving their infant child. She was born around fall between 1459 or 1449. She was found by the ancient nymph known as Mother Castaña who adopted and raised abandoned or orphaned children. Magdalena's siblings were Abadian, Qasmūna, Zafira, Yusufu, Asser and Astera, she was closest to Abadian who would later save and raise Magda's daughter Sara as his own.

When she was eighteen Mother gave Magda permission to leave her grove and live among humans along with the promise she could always come home. With the help of one of Mother's clients Magda got a job as maid for a noble family the Mendoza de Alba's and for three years worked hard and was considered one of the best new hires.

## Personality and Appearance

Magdalena was considered exceptionally beautiful and eye-catching, reddish-dark brown hair along with blonde edges and green eyes the color of emeralds. She had a voluptuous body with full breasts and wide hips, she also had calloused hands and feet.

In Magdalena's true form, she gains sapphire blue skin with white dots, pointed ears, curled horns, golden-yellow eyes, and her hair turns white and thinning. Like other Magi's Magdalena also has a M underneath her tongue.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Witch Physiology** - Magdalena was a Magi unknown if she was a cuckoo or hereditary, or even if she was pureblooded or halfblooded. But was known is that she was a knowledgeable herbologist and her ability to bread a basilisk and look into its eyes without suffering the fatally consequences of its gaze.
	+ **Herbology** - Magdalena was an expert herbologist and was able to identify plants, flowers or fungi by seeing or eating them.
	+ **Basilisk Immunity** - Magdalena was immune to the glaze and poison of the basilisk. She achieved this by brewing a potion made up basilisk venom, it scales, and several other unknown ingredients. Magdalena genetically passed this down to all female members of her family.
	+ **Familiar Contracts** - Magdalena hatched and raised a basilisk that would later become her familiar and sire the basilisk line that the Morenos family would keep going. Magdalena's was named Ozem.

## Etymology

* Magdalena is the Latinate form of Magdalene which is from a title meaning "of Magdala". Mary Magdalene, a character in the New Testament, was named thus because she was from Magdala — a village on the Sea of Galilee whose name meant "tower" in Hebrew. She was cleaned of evil spirits by Jesus and then remained with him during his ministry, witnessing the crucifixion and the resurrection. She was a popular saint in the Middle Ages, and the name became common then. In England it is traditionally rendered *Madeline*, while *Magdalene* or *Magdalen* is the learned form.
* de Jesus means "of Jesus" in Spanish. Jesus is the English form of *Ἰησοῦς (Iesous)*, which was the Greek form of the Aramaic name *יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshu'a)*. *Yeshu'a* is itself a contracted form of *Yehoshu'a*. Yeshua ben Yoseph, better known as Jesus Christ, was the central figure of the New Testament and the source of the Christian religion. The four gospels state that he was the son of God and the Virgin Mary who fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah. He preached for three years before being crucified in Jerusalem.

## Trivia

* During Magdalena's lifetime it was believed that her parents where Moors who fled Spain or were killed by Catholics