Jenika Thorne

## Appearance

**Hair:** Silver

**Skin:** Fair

**Eyes:** Pale green

**Height:** 5’8”

**Weight:** 160

**Noticeable Features:** Scars across her palms, a tattoo of a thorned rose on one shoulder, though it is typically concealed.

## Personality

**Kind-hearted -** Perhaps one of her stronger attributes, her desire to help others often keeps her off the darker paths. She dislikes hurting anyone, for any reason, even if she doesn’t show it. This leads to her getting hurt more than she lets on.

**Enticed by Vice -** Sex, drugs of her own making, and a party are all easy ways to tempt the witch.

**Forever Alone -** Jenika has preferred to keep to herself, with friends and lovers at a minimum. In fact, she’s sworn off romance entirely.

**Not a Vampire, but…:** Jenika prefers the night-time hours, because it keeps her out of the sun, which is extremely harsh on her pale skin. She’ll still go out during daylight hours, but not without a dark parasol to shield her from the sun's rays.

## Abilities & Proficiencies

**Blood Magic:**

**Healing Salves/“Potions”:** Jenika’s specialty. Her salves are great for exterior healing, for small cuts and bruises and abrasions, as long as they are made with a drop of her blood to improve potency. Her “potions”, on the other hand, are more akin to teas, made from herbs that cause hallucinations, bouts of euphoria, or ill effects, should one have a person over for tea that they rather dislike. She does try to avoid anything resulting in death, as that would be too suspicious, but for the right price…

**Blood Potency:** If Jenika adds a few drops of blood to her healing concoctions, their potency spikes. This results in needing less salve or potion to accomplish the healing by half.

**Major- Blood Magic:** Jenika is able to summon apparitions using her blood, though depending on the amount (and type) used, the apparition might be fleeting, or may last up to two hours. Use of this magic means she’s always hungry. Using more of her blood, Jenika is able to cast larger and more powerful spells, such as temporarily enhancing a person’s abilities. She’s able to use the blood of others or animals, however, the potency is lessened. There is even a rumor she’s able to bring back the dead, but the cost is great enough that she flat out refuses, or even denies it.

**Minor - Divination:** In combination with her blood magic, Jenika is able to use divination magic. Her favorite method of reading is to cast bones and stones on a special mat, allowing her to read it as one might read tarot. However, true communication with other beings as a method to divine is beyond her reach.

## History

Born into House Thorne is no easy life. The history of blood magic within the family is often looked down upon, resulting in the life of a lesser house, rather than true aristocracy. However, to her father, Almeric Thorne, it is a good life. Better than some believe they deserve. And so Jenika herself was content with her lot in life. She had her parents, and her younger brother, Ichabod.

The young blood witch grew up being instructed in the arts by her mother, another such practitioner. She was instructed in herbalism by her father. Together, her parents ran an apothecary of sorts, one that was more a front for the healing arts rather than revealing its true purpose- a place to perform ritual blood arts. It is few that know of that room, a trusted clique, or the discretion of the Thorne’s, for the right price.

For a time, Jenika began to help here and there with the shop, though her younger brother was present more often than she, studying a different sort of herbalism with her father. One that she would take to rather readily, slowly and subtly becoming addicted to the feelings of euphoria her father’s teas could produce.

One day, a tragedy struck the Thorne’s - young Ichabod was slain in a duel, sending a wave of grief through the family. Her mother took it the hardest, resulting in her ‘falling ill’, though no one has seen the woman since, nor have medical professionals been invited to visit the family.

Since then, Jenika has taken over The Leaf and Flower, embellishing on her father’s teas, and producing healing salves, suitable for the smallest of injuries, though some are designed to relieve aches and pains. Her teas, however…

She’d taken her father’s recipes a step further, effectively creating what she jokingly calls ‘potions’. Ones that create euphoria, others frighten you with the things you’ll see. For the right price, she might even fix a poison or two. But those prices are steep. Don’t want to be arrested, after all.