Dr. Harriet Hartgrove

Harriet in her unemployed stage

Harriet Hartgrove was born in 8e 19 in Gul-Shan, Durbar. She has spent time both as a member of RedBlock and E.E.R.L.A.

## History

Born to a middle-class family in a relatively affluent area, she went to a good school, but didn't fit in very well, moving between niches and never quite succeeding academically. She became a vehement goth, and with the clique that she ended up in, she quickly got involved with various semi-legal activities, sourcing drugs from JJ&J as well as dabbling in magic that intoxicated Convent members often showed in public and taught a rough understanding to impressionable passers by. She ended up falling out with her parents due to this behaviour, and only ended up passing her exams due to positive influence from teachers at school.

She ended up going to Meerlin Advanced College, where she studied art and history. She didn't get much more legal at there, getting in lots of trouble with the college on numerous occasions, narrowly avoiding getting kicked out for dabbling in magic and drug abuse. She managed to graduate with a reasonable grade, and had managed to get pretty good at magic, despite having been arrested on more than a few occasions, but never incarcerated for any length of time.

After graduating, Harriet went to get a job with AvoTech in Meerlin (AvoTech were always hiring, so she thought she might be able to do some low-level work there). Unfortunately, they refused to take her due to her criminal record (Again, AvoTech are very criminal, but Harriet didn't really have anything to counteract her record and make her worth hiring). This repeated itself at many smaller businesses she applied for. Eventually, in 8e 42 she went to apply for a small job at RedBlock. Upon noticing her minor convictions for magic usage, they took her in as a part time graphic designer, but slowly started introducing her to the arcane underside of RedBlock. They gave her some basic computer training, which she took to immediately. She ended up moving to Barbilunor and joining RedBlock's illegal Arcane Research Centre there.

At the centre, she was assigned to the Arcane Advancement in Technology division, where she became got a doctorate in material research. She became fascinated by a project which was code named 'Infinite', and managed to get herself moved onto the project. The project was based around creating exact copies of objects using a mix of AI waves and computers. While she was pretty crap at the computers side of things, she used a mix of her artistic and arcane skills, alongside a semi-photographic memory (But not often useful things, not great with text), she managed develop a new technique to use magic to replicate items. It was unreliable and small-scale at first, but she became mildly obsessed with the project, spending night and day just replicating items time and time again. (The wonders of Arcane madness alongside drug usage). Unfortunately, she could never get it work alongside the technology. It's impossible to create something from nothing, and so she severely injured herself on several occasions trying to perfect the process, and she couldn't make the new objects permanent.

Her failures threw her into a depressive episode. She quit RedBlock in 8e 46, aged 27, and went into rehab. But she didn't stop trying. She eventually managed to get the conversion working relatively well and stop injuring herself quite so much in the process. She still needed high density materials to convert the matter of (Or high energy, but E=MC2meant that it was almost impossible to find enough energy to produce a mass conversion). She honed her skills to the point where if she had seen an object in detail, she could recreate the object exactly (given material to work with), and it would last for at least a few minutes, more if she concentrated hard enough.

Jump forward to 8e 49, Harriet now aged 30. Still unemployed (Well, she says shes an artist, but she's essentially unemployed), she was just coming home to her crappy apartment, when she discovered she had a visitor. Already inside was Anguloce (Who we know is Tamurel, but she didn't.), who quizzed her on her work on project Infinite. It's very clear that Anguloce already knew most of this, but she gave away the last few details of her abilities. Anguloce invited her to join E.E.R.L.A which, given she was in a very bad place, Harriet immediately accepted. And so Dr Harriet Hartgrove was now a member of E.E.R.L.A, operating under the currently leader Johann Burle.