Paola Isambard

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**Paola Isambard** 「パオラ イザンバード *Paora Izanbaado*」 is the head of the Quartz Guild, also known as the Mineworkers Guild and a member of the Diamond Kingdom Council.

## Appearance

Paola is an extremely muscled middle aged woman with rougher facial features. She has brown eyes and black hair, usually wearing her hair in a sidecut, cropped short.

When at work she usually has her Mana Lens on, which are a brass lens, connected to a backpack that is usually stuffed with paperwork, with a mana gem set into the middle. The other magical invention she usually has on her are her Stop-Gloves, which are two large leather gloves with clocks set into them. She usually wears clothing that is extremely practical, even when in formal situations with things such as tool belts and overalls being common, her dressing like the miners she represents even in formal situations. A couple of mana gems are sometimes seen hanging from her belt.

## Personality

Paola is extremely no-nonsense, having no patience with anybodies crap, hating all of the dancing around, and preferring to cut straight to the root of the problem. For this reason, and the fact that she has been at the receiving end of noble complaints, she hates noble posturing, especially the politics of noble families. While she often debates, chides, and complains about prominent figures in the Diamond Kingdom, she is still extremely loyal to King Sabik, only putting the welfare of the miners over him.

While she takes part in council meetings, she quite honestly dislikes any sort of politics, viewing them as annoying yet necessary. She also has an unspoken belief that most of her coworkers are crazy. Those who earn this viewpoint on them, and she generally dislikes are the 'crazy genius' types, due to mostly viewing them as something extremely annoying and that if they wanted to invent things then they should have locked themselves in their labs instead of failing at talking to people. While the others on the council make grand, sweeping plans for change she is mostly concerned with how to see them actually happen, focusing on logistics and welfare above all else. It may make her seem like an ass when she brings up logistic complaints but she is genuinely just trying to help it go as smoothly as possible.

Not the most combative of the council, she is cautious when it comes to fighting, preferring that people talk out things rather then try to do dumb stuff and fight solely because of wounded pride. Combat mages are people she doesn't understand but respects, viewing the ones that think of their role as simply a job with the most respect. However she is still more then willing to scrap if the chips are down.

## Abilities

### Magic

**Explosion Magic:** Paola uses this magic to generate explosions that can easily down a building. However she doesn't usually use it for combat and has not explored its rather obvious combat potential for anything other then street brawls.

### Equipment

**Cessation Gauntlet:** The Cessation Gauntlets are a pair of gloves that Paola wears, that have been modified with mana stones and other tech to be able to pause spells as they are being cast for a few seconds. She normally uses this on-site in mining, able to use her Explosion magic like targeted charges and minimize any casualties.