Owl House verse

**Full Name**: Evelyn Lancaster

**Other names:**  Dragon girl

**Gender**: Female

**Species**: Witch (Custodi)

**Occupation**: Princess, Witch, Front Desk Clerk, Adventurer

**Goal**: To master her powers and earn her freedom.

**Home**: Pallandia (Formerly), Boiling isles (Currently)

**Affiliations**:

Hexside Academy

Pallandian Royal Family

Carill’s Traveling Store

Unknown fourth affiliation

**Relatives**:

Queen Athene (Mother)

Unknown (Father)

Elena Lancaster (Sister by law)

Pallandian Royal family (By adoption)

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**Background**

* To tell the story very short, Evelyn is the “adopted” princess of the Pallandian Royal family… after a complicated series of events resulted in them mixing her up with their own strikingly similar in appearance blood daughter after a recent kidnapping was thwarted by said other girl and the cover-up that followed afterwards to patch up the mistake. Despite similar appearances, they are at best… very distant cousins.
* The fact the runaway sorceress queen of Pallandia married a Custodi and had a healthy baby girl…. just as much a big unknown as the fact their kind being only heard of in rumors, legends, and tales told by passing strangers. However… while her rare lineage makes her highly desirable… It also makes her effectively walking trouble.
* Her adoptive mother has tried to get rid of her multiple times, but it never has gone all too well. From the Pallandian tradition of Princess kidnapping to assassination attempts… ditching the “lesser” of her two daughters on her own terms has proven effectively impossible.
* How she was allowed to go to Hexside is a bit of a story… Mainly involving disguising her acceptance letter as being meant for her sister and seeing if she could detect the lie. Not that they wouldn’t mind having Elena as a student, but Evelyn is the prodigy of the pair and she picked through the deception without so much as a blink.
* While Evelyn taking classes at Hexside Academy is primarily political in nature. her unique status of being “Old man” Carill’s only successful (and surviving) student puts her in a particularly awkward position… just by that detail alone.

**Education level**

* As for her education before coming there… Long story short, she’s at least at the level of a witch who has not only completed her education, but has had many years of experience…. which isn’t too surprising considering her background.
* Of course… considering we’re comparing her to her grandfather and then that’s a much bigger yardstick that nobody knows how far it goes other than well… She’s good enough at it that the old geezer wants her to take over the store someday.
* Evelyn shows quite a bit of aptitude for potions as well as magic, but it’s of a different level than what is typically offered at Hexside. Apparently, she figured out how to apply the concepts of “universal magic” to potion making and allowing her to make incredibly powerful concoctions. Universal magic is also why Gramps is considered so dangerous… and she’s capable of operating at a much deeper level than he can without the side effects.
* Her familiars are considered highly desirable in higher class magical societies that know about them… However, nobody has actually seen any until she showed up with an entire colony of them. Turns out that well… not only are they picky about who they take orders from, but can’t exactly be bribed or forced into doing so without terrible consequences.
* To put things short, she is effectively  overqualified and potentially too dangerous to be admitted into any coven in the Boiling Isles… just to begin with.

**Grandfather and store**

* Despite being enrolled in Hexside, she still works part-time for her grandfather and his store. It’s a weird department store-museum-aquarium-restaurant-curiosity shop- etc that sells items magical and mundane that appears and disappears as quickly as it comes. It’s a rare bargain for the wise and wary as well as a trap for the greedy and foolish.
* The store sometimes appears in the Boiling isles… accompanied by things getting weirder than usual. Primarily due to the fact that customers in the know show up in a rush and… someone always tends to buy something they shouldn’t and things get a bit hairy.
* The uniform for female employees looks a bit like a maid or waitress uniform that comes in various colors with the front desk employees tend to wear extra protective gear.
* Most of his apprentices tend to not live for very long due to their own foolishness and greed… especially when it comes to the forbidden room in the back. Evie probably would mention that there’s an entire display of people turned into gold after mishandling the “Gauntlet of King Midas” in the curiosity shop section of the store alone.
* While I am not particularly sure how the school and students view him outside of being one of the most powerful wizards in existence and his tendency to pull pranks on unsuspecting and greedy customers… I could see him being some sort of big mystery that likely gets Evelyn questioned by other students on a frequent basis.
* Evelyn usually works at the front desk where she handles customer information, special services, and acquisitions… usually. Sometimes she does deliveries or product recovery jobs… which can get a bit hairy at times.

**Carill’s traveling store as a “coven.”**

* There is a pretty good chance that the store might be classified as a headquarters for foreign coven under the Boiling Isles legal system… at the minimal. Alternatively, a coven that specializes in Imports and Exports.
* There is a bit of a hierarchy going on here… While the “coven” does not restrict magic use or use seals,  the higher benefits are only shared among those in the “inner circle” who might be able to handle them. Unsurprisingly, not that many actually qualify.
* While the “inner circle” tends to get the best pay and perks, they have the highest mortality rate of the entire coven. Usually due to their own selfishness and greed or the general risks that come with the position.
* The Emperor’s coven sometimes recruits members from the inner circle during trade deals.

**Extra notes**

* Queen Athene, the sorceress queen who is said to have fled with her lover, is said to have had hidden vaults full of knowledge and treasure for her successor to find. However… they are made so well that they are effectively impregnable and potentially lethal for any fool that dared to make such an attempt.
* The whereabouts of Queen Athene and her lover are unknown. Evelyn never met them herself either as she was raised by another family when she was quite young before striking off on her own adventures… and well… things ending up where they are.
* Gaining control of the traveling store essentially requires defeating the current master in a duel. The nature of the duel varies, but that’s the short gist. Nobody has actually beat Old man Carill in a duel for real, so he hasn’t relinquished control easily over a few millennia.
* Nobody knows what Old Man Carill actually looks like since his appearance depends on what people’s expectation of him might be. However, Evelyn holds a very strong resemblance to the missing Queen.