Hecate Posonby-Asquith

## Hecate Ponsonby-Asquith

Hecate is a wealthy Blood mage who had left her imprint on the rich within Kironis. Ever since she was a young adult, she had built her wealth very quickly but eventually became bored of what she's acquired. Her blood magic draws power from a lineage of her Contracts, which visually are in the form of tattoos. The more tattoos, the more power she has on people. She strives to make as many as possible without sacrificing the downsides of them. Failing a contract makes the contract black and will be passed to the next member of the family. Too many black contracts will end in death of the bloodline. After her death, her son Haniel inherited the contract system but refuses to indulge in it's mechanics believing they're evil.

## Appearance

An older woman with a full figure and a figure that's always on point. She's very meticulous about how she looks making sure she's always wearing makeup and looking as good as she can, especially her hair. She has no casual looks, if you see her 'casually' then she'll off you, NOT ALLOWED! Her iconic red lips are basically stained on her mouth. they're never not red.

## Personality

Hecate is a ruthless bitch to be frank. She is a fun loving woman and loves a good adventure but she's always got a bitchy stank to it. She likes complaining but also loves getting shit done herself. A competant liar and manipulator. But she's also very passionate. She believes in her family's mantras and is dedicated to their legacy to the point where she makes sure she succeeds for them. She's just a woman who wasts to rule the word and who can blame her.

## Backstory

    Born after the Ponsonby/ Asquith acquisition between Perseus Ponsonby and Adenica Asquith. She had an older brother, Ovid, who was six years her senior. She was born at the height of the Asquith dynasty, already having their political power woven into the government and living at the height of luxury at her birth. Because of her ease into life, she lived vicariously as a child star and received everything she’d ever want. Soon she became bored with her average wealthy fame and began exploring temples at a young age, becoming a Laura Croft esque icon overnight. By 19 she was a badass bombshell, obtaining treasure and being invited to the liveliest parties in all of Kironis.

    Because of her fast and luxurious life she had no time to dwell on the Blood Oath and what it meant for her. When she was about 25 she had her son without warning. Not knowing who the father was at the time, something dwelled inside her to keep it and have the child, but once it was out of her all that spark left her and immediately send it to be nannied for the rest of his childhood. Soon after the birth of her son, the two heads of the fortune, Adenica and Perseus were assassinated in their home by an unknown force. Ovid, now having the Blood Mark, spent the rest of his life searching for the culprits but just a year later he was also found dead searching for the answer. After his death Hecate was only 30 and sole member of the Asquith Blood Oath line and inherited the mark and the tattoos her family passed down.

    After the death of Ovid something snapped, and she began abusing the contract system and uprooting the Asquith family to the high standard it used to be. Soon after she thought she fell in love marrying Garreth Jouvemoux, hoping to make the same dynasty with him. Because Haniel was a bastard child of a man she forgot, he was never associated with the family she was trying to create. Garreth and Hecate had a fine marriage, and tried many times to conceive but for their whole marriage she couldn’t. After five years of marriage Garreth died of unknown causes, making Hecate bitter and do research on the Asquith family.

    Looking at her lineage, the family is known for having unexpected deaths leaving many members young, which convinced her to believe in a curse within the family she thought she was a part of. She became twisted and making more contracts and gaining more influence and power in the nick of time. Her house became larger but her heart became smaller, exponentially becoming wicked in her newly acquired wealth. Now she lives alone in her mansion surrounded by her family’s heirlooms and beautiful decor, continuing her influence within the wealth of the city. Though she has everything she grows bored and yearns for the same excitement she had when she was young.

### The Asquith Bloodpact

    So about 6 generations ago the Asquith family was the Agglevale family, a large but poor family of farmers who worked their whole lives on the farm and that’s about it. Terrance Agglevale was one of the younger members who was about to inherit the farm lands from his aging father, but Terrance had other plans. He was very into magic and the possibilities of what it could do. He left home, almost broke and began to explore the world hoping to become a warlock and use his adept knowledge of magic in reality.

He had a terrible time trying to be accepted into colleges of magic being a very, not so good person. He was very maniacal and had a twitch in his eye so you know he was a bad fellow. He tried for so long but he was getting nowhere, until he followed into the underground magic circuit. He began getting into the occult, dark magic, and especially blood magic. Finding spaces where he finally can see and possibly learn all the things he set out to do was amazing, but he quickly learned he had to pay a price.

Terrance did his research, breaking into where he shouldn’t and finding the right additions and information in order to cast a single spell, a version of the spell gate that held the deity at will. After tens of years of prep he was able to cast the spell with dark magic and summoned the god Noavi, who was expecting him. Because of his willingness to appease the god, she made a deal with Terrance where he was able to use blood magic to control the will of people through divine intervention as long as he sold his family tree to Noavi and scattered his influence within the world. Terrance agreed and thus began the Blood Oath.

Terrance would abuse the contact system and gain a slight following, getting a nice home and family to live beside him. His daughter, Lumera, inherited the contract when she was a young 16, and since then began to use her power to gain wealth and power. She had nine children, as she was afraid of not being able to pass the contract down the family line, and she changed her name from Agglevale to Asquith quickly as their dynasty began to start. Being able to persuade nobles of their high esteem, they eventually became acknowledged as a noble bloodline, and continued to merge other noble houses with marriage as the bloodline continued.

## Events of Campaign Arc: Kironis

    Hecate begins the campaign a very mean and distant woman, only enthused by adventure because she is incredibly bored by the lull of high society. She follows along the party just because they amuse her, and also make her laugh. She at first was to make a deal to betray the party and work with the maniacal Alexandre in order to maintain her power on the city. He promised her and her inner circle safety, but she sought control over people needing to leech off of people for her powers. This didn't align with her end goals so she continued working against him and the party so the incoming dragon attack would not destroy her legacy.

    In the end, she came to terms with the evil she has caused and how her bloodline may never survive after all her work. She looked to her son, Haniel, who she had pushed aside not being the *best* mother in the world. When the time came, she used the rest of her blood magic to sacrifice herself for the party so they may live, destroying her secret pact thrusted onto Haniel. He was able to unlock his Aasimar blood and help the party finish the battle against the dragon about to destroy Kironis. Haniel eventually built a memorial and orphanage for her with her fortune, not completely forgiving everything she did, but honoring her sacrifice in her death.

## Party Relationships

### Edan Roux

Hecate did not seem to really care for him at first simply just seeing him an average knight who was a do-gooder. But eventually she saw a little spark in him that she ended up being very fond of. He reminded her of Ovid, her brother, in a good way but also in a way that frustrated her. Seeing his more rebellious side, she eventually confided in him and allowed to make a contract with him, sacrificing part of her power to enhance him. It did make him a little stronger and juiced up. She doesn't make contracts unless they serve her, so he definitely ended in her good graces by the time of her death.

### Antonius

She wasn't obsessed with Antonius, honestly hating his vibes at first. He had very opposite vibes from her. She saw him as a youthful piece of entertainment that made her life more enjoyable. He was an annoyance but at least she had a little bit of fun.