Rune

Elisabeth Peerson, known simply as 'Lissie' by others, and often going under the codename 'Rune', was a Norwegian/German magic user and owner of the mezzite known as Freyja, she was a good friend of Kalafel and Volt. She later married the British tech-genius superhero and guitarist Octave and became a later member of The Mighty Brave.

Her father was magi Oddvar Peerson her uncle may have been Erling Peerson.

Lissie is a vegan and due to medical condition cannot eat meat or dairy products or properly convert protein from meats.

### History

Born in the small town of Süderlügum in the north of Germany, Elisabeth moved to Norway when she was 6 when her father Oddvar, a Norwegian businessman gained a substantial pay rise; the truth, however was that her father had rediscovered the mezzite known as Freyja that was once an ancient a family heirloom and an important symbol of their family's unity and magic heritage, but was stolen long ago by dark magi. When the House of Seasons of which her father was a part of at the time, demanded he hand over the crystal, but he declined and the House turned on him, with the magi known as Autumn sent after him.

During this time, the Dawnshadow Coven and the Ordo Templi Orientis sought Oddvar, although the OTO actually only wanted to help him study his mezzite and the history of similar crystals, trusted none of them but his own family, and gave Freyja to Lissie who was living at the time with her mother Mila and uncle, Oddvar's brother Erling.

After this, Pura Arcana attempted to seek out and recruit Elisabeth, although initially refusing, the group were highly persistent, and Elisabeth ended up defending herself and attacking some of their members, assuming they were only after her Mezzite.

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### Personality

Elisabeth was a kind and highly intelligent individual, and had one of the highest IQ's in the world, but she also fought mental issues including paranoid schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder; this was later quelled with her connection to her father's mezzite.

### Appearance

Elisabeth is short and has long brown hair that she often dies a green tint, she has large blue eyes and wears thick-rimmed glasses. She often has a dark dress sense described by Volt as "sensible goth".

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### Powers and Abilities

**Powers**

Elisabeth is one of a handful of Humans on Earth with the ability to Tune and sense and ultimately manipulate magical energy.

**Geomancy:** Like her father, Elisabeth's magic was said to be an old Germanic form Geomancy practiced within the Norse side of her family for generations, even though not all her family members could actually tune, there had been historical accounts of entire family members practicing rituals and rites. Her geomancy revolved around using magic to harness the power of the Earth through rock, plants and animal-based spells. Like all magi she has to speak each spell and sometimes give further direction within that spell depending on what she wants it to do.

* **"Steinrysting":** This spell let her create a cascade of rock and earth along the ground or cause rocky surfaces to implode away from her.
* **"Seinskaft":** An upwards variation of Steinrysting that could send pillars of shafts of rock upwards from the ground or from a rocky surface. She later learned to focus the angle of these shafts.
* **"Steinbombe":** Literally "rock bomb", she could imbue stones, pebbles or rocks with geomantic energy, causing the rock to explode on contact with a target or at will.
* **"Sprekk":** Causes cracks to appear in the ground or upon rocky surfaces. By saying this spell backwards she can close these cracks back up again or seal existing cracks.
* **"Florabinde":** This spell caused nearby plants to wrap around and constrict targets for several hours.
* **"Floraangrep":** Caused plants to harm or even try to destroy a target in whatever way the plant desires, although this spell lasts half the time of Florabinde.
* **"Forynge":** Rejuvenates a plant so that it blooms within hours, regardless of season, is fortified and produces fruit or vegetables that have likewise rejuvenating effects. This spell takes a while to prepare and cast, but can have a positive effect over larger areas for months after casting.
* **"Dyrsvai":** Could cause the influence of some small animals, particularly ground-dwelling and subterranean creatures, to be more receptive to her verbal command.
* **"Jord-Livskraft":** Allows Elisabeth to harness and compress the natural bioenergy of the earth and combine it with her own mana; this manifests as a green energy with flickers of red and she can use this light for a verity of purposes, from concussive force, to enhancement of her summons or for limited healing purposes. She can absorb this earthly energy into the runestones on her gloves for later release as blasts or for whatever purpose she needs without incantation and continuous concentration.
* **"Overfør Helbredelse":** A spell that allows the transfer of natural bioenergy from the earth or plants into a person, this ability produces a powerful healing effect, both accelerating the natural healing process and causing the target to feel rejuvenated. Elisabeth originally use this spell to help calm her nerves and mental issues by combining it with meditation, but the spell's potency on her own mind began to fade and now uses Freya.

**Steinnkalling:** The main focus of her magic was her family's unique geomantic sub-arte "Steinnkalling" that allowed her to imbue and command golems from the earth in a verity of forms. Usually this involved the etching of runes onto a desired object or material that would become the primary body of said object and inciting a spell. The later use of her runestone gloves made it possible to simply touch a target to summon with an incantation and later still no longer needed to incantate with the gloves retaining a memory of previous summons.

* **"Raskgolem":** Early summoning was focused around "raskgolem" or quick-golems that she could create with short incantations; these stone golems would last a limited period of time but would fight alongside Elisabeth, and could summon them in great numbers.
* **"Jord Blekksprut":** Litrally translated as "Earth Squid", this golem was formed from an entire tree, taking on the form of a squid-like creature that could dive beneath the earth. This golem was difficult to control but highly effective against multiple targets at once.

* **Sten and Blom:** She learned to create small, but powerful semi-permanent summons in the form of two dog-like golems created from both rock and plant, these golems are focused around two small pebbles that she imbued over a long period with several spells and hexes, supposedly asking the earth to transfer the spirits of her family dogs, Sten, a male Spaniel made mostly from rock that despite being small, was extremely strong and durable and would reform if ever broken; he was covered in a soft layer of long moss that could self-sustain using photosynthesis to imbue the sun's energy with the magic in Sten's inner pebble. Blom was a small plant-based golem formed into a female shi tzu, like Sten she was formed around a small pebble Lissie imbued with months of spells and rituals. Despite her small size she was highly aggressive, fast and highly regenerative, having teeth like thorns she was able to also extrude thorns from her body, create flowers from her body that emit toxic blooms. She later learned to allow Sten and Blom to increase their size and later fused into "Blomsten", a huge canine golem of immense power.

**Runic Divination:** She has used runes to help divine knowledge a skill she learned from her mother Mila. While her mother had limited magical knowledge, was tune-capable and she nevertheless used her skill to help predict events or occurrences; even with magic this skill requires patience and concentration and has limitations in how it functions.

**Freyja:** Elisabeth is in communication with the mezzite spirit Freyja once owned by her father Oddvar who was part of the House of Seasons; As a previous halfbreed, Freyja was considered by the Norse people as a goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr. While Oddvar had limited communication with Freyja, using it to empower him with a form of empathy and clarity, worked better helping Elisabeth deal with her own mental illness, controlling her schizophrenia during her teenage years and allowing her to focus on spells she would otherwise have no hope of casting. Though Freyja Elisabeth learned to channel some of her power. She retains the crystal in a silver bracelet on her right wrist.

* **Empathic Concentration Conditioning:** Freyja calmed and focused Elisabeth's mind even beyond the average human, enabling her to not just focus on daily tasks and prevent her mind from negative emotion, but on spells with relative ease, letting her learn and explore her vast intellect unbounded by her mental health.
* **Mental Protection:** Freyja prevented Elisabeth's mind from both psychological taunting and telepathic and mystic attacks and she could extend this to others nearby.
* **Empathic Sight:** Freyja allows Elisabeth to see things usually hidden, discern lies and detect differences essentially unperceivable to others.
* **Magical Focus:** Being the Goddess of the form of magic known as Seiðr, Freyja allowed Elisabeth to focus her mana, particularly in harnessing "Jord-Livskraft" or "Earth Bioenergy" which she could enhance to powerful levels, often let her create a greenish flame and recently she was able to create weapons and extremely powerful protective barriers from this energy, though this still takes concentration.
* **Potential Empathic Projection:** Her father could use Freyja to project emotion that could affect others, causing them to feel fear, hate, love or whatever he needed at the time, but Freyja didn't like projecting terror, and with a somewhat low sense of communication between the mezzite and Oddvar, Freyja would simply shut down, causing Oddvar to assume the crystal was "broken". It wasn't until Elisabeth began openly communicating with the spirit within did she understand that her father was unknowingly forceful with his magic, describing him as "a waterfall of magic" that would "push out" her power against Freyja's will. As such Freyja is still very unsure about using this power until Lissie learns further control.
* **Potential Empathic Hallucinations:** Freyja's ultimate strength of her empathic ability was to manifest fear-based illusions that would seem both horrifyingly real and intensely terrifying for enemies, but even Oddvar never discovered this part of the crystal's power.
* **Potential Gold Manipulation:** According to Freyja, Oddvar could manipulate gold without incantation or casting spells; this was down to Freyja's power over the element and helped that Oddvar was a geomancer. As such Lissie also has the potential to manipulate gold in this manner through the mezzite, but has not yet accessed this power.

**Abilities**

* ***Biology Degrees:*** She has learned a great deal about human, animal and plant biology.
* ***History Degrees:*** She knows a massive amount of historic information regarding European nations and magic.
* ***Geology Degrees*:** She knows a great deal of geological science.
* ***Naturally Analytical:*** She has an extremely sensitive eye for detail.
* ***Vast Intellect:*** Lissie has an extremely high IQ and is likely considered a MENSA-Level genius, able to readily absorb knowledge, having an enormous vocabulary range from a young age and able to comprehend and understand at a faster rate than the majority of people.
* **Multilingual:** She can speak a variety of Nordic languages, including old Norse as well as English French, German and Spanish.
* **Knife-fighting Genius:** While not often a physical combatant, carries a rarely-used knife or two on her person that she is extremely skilled at welding with unparalleled speed and grace.
* **Chemistry and Poison Expert:** She has a vast array of knowledge upon chemicals and poisons found in nature.
* ***Herbological Alchemy*:** She has developed a magic crafte that has allowed her to use these chemicals as anything from healing potions to incapacitative or deadly poisons.
* ***Esoteric Runology:*** She has studies ancient Nordic runes for many years and can fully understand each one, its meaning and read runic writing systems.
* ***Runestone Construction:*** Elisabeth is skilled at the magi crafte of carving functioning runestones that she can use as wards or to help focus and empower her magic.

### Weapons and Equipment.

* **Runestones:** For Geomancers of the Steinnkalling, Runestones function much more than just a writing system but to empower existing magic, act as focusing points or storage systems for mana or be uses as magical wards and self-perpetuating spell-stones that serve a specific purpose.
* **Henderjord:** Leather gloves based on her father's own design that act as foci and made from recovered parts of his early attempts to create a focus for his magic, the gloves are imbedded with small, flat ceramic runestones that she has tightly knitted upon it's surface through pinholes in each stone. With three runestones on the back, one on the palm; these stones act as a verity of magic transformation and mana retention points, as well as linking each glove together allowing energy to flow between one and the other without harming Elisabeth.
* **Steinblad:** A small stone knife that belonged to her father imbued with runic symbols on it's wooden handle; in the hands of a magi it can turn anyone who it pierces partly, or entirely to stone for a short period should the entire blade be fully enveloped in flesh. The weapon was not made for blade-to-blade combat, being themselves quite brittle, but functioned as a self-defence measure.
* **Tornesprekker:** "Thornscratch" A pair of knifes she carries on her person during active battle, they are not magic per-say but have been coated with alchemical poisons that cause paralysis, blistering or extreme pain with just a scratch within seconds. On the rare chance she wields them she usually only wields one at a time allowing her other hand free to cast spells, but can if need be channel some of her spells through the blades; this, Elisabeth says, is a risk as the knives are not designed to harness magical energy.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Elisabeth suffered from psychological issues in her past, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, while Freyja aid in her stabilisation, should Freyja somehow no longer function or is taken from her, Elisabeth may again spiral backwards.

Her protein deficiency makes her physically weak sometimes and must be cautious during bouts of extreme exercise.