Octavia Hyatt

Octavia is one of many ghosts known to originate from the Ashbel region during the time of the Ashbel War. Unlike some of the other ghosts from the same location and time period, she is not considered one of the "revenants". Despite being killed by Silviu as the revenants were, she was not an intended target and thus was not resurrected in the same manner. Instead, her spirit passed along into Speculo as most deceased individuals normally do.

Similar to a few other spirits who were not resurrected by Silviu (Beck, Roscoe, and others), Octavia chose to remain linked to the physical world after it was temporarily merged with Speculo by the Balefire Revenants.

## Relationships

#### Skylar

Her former boyfriend, and soon-to-be husband before her sudden death shortly before giving birth to their child. The two grew up in the slums near the Abwynese border for their entire childhood, and continued spending their life together until Octavia was run out of the province by force.

They reunited in Balefire, after Skylar and Roscoe fled the province after catching wind that the Abwynese government was seeking to falsely arrest him with the intent to sentence him to death after previous minor law infringements in the past, ranging from underage drinking to sexual relations with an "outsider" (not an Electroturge or a Fulgurturge).

The two worked together in the Balefire military force until her pregnancy. However, she was killed shortly before giving birth, in a long-range attack by Silviu that was intended only to kill Owen who happened to be in the same enclosed space at the time. This caused her and Skylar to separate once more, as she passed on to Speculo while Skylar was sent to The Labyrinth instead after his death, as his spirit was considered the product of malicious necroturgy.

They reunited once more after the physical world was temporarily merged with Speculo. Unfortunately, by this point over a thousand years had passed, and Skylar found a new relationship with Iella after being released from The Labyrinth. He never had the chance to meet with Octavia in Speculo, as his spirit was blocked from entering.

#### Owen

Owen was left in charge of the delivery of Octavia's child, and was trained by his father to be able to do so. Octavia, as well as Skylar, considered Owen and his father a long-time friend and trusted him with the sensitive task of attempting to deliver what was likely a Fulgurturge newborn to a non-Fulgur mother, which to this point in time resulted in a 100% mortality rate for the mother.

During Silviu's attack on the medical barracks, Owen attempted to remove all soldiers from the barracks to spare them, even though it would surely result in his own death. As a soldier, Octavia refused, and instead opted to help remove all other wounded soldiers from the barracks instead of saving herself. Unfortunately, putting herself last resulted in the death of both her and her unborn child, along with Owen.

While Octavia passed along into Speculo, Owen was barred from meeting with her there, and was instead sent to The Labyrinth as he was considered a product of malicious necroturgy due to Silviu's influence over him.

## Ability Overview

#### Hydroturgy

Water magic. As an Ashen human, this ability is biological in nature, and Octavia is innately capable of performing it. Like other members of the Ashen race, liquid mana is stored within the body and can be expelled to form matter dependent on the biological makeup of the mana itself. In this case, expulsion of the mana from the body causes it to change into water.

#### Phantom Phase

All spirits that have passed through Speculo are capable of making themselves incorporeal to perform particular tasks. This includes the ability to pass through most forms of physical matter, though certain metals and materials will block transport and cause damage similar to burns on contact.

While incorporeal, spirits may also render themselves invisible, or "split" their presence across a radius specific to the user and converge all "fragments" of this presence onto one location within this radius as a form of teleportation.

Octavia is unable to use hydroturgy while any aspect of Phantom Phase is in use.

## General Bio

Octavia was born to an Electroturge mother and Hydroturge father, and raised in Abwyn Valley among other Electroturges. She was bullied relentlessly due to the intense xenophobia present among nearly the entire Electroturge population of the province, but still remained in the area up until early adulthood, only leaving due to being run out of the province forcefully.

The fact alone that her father was not an Electroturge forced both of her parents, and eventually herself as well, to live in the slums near the edge of the Abwynese border. All minority groups shunned away into such locales shared the same space, though the largest such minority group in the province was that of Fulgurturges; any other group was virtually nonexistent, with population sizes often in the double or even single digits.

Because of these demographics, the neighborhood in which she lived was shared almost entirely with Fulgurturges, who were scorned by the Electroturge majority as they were believed to possess magic that was "too brutal for sane men to control".

By living around the Fulgurs, she saw where such a saying may have come from, but also grew up knowing that they were not innately aggressive. They were cold and distant due to the harsh laws that are very often enforced only on them, but were not violent people.