Elsa Grimston

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Elsa Grimston: 1555 - 1577

Elsa is the daughter of the arcanist warlord Vigo and the succubus Enêpsigos whom had been summoned for a foul ritual to grant a magical heir. The entire occult pregnancy that resulted took place within the course of a single night under the first full moon of the year. Elsa was born at the conclusion of the ritual, her entire development having been accelerated by the ritual being fed potent lunar essence.

When she was born female, Vigo was not pleased as he had intended to have a male heir. Upset by the way the ritual had ended, Vigo cast Elsa's mother back to Hell and turned Elsa over to his servants to raise as a scullery maid. When Elsa learned of this later, she vowed to destroy her father someday.

Though not trained by her father in the occult arts, Elsa learned enough through instinct and attempted to call upon her mother to rescue her from Hell. However, by the time of this attempted summoning, Enêpsigos had become indentured to the King of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar and thus her summons requests were brought to the Devil himself for approval.

After hundreds of requests came in from Elsa over the course of several years, the Devil went down to Carpathia to investigate and found a beautiful young woman. Attracted to her physical appearance and mystical potential, Lucifer Morningstar seduced her into exchanging her soul for a portion of his power, becoming a very powerful witch in the service of the Morningstar.

### Elsa Grimston: 1577 - 1692

Elsa spent the next century and change traveling the world at her benefactor's behest to study under the great mistresses of the Grand Coven. She only returned to her homeland to visit the site of her father's execution and laugh until she cried. Believing she had failed to fulfill her vow to kill her father, Elsa instead pledged to wipe out those who had followed or revered him - until she had destroyed every memory of him. However, that proved difficult to do in the lands that her father once ruled due to her resemblance to the tyrant so many remembered, forcing her to flee to other lands and bide her time.

Elsa did manage to slay several of her father's former disciples as they had migrated to other countries across the world. When her prospective targets realized the focus of her vendetta, they used their mutual enemies to target her — discreetly reporting her to the Spanish Inquisitors and the Men of Letters.

### Elsa Grimston: 1692 - 2013

Elsa narrowly survived the attempts on her life orchestrated by witchhunters in America and inquisitors in Europe, first causing her to question her lifestyle choices and become increasingly reclusive as she did her best to survive on her own, cutting contact with the Grand Coven as a precaution.

When Aradia tracked her down after Lucifer's abdication, she found Elsa at the head of a small cult in South America, having convinced most of the residents of a small village to worship her as a goddess. Lucifer's abdication had voided Elsa's contract, leaving her less powerful than before but still more than capable. Aradia attempted to reinvest in Elsa, granting her more power in exchange for her renewing the contract on her soul. Much to Aradia's surprise, Elsa declined in favor of sustaining her life with the worship of her mortal followers.

### Elsa Grimston: 2013 - Present

One day, Elsa was called to the Oblivion Bar by Lucifer Morningstar. With terms very similar to what Aradia offered decades ago, Lucifer requested Elsa's service to him once more. Though she no longer had any desire to be a witch, she agreed to do so when Lucifer asked her to use that power to destroy the Order of Ancient Mysteries.

Part of her deal with the Devil, Elsa was given authority as Crone of a new coven and bestowed with the power to choose two other witches. This would lead her on a path that would bring Kara Valentine and Sook Lee into the coven. Elsa, Kara and Sook spend their nights fighting against the expansion of the Order of Ancient Mysteries.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Hybrid Heritage:** Elsa is the daughter of a devil mother and a human sorcerer father, making her a member of the nephilim subrace of angels/devils.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Elsa has lived for nearly five hundred years without aging beyond the equivalent of an adult human woman in her prime. She does not suffer the rigors of aging, nor the effects of most disease or illness.
	+ ***Supernatural Sense:*** As a supernatural being, Elsa is able to see and interact with ghosts and other esoteric beings in a manner normal people cannot.
* **Witch Physiology:** Elsa is an infernal witch, having made a pact with the fallen archangel Lucifer who bestowed her with immense power, furthering her own natural infernal abilities.
	+ ***Enhanced Resilience:*** Due to her infernal state as a witch, Elsa is hardier than other folk. Though she still feels pain the same as humans, Elsa is better able to deal with casually slicing her palm to produce blood for ritual and can walk away from injuries that would surely kill a normal human.
	+ ***Lunar Bond:*** Elsa does not need to study magic to use it. She receives her magical ability from her connection to her infernal benefactor. The most powerful magic wielded by Elsa is channeled through her connection to the moon, becoming more powerful under the light of the moon accelerates Elsa's recovery from injuries, recharges (or overcharges) her magical reserves of essence, and gives her insights into various matters (learning spells, finding specific persons or objects, etc.)
* **Sorcery:** Elsa is an accomplished sorceress in many schools of magic.
	+ ***Aspidomancy:*** Also known as "circle magic", Elsa can draw circles in sand and or on surfaces with any number of writing instruments (paint, marker, pen, blood, chalk) while chanting the more perfect the circle, the greater the spell effect. She can also produce similar effects simply by waving her hand in circular motions or creating circles in midair with visible essence.
	+ ***Auramancy:*** Elsa is an exceptional reader of auras. The longer she has time to study their aura, the more intimate knowledge she can glean from their aura. More practitioners of this craft only hone their visual assessment, but Elsa has extended her mastery to include aura reading using her other senses as well.
	+ ***Bibliomancy:*** Elsa is well-versed in using spells and rituals contained in texts. Aside from being able to quickly master spellcraft found in spellworks, Elsa can prepare her own spells on paper and cause them to be triggered by reading a key word or with known to booby-trap her spell library to discourage thieves.
	+ ***Erotomancy:*** Elsa can use sex and intimacy to weave powerful magic. Her depth of mastery into this field even allows her to magic to become stronger when she aroused or the direct cause of another person's sexual arousal.
	+ ***Iridomancy:*** The eyes are the windows into the soul. While making eye contact with another, Elsa can weave powerful magic that mirrors the effects of potent psychic abilities, such a mind reading, memory alteration, mind control, or possession. Elsa can use this ability to easily discern if something is lying to her.

### Weaknesses

* **Contract:** Though Elsa retains possession of her soul, it is owned by her infernal benefactor, Lucifer Morningstar. She cannot act against him directly and can be summoned to him at any moment. As a result of this magical contract, there are some magics that cannot affect Elsa without Lucifer's permission.
* **Cynical:** Elsa has lost faith in humanity. She usually assumes the worst about most people with alarming frequency.
* **Lunar Cycle:** As mentioned above, Elsa's powers are at their weakest during the phase of the new moon. Even when circumventing her loss of magic, it is still easy to see the effect on her as she tends to become easily confused during this phase.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Weaponry:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Expertise:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 75
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* Kara Valentine was the first one she recruited into the Coven of the Witching Hour. Sook Lee stumbled into the two of them when they were discussing finding the third memeber.

### Notes

* Elsa Grimston is a character from *The Witching*.
* Earth-27 version of the character differs from the comic version. The comic book version:
	+ She was born around 1957.
	+ She is the daughter of Henry Grimston and the Moon.
	+ She wishes to go to the Moon to finally feel safe.
* Enêpsigos is a fallen angel mentioned in the Testament of Solomon.

## Appears In

Coven of the Witching HourOblivion Bar Staff

## Links and References

* Appearances of Elsa Grimston

1. ↑ Network Files: Elsa Grimston
2. ↑ Network Files: Sook Lee