Aradia

### AKA

Goddess of WitchWitch of the Moon and Night The picture book witch who was pierced by its many spikes

## Professional status

### Affiliation

Bridge Building Cabal

**Aradia** is a member of the Bridge Building Cabal, known as the Goddess of all Witches.

## Appearance

Aradia is described as a silver-haired girl looking around 17 or 18. She wears a wimple large enough to fall to her ankles, giving her a nun-like silhouette, but also wears as a skimpy dancer's outfit resembling a bikini variant and baring her feet and navel, the combination of which was apparently meant to look immoral.

She also has a suit to disguise herself in the crowd.

## Personality

Aradia expresses disinterest in things relating to the cross, considering it newfangled nonsense, and questioning if one would find anything of worth in people who rejected the witches of a bygone era yet appropriated their legends as part of their religion.

Aradia moonbathes and forestbathes in order to calm herself.

Aradia is also noted to be a kind of tsundere in which she usually says that she hates things she somewhat interested in albeit those things are quite complex. Like how she is noted to be interested in the story of gods despite saying hating it for the sake of her Witch followers.

## Background

In reference to Aradia herself, her name has been explicitly noted as that of a figure from a famous witchcraft grimoire (namely Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches). Said to be the daughter of Diana and Lucifer, Aradia was described as a goddess who shines in the dark night and "god of all witches", who supposedly took a physical body and descended to the human world to save the poor from the wealthy church. In the story, all witches' sabbaths are used to worship her and involve rituals meant to teach people how to resist oppression from the rich.

Aradia seeks to protect and save all witches from persecution, even in the present day. One recent failure that affected her was the death of an old woman living alone in a forest who had been made the scapegoat for an illness and had her home set on fire, who had urged her to save the next one before dying in Aradia's arms.

## Abilities

As a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, Aradia is said to be powerful enough to rival the regular magic side on her own. She is described as a goddess of witches, the moon and the night.

### Parameter

 **Luck** | D

Aradia's stat cannot be called good except her mana gauge. All of her stats are below average. Her mana in exchange though is said to be unrivaled, noted to be unable to measure by normal means.

### Wicca

**Wicca (S):** is a system of witchcraft which emerged in the 20th century. It was officially announced in 1954, its texts created by Gerald Gardner, a magical researcher who was said to have dug up pieces of an ancient mythology or religion predating Christianity which ancient witches were said to be priestesses of, from before it was twisted by Christianity, and carefully reproduced the texts from before witches were considered villains, releasing his own collection of self-taught knowledge, doubling as a report on the 'truth' of witches. However, skeptics and others have pointed out that Gardner had a few biases when creating a supposedly 'perfect reproduction' of ancient witches, such as the inclusion of inauthentic sexual ceremonies. It has also been claimed that though witchcraft, its spells, not based on a specific mythology or religion like Greek or Celtic, are something newer, more like superstition, created new by mixing bits of thoroughly Christianized culture instead of digging up ancient techniques.

Central to Wicca is **Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches**. According to this famous witchcraft grimoire, all witches' sabbaths are used to worship the goddess Aradia, the supposed daughter of Diana and Lucifer, the goddess of all witches, who supposedly took a physical body and descended to the human world to save the poor from the rich, with rituals meant to teach people how to resist oppression from the wealthy and the church.

Wicca has a number of taboos and rules which its modern witches (reproductions of a later era rather than the originals) are bound by, the most prominent being the **Rule of Three** which states that the effects of any magic used by a witch, for a good deed or a bad one, would be returned to them threefold (e.g. if one uses magic to steal money, they would lose thrice as much, and if they use magic to kill, they would receive a wound thrice as lethal). The rule, meant to keep witches on the right path, is one which is supposedly difficult to use in practice and a double-edged sword that can lead to self-destruction. Aradia as the goddess of all witches has an extensive use of this concept. As she is skilled at manipulating events so that her deeds are framed as 'good' and exploiting the rule to reap the benefits. The Wiccan spell which she uses to do so is known as **Triple** **Reload**. By performing a chain of continual 'good' deeds, Aradia can amass good fortune, bolster her magic, and cause her power to snowball. She also has a few contingencies in place to avoid a potential backlash. Performing a deed corresponding to a spell and its desired outcome increases that spell's effects and the likehood of that outcome (for example, helping a child find their parents via a simple divination to support a search spell to locate someone for her). It is noted that aradia can oneshot a god if stacking enough and debuffing that god enough.

Coupled with the ability to frame her deeds as good and exploit good deeds for malicious ends, Aradia is skilled at manipulating people and proselytizing, allowing her to rapidly build a coven of new witches, which share a portion of her power (including the binding and usage of the *Rule of Three*) and can draw on her spells, inscribed in the Book of Shadows granted to them.

* **Gloomy Shadow:** Like many witches, Aradia makes extensive use of ointments and plant-based mixtures. In her case, the 'palette' of chemical compounds that are her ingredients are stored in the gold decorations she wears, with herbs kneaded into the malleable gold for storage. By rubbing the key-shaped clasps, powder is produced which falls to her feet and she mixes in her sweat, sebum or oil by stepping on it barefoot, creating an ointment and a 'shadow' that powers her magic. This shadow does not change regardless of the light shining around it and remains just one shadow even if light sources are shining from multiple directions.
* **Scythe of Night:** An attack where Aradia's shadow stretches through the surface, forming powerful sicke to cut through enemies with light speed.
* **Triple goddess:** is a deity or deity archetype revered in many Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions. In common Neopagan usage, the Triple Goddess is viewed as a triunity of three distinct aspects or figures united in one being. These three figures are often described as the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone, each of which symbolizes both a separate stage in the female life cycle and a phase of the Moon, and often rules one of the realms of heavens, earth, and underworld. A common theme in witchcraft. As the **Sabbath of all witches**, Aradia stated that she formed the power of the three goddesses in her own body. With its activation, she invoked the night, moon and witches, and how ancient goddesses of wisdom (giving Hecate, Isis, the Morrígan and Freyja as examples) would view the world from three perspectives while providing the priestess serving them with a powerful protection. With the command **Risk 4**, she declared the release of a **triple seal**, a departure from the human territory and the activation of the triple goddess in her flesh. Her shadow then stretched in three different directions and spun around her in a circle with an inhuman shape. However, she was stopped before having chance to use it.

### Divination

**Divination (A):** is the process of acquiring insight into questions or situations (such as the foretelling of future events or remote and unseen circumstances), through the use of magic and the occult. Aradia possesses quite a lot of spell relating to the subject. She is able to use a search spell to sweep through a city in seconds through the use of bear grease.