Eleagia

Eleagia is a Obrimos Silver Ladder from Chicago, Illinois.

Overview

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Ptarmigan Whitehall grew up in genteel poverty in the flatlands of eastern North Carolina. As a child, she spent most of her time indoors, playing with her mother's old dolls or putting together ancient jigsaw puzzles of lighthouses and kittens and bottletop caps because her mother and her Great-Aunt Virginia thought Ptarmigan was too good to play with the neighborhood children.

"Your mother was a member of the Chicago Dudleys," her great-aunt would tell the girl whenever she begged to be allowed to play dodgeball and ride her still-shiny bicycle with the other kids who lived on her block. "They would never associate with this poor white riffraff, and neither will you." When Ptarmigan, who never had a nickname, grew older, she heard the story of her mother's "unfortunate marriage" - again from Great-Aunt Virgina.

Hilliard Whitehall met Sarah Dudley in Chicago and swept her off her feet. He told her he was in the "railroad business," and she assumed he owned a railroad or two. Her family, though once wealthy, was declining in prosperity, so Sarah allowed herself to warm quickly to the dashing, young railroad tycoon. It was only after a whirlwind courtship and a small but thoroughly binding wedding that Hillard confessed that he was only a lineman on the big freight engines that still moved coal and other raw materials from the Southeast to the industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest.

So it was that Ptarmigan found herself living in North Carolina, where her mother's dwindling money went further. When the money was gone, so was Hillard, and Sarag was left on her own with a child to raise. Wisely, according to Great-Aunt Virginia, Sarah called on her family to help. Enter her Aunt Virginia.

By the time Ptarmigan graduated from high school, she was so tired of being poor that she could hardly wait to go off to College, even if it was on a work-study program and even if she did it without her mother's (or Great-Aunt Virginia's) blessing. Ptarmigan left North Carolina and went to Connecticut, where she attended Yale on a scholarship that included work-study. In the library, she met Edgar Lansdale, an up-and-coming law student from a wealthy family. She also met a charismatic woman called Martinique, who first seduced Ptarmigan and then Awakened her, took her to the Watchtower of the Golden Key and initiated her into the order of the Silver Ladder, giving her the shadow name "Eleagia."

Though Ptarmigan enjoyed her time with her Mentor, she knew she was destined for other things. Using her newfound power, she drew Edgar to her and married him; when he died suddenly of a heart attack, he left his wife all his money. Not long afterward, Ptarmigan received an assignment from her Mentor, Martinique, who asked Ptarmigan to go to Chicago and form a Silver Ladder cabal in the city. She was to use that cabal to launch a restructuring of the mages of Chicago under the leadership of the Silver Ladder.

Description

Eleagia is a handsome woman in her mid-30s. She has a shapely body, a perfect complexion, aristocratic features and silky, black hair that falls in soft waves just past her shoulders. She dresses in elegant suits or in more casual wear that she orders direct from Paris. Her dark brown eyes rarely show any emotion, and she rarely smiles except for show. She carries herself with studied grace and projects an authority she hopes she can one day feel.

Her Nimbus is a garland of gold coins that surrounds her body. During the casting of particularly vulgar magic, the coins clink together in an audible cacophony of metallic jangling.

Stats

Dedicated Magical Tool: Platinum card, shaped and sized like a credit card
Real Name: Ptarmigan Whitehall
Path: Obrimos
Order: Silver Ladder
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 3
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 4, Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics 3, Crafts (Needlework) 3, Occult 3
Physical Skills: Drive 2, Firearms 3, Weaponry (Household Objects) 3
Social Skills: Empathy (Ulterior Motives) 3, Intimidation (Social Status) 3, *Persuasion 4, Socialize (High Society) 4
Merits: Contacts (High Society, Silver Ladder), Hallow 3, High Speech, Library (Shared) (Faerie Lore, Finance, History: Chicago, Law, Magic Lore), Resources 5, Sanctum: Security 3, Sanctum: Size (Shared) 2
Willpower: 6
Wisdom: 5 (Fixation, mild: 5)
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Envy
Initiative: 6
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Health: 8
Gnosis: 4
Arcana: Forces 3, Life 2, Mind 3, Prime 4
Rotes: Forces - Nightsight, Unseen Shield, Light Mastery; Life - Cleanse the Body, Organic Resilience; Mind - Third Eye, First Impressions, Greater Beast Control; Prime - Dispel Magic, Magic Shield, Channel Mana, Siphon Essence
Manna/per turn: 13/4
Armor: 3 ("Unseen Shield," Forces **)
Magic Shield: 4 (Prime ****)

References

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