Aveline Delaney
About
Name: Aveline Astoria Delaney. ( ah-veh-leen , ah-st-or-ee-ah, deh-lay-nee ). She takes her mother’s surname.
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 12th August 1996
Place of Origin: Norwich, England
Current Residence: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Heritage: Her father (Aldric Charbonneau) is from a French family, but born in New Orleans. Her mother (Orla Delaney) is Irish.
Species: Witch - genetically altered.
Occupation: Works in a magic supply shop as a clerk, healer and general consultant.
Appearance
Of average Height, around 5’6 ish.
Pale toned, Green/Blue eyes; they turn a golden colour when using magic (a byproduct of her genetic altering).
Dark blonde hair with varying tones of blonde through out. It falls just below her collar and is cut with a fringe that she usually wears parted in the middle.
A number of tattoos here and there, mostly small: some wildflowers on her rib, a High Priestess tarot card on her upper, left arm, rune symbols along the knuckles of her left hand, and a snake on her lower spine.
One visible scar, along her right palm; it travels from right below her index finger to the opposite corner below her thumb, and is thick and noticeable. The rest are usually hidden underneath clothing
Personality
Friendly and open for the most part, but she has learned to still be caustious of others' intentions, and guards herself accordingly.
She has a very caring nature and loves to help people, but isn’t afraid to stand up for herself if she feels she is being taken advantage of.
Adventurous and spontaneous, but always seems to be prepared no matter what ends up happening and no matter how unexpected it could be.
She projects kindness but she has a fierce spirit and is very protective of those she cares for.
Background
Her mother, Orla Delaney, was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland. She was born to a family of withes and raised in the craft, practicing mostly what would be classed under Green, Kitchen and Hedge witchcraft. Her family is descended from the legendary sorceress Morgan Le Fay, or Morgana, from Arthurian myth. Witchcraft isn't as simple as good and bad witches, and whilst the Delaney's have most recently nearly always used their magic to help others, they are no strangers to dark magic either. That being said, they follow their own code, and would never harm some undeserving.
Aveline's father, Aldric Charbonneau, is the High Priest of the coven known as L'Ordre Obscur (the Dark Order), born and raised in New Orleans. The coven has been around for centuries and has always been lead by the Charbonneau family, dating back to its origins in South West France; it is well known amongst the magical communities across the world, and Aldric himself is even more infamous. His leadership took the coven in a radical direction, even more so than its extremist and dark beginnings, and his cruel use of magic made him feared by any that know his name. His focus was the creation of the most powerful mafical practitioners and his coven makes incredible sacrifices to enchance their own ability. It was this motivation that lead him to Orla and her powerful heritage, and their relationship and Aveline became his opportunity to finally try and create a witch born with incredible capabilities from spells and experimentation.
Biography
Aveline was born and raised in Norwich, England. For the first few months of her life, she was raised by her mother and father, but before even her first birthday, her mother ensured that her father was as far from them both as possible. From then on, she had a fairly conventional upbringing, if you ignore the whole being a witch thing. Her mother taught her the craft, raised her in the same pagan faith, and ensured she spoke Irish, French and Latin as fluently as she did English, but she attended school as any normal kid would, and lived mostly a normal life.
Being a witch, it was expected that Aveline would show unusual traits and odd things might happen around her, but as she grew older, she was more unusual than most other magical children. Her eyes glowed bright gold whenever she used magic and she seemed to learn things much faster than her mother had ever known someone to. She was more adept at magic then any toddler should be, and spells were so potent that even the smallest use could dramatically overshoot it's original intention. Unknown to Aveline at the time, this was all the product of a series of spells, enchantments and experiments that her father had performed whilst Orla had been pregnant and in the few months he had lived with them still. It was these exact alterations that made Orla force him out in the first place. The full extent of Aveline's enhanced physicalities are still indeterminable to this day, as her mother refused to try and test them. What has been revealed through Aveline's life so far is all she is aware of.
When she was about six or seven, her father got in contact with her without her mother's knowledge. Her father's history and what he did to her had been hidden from her, and in order to protect the secret, Orla let her spend the summer she turned ten in New Orleans with her father. From then on, she’d visit every summer and at least for another week somewhere in the year, and her father kept the L'Ordre's existence a secret and Aveline wasn't told of her father's actions until all was revealed when she turned sixteen and moved to New Orleans permanently.
On her sixteenth birthday, Aldric revealed the coven to Aveline in the hopes of eventually initating her, though he still kept much of their work and true intentions from her. She studied under him, learning more dark magic than she was really comfortable with.
She lived with her Dad until she turned eighteen. She had always intended to leave in order to attend university, and she further motivated as Aldric's teachings and preparations for her initation became darker and exposed more and more of the truth of the coven. She stayed long enough to get part way throught the initiation ceremony, when it was revealed how her father had genetically altered her, and the full truth ofthe future he intended for her. The scar on her hand is from fleeing the ritual part way through. She managed to escape before she was bound to anything, as it would have asked her to turn against how her mother had raised her and everything she believed in.
She fled to Yvonne’s house, a witch she had befriended in New Orleans. She often visited her shop when she lived with her father, and Yvonne - knowing who her father really was - had always made an effort to help her. When Aveline did leave, Yvonne was her only refuge, as she was powerful enough to protect her even from the Order. Aveline still went to university in September, and she would return to Yvonne’s during breaks, or her mother’s if she could afford to fly back home, and she cut off her father completely. She worked part time at Yvonne's shop and her knowledge of ancient languages helped her earn money as a translator of ancient texts. She fell in love with New Orleans and wanted to stay despite her history there. After graduating university, she started working at Yvonne's shop full time.
She still works with Yvonne, but now with both a History and English Literature degrees and the languages she speaks, she often works with universities across the world in research and translation, and has occasionally taught classes too.
Abilities
Witchcraft; in all senses, but she specialises in healing magic and elemental manipulation. Her divination methods are usually restricted to tarot and runes, as this is what she performs at the shop.
Enhanced Physical Capabilities: She has a higher stamina and faster reflexes, but this has only been demonstrated in spell casting, so it isn't put to it's full potential. Anything further than this hasn't been revealed.
Enhanced Mental Capabilities: She's a much faster learner than most, and can read around 20,000 words per minute. She has an eidetic memory and easily learns languages, and spell structures come very naturally to her. She also has a genius level IQ.
Other Information
She has two familiars; very stereotypically, a cat (a tabby), named Pernelle and a turtle dove called Ivory.
She attended university and studied History and English literature.
She was raised learning English, Irish and French simultaneously. She has since learned Latin, Archaic French, Italian and Russian.
The rune tattoos on her knuckles are done with enchanted ink, and although kept glamoured for the most part, they have divining powers. The runes are Truth, Death, Protection and Future: truth is activated when someone is lying, or in the presence of an illusion, or something is false in some way. Death warns of the presence of dead in any capacity (ghosts, the undead, those who are dying or already dead, necromancy etc). Protection warns of any current danger and acts as a protection spell of its own - it is one thing that keeps her father and his coven away. Future helps Aveline analyse the consequences of any one particular action or sequence of events, and can warn of any impending threat that hasn't presented itself enough for the protection rune to be activated. When any rune is activated, it causes pain and gives off a light, varying in how strong the warning is - hence the glamour spell.
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