Verthandi Haddock
Cult of Sybaritae
Dionysian Dancers
Description
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 132 lb.
Ethnicity: White
Eyes: Red
Hair: Long simple red
Clothing: White business formal
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: Verthandi appears to be on a whole other level: fantastically beautiful, delightfully charming, stunningly dressed, wondrously nuanced, and implacably self-assured
Supernatural Qualities: She is gorgeous beyond compare, though a sense of mystery abounds and often cloaks recognition of her otherworldly beauty; that same otherworldliness also seems to cause the world around her to twitch and shiver; flowers flutter and half-wither in her presence, while whispers slip across minds too fast to seize and hear
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 6 (dreamy); Style 4 (high fashion); Arcane 3; Otherworldly Taint
“By our will!”
History
Date of Birth: December 21st, 1957
Home: Greer, West Virginia, United States
Family: Harold and Sally Haddock (parents), Jesse (older brother), Stuart (older brother)
Comrades: Brogan Sellers, Damionn Cooke, Ellis Goodman, Kingsley Chambers, Zaden Levine, Waverley Lemus
Key Event #1: Personal Tragedy (Verthandi always hated the provincial life of a coal-mining family in the Appalachian region, where she and her brothers distilled moonshine in the backyard, and life as a broodmare for some other coal miner just like her daddy seemed inevitable; she was far too intelligent and she knew it)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (indeed, her school age test scores proved it and even earned her a full ride into Yale; there, she joined a sorority with Masonic ties, where she was exposed to rituals with actual magical meaning and power, and she began to gobble up arcane secrets on her own time)
Key Event #3: Awe & Wonder (despite the loss of scholarship it would cost her, she changed her major from chemistry to art history, which disgusted and alienated her family back home; she no longer cared what they thought, and graduated with honors)
Key Event #4: Treachery (with her newfound "tricks", she began her professional career by defrauding the art world, using hedge magic to create perfect phonies and make bundles of cash, paying off her school loans easily and then some)
Key Event #5: Awe & Wonder (she also chased "art" artifacts around the world, gathering magical spells along the way from every corner of the Old World, and coming to see the link between mystic sites and temporal arcane junctures, and a plan began to form...)
Key Event #6: Treachery (with her magic, she made herself irresistible, and drew/enthralled other mages around the US; she let them each in only on parts of the whole plan, just enough to gain their support and approval; she even joined the Cult of Bacchus to reflect her allegiance with their support)
Transition: Victory (with her subordinates spread out to the appropriate ley line nexuses, her plan neared fulfillment; only meeting the sufficient amount of mystic Epicureanism remained)
Paradigm & Style
Overview: Traditional (Greco-Roman ritualism with a Dionysian bent: partaking and sacrifice of alcohol and food, sex, and observation of pagan feast days and cosmological events; mastery of herbalism is how she maintains her fantastic beauty despite her normally-progressing age)
Significant Others
Her reign as the Dionysian Dancer "queen" grants her influence over more Awakened beings than one might realize, especially the mages in the New York area.
Her Continuum
Weakness
Plans Within
Verthandi knows what she's doing. It's an endgame plot. Junctures and nexuses will be triggered at the same time an overwhelming excess of Dionysian Energy (as she calls the Mana) is built, channeled, and released, thus providing the perfect shield against the terrible epochal shift coming (commonly known as the Apocalypse). But it does depend on her subordinates all doing what they're supposed to do, and she can't afford alternates now at this stage...
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Her will is great, her wit is high (look at how well she's stayed under the radar), and her focus is single-minded.
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