Gnalex

Personality

Gnalex is nothing if not resourceful. She's clever and talented in magicks and has a great teacher, Magister to help her familiarize her further in her field. She also has learned a thing or two about being cheeky and mischevious from her teacher. She's a fast learner and very curious. She's adjusting to her new life with relative ease as she had no real attatments to her old life in the past and was taught to rely on herself and her knowledge of her surroundings. She takes pleasure in reading and witchcraft and other sorcery.

Gnalex is quiet but not at all meek. She's observant and intuitive and comes off much older than she is. She is a bit lazy though and unorganized which she always has been nagged at for. Dispite her sometimes intense-ness she gives off she's caring and only wants to use her magic to help others as she believes that magic at it's core is unity though she can be wary of others. The horrors she experienced from her past still linger in her mind and the brutality of people by mere influence still terrifies her.

Story

Gnalex was born to a poor family that had just moved to the new States at the beginning of the start of America, then she was named Angela. Her parents were struggling and had trouble feeding their children. As soon as Gnalex turned 11 she was given to a more wealthier household as a servant to help make money for her and her family.
Though the townspeople and her family did not know, the household was a secret coven of witches. They took the then, Angela, into their household to groom her into joining them. They began teaching her witchcraft and their pagan roots. When her family insisted they receive more of her income as she lived in a fine home while they struggled or that they'd take her back home, Angela's new guardians cut them off. They then started the first initiation of bringing her into the coven when she was 15. They gave her a new name, Gnalex.

She became something like an intern, she was being taught by her sister witches basics such as reading, writing and math as well as witchcraft and studying to herself as she found herself completely fascinated with this new world. Being as bright and curious as Gnalex was she advanced quickly. By the age of 16 she was up there with the best of them and she wanted to become as looked up to as those in the coven's more inner circle of higher witches, though it was difficult as she was an outsider brought into their coven. A higher witch that did not favor Gnalex did her best to keep Gnalex behind. She insisted Gnalex needing a longer time involved in her studies than those raised in their coven to be fully accepted. Gnalex was often left to her own devices to try and gain more knowledge and experience.
She was collecting materials in a storage cellar that she had not known was restricted and happened upon a creature in a mirror. It appeared as her but was not her, it spoke to her casually and they grew to enjoy each other's company. She'd sneak down to talk to it often as it taught her more than just witchcraft, but also sorcery.

Some years pass, Gnalex had sole duties of overlooking one of the coven's households. She looked after one of the elder's older and bed ridden family members there as well as looked after many of their crafts, books and materials so that it was not at the main manor as many whispers and gossip in town of witches and curses started to arise. Influential people in town were falling ill or dying or having incredibly unfortunate luck. It was around this time the creature in the mirror finally revealed itself to be a pagan deity with attributes of knowledge and magic that the coven had trapped within the mirror in order to use it for their own. It told Gnalex she needs to leave the coven as they have broken their vows and have turned to dark magic.

Gnalex, with the help of a few others she was close with, thought she could right all the wrong and weed out the ones corrupting coven, as it turned out the entirety of the inner circle decided to manipulate and turn the town against itself to use the turmoil and deaths as fuel and gain power. They discovered Gnalex and the others snooping and thwarting their plans and turned the town against her and those helping her. They mobbed them, dragging them off to be hanged but as they fought back the towns people in a unbelievable rage began killing them off there, beating them and maiming them, Gnalex and another managed to shake them and they tried to flee. Only for a townsperson on horseback ride up and attempt to knock them both down, taking down Gnalex's friend. She told Gnalex to run just before being trampled. Gnalex fled in horror to her household. The mob caught up tried to break into the cellar she hid in where she begged the deity to help her. She begged to be somewhere safe away from all of those in her coven and the people in this town. The deity said if she would perform a ritual in which Gnalex would have to lay down the mirror, cut her throat and bleed out onto the mirror it resided in and with the last bit of her strength to break the mirror it was trapped in then it could not only save Gnalex but they'd escape together.

Gnalex did so as she figured she was dead if she didn't and that even if she didn't make it, the deity would be free of them. She performed the ritual as instructed and as her vision blurred she broke the blood soaked mirror and a flash of colors and light and an overwhelming indescribable feeling overcame her.

She woke to the sound of birds in the distance, the sound of the mob was gone. She laid next to an old broken dirty mirror. She coughed and held her throat where there was now a scar and looked around to an old dusty cellar. A bird on a shelf abover her spoke up and told her she's safe now and flew down to her, shifting into a cat and sitting before her. It explained they were in a different time, away from all those who would want to harm her and safe from those of the coven, they have all died off. The area was safe for her and guarded. It used much of itself in order to make such a powerful incantation to work that it reduced a lot of what the deity was. It explained further their blood pact keeps them tied together and so it will stay with her until she is no longer and it will also return to the earth as the deity it was before. It asked her for a new name for it's new life to which Gnalex was conflicted about-- and decided to refer to it as Magister. They picked themselves up and began their new life with the help of Nyxim to whom she found herself grow close to very fast and soon in love. Gnalex is quickly easing into the this new era and time with her help.

Abilities

Skillset

• Witchcraft
• Sorcery
• Gardening
• Hunting/Tracking
• Sleeping only for a few hours

Interests

Likes

• Pastries
• Plants
• The smell of earth/plants/etc.
• Reading
• Making use of her magic for others
• Tea
• Being barefoot

Dislikes

• Cleaning
• Cooking
• Fish
• Her height

Familiar

Relationships

Nyxim

Gnalex happened across Nyxim on Nyxim's first full moon shift. Gnalex was aware of werewolves existance but has never encountered them before. She kept her distance as Nyxim appeared unhinged and ravenous. She disappeared after awhile, though Gnalex could hear her in the distance for some time. A few days later it stopped. Another month passes and she spots Nyxim again the following full moon. Though unlike the first run in, Gnalex felt she could sense a feeling of confusion and loss from Nyxim. She seemed lost. Gnalex observed her a bit before deciding she should do something. She subdued Nyxim, took her back to her tiny old cabin home and did her best to ween her through her cycle. Nyxim came to after some time as herself and human. She was scared and in denial and confused to where she was and wanted to leave thinking Gnalex did something to her. Gnalex pointed her back to where she suspected Nyxim came from and Nyxim left. Gnalex worried but she knew there was nothing she could do.

The next month's cycle, again, Nyxim woke up to Gnalex at her bedside in the cabin again. Gnalex greeted her sheepishly and Nyxim accepted listening to what Gnalex had to say about who she was and what has happened to Nyxim. With a small demonstration of a flashy spell, Gnalex convinced Nyxim she was a witch and that she herself was a Werewolf. Gnalex helped get her on her feet, Nyxim accepted and asked questions to which Gnalex answered. After so long, Nyxim returned back to her home just outside the woods. And so it continued, when she shifted she'd make her way back to the woods with Gnalex and they spent time together as Gnalex helped to guide her as Nyxim was still not herself when she was a werewolf. Time made Nyxim familiar with Gnalex while she was a wolf so she would be close to her. Then eventually she would gain more control and was more herself even shifted.

This time spent together and learning from each other made them grow closer and closer. They found each other missing each other's company and touch. They'd go out of their ways to see each other. Their feelings becoming romantic and they soon become inseperable. Nyxim teaching her of the new era Gnalex is in and Gnalex teaching Nyxim the new world of supernatual she is now in.