Victoria

Victoria was born in the Canine capital city of Kingsbrooke as the youngest member of the Heks lineage, a family of which has a long history and widespread renown. Her relatives have all been involved in the field of forensic science; her older sister, Eliza, is a college professor, while her mother formerly worked as a forensic anthropologist. Her secondhand experience in her mother's profession would later lead to the "awakening" of her primary magic ability: necromancy.

As a teenager, she met and became acquainted with the youngest son of the Greenwood family, Shepherd Greenwood. At the time, the Heks and Greenwood families were longtime business partners and had an upstanding relationship. Victoria became aware that she and Shepherd had very different values and goals regarding their legacies, but felt content speaking with him. When Shepherd was later revealed to have garnered controversy that resulted in his "exile" from the Greenwood family, it greatly shocked her. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Shepherd would later become her greatest enemy.

It is through one of Shepherd's professional ventures - namely, a theatre of which ownership had been passed down to him - that Victoria learns of his nefarious and unethical nature. She learns that Shepherd is an illusionist mage who had been trying to recruit other (mostly younger) mages into his "society" of violently egalitarian and pro-technology extremists. One such "recruit" that he intended to target was the 18-year-old Aaron Ridley, an usher at the theatre. Heks speaks to Aaron and becomes aware of his budding magical prowess. She recommends that he attend one of the top colleges in Kingsbrooke, intending in part to draw him away from Shepherd, but Aaron refuses in favor of his dream of becoming an actor-manager.

Around this time, Heks was in her late 20s and had become an agent of The Mage Division. She traveled across Animalia to the Division's various stations strung out across the continent. While visiting Heritage, the capital of The Ungulate Kingdom, she meets a museum curator named Orion Ambrosia. Orion would soon become her dearest friend and colleague. With him, Heks realized her wish to build an academy dedicated to the study of magic, and several years later, the two mages would go on to become the founders of Spellcraft Academy. Heks also dated Orion for almost a decade, before they mutually decided to end their relationship.

Victoria becomes tightly involved in the incident of Greenwood Theatre. Likely aware of Victoria's suspicion of him, Shepherd and his colleagues decided to burn down the theatre and disappear from public view. This would result in the death of a stage manager, making Shepherd a wanted criminal. Heks jumps in to assist Aaron and his family over press matters, while also assisting in the investigation of Shepherd's crime. Aaron later requests to attend and work alongside her at Spellcraft Academy, which Heks agrees to. She becomes Aaron's mentor, and the young mage becomes dear to her.

While overseeing Spellcraft Academy and its first active class, Heks learns that the investigation into Shepherd's whereabouts had hit a wall and was put on hold. Despite having the distinct feeling that she will see the Greenwood criminal again, she nonetheless continues with her work.

No less than five years after the end of her relationship with Orion, Victoria begins seeing her longtime friend and colleague Ziska Förstner. They would eventually marry and become the joint leaders of The Mage Division; this would also be the first time in history that Division leadership was split between two individuals.

More to be written soon!