- Name
- Circe Moonlight Hemlock
- Age
- 45
- Gender
- Female (She/Her)
- Species
- Awakened Human
- Occupation
- Store Owner
- Appearance
- The picture of a stereotypical new-age witch. Wavy dyed-green hair, lots of tattoos and piercings, kind of lanky.
- Personality
- Tired, has no ethical problems with scamming people as long as it the scams don't put anyone in danger.
- Abilities
- Fossil magic - Circe channels her magic mainly through fossils and gemstones to various effects.
- Situation
- Living fairly comfortably running a tourist-trap new age spirituality store.
Appearance
- Height
- 6'3/190.5cm
- Body
- Very lanky, pale as a ghost, and covered in tattoos.
- Face
- Freckles, piercings in her right nostril, left eyebrow, both sides of her lower lip, and various in her ears.
- Eyes
- Brown, almost permanent eye bags.
- Hair
- Back-length wavy hair, originally dark brown but dyed a soft green.
- Clothes
- She dresses in the most stereotypical new-age witch type clothing she can find. Almost all black, very simple shapes, a lot of weird symbols patterned onto them.
Personality
Girl's Gotta Eat: Circe has no problem with knowingly scamming most of her customers. From her point of view as long as the things she's selling them aren't dangerous she has no reason to worry about it.
Momma Witch: Despite her outwardly sarcastic and aloof demeanor, Circe cares very deeply about the people close to her. She can be very fussy and protective, especially around those younger than her.
Paleo Nerd: Circe has a deep interest in paleontology due to its connection to her fossil magic.
- Additional Information
- Circe's entire presentation changes when she's in 'tourist mode'. She plays herself up as the idea of a regular person who has convinced themselves they're a new age witch while simultaneously dropping occasional references to real magic in order to identify any actual mages or awakened humans.
Abilities
- Ability Format
- Spellcasting
- Spellcasting
- Geomancy (Fossil)
Minor Example: Heating stones like coals, minor masonry repairs
Major Example: Temporarily resurrecting a small to medium sized fossil animal, creating small objects out of stone
Momentous Example: Creation of a new familiar, temporarily resurrecting a large fossil animal
Focus (Minor, Used for all magic), A chunk of gemstone or small fossil
Focus (Major, Used for major and momentous magic), A pile of fossilized bones or a familiar's presence
Focus (Momentous, Used for momentous magic), Roughly a full dinosaur's worth of fossils
- Core Advantage
- Shears - Shears is a magically resurrected Thylacoleo Carnifex and Circe's familiar. Shears is roughly the size of a Saint Bernard or similar dog breed and appears to non-awakened humans as a mundane albeit strange looking dog. Shears' dog-like personality helps to maintain the illusion of the animal as a regular pet. The concentration of fossils in Shears' body make him very important to Circe's spellcasting and most of her spells won't work without him.
Current Situation
- Occupation
- Owner and shopkeeper at The North Star
- Housing
- Lives in an apartment over her store smack dab in the middle of tourist country.
- Wealth
- She's comfortable. The North Star always has enough business to keep her living without significant financial stress.
History
- Date of Birth
- March 20
- Place of Birth
- Big Sur, California.
Circe Moonlight Hemlock- surprisingly actually born as Circe Moonlight Hemlock- was born to parents who epitomized the idea of SoCal hippies. They were good parents who always supported her, but at the same time they were exhausting. When she was a teenager Circe had her first encounter with the supernatural- she caught some woman from out of town scamming her and, after cornering her, learned that she wasn't just a regular con artist. The woman was a witch, and in exchange for letting things slide she agreed to become Circe's mentor.
She didn't only mentor her in magic. The other witch was originally a con artist from across the country in New York and she taught Circe how to really fleece people without getting caught. Eventually she moved on from Carmel, leaving Circe to choose where she was going with her life.
A very strong plan in mind, Circe moved to Polaris Pass- practically a gold mine for her kind of opportunities- and opened up The North Star, a store selling every kind of new age magical or spiritual supplies imaginable with one catch. The 'spooky witch lady' who seems to be doing everything to convince customers to believe in magic is really doing everything she can to keep them from finding out that it's real.
She didn't only mentor her in magic. The other witch was originally a con artist from across the country in New York and she taught Circe how to really fleece people without getting caught. Eventually she moved on from Carmel, leaving Circe to choose where she was going with her life.
A very strong plan in mind, Circe moved to Polaris Pass- practically a gold mine for her kind of opportunities- and opened up The North Star, a store selling every kind of new age magical or spiritual supplies imaginable with one catch. The 'spooky witch lady' who seems to be doing everything to convince customers to believe in magic is really doing everything she can to keep them from finding out that it's real.
