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[PTab=Profile] Character Details 1 Height / Weight : 5' / 100lbs (152cm / 45Kg); Source : History + Healthy amounts of personal fiction; Home Region : New England; Alignment : Chaotic Good; Gender : Female; Origins Caster's True Name is Dorothy Good, the youngest woman accused of being a witch in the famed Salem witch trials at only four and a half years old. In the dawning days of the American colonies, many magi fled to the new land from Europe, mostly those hunted by the Association or the Church for some reason or another, where others were branch families or secondary heirs banished to get out of the way. One such man was Dorothy's Ancestor, of the Solart magus family. While not illustrious, they were well-off, having escaped to the colonies due to a power feud inside Britain's Thaumathurgial society at the time where they happened to pick a losing side. Her grandfather, John Solart, was a wealthy innkeeper who continued his family's magical research by night, yet committed suicide under mysterious circumstances when her mother, Sarah, was only seventeen - and due to the quick remarriage of her mother, Sarah and her sisters inherited nothing of his Estate. She had to dig him from his grave to even obtain her family's Magic Crest. Left with little to no direction to continue her studies in Thaumaturgy, Sarah married for love to an indentured servant who died soon after, leaving her and her second husband, William Good, to pay his debts. The Goods were left homeless, asking around Salem for charity as William performed odd jobs to sustain them. At some point, however, a light came in the birth of Dorothy Good, who Sarah noticed had been born with beautiful Magic Circuits, bridling with potential. Trials When the Salem Witch Trials begun, her mother was one of the three to be first accused. Despite being a small settlement, or perhaps because of it, Salem had its fair share of real magi. Part of the reason the Goods had moved there was because of the guidance of a prominent mage who briefly occupied the position of town minister, George Burroughs. Burroughs taught the basics of magecraft to any interested, which had made Salem a bit of a gathering for the Thaumaturgical outcasts of New England, what provided plenty of evidence for their maniacal hunt. Standing accused of making them have hysterical fits, the only truth was that the three women had on occasion hexed the children that tormented them with simple pains and pokes. All outcasts that were frequently bullied by the villagers, they were easy prey, and the hysteria began. Be it out of fear or personal vendettas, soon many stood in jail, including a four and a half year old Dorothy, who invoked her neighbor's wrath with her parentage and the habit of the wild child to bite other kids. Like all imprisoned under suspicion of witchcraft, her hands and feet were shackled, her movement restrained completely save for her fingers. It is written little attention was spared to her, her attention focused on a piece of cloth she found on the ground that she played with occasionally. Forced into an interrogation that lasted several days, the child was forced to confess on all that concerned her mother. She told them of her magical research, of her meetings with the ex-minister, and of the snake familiar she'd contracted with. Her father, William, was forced into a similar corner, promised that his daughter would be exempted from execution if he denounced his wife - thus, William told them that she was an enemy to all that was good. In jail, her mother gave birth to her little sister, Mercy, who died a few days later. Sarah Good was taken to be hanged soon after, but before her death, she said to the judging minister, "I am no more a witch than you are a wizard,", taking offense as a magus to the term, "take my life and God will give you blood to drink". Years later, Samuel Parris, then minister, died choking on his own blood. Her father a poor laborer that could not afford bail and the trials continuing as fervorous as ever, things were looking grim as Dorothy, by then five years old, approached her eight month of incarceration. That is when, in the dead of night, the child made a prayer. A very confused prayer of a mind nearly gone, one that asked for salvation, for herself, for all other witches, who asked for a new life like the one her mom said mages had in Europe, a life where magic could be shown to be fun as she knew it, and not evil. A prayer of a child's hopes, a prayer that reached the ears of God. Life God, or Alaya, or the World, asked of her help with something in the future, in exchange for a new chance, one to bring her dream life to reality. The child accepted, and her mind was flooded with knowledge thus far alien to her, providing a clarity her youthful brain could never have conceived. With nearly no effort, Dorothy escaped the shackles that bound her and set out with a mission. A plan too elaborate for a child so young, she followed Alaya's silent guidance, the sense of purpose that had filled her, as she made a certain noblewoman float up in the air briefly with a spell she'd never used before. That woman was the wife of the governor of Massachusetts, William Phips, which was then accused of witchcraft. Hearing this, the governor stepped in, regulated and eventually ended the trials in October of 1692. No more men or women were imprisoned or executed for witchcraft in the Salem region, which only a simple trick. While she was by the estate, Dorothy also helped herself to the sum of 50 pounds needed for her bail and left it by her dad before returning to prison. Released soon after, the child played the part of the deranged ex-prisoner not to raise any suspicions to herself as she came to live with her father, using her now many magical talents to reestablish their financial condition. At some point, she recovered her mother's Crest and implanted it on herself. On the background, Dorothy came to accept the stigma of "witches" and their stereotypes and added them to her identity, convinced a bunch of ignorant villagers tried their kind out of jealousy and hate. Reuniting with other magicians who survived the whole ordeal like Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, and with other witches of the region, like Grace Sherwood, the Witch of Pungo, she created covens that would teach the magically talented and other strays of society the basics of witchcraft. Nurturing relations with the local native american shamans, Dorothy built the foundation for magical society in the Americas, styling herself the Great Witch of Salem, taking the name of the accursed town as her own. Eventually, her coven turned into a society of covens, and soon had infiltrated many places of gathering for the rich and powerful as she took more and more accomplished mages under her tutelage. Unfortunately, this attracted many unwanted guests from the Association and the Church, the first wanting to seize her and some of her pupils for research on their capabilities, and the second wanting to prevent the uprising of yet another foe to the faith, specially one that often stole away otherwise good Christians into a mage's life. For a good time she fought, surviving onslaughts that would have claimed any other's life. Sick of losing agents to an organization "in New World's boonies", as it was put, the Association and the Church joined together for one brief night to put a stop to it. After a fierce battle, Dorothy sent away her coven for their own safety, and collapsed together with her attackers. In retrospect, many consider this event to have been one of the many that would occasionally lead to the truce between the Mage's Association and the Holy Church. SALEM Eventually, the conflict between the MA and the american societies of magecraft settled down and agreed to join forces. With her body destroyed by her own accord after the final fight, Dorothy's secrets were never revealed to the Association, although many of her pupils would share in their research at Clock Tower. She's still considered a revered figure in the Americas, with many families tracing back their origins to her original coven, and some even claiming descent from the woman herself, although in reality, Dorothy never had any children. In death her contract came upon its conclusion, as her soul was bound to serve Alaya for eternity. Faced with the legacy she'd left to the world, being responsible for the birth of organized magic in an entire half of the planet, the Great Witch of Salem was more than glad to serve protecting the world and its people from harm. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
