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World Building: "Mage Council Records: Master Mages, Living Volume W" Additonal notes by Clary Sage
Tourmaline Wander, (born name Joylen Pasternak August 3rd 194?, in Las Vegas, Nevada)
Granted access under the Foundling Ruling 1920: "Legally obtain all known magically capable children under the age of 13 that arrive in orphanages"
Found in the foster system of Las Vegas Nevada after a long streak of problems arising with the other children (See file: Dreamwalkers) and nightmares, numbering at least 8 known outbreaks over the past three years. Records from within the system also recorded her as being 'returned' by potential adoptive parents three times, citing that 'she was a poorly behaved girl' with 'poor manners'. At age 6, she was already showing signs of the magic getting away her in a Magic Burst syndrome, but had a remarkably stable amount of 'sight of magic' when she asked one of the Master Mages present to witness 'what the little rock person in his pocket was'. From there she was transferred to Red Rock Vaults, a smaller school that had been set to guard one of the archives out in the desert for five years. (See: Red Rock Incident, Archives Lost
recovered and copied 1961)
After Red Rock, she was sent back through the Mage School system to Linden Grove, to continue her regular education at a public school and receive magic lessons in the evenings and weekends. This is where her history of disregard for authority begins. She chafed against some of the teachers at Linden Grove for their attitudes regarding other magic species. Then upon entering her Journeyman Rite, she fled her chaperones and went into the wild. Letters back to her surrogate parent Olla are the only records we have on what took place during her Rite, which lasted from November 11th 1957 to Sept 21st 1958. She traveled to 16 states that we know of during that time, and had proven to be a valuable asset.
In 1970, she pursued her status as Master Mage through several formal challenges to the Mage Council as per tradition. After proving that she could in fact be capable of bonding to an elemental familiar, Tourmaline became listed as a Wandering Mage. A new title, one built on the initiative to pursue possible foundlings, created and headed by Counsel Chair Topaz Softeye at the time. Since then she has abided by the guidelines set for Wandering Mages, who travel the country, looking for magic youth of any species and providing them with shelter and transportation. Ms. Wander is often noted in the 1990's with finding many of the abandoned Wizard towers through out the US after one faction completely wiped out another. Since both sides suffered casualties (We were allied with the Winning Side at the time) we got rights to some of the towers for salvaging. -Personal note: It should have said something when they cared more about looting the enemy than taking care of their own dead.
Last Known Whereabouts: ??? North Dakota, coming from Pringham School down southwest.
Tourmaline Wander's Current Spell 'list'. (please note that calling this a list of her abilities annoys the shit out of this woman. Also vague naming structure much? -Clary Sage)
'Pin' This is like getting your shoes superglued to the ground for 30 seconds, which unless you're wearing shitty trainers or boat shoes, means someone is going to have their forward momentum translated into a full on concrete faceplant. Or worse, depending on the local wildlife or terrain. As far as we know, Master Wander has only performed this spell on living creatures and we do not yet have records of her attempts to use this on non-living objects.
'Grease' The other end of the spectrum, you won't be able to get a stable footing in a 20 foot radius surrounding the subject if cast wide. If cast on a single person... let's just hope that you weren't holding that knife too close to yourself.
Abilities
Passive Empathy: Master Wander can pick up on the emotional states of people around her if not shielding. Since we are in fact unable to monitor how she processes the input from this stream of emotions, we can only extrapolate that Master Wander is simply both extremely observant and intelligent enough to put pieces together.
Dreamwalking: Master Wander can wander into your dreams, very nearly literally. This advanced varient of astral projection is not unheard of, and had been useful at times. However, in this case it is not so much controlled as actively prevented whenever possible. Master Wander has voluntarily worn binding silvers on both wrists and ankles at night to prevent any outbursts since the age of 7.(...why was no one horrified by this? This is NOT something you should put a little kid through and she CHOSE THIS? WTH? -Clary Sage)
Oracular: Past or future, Master Wander has shown some fair degree of precognitive powers, more interestingly the short term powers proven in (See file: Record of Journeyman Rite 1958) (Precognitive my ass, she admitted to only getting visions of the past. ...Actually, she mentioned the future being another sense entirely in the same breath. There's a thought for when you want a chill in full summer sun - Clary Sage)
Tracking: Some would argue that 'tracking' is just a 'poor man's divination', to which many of those with the ability to track objects or people would respond in kind towards the speaker. Even from 300 miles away with just a scrap of paper from their notebook or a well-chewed pen. With enough reserves of power and tools, Master Wander has proven (There's that word again.) capable of even finding (SECTION REDACTED) in the most remote of regions, astral or physical. (Note: Astral travel is dangerous and if you wander too far outside of your aura of influence, you run the risk of not coming back. ...aaaand now the whole 'willing to wear binding silvers' makes horrible clarifying sense. -Clary Sage)
Granted access under the Foundling Ruling 1920: "Legally obtain all known magically capable children under the age of 13 that arrive in orphanages"
Found in the foster system of Las Vegas Nevada after a long streak of problems arising with the other children (See file: Dreamwalkers) and nightmares, numbering at least 8 known outbreaks over the past three years. Records from within the system also recorded her as being 'returned' by potential adoptive parents three times, citing that 'she was a poorly behaved girl' with 'poor manners'. At age 6, she was already showing signs of the magic getting away her in a Magic Burst syndrome, but had a remarkably stable amount of 'sight of magic' when she asked one of the Master Mages present to witness 'what the little rock person in his pocket was'. From there she was transferred to Red Rock Vaults, a smaller school that had been set to guard one of the archives out in the desert for five years. (See: Red Rock Incident, Archives Lost
recovered and copied 1961)
After Red Rock, she was sent back through the Mage School system to Linden Grove, to continue her regular education at a public school and receive magic lessons in the evenings and weekends. This is where her history of disregard for authority begins. She chafed against some of the teachers at Linden Grove for their attitudes regarding other magic species. Then upon entering her Journeyman Rite, she fled her chaperones and went into the wild. Letters back to her surrogate parent Olla are the only records we have on what took place during her Rite, which lasted from November 11th 1957 to Sept 21st 1958. She traveled to 16 states that we know of during that time, and had proven to be a valuable asset.
In 1970, she pursued her status as Master Mage through several formal challenges to the Mage Council as per tradition. After proving that she could in fact be capable of bonding to an elemental familiar, Tourmaline became listed as a Wandering Mage. A new title, one built on the initiative to pursue possible foundlings, created and headed by Counsel Chair Topaz Softeye at the time. Since then she has abided by the guidelines set for Wandering Mages, who travel the country, looking for magic youth of any species and providing them with shelter and transportation. Ms. Wander is often noted in the 1990's with finding many of the abandoned Wizard towers through out the US after one faction completely wiped out another. Since both sides suffered casualties (We were allied with the Winning Side at the time) we got rights to some of the towers for salvaging. -Personal note: It should have said something when they cared more about looting the enemy than taking care of their own dead.
Last Known Whereabouts: ??? North Dakota, coming from Pringham School down southwest.
Tourmaline Wander's Current Spell 'list'. (please note that calling this a list of her abilities annoys the shit out of this woman. Also vague naming structure much? -Clary Sage)
'Pin' This is like getting your shoes superglued to the ground for 30 seconds, which unless you're wearing shitty trainers or boat shoes, means someone is going to have their forward momentum translated into a full on concrete faceplant. Or worse, depending on the local wildlife or terrain. As far as we know, Master Wander has only performed this spell on living creatures and we do not yet have records of her attempts to use this on non-living objects.
'Grease' The other end of the spectrum, you won't be able to get a stable footing in a 20 foot radius surrounding the subject if cast wide. If cast on a single person... let's just hope that you weren't holding that knife too close to yourself.
Abilities
Passive Empathy: Master Wander can pick up on the emotional states of people around her if not shielding. Since we are in fact unable to monitor how she processes the input from this stream of emotions, we can only extrapolate that Master Wander is simply both extremely observant and intelligent enough to put pieces together.
Dreamwalking: Master Wander can wander into your dreams, very nearly literally. This advanced varient of astral projection is not unheard of, and had been useful at times. However, in this case it is not so much controlled as actively prevented whenever possible. Master Wander has voluntarily worn binding silvers on both wrists and ankles at night to prevent any outbursts since the age of 7.(...why was no one horrified by this? This is NOT something you should put a little kid through and she CHOSE THIS? WTH? -Clary Sage)
Oracular: Past or future, Master Wander has shown some fair degree of precognitive powers, more interestingly the short term powers proven in (See file: Record of Journeyman Rite 1958) (Precognitive my ass, she admitted to only getting visions of the past. ...Actually, she mentioned the future being another sense entirely in the same breath. There's a thought for when you want a chill in full summer sun - Clary Sage)
Tracking: Some would argue that 'tracking' is just a 'poor man's divination', to which many of those with the ability to track objects or people would respond in kind towards the speaker. Even from 300 miles away with just a scrap of paper from their notebook or a well-chewed pen. With enough reserves of power and tools, Master Wander has proven (There's that word again.) capable of even finding (SECTION REDACTED) in the most remote of regions, astral or physical. (Note: Astral travel is dangerous and if you wander too far outside of your aura of influence, you run the risk of not coming back. ...aaaand now the whole 'willing to wear binding silvers' makes horrible clarifying sense. -Clary Sage)