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lady_soulfire is a character journal for stcatherinesrpg.

Character's Name: Soulfire (she can't remember her real name anymore after all the years she used this one)
Series: N/A, original character
Age: 117, though she still looks like someone in her twenties
Subjects: Divination
Character Type: Witch

Backstory: Soulfire was born in the southern part of Ireland in 1889 as a daughter of a fairly rich family, who owned a factory there. Her father’s family was originally English, but moved to Ireland a few generations ago. Her parents made sure their children received a proper education, and in return expected them to uphold the family honour and do whatever mother and father wanted.

Soulfire, however, had always been drawn to the mystical world and could spent hours in the village listening to folklore, fairies, magic and that kind of things. Her parents laughed at the stories, discarding it as fantasy stories from old, unmarried women, but Soulfire always put a small bowl of sugar and water outside for the fairies and thanked them and that kind of things.

She was around twelve when she first discovered her abilities. Already for a while, there were rumours about a witch living on the white house on the hill and the young girl decided to visit her. For some reason she wasn’t afraid of the witch, unlike everyone else. The woman did turn out to be a witch, but Soulfire soon learned she wasn’t the evil witch who would curse people. Although it went completely against her Catholic education, the girl asked the older witch to teach her how to use her magical abilities.

She got tutored by the witch for three years before the rumours leaked out into the rest of the village. While folk magic was alright, witchcraft wasn’t and the family lost respect because they had a witch in the family. It went down with their business as well and they sold everything and planned to emigrate to America. The last thing Soulfire’s tutor gave her was her current name – Soulfire – and an medallion with a protection spell engraved on it. In it is a small photo of her tutor, herself and a spell to summon a certain creature to protect her, but Soulfire has never used it before and her tutor didn’t tell her what kind of creature.

They moved to America and settled somewhere in the north of America. Soulfire did her best to hide her powers to please her parents and even decided – again to please her parents – to become a teacher. She became officially a teacher in 1913, when she was 24, but when WWI broke out, she abandoned her position, said goodbye to her parents and left to continue studying witchcraft.

And that’s what she has done for the past eighty years or so. She traveled from one country to another, looking up witches, wizards, mages, seers and other people otherwise connected to the magical world.

Then in the past year she heard some things about a school for girls with special abilities. Soulfire did some research and found St. Catherine’s School for girls. Soulfire contacted the school to see if they needed someone and applied for divination, which she still loves more than casting spells or creating potions. And since she has traveled a lot, she has also come across many ways of divination that aren’t very well known. She hopes the girls will enjoy her lessons and that she as well will be able to learn some new things.

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