Lina

Mind wizard. Parens, cousin, and fiancee of Isa. Mother of Sabira.

Character Sheet
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Backstory
Lina bint Khalid al-Maliki was born in Valencia on the first of January, 1190. Her parents were servants to the household of the Emir of Valencia, Abu Yaqub al-Nasir. Even at a young age they could tell Lina was different. The other children of the house refused to play with her, and she was forbade to walk past the Emir's falconry grounds, as her presence startled the birds. Regardless, she was trained to do the job she would eventually take from her mother, serving the royal household.

It was late one evening in 1200 when Lina was wandering the grounds when she noticed a shiny gold piece on the ground. When she went to grab it, she fell into the clutches of the wrathful magus Fernand Mondego of Guernicus. Mondego was a powerful magus, specializing in manipulation and interpretation of the mind. Growing old, he desired an apprentice to inherit his knowledge. He had been searching for an acceptable apprentice, but all before Lina were just not good enough for his needs. This led him to the study of the ancient lineages of the powerful Saracen wizards. He then discovered a link been between the line of al-Maliki and the powerful Muhammad al-Idrisi, or Dreses, who used his magic to travel impossible distances to chart the world for merchants, nobility, and even the Pope. (And spread his lineage, when he had the time.) When Lina was born he noticed her peculiar traits and her interactions with her peers and concluded this was the blood manifesting itself once more.

With his new apprentice firmly kidnapped, Mondego expected to have a powerful vessel to pass on his teachings to. Instead, he found a very resistant student. This angered the master, who took to forcing her eyes open so she could read. When she then refused to speak incantations, he put her under trance and formed the words himself. When she refused to gesture appropriately, he did it for her. This ritual of forced education went on for many years, until Lina came to the realization that this was surely an act of God, for how can magic exist without the will of the Divine?

She then took to her studies with vigor that surprised the old magus. After her Gauntlet ceremony, Mondego asked Lina if she now understood why he had kidnapped her those years ago, now that she understood the untapped potential she had? Lina replied that she did understand, but was not prepared to forgive him, and renounced her Hermetic parentage, leaving the House Guernicus for Ex Miscellanea, and requesting to be placed into a covenant far from Valencia, and far from Fernand. This brought her to Mont-Mercere, in the year of 1214...