Felicia Ghirlandaio Drakon

Felicia was born into the Ghirlandaio family, a wealthy and successful family of Italian businessmen. Felicia's older brothers and sisters were burdened with the duties of upholding the family's traditions, accepting places of leadership in the family's many businesses, and otherwise ensuring the continuation of the Ghirlandaio's good name. That, however, was not what fate had in store for Felicia; first, being the youngest child of six meant that everything was already accounted for, there were no vital positions left for a Ghirlandaio to fill. Second, a deeply guarded secret surrounded the unsuspecting girl, a secret that could destroy the entire family if it came to light.

Felicia's father was not the father of her siblings.

While Felicia was every bit her mother's daughter, having inherited all her good qualities: her charm, her beauty, her ease with words, she had simply nothing in common with the head of the Ghirlandaio family, the father of her siblings. In truth, Felicia's father was a being much older and much more powerful than a simple human: he was none other than Nidhogg, the Cleaver of Corpses, an ancient dragon whose sheer power rivals that of Ferrovax himself, said to be the strongest of them all.

The mighty dragon had a passing fancy for Felicia's mother, and she could do nothing but accept the dragon's advances in fear of the complete obliteration of her family and everything they had built over the years. While the supernatural affair lasted for only one night, Fate would will its consequences to ripple through the years, and it was in such conditions that Felicia was born. While she was raised in the Ghirlandaio family with no one but her mother the wiser, she discovered her heritage by herself when she was 14 years old, and thus left her home to follow the calling of her true Father.

Aspect: Father's Heritage, Mother's Beauty

Nidhogg trained Felicia for years, until she mastered her nature and could change forms at will. Being in dragon form was awkward at first, but being in constant mortal danger through the training sessions forced Felicia to adapt. By the first month of training, she already felt as comfortable with her dragon skin as she did with her human skin, and by the second month she spent every moment in dragon form. After three years of training, Nidhogg finally deemed his child ready to go out into the world and further his agenda.

Felicia soon discovered that the years she spent living in her dragon form greatly accelerated the maturing of her dual nature, and as such aspects of her dragon form were spilling into her human form as well; emotions were greatly enhanced, the smallest moments of anger turning into great bouts of hatred, a fleeting happy thought turning into widespread elation, a minor insult drawing a heated and aggressive response. However, as she performed the duties required of her by her Father, she also realized that no matter how much ruthlessness her dragon side brought to herself, she would never be inhuman: she never raised her hands against an innocent, nor did she kill without need, nor did she enjoy the petty cruelties that she saw reflected in many of Nidhogg's other agents. At her very soul, she was still human.

Aspect: Dragon Heart, Human Soul

When Felicia discovers a strange path in the wetlands surrounding New Orleans, she is taken to the Never-never, into the Realm of Tapio Bear-King and Mielikki Blue-Cloak, rulers of an ancient Wyldfae Court - the Metsäsidhe. There, she is dragged into the alien politics of the Sidhe, and becomes involved with a very real dispute between the Metsäsidhe and a White Court organization wishing to destroy the Metsäsidhe's lands on the mortal world to build their bars and clubs. Will Felicia be able to settle the dispute and save the Metsäsidhe without angering the White Court?

Aspect: Honey in Mouth, Sting in Tail

"Go to New Orleans, child, and await further instructions. Do not meddle in the affairs of the powers already settled there, for I wish no quarrel with those factions."

Her Father's command was still bright in Felicia's memory, and she couldn't help but wonder at why the mighty dragon had sent her to New Orleans. She had been in the city for three days already, without any of the promised "further instructions" arriving, and she was beginning to feel utterly bored. She had a really small room in an out-of-the-way hotel, sheltered from the rest of the world without television, internet, or any contact, really. That's why the storm caught her by surprise.

It was the sound that rattled Felicia out of her reverie and took her into the streets to search for what was happening: the winds and the falling rain were making such noise as she had seldom heard before; she was frozen in place for a moment, unsure of what to do, as the mighty hurricane loomed in the distance. Without truly knowing why, she set out on a run towards the unknown streets, unsure of what she was looking for but sure that if she stayed in one place, she would be obliterated by the storm, half-dragon or not.

As she turns a corner, she bumps into a dark-skinned man herding a few refugees away through the rain. The man seems to be struggling, and shows clear signs of coming exhaustion - but his eyes are hard pools of conviction and determination. Gazing past the man's group, she sees a few people coming leisurely down the street, all in fine clothes despite the rain and confusion, all acting with perfect calm, as if hell wasn't breaking loose all around them. Their skin was pale, almost eerily pale, and seemed to shimmer in the distance. Looking again at the group being herded by the dark-skinned man, Felicia realized all were wide-eyed, trembling in place or outright sobbing with fear.

"Malvora?" she asked the leading man, who nodded back, a bit startled at Felicia's acknowledgement of the vampires. She nodded to herself, looking again at the group of frightened people, men and women - and children! - who had just lost their homes, their city, and were being hunted by fear-eating predators who only made their lives more miserable. A hot anger swelled inside her belly, and her fists clenched at her sides. Her Father's wishes be damned, she couldn't stay out of this affair. The vampires had brought it on themselves.

"Go," she told the man, turning towards the coming vampires, "I will hold them for as long as I can."

The man nodded and hurried away, without looking back, and all he heard was a great roar that shook the very ground from beneath his feet and echoed throughout the streets. Soon after came the shriek of the first dying vampire.

Aspect: Knight in Shining Scales

Aspect: My Boyfriend, the Demon

Born as the fifth daughter of a very wealthy and influential family, Felicia had plenty of freedom since an young age. Her four older siblings were already burdened with future positions at the family's several businesses, or with other nonsensical goals wealthy families put on their children. Being the fifth, however, there was nothing left of importance for Felicia to be forced to do, and so she had great freedom - as long as she maintained the social graces expected of her and went well on all that was eventually required, like school for example. Which was not a problem, as Felicia graduated with all honours from both High School and the University of Bristol, where she studied Philosophy. As soon as she had graduated, Felicia began travelling the world, searching for adventures and new experiences.

During her travels throughout the world, Felicia began to realize that there were some things that were much too wrong with society and the world in general. She began to see the human suffering of the world, of the poor masses, of those who were exploited and forced into living in disgraceful conditions, of the millions of men and women who suffered daily, but to whom society turned its back. But she decided to embrace their cause, and fight for their rights and their lives... however she could.

It was shortly after she took this decision that a vision was sent to her from a powerful entity: Kosmos, the spirit of the planet Earth itself, who had chosen her as its champion as the Protector of Humanity. Felicia already had seen signs of the supernatural, and the spirit's appearance was just the confirmation she needed. She accepted the mantle, gaining even more tools and weapons in her fight for justice. However, Kosmos had been greatly weakened throughout the centuries as humanity moved away from the natural world and the guidance of the spirits of the land and surrounded itself in artificial cities, concrete jungles and paved roads, draining away the power of Kosmos. Now, the once-great spirit is only a shadow of its former self, without reach to actually act in the world at large.

However, the destruction Hurricane Katrina caused in New Orleans opened the city to Kosmos' influence once more, and therefore there is where its Champion will act, working on increasing the spirit's influence once more.

Having arrived in New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina passed in its route of destruction, Felicia immediately sets to working on whatever she can to help the survivors and with the rebuilding project for the city. However, it is not long before a Warden of the White Council notices her unusual abilities, and mistakes her for a warlock despite her good intentions. What will it take to convince the wayward Warden that Felicia is not even a wizard, much less a warlock?