Porzia was a child when the magic came back. She had moved into the Tower with her parents during the events of the rebellion. To this day she can recall the screams of pain and of hatred, the sounds of sudden explosions. She can still smell the fear in her elders. And then everything changed. The tide suddenly turned and an up-swell of hope replaced the miasma of doom that held them all in its clutches.

No one knew why the magic had gone away, or why it came back, but it had saved her life and that of her parents and elder brothers. She knew that. She and many of her clan made great thanks in the temple to the god of their family, and it was there, prostrate upon the cold stone that she decided to dedicate her life to the church.

Magic had saved them, and magic must come from the gods. It seemed a simple enough formula to her nine year old self, but she had learned in the years since then that the relationship between magic and the gods was a difficult one to describe, at best. Indeed some clergy believed that the gods were not the source of much of the magic in the world at all.

Nevertheless, Porzia has lived up to her commitment to serve her household god, and has passed through her early initiate training to become a journeyman cleric. Ready to explore the world and spread the faith.

Appearance: Tall for a woman and well made with dark flowing hair. Beautiful in a classic high cheek boned way rather than pretty. Long legs and narrow features.

Personality: Strong willed and defiant of the restrictions society can put on women. Eager to learn and with an artistic turn of mind. She loves to read and spends hours each day copying illuminated manuscripts of her forebears writings – some of which she annotates and augments – just so the meaning is clear. She is passionate about her religion and regularly preaches sermons on the meaning of faith and destiny to congregations in the temple.

She is liable to exhort groups of strangers who are behaving badly on the importance of living as if the gods are watching. "Because they are, my friends. They see what you do and even know what you are thinking. And, in the final days, when we are called to answer for our sins and our immortal souls are weighed in the balance against the feather of humming bird, will you be pulled down by the ponderous heft of your sins. Or will you soar to the heavens with flights of angels?"

History: Born into one of the noble families, Porzia grew up well educated and well nourished. When magic returned to the world and saved her family, she determined to dedicate her life to service to the gods, specifically her family god, Ish-Bin Akar.

She is basically a good person, believes in honesty, duty, etc. but she has seen up close the way the noble families bend all the rules in their own favor and she is not convinced by rhetoric.