August Lawson

August's past is a bit of a mystery, in many ways even to herself. On the face of things, she seems normal enough.  A tall, striking, dark-haired woman with startling blue eyes, she is well loved by the people around her.  She is a medical doctor and inherited enough money to make it through medical school without debt and to keep her comfortable while working for free clinics and other non-profit medical organizations.  She's spent time overseas with Doctors Without Borders.

Her mother died when she was almost too young to remember her and August was raised by a group of mages and mystics who traveled the world capturing and containing dangerous magical artifacts.  They were a loving family to her and taught her a great deal, and until their death in the line of their work, she believed they had been friends of her mother.  In the memories of her mother, Aislinn Lawson was a practitioner of white magic - healing, Earth magic and the like - on a commune of like-minded souls in Northern California.  The memories were sweet and distant for August, but after the death of the coven of mages who raised her, she discovered they were not true in the least.

Her father, Zauriel, was an extradimensional being - some would call him an angel - and August had long believed that he fell for her mother and in their love, she had been conceived.  She has discovered, though, that the story is somewhat different than what she was told...

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Traits

1. Healing Arts: August is a medical doctor, but she also has healing powers.
   
2. Angelic presence: "I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices."
   
   It's not on all the time, but when she needs to, August can really turn it on.  This can be used to frighten or impress, to command, and can create a wound of the spirit, causing guilt and shame to those who've done things wrong.  It can also cleanse some kinds of arcane "evil" and makes it difficult to lie to her.
   
3. Strong moral center.  Helps her resist a variety of magical and psychic effects.
   
4. Soul Energy Manipulation: August has spent a lifetime doing good works, showing kindness to people around her and sacrificing of herself to help people in need.  She has built up a large reserve of mystic energy from this Great Work.  And she can manipulate this energy to do a number of things. (This is very much Earth Goddess Magic, not Angelic stuff) Such as:
   • Manifest the Sun Spear, a weapon made from the energy of her soul
     
   • Soul Armor.
     
   • Wings of Light.  She can manifest beautiful wings of iridescent light from her back that allow her to fly at great speed.
   
   
5. Enhanced physiology.  She's slightly stronger, faster and has greater endurance than a human. She also heals quickly and doesn't get sick.
   
6. Natural Magician.  Because of her history, she has a good deal of knowledge about magic and has a strong, natural aptitude for its use.
   
7. True Love.  She deeply, truly loves Clarick de Breuil.  Their souls are bound to one another in such a manner that when she has great need, she can draw on Clarick's metahuman abilities.

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What I want from play is adventure, players working together against largely NPC badguys to create fun stories with lots of fighting, intrigue and angst.  I like stories where the characters sometimes win and sometimes lose and there are real stakes and an emotional impact to the things happening.  Games where the players just knock badguys in the head then move on to the next tend to run together after awhile for me.  I like to see a little more emotional depth than that.