Name: Imogen Vaisman
Age: 22
Species: Witch (Visions / Mediumship)
DETAILS
Skeleton: The Broken Medium
General Vibe: Quiet, intense, and tightly wound. Imogen holds herself together through control, but it doesn’t always hold. She is stubborn, principled, and driven by a need to protect people, even when she knows she shouldn’t get involved. There is a constant tension in how she carries herself like she’s always bracing for something to go wrong. She doesn’t speak unless she means it, but when she does, she doesn’t back down. Underneath that is anxiety and restraint.
Current Position: Operating outside of Asphodel. Known to them due to a prior incident that resulted in multiple casualties. Widely mistrusted by the institution and avoids it in return. Remains strongly connected to her family and Vaisman networks rather than formal magical structures.
Background: Imogen was raised within the Vaisman family, known for helping supernaturals who avoid or are turned away from Asphodel, and she grew up with a strong distrust of the institution and how it handles magic and information.
Her abilities developed sporadic visions and these visions were rare but intense, often fragmented and difficult to interpret in any reliable way.
Around two years ago, her visions increased in frequency and began to center repeatedly on Asphodel, with a persistent sense that something inside the building was dangerous.
Imogen became convinced that something within Asphodel posed an immediate threat, but her warnings were dismissed by the institution, both because they do not trust vision-based insight and because her Vaisman background made her easy to discredit.
Believing people would be hurt if nothing was done, she chose to act and entered Asphodel with a small group of witches who trusted her interpretation of what she had seen.
Their intention was to place a protective ward within the building, but during the casting the magic destabilized and resulted in a catastrophic backlash.
The ward failed, the energy discharged uncontrollably, and multiple people inside the building were seriously injured or killed as a direct result of the attempt.
The outcome aligned with what her visions had warned of, but it was her intervention that caused it to happen.
Asphodel recorded the incident as reckless interference, unauthorized magical use, and direct responsibility for the casualties, and Imogen became widely mistrusted as a result.
She survived the incident and has remained outside of Asphodel since, avoiding structured magical spaces and no longer relying on her visions in the same way, even when they occur.
Beliefs / Perspective
Visions cannot be trusted, especially not her own
Trying to change what she sees can make things worse
She should not get involved, but finds it difficult not to.
She does not rely on her visions anymore, but she cannot ignore them completely when they happen.
Notes
Visions remain rare but intense
Struggles to interpret what she sees without projecting meaning onto it
Carries direct guilt for the Asphodel incident
Avoids structured magical institutions
Still feels responsible for intervening when others may be in danger
Represents a direct example of the risk of acting on incomplete prophecy