( Eve Hewson /31/ she/her ) — Thera Wendell has been living in Port Leiry for 3 months. They own the Crow and Chalice. No one is sure if they’re actually a witch or if they’re connected to the Augury. They tend to be quite wary and flippant, but can also be incredibly loyal and inclusive.
Name: Thera Lee Wendell
Occupation: Owner of the Crow and Chalice
Age: 31, 11 February 1994
Species: Witch
Clan/Pack/Coven?: the Augury
Hometown: a little bit of everywhere but includes Athlone, Ireland and Port Leiry, Oregon
Relationship Status: Single, but unavailable (may be pining for @cutthroat-service)
Personality Traits: loyal, mystic, inclusive, curious, wanderlust, wary, flippant, discreet
“Magic is so much more than just a craft”
1. The lines of those who can touch fate are often cut the shortest. A truth the Wendell line has proved for generations. Often known as fate stitchers, the Wendell’s are often power divination witches, but with their close tie to the threads of possibility, their ability to preform certain craft is a power many would like to see ended.
2. In this vein, Thera Wendell was, unsurprisingly, orphaned at a very young age. The circumstances of her parents’ deaths were both equally untimely as they were strange. Not that her Grandmother or her Aunt, Thera’s new guardians, ever thought to dwell on that though. No. The only way for a Wendell was forward, the past was not something they dealt in.
3. However that path forward was something the two could not agree upon. While Grandma thought it was time to return to how life had been before the Wendell’s had settled in Port Leiry, a life on the road, Thera’s Aunt thought it was time to retire the fate stitching ways and return to the small craft, Divination witchcraft was helpful in so many ways in her eyes. So Thera was split, spending the majority of the year assisting her Grandmother around the world, helping members of the supernatural community as her family had been expected to do for generations, and then summering with her Aunt in Port Leiry.
4. Thera treasured her summers. In Port Leiry not only did she have friends but her Aunt showed her the ways that magic was beautiful. They spent their days brewing tea concoctions and tending to fairy holes, while in the evenings they wove dream catchers and reading mythology. Thera’s Aunt turned the family business into a place where humans could safely interact with the myth of magic as well as offer a safe space to those in the supernatural community that roamed Port Leiry.
5. Thera’s Grandmother was the opposite of her Aunt. To her their bloodline had a duty one that if they carefully followed certain rules would not only allow them to assist the natural cycle but also help to protect them. Grandmother was one of the oldest living Wendell’s and hence her words had merit. But duty was pain, duty was loneliness, duty, at times, felt hollow. As the years past Grandmother limited Thera’s time in Port Leiry until ultimately Thera stopped indulging herself at all.
6. As time passes, death visits and soon Thera was on her own abroad. She was never anywhere too long and she upheld her “duty”. In the cracks of her time she allowed in some passion, some friendship, some semblance of self, but life held little of the magic she so liberally practiced.
7. That’s when she got the letter. Her Aunt was missing, an inevitable fact of Wendellian fate, but she had left Thera the store, The Crow and Chalice, a place that almost felt, to Thera, like something out of a story book. Before she knew it Thera had packed her things and was standing in the abandoned store front she had sometimes called “home”.
8. For three months Thera has isolated herself in her store. Indulging herself in customers that most likely didn’t know better when it came to the trinkets she sold, the tea she brewed, or the stones she read. Life was perfect and yet something was still missing….. Maybe it was time to open up to the world again….
Connections:
All Are Welcome: Thera upholds the Crow and Chalice as a safe space for humans and other members of the supernatural community. As long as you are not hostile you are welcome at the business, open to customers both old and new.
Customers Abroad: Thera has spent the majority of the last 30 years traveling the world and has had the opportunity to meet many people through the continuation of doing her family’s work preforming magical favours for the supernatural community. Maybe you did business with the Wendell’s and departed with good or bad feelings after the fact or maybe you just ran into Thera on your travels.
A Reason to Run: It is an accepted fact of the Wendell Line that people will want you dead for your ties to fate or your ability to change the fates of others. Thera has had close calls on the road and members of her family have been killed or disappeared throughout the generations. So if you think your character or someone from their backstory would have a grudge against the Wendell line let me know.
Not All is Fair in Fate: When it comes to stitching sometimes fate finds a way to balance itself out and while Thera has endeavoured to endure the prince herself, maybe someone got unintentionally hurt along the way, either by Thera or another member of her family.
I’m open to discussing any and all connections, these were just some ideas that could be fun.
