Marzaana

Player: @Chase
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Mastermind
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Personal Data
Real Name:	Mary Zane
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Known Powers
Necromancy
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Extract from FBSA debriefing with Tabitha Lachann (“Tabby”)

… Mary Zane? Insane Mary Zane, of the “Zane Foundation” Zanes? Yeah, that’s actually how she’d introduce herself- well, not the insane part, but “Zane Foundation,” part, like “my family’s so rich we have our own foundation” bullshit. God, she was a pretentious bitchy wannabe goth-head.

Y’know, when your boarding school makes everyone dress the same and won’t let you wear make up or jewelry, it takes real talent to pull off the goth look. That’s about the only talent she had. Oh, that and finding fifty thousand ways to fit “we have money” into a conversation.

… yeah, we didn’t quite get along. You can tell? She was all pissy and moaning that I got to do magic research but she wasn’t allowed. Not that the no talent hack could do anything with the knowledge.

… Arch nemesis? Well that sounds kinda extreme. I mean, we’re not friends… not even frenemies… we just… hmm… maybe just nemesis. I wouldn’t want to give her the satisfaction of arch-nemesis.

… she’s a necromancer now? Seriously? Are you sure she’s not just paying people to cosplay it up for her amusement? She did that… like… I think it was our sophomore open-house. Totally freaked the faculty till I ruined her fun.. Her great great great grandfather or something like that supposedly inspired like the Slav equivalent of Dracula, or so she says. Nuts.

Can I see that file? ...Marzaana! Hah! An eastern-european death goddess! See what I mean about being a pretentious bitch? God, she probably just googled for "death goddess" and ran down the list of results. Hilarious since most tales have her appearing like Baba Yaga. A girl so obsessed with looks chooses an ugly old hag for her name. Geeze, she can’t even spell Marzanna right.

...Oh, the name was already taken in the registry? By a real death goddess from eastern europe? Now here, in Paragon?

...Can we, um, edit these transcripts. Take out the “hag” reference, maybe? Just in case she reads this...

Background

The charges that sent Mary Zane, of THE Zane Foundation Zanes, to St. Ives' prep were so heavily redacted that even the FBSA couldn't get clearance for their records. The fact that the arresting officer retired to a private isle near the Nerva Archipelago is another sign of the lengths taken to assure the heir to the Zane family trust kept an unblemished record. Her disciplinary record while at that school were lost to a mysterious fire shortly after graduation. From what can be gathered from interviews with her classmates, it almost sounds like Girls' Dormitory B would have gone completely Lord of The Flies had she held any more influence during her stay. Fortunately, the girl was so obsessed with death and the undead that she was never included in the elite cliques that her financial status alone would suggest she'd lead.

She didn't care. There were plenty of upper/mid-tier girls that would draw blood- literally- for a chance to join her in-school "coven." These girls were devoted to her in a way that her back-biting peers in the elite circles would never have been, and the power that brought let her heavily influence much of Dorm B for her time at St. Ives, had it not been for that trailer-park trash furry abomination Tabby.

(more to come)

Powers

Marzaana has no innate powers, save her intellect and her resources. Although her knowledge of the occult and magic is extensive, she's never been able to cast spells entirely on her own. Some of her ancestors, however, were far more adept. The skull necklace she wears contains relics from one of them, and when pressed against her skin, it channels an echo of his latent necromantic power into her.

It's a start, but it's not enough. She's obsessed with amassing power- real power in all forms, but in particular seeks the power to cast and control and master the arcane arts without the need for trinkets or ancestral bones. Now that her parents are dead, she has the full resources of the Zane Foundation's Trust to move toward that goal.