Madame Marvelous

I'm simply MARVELOUS my dear!
Madame Marvelous
Player: @VeliciaL
Origin:	Magic
Archetype:	Controller
Security Level:	50+2
Server:	Confidential
Personal Data
Real Name:	Isarielle Vaylia
Known Aliases:	Sarah Tennison (legal name), Nora Phoenix (stage name)
Species:	Elf, masquerading as Human
Age:	Unknown; Legally 27
Height:	5'6"
Weight:	137 lbs
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Light Blond
Biographical Data
Nationality:	Unknown
Occupation:	Stage Magician
Place of Birth:	Unknown
Base of Operations:	Paragon City
Marital Status:	Single
Known Relatives:	Unknown
Known Powers
Spellcaster; specializes in illusion and time magic
Known Abilities
Stagecraft, dramatics, etc.
Equipment
Various magical nicknacks
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By day, she's Sarah Tennison, a.k.a. Nora Phoenix, stage magician and illusionist extraordinaire. By night, she is Madame Marvelous, mistress of the arcane. But her actual story goes far, far deeper than that.

Biography

Public Bio

Sarah Tennison is the adopted daughter of noted stage magician Alfred Tennison and his wife and longtime stage partner Valerie. An orphan pulled out of obscurity, she has taken to the family business with gusto, assisting with her father for several years before striking out on her own, performing under the name Nora Phoenix. She has also taken another, less public aspect of the family business: Alfred, himself an advisor for MAGI, has trained her in the arts and helped her get her own start to superheroics as Madame Marvelous.

The Real Story

Issarielle Vaylia is from a race of elves who have lived alongside humans, unseen, for millenia. For much of human history she has quietly kept to herself, but the age of superheroes has prompted her out of her solitude in defense of both humanity and the world. By the Second World War she had adopted a persona of her own, Lady Phantasma, and provided magical assistance and consultation to the allied forces. By the Rikti invasion she had adopted a new persona, Mystica Suprema, in order to evade suspicion about her own magical, long lived nature.

Publicly, Mystica Suprema did not survive the Rikti war. Issarielle, herself, only barely survived it, and soon found herself drawing back into isolation while dealing of the traumas of such a close call with disaster.

That started to change upon meeting Alfred Tennison. While publicly a stage magician, Tennison moonlighted as a [MAGI] investigator and had been sent to investigate the reclusive elf. He quickly took pity on Issarielle, helping her heal from old wounds of the war, both physical and mental. He and his wife would invite her to with them soon after, presenting her to the world as Sarah, their adopted daughter who had been kept out of the public eye.

As she slowly recovered from the traumas of war she gradually began to take to public life again. She would learn Alfred's craft from him, finding herself talented enough to run her own show under the name Nora Phoenix, and has even resumed her superheroics under the hero name Madame Marvelous.