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Appearance
Nethery has long, dark brown hair that she usually wears in one long braid, either straight down her back or pinned up, whichever is more convenient. Her eyes are bright blue, inherited from her English father. Her skin is dusky, but not dark. She usually dresses in practical, down-to-earth clothing, most often khaki and hiking boots, and always wears a hat or head covering of some kind outside.
History
Nethery is the daughter of an anthropologist father from the east of England and a local Mexican doctor.
Sir Andrew Gilreath is a noted anthropologist who has published several papers about the Aztecs’ culture and religion. Doctor Lourdes Corazon is a local general doctor who lived in a small rural town and served several surrounding communities.
Sir Gilreath came to Lourdes’ town because the inhabitants of the area are direct descendents of the Aztecs who had inhabited the area before the arrival of the Spanish. Aztec culture was Andrew’s area of specialty, and he was interested in seeing how much of the Aztec culture had survived to modern day, as well as investigating several ruins that were in the area.
Andrew stayed in the area for a year, studying the ruins of a nearby Aztec city, before he met Lourdes through an unfortunate accident--he contracted malaria. Lourdes was the attending physician (being the only one in the area), and nursed him back to health.
Initially suspicious of Sir Andrew and his motives, Lourdes came to realize that he was sincere, and a friendship grew between them, heightened by her knowledge of her ancestors, as her grandmother had taught her the old stories and the old ways. She helped Andrew with some of his studies, and after several years, it came as no surprise when Andrew proposed to her.
A few years later, Nethery was born, and was named after Andrew’s grandmother. She is the oldest child of five, having two brothers and two sisters (Alejandro, for Lourdes’ father; Michael, for Andrew’s; Graciela, and Magary). Her mother's mother, Eleodora, still lives in the same village, and is very close to all of the family.
Nethery grew quickly, and absorbed the knowledge and beliefs of both of her parents. She was tutored at home, as were her siblings, and when she finished her tutoring, she went first to America, then to England, to finish her schooling. She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in medicine, and another in botany.
In her first year at Cambridge, while in the field, she had a vision of the bonds of living energy that tie all living beings together. It was as though her eyes had been opened to something that she had always known, but been unable to see or grasp before. She was overcome with awe and wonder at this vision, and it became her guiding force. This was her Awakening.
One of the scientists that led the expedition, a mentor of hers, had long been watching her, and it was to him that she came to tell him of the miraculous vision. He immediately took her under his wing and began tutoring her in magick as well as science.
When she graduated from Cambridge, she returned to her home in Mexico. There, she aided her father in his research as best she could, while starting work on her own research. The revelation that had shown her how all living things were connected had also convinced her that the rain forest held the secrets to cure the diseases that were running rampant. Using her medical and botanical knowledge, she’s attempting to search for cures in the rain forest, as well as researching and documenting local “folk cures,” trying to prove their efficacy.
She also seeks to prove that her beliefs about the bonds between all living things are true. She couldn’t think of a better place to do so than one of the “busiest” places in the world; teaming with life, and one of the last bastions of the magickal paradigm.
What Others See
- What someone would see on an average day:
Nethery has long, dark brown hair, worn in one long braid straight down her back. Her eyes are bright blue, unusual in someone of obvious Hispanic descent. She wears practical, down-to-earth clothing, usually some kind of khaki, complete with a hat and a backpack slung across her shoulders, holding her current research materials.
- What Traditionmates would know of her:
Nethery is the daughter of a renowned British archaeologist and shares his passion for the lore of her ancestors, the Aztecs. She is absolutely committed to her vision of curing deadly diseases and saving lives, and she has an unusual interest in the supernatural and spiritworlds for a technomancer.
- What others in the chantry would know of her:
Dedicated to saving lives and finding cures for deadly diseases; very spiritual and very close to her family; can be found in the library quite often when not experimenting, looking up Aztec folklore; easily approachable with problems.
Essence: Questing
Nature: Visionary
Demeanor: Architect
| Strength 2 | Charisma 2 | Perception 3 |
| Dexterity 2 | Manipulation 2 | Intelligence (Brilliant) 5 |
| Stamina (Tirelessness) 4 | Appearance 2 | Wits 3 |
| Alertness 1 | Firearms 1 | Cosmology 1 |
| Athletics 1 | Meditation 1 [+2] | Culture 1 |
| Awareness 2 [+2] | Research 3 | Enigmas 1 |
| Intuition 2 | Riding 1 | Linguistics (English, Latin) 2 |
| Survival 2 | Lore (Local Folklore) 1 | |
| Technology 2 | Medicine (Alternative Medicine) 4 [+2] | |
| Occult 1 | ||
| Science (Botany) 4 [+2] |
Entropy 1 Life 2 Matter 1 Prime 2 Spirit 1
Arete 2 [+4]
Willpower 7 [+2]
Avatar 4
Dream 2 [+1]
Resources 2
Foci
- Entropy: Scalpel (for the chances she takes with lives), seeds (to show possibilities)
- Life: Blood (Direct symbol for medicine & spirituality), wood (direct connection to Nature’s growth)
- Matter: Gold medallion that belonged to her great-grandmother, Aztec in design
- Prime: Water (direct, basic connection to the Earth), crystal (for visions of Earth)
- Spirit: Bone (a connection to the spirits that have moved on), feathers (for the flight beyond life)
Every living thing is connected to every other living thing. If you harm a living being, you harm yourself. We are all bound together through the miracle of creation. Needless harm only brings harm to all.
If harm comes to a living being that was not of your causing, but you encounter it, you must seek to atone, in however minor a way.
Keep in mind that these ties between living beings also mean that various beings are aware of their places in Nature’s overall scheme. If you seek food, make sure that the animal you kill is ready to move on, and thank it for giving of itself to feed you. If plant, make sure that you do not pluck one yet to bloom, or still blooming, and thank it for giving itself for you.
These bonds of living energy bind all living beings, and because of this, you must show respect and love for living beings, and for Nature, who brought us all into life.
For these reasons, you may not thoughtlessly nor needlessly harm another living being. This includes such things as hunting fo sport or for the joy of the kill, whether the prey be animal or human or other creature; also such things as the wanton destruction of the Earth or Nature, such as strip mining or pollution.
In order to show reverence, nurture living beings. Plant a garden; rescue and raise orphaned kittens. Always make sure that you give proper respect for that which has moved on in order to aid you, whether its passage be by your hand or another’s, or recently or long ago.
Harm or kill only if you must, in order to survive. Protect and nurture Nature, in all of her guises, whenever you can. These are the rules, the duties, and the joys by which we must live.
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