| Sorceress of New York |
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| Name: | Topaz |
| Gender: | Female |
| Place of Birth: | India |
| Age: | Unknown |
| Aliases: | None |
| Origin: | Homo Magi/Angelic |
| Present Location: | New York |
| Occupation: | Bartender: Voodoo Lounge Owner: Violet Moon |
| Team: | None Yet |
| Alignment: | Good |
| Significant Other(s): | None |
| Powers and Abilities: | Sorcery |
| Portrayed by: | Deepika Padukone |
Once upon a time, in an exotic land, there lived a beautiful young sorceress. She was loved by the people of her village, not only for her beauty but for her kind heart. One day a young man was traveling through the village. He was on his way to a far off land to fight in a great war being raged against several great nations. As he passed through the small village he saw the young sorceress drawing water from the well and was struck by her beauty. Needing to hear if her voice was as lovely as her face he introduced himself. As soon as she spoke the young man could sense the power that the woman held.
”Come.” The sorceress bade him follow her, “Rest in my home. You have travelled long and must be weary.” The sorceress could feel the power of the young man and knew he was not want he seemed. She was curious as to why an agent of Heaven was wandering the realm of mortals.
The sorceress and angel talked much of the day and spent the long night entwined in each other’s arms. In the morning the man was gone, the only evidence of his visit the growing seed in the sorceress’ womb.
Deep within the bowels of Hell a powerful demon sat upon his throne. The Hell Lord had heard of the prophecy, of how a child of magic and heaven would bring him down. He felt the stirrings of the prophecy and swore it would not come to pass. Summoning his most trusted servants he commanded that the Child of Heaven be brought to him, and sat on his throne and waited.
”Her name is Topaz.” The young sorceress whispered her voice strained her fingers brushing through the dark curly hair that covered the newborn girl’s head, “For she will bring healing and energy wherever she travels and be an agent of peace and forgiveness.” The sorceress then closed her eyes and with one final breath died.
”Hurry child.” the aging sorcerer only known as Taboo said breathlessly as he bent to pick up the toddler. “We must escape before the soldiers come.” He didn’t know who this toddler was or where she came from. But he didn’t question why she was left on his doorstep many months ago. His power was meager compared to some, but he could sense the power in the child and knew that fate had picked him to be her teacher and protector.
”’boo!” Topaz rebelled as she was swept up into arms much stronger than hers “Flowers dead. Fix!” she reached out a chubby hand toward the flowers as Taboo and his small ward fled the war torn city. Flowers bloomed in his wake.
”Why hasn’t the child been brought to me?” the Hell Lord Mephisto roared at his servants as he slammed his fist on the arm of his throne.
”My Lord Mephisto,” one of the demon servants, pushed forward by the servants that surrounded him, cowered before the wraith that came from the Hell Lord, “we have tried many times to take the child. Her protector, while weak compared to us, is augmented in the presence of child. We can’t touch them as long as the man lives, and we can’t kill him as long as she is alive.” The speaking demon cowered further as a flick of Mesphisto’s hand sent him flying across the room.
”I see that if I want something done right, I have to do it myself.” Mephisto spoke as he stood. In a puff of brimstone he was gone.
”Oh, isn’t the ocean beautiful Taboo?” the almost grown Topaz asked, as she stood barefoot on Venus Beach, the California sun beating down on her long, now blond hair. She rubbed her arms, still feeling the itch of the physical transformation, “Do I have to look like this. “ she gestured to herself, taking in her sun-kissed freckled skin, blond hair and blue eyes “It’s itchy.”
”Yes, child. We are foreigners here, and are mistrusted for that. We must blend in if we are to make our way in America.”
The pair had spent their early years in a refugee camp, before they were able to save enough money to take a boat to Europe. They then spent years traveling the world, looking for magical relics and ancient artifacts. They travelled, Europe, the Middle East, went through China and now found themselves in America. With another world war raging on two fronts, in Europe and Asia, it seemed the safest place to be. “And it is a pleasant view. Now can you harness the energies of land and sea and bind them to your will.
The young Topaz sighed as even in this land of promise, she was forced to do lessons.
On the boardwalk above the two magi stood a dark haired man watching them. He noted the rebelliousness in the girls face and how easily the girl pulled the energies to herself. The time would be soon, but he had to prepare. A seagull flew away startled when he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
”No!” Topaz yelled as the large figure in the sky pronounced judgment on the people of earth. She reached out for the energies of the earth beneath her and the sky above, but for the first time in her life they did not answer her call. She was powerless. She looked to her teacher, mentor and protector, Taboo, only to find a bent old man in his place. Tears streamed from her eyes and lifted to the dark haired man standing behind him.
”Now you are mine.” the man gave Topaz a feral grin “You will make a beautiful statue in my throne room.”
Days changed to weeks. Weeks to months. Months to years. Trapped in her marble shell, Topaz was only vaguely aware of its passing. Cracks started to form in the curse that the Spectre had bound to the world. And with each crack, Topaz felt a bit of her power returning.
For years Team 7 had been getting unusual spikes of magic. They would appear randomly with no rhyme or reason, sometimes they would be accompanied by an overwhelming sense of anger, sometimes a claustrophobic feeling. The team tried to make sense of the unusual spikes, but the best they could determine was that they came from the realm of Hell. The Sisters of Glastonbury Tor, were not bound by the Spectre’s curse, so Team 7 went to them. The Sisters scryed the depths of Hell and found the trapped sorceress.
It was hardly noticeable at first, it was just a small crack. It started at the corner of the beautiful statues eye and ran a path down its cheek. Within an hour the cracks had spread all over and the beautiful statue that had brought many compliment to the Hell Lord’s ear exploded into dust, “Mephisto!” the gloriously angry woman that stood in the statue’s place was more beautiful that the Hell Lord remembered. With dark skin, long ebony hair and eyes that glowed with rage. The Hell Lord jump to his feet ready to repel the spell the woman was already weaving. In that moment Topaz learned what she was, that she was a daughter of Heaven, a child of prophecy.
”Now is not the time of prophecy.” A chorus of disembodied voices rocked the Hell Lord’s throne room “This battle is yet to be waged.” with those words Topaz was swept up and a whirlwind. The Sisters of Glastonbury Tor bringing her home.
Topaz settled into life with Team 7. She had sixty plus years to catch up on and much more magic to learn. When Team 7 disbanded Topaz stayed with the man that shared her psychic skills, though he was metahuman and she magic there was still much they could learn from another.
Four times the earth traveled around the sun and Topaz started feeling restless. She could learn no more from the school for metahumans, so she moved to New York where she had heard a Sorcerer Supreme lived and hoped to become his student and perhaps live happily ever after.
Gentle
Topaz is a gentle person. She would rather solve problems with calm words and judicious use of her empathic abilities than with fists and yelling. She abhors violence under most circumstances. She feels a great sense of sadness at the misfortune of others.
Sarcastic
Despite her gentle soul, Topaz has cultivated a cynical streak and lets it show at the oddest moments. Usually when she finds a situation uncomfortable or she is strongly influenced by another's emotional state.
Flirty
Topaz is an equal opportunity flirt, though she doesn't play for the other team. Her flirting is pretty much harmless and she certainly isn't serious about it. She only flirts with people who realize this and she always seems to know who is and isn't serious.
Mysterious
Topaz likes to cultivate an air of mystery. She doesn't readily tell people about herself and keeps her past well hidden from those she doesn't know well. To those she has bonded or knows well with she isn't so close mouthed though she still prefers not to talk about certain aspects of her life.
Protective
Not being a big fan of violence, Topaz is quite protective of those that are victims of such. She will go out of her way to stop/prevent a violent act in progress and shelter those that are past victims so they won't come to harm.
Feisty
Just because she is a gentle person does not mean that Topaz is a pushover. She has no problem with standing up for herself and anyone else she feels needs it, to just about anyone.
Seductive
Topaz isn't above using her feminine wiles to get the outcome she wants in whatever situation she is in. She is well practiced in these arts and uses them without any shame on her part.
Motivation
Topaz has two forms of motivations. Long term and short term. What motivates her in the long term is knowing what she is, and what her future holds. Being a child prophecy is a heavy burden, one that she regularly tries to forget. It isn't easy knowing that a huge battle with the Lord of Hell is in your future. What makes it worse is that the Lord of Hell you are supposed to fight will do anything he can to stack the odds in his favor. Her short term motivations are based on her on empathic abilities and what those around her need. Is the homeless man taking shelter in the alleyway hungry? She is motivated to offer him a meal. She does realize that she can't save everyone nor does she try, but she does try to do little things that will make a difference in life, even if its for a day.
Goals
To become a student of the Sorcerer Supreme. To join a hero team so she can make a difference.
Sorcery
Having trained to be a sorceress all her life, Topaz is amazingly skilled in the magical arts. She is able to pull on the latent energies of all living things to fuel her spells as well as the energies of the four main elements. It is this ability that makes her as powerful as she is.
Currently she is considered a Master when it comes to Psychic Magic even Doctor Strange wouldn’t challenge her to a duel. She is an Adept when it comes to all other magics, she is somewhere between Zatanna and Doctor Strange.
With her sorcery she is able to do many things, from amplifying the magic of others to teleporting, from healing to life draining, as well as a number of other stunts and spells. Some of her spells are instantaneous, like those more fully described in other power attributes as well as certain spells like teleportation. Others need prep time and can only be cast when certain conditions are met. Some of these conditions could be equipment or paraphernalia, location, certain times of day or year, etc.
Mystic Defense
Through the use of her various abilities Topaz is able to defend herself from mystical based attacks with extreme proficiency.
Telepathy
Topaz is a powerful telepath easily on par with Jean Grey and Emma Frost. The only differences between them is that Topaz's is magic based and she has very little ability at mind control. She can easily read an unsheilded mind and probe deeper into the person's thoughts if necessary. She is fully capable of two way telepathic communication, even if the person she is telepathically communication has no mental powers whatsoever. If she can see the person she can use her telepathy on them. Because her telepathy is magic based she can form permanent telepathic bonds with people that allow her to communicate with these people over vast distances. Across the street, across the country, if she is telepathically bound to someone she can reach them mentally with ease.
She is fully capable of using her telepathy both defensively (mental shielding on par with Emma Frost) and offensively (Psychic Blast, up to five people, stunned or KO’d for a few minutes to an hour depending on their own mental acuity, mental shield blocks or weakens effect).
Empathy
Being a powerful empath Topaz is able to both give and receive as well as forcibly drain and accentuate the emotional states on a group scale and within single individual. She can sense what a person is feeling, though she may not necessarily be able to tell why. If a person is feeling rage, for example, she can pull that emotion into herself and dissipate it or enflame it to greater heights. With effort she can even temporarily drain a person's hatred, fear or evil out of them; this can last several hours or up to several weeks depending on the individual.
If she is just dealing with one emotion, she can deal with a whole crowd of people (no more than say 25 or so in a close area, like the size of a large bar) or within easy line of sight if it is a singular person or small group (no more than 10), i.e things are getting to rowdy somewhere she can she can radiate a calmness that will affect the crowd.
There is no outward sign she is doing anything though she does need to have her hands free. It is a magical ability so those persons that can sense that sort of thing would know she is doing something.
Life Energy
Topaz is able to manipulate the life energy around her. She can send it flowing through living and disembodied creatures, both animals and plants, reviving them, giving new life to those near death or reuniting the disembodied with their living shells (body). She cannot bring a person or creature that is already dead, back to life.
She can pull this life energy from the life around or or from herself. When she pulls this energy from living creatures (Humans/Animals/Plants) they will feel tired for a short while, and possibly pass out if she drains enough, but recover quickly. If she is pulling it from plantlife, they will look a little peaked and wilty. The best source is human, followed by animals than plants. She is capable of pulling from mulitple living things at once, which makes the effect on what she is pulling from less on an individual level. Should she start feeling fatigued after extensive use of her innate magical abilities (Empathy, TK, Telepathy, Channeling and Healing)she can use this to refresh herself, but she cannot use it to fuel spells that aren't instantaneous in nature. Range 50 yds.
Telekinesis
Topaz is able to move and manipulate objects around without having to be in physical contact with them. Of course she has to be able to see what she is trying to manipulate or be very familiar with its location. Her TK is quite strong, she has been able to use it to pull apart steel bonds. She can lift up to 10 tons with her Telekinesis, with effort. She can lift any number of objects as long as there weight does not exceed her 10 ton max.
She is fully capable of using this both defensively (TK Shield) or offensively (TK Blast: 50 yd range, concussive damage capable of blowing holes in cinderblock walls.)
Healing
With the manipulation of Life Energy Topaz is able to heal creatures (and herself) of both physical and mental damage, physical illness (possibly even mental illness given enough time and daily sessions) and disease. She can heal many people, up to five at once, in a day as long as she is near a source of life energy, which is pretty much imbued in all living things.
Enhanced Senses
Being a powerful sorceress of probable angelic origin Topaz is able to sense things beyond the kin of ordinary sight, sound etc. She can easily detect most magical energies and if a person is either practiced in the craft or has mystical potential. She can also easily identify creatures of magical origin as well as demons and angels, even when they are disguised as someone or something else. Her empathic senses allow her to detect people/spirits that can’t be seen through normal means, be they astral, invisible or cloaked in other ways.
Shapeshift
Topaz doesn't know what she truly looks like but she seems to be able to drastically change her appearance. She is able to switch between two forms. One a blonde, blue eyed, Caucasian beauty, the other the Indian looking beauty. It is possible she has other forms she can shift into. There is no telling if she will discover her true appearance sometime in the future.
Amplify Magic
It is this ability that makes Topaz a target for the power hungry mage. She has the ability to act as a magical catalyst, accentuating the power of mages in the area. It helps if she is a willing participant in the power boosting, but it isn't necessarily a requirement.
Beauty
Being the offspring of an Indian sorceress and an angel, Topaz has genetics working for her. In the looks department she pretty much broke the scale.
Vigor
Genetics is a wonderful thing, especially when they work in your favor. If any one person could be considered to be near perfect physically, besides Steve Rogers of course, it would be Topaz. She is pretty much immune to most illness and disease (her healing ability at work) and she doesn’t have to put all that much effort in staying fit and trim.
Resources
Despite only being in the modern era for a handful of years, Topaz has made some powerful allies. She is known of the Sisters of Glastonbury Tor, spent some time with Team 7 and had Charles Xavier for a mentor. Not too bad for only five years into what is her the modern era.
Employment
Topaz’s main job is as a bartender/manager at the Voodoo Lounge. The owner is getting up there in years and is wanting to retire. She is trying to save her money to buy him out. Her secondary job is as guest lecturer at Xavier’s School. Once or twice a semester she goes to give lectures about magic, the different planes of existence, demons etc. She will also assist those students with magical powers gain control of their abilities.
Physical Skills
Topaz loves to move and because of this she has picked up a few hobbies that keeps her moving. She is a graceful dancer, is a pro at yoga (her balance and flexibility are superb) and loves to run, though she isn’t all that fast.
Bartending
She is an intuitive bartender, sure she knows how to mix up most if not all the common mixed drinks, but she also knows a few of the unique ones. Her intuition is even great enough to know what a customer is going to order before they even order it, so it is usually already made before they even sit down at the bar.
Demonology
All her life Topaz has had demons chasing her and trying to capture her, they were successful once and she is determined that they will never be successful again. This is motivated her to learn all that is possible about demons and how to dispose of them, both temporarily and permanently. She is an expert when it comes to demons and the various places they come from.
Occult/Mystic
Topaz has trained her whole non-statue life in the mystic and occult arts, she is an expert when it comes to any knowledge pertaining to magic or the occult.
Psychological Skills
While Topaz doesn’t have any sort of psychological degree her powers have made her quite knowledgeable about the human condition. She can easily relate to just about any situation and has the ability to deal with a bevy of mental issues, including those brought on by magical means or lycanthropy.
Lingusitics
Topaz spent her childhood and teen years travelling the world. You can do that without learning any of the languages you come across, but when you have the ability to learn the language directly from a person's brain, why would you. She is fluent in English, Urdu, as well as other middle eastern languages, Italian and Chinese. She is also fluent in the various languages spoken by the demons and in languages that are recently and long dead, like latin, ancient egyptian, etc.
Beauty
It’s a double edged sword. It isolates her from a lot of people and makes it harder to approach. Those that do approach her usually want something that she isn’t willing to give. It is impossible for her to blend in and she certainly is memorable.
Enemies
She is on Mephisto’s most wanted list, easily within the top three. There is no doubt he will continue to wipe her out so she doesn’t wipe him out, and he doesn’t care how many demons she puts down to get her.
Font of Power
Her ability to amplify mystical abilities makes her a tempting target for human mages and demons alike. You can bet any number of evil sorcerers would like to get their hands on her.
Empathy
There is no off switch to Topaz’s empathy. If she is awake she is sensing. The most she can do is ignore it, which isn’t all that easy. It’s easy for her to get overwhelmed and caught up in someone else’s emotions, especially if the other person is in a heighted state of emotion.
Out of Time Out of Place
Topaz is not from the modern era. She was born sometime around the turn of the 19th/20th century and spent what should have been her adult life and then some as a statue. Five years is hardly enough time to catch up on 60+ years of being out of touch. Because of this and her lack of formal education when she was a child there are huge gaps in her knowledge. She can read and write well and can do large amounts of magic formula, but when it comes to other bits of of education others take for granted she is severely lacking.
Relationships
IC Events
(2014-12-02) Fire Harvest
Log Title Summary: Topaz and Black Lightning deal with a suspicious fire Date: (2014-12-02) ...
(2014-11-13) Demon Be Gone!
Demon Be Gone Summary: Finding a way to earth, a demon is banished by Topaz with the help of...
(2014-11-04) Wreckers Wrecked
Wreckers Wrecked Summary: Thunderball and Piledriver are foiled by Topaz (Black Knight...
(2014-10-27) New Moon
New Moon Summary: Simon completes the transfer of Violet Moon to Topaz Date: (2014-10-27) ...
(2014-10-21) Where Do Buildings Go
Where Do Buildings Go When No One is Watching Them? Summary: Black Lightning and Topaz hear...
(2014-10-16) Dancing in Moonlight
Dancing in Moonlight Summary: Topaz and Black Lightning go for a walk together, chancing upon...
(2014-09-29) Technology is Toast
Technology is Toast Summary: Topaz and Black Lightning track down info on the satellite from...
(2014-09-26) Magneto Was Right!
Magneto Was Right! Summary: Not really - but a public address by the Ambassador of Genosha turns...
(2014-09-25) Day at the Museum
Day at the Museum Summary: Topaz, Black Lightning and Captain Atom foil Cheshire and Dwarfstar...
(2014-09-15) One Upon a Midnite
Once Upon a Midnite Summary: Topaz, Doctor Mid-Nite, and Black Lightning converge on a secret...
(2014-09-08) Opening Doors
Opening Doors Summary: Black Lightning follows leads on the case of Pluto, meets up with Topaz ...
(2014-08-20) It's Not Work If It's Fun
It's Not Work If It's Fun Summary: Zatanna, Naenia and Topaz at the Voodoo Lounge Date:...
(2014-04-21) A Crowded Bar
A Crowded Bar Summary: Bogart finds his way into the Voodoo Lounge Date: April 21, 2014 ...
(2014-03-24) Bouncer Wanted
Bouncer Wanted Summary: Marko comes looking for a job Date: 2014-03-24 Related: None NPCs:...
(2014-03-24) Arcane Assistance
Arcane Assistance Summary: Moon Maiden comes to Topaz for some help with the golem problem ...
(2012-11-14) Silly Cultists Never Learn
Silly Cultists Never Learn Summary: Topaz, Black Knight, and Hellstrom take down cultists. ...
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