Celeste Pavoni is an early middle aged Malgravean woman who works as part of the Ancestral Study Group, specifically the department known as the Institute for the Development of Ancestral Technology and Advancement Towards Ascension, the IDATA-TA, the wing of the organization charged with liasing with explorers, scientists and archeologists. She is also a keen student of Altean philosophy within the Tablets of Riminil, and an accomplished healer who spends much of her time in the hospitals of Malgrave. She hails from the Omsk region and is widowed with two children.