Ona Omar i Picó

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Ona Omar i Picó (d. Caligo) is a researcher and a high-ranking member of the International League of Arcanurgists, currently living and working in Barcelona. She is well known for her work in the development of the Omar Telegraph, currently used all across the Mediterranean Crown and beyond. She owns a shop of arcanurgic components, Arcona, which she uses to fund her research about the Ancients.

Brief Biography

Ona was born in 1856 in a humble family of shepherds in the County of Urgell, Catalonia. She has two older brothers and had a little sister until her disappearance in 1869. She spent her youth in her small town, going to school as she expressed a great deal of curiosity and promise from her first year. Her daemondaimoni, Caligo, appeared when she was just four months old, way earlier than the average of one or two years.
At 16 years old, after long conversations with her parents, Ona moved to Barcelona to study arcanurgy at the University. She quickly became one of the top students and before she had even ended her studies, she received an invitation to join the International League of Arcanurgists of the Roman Empire (with universal jurisdiction), which she accepted.

Professional life and research

After receiving her diploma in 1878, she presented a project proposal to the Catalan Courts, asking for funding. If completed, the project would introduce instant and precise transmission of complex messages across long distances. The Courts denied her the funding, arguing that there were more pressing matters and they already had the optical telegraph anyway. So she turned to the League of Arcanurgist, which accepted the project and funded her research.
In 1880 she completed her project, which she named the Omar TelegraphTelègraf Omar (often wrongly called Sea TelegraphTelègraf del Mar due to the phonetic similarity of the name in Catalan) and, after a test run between Barcelona and Valencia, the system expanded all throughout the Mediterranean Crown and beyond.

Rise to fame

After her great success, she opened an arcanurgy store called Arcona, which quickly became Catalonia's largest store of this kind. This, together with the royalties from the telegraph, allowed her to focus on what she really wanted: research the Ancients and uncover their secrets.
Additionally, in 1881 the League offered her the rank of Master Arcanurgist, which makes her a honorary citizen of the Roman Empire and gives her scholastic immunityimmunitat escolàstica. In exchange, she has to provide regular reports on the progress of her research, adhere to the League's code of ethics, and share 15% of any potential revenue from the research's results with the League.

Motivation

When asked, she usually points to the disappearance of her 11-year old sister Laia, in 1869, as the main driving force behind her research. She believes the Statues have something to do with it and is determined to get to the bottom of that. But deeper than that lays an unrestrainable will to know more about the world and discover new, unexplored areas of arcanurgy. Many people point at her success and assume her motivation is simply wealth—but to her, it's just a means to an end.

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Current Location

Barcelona

Age

29 years old

Date of Birth

11th of September of 1856

Birthplace

Urgell

Belief/Deity

Christian

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