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Description

A striking figure cloaked in old-world elegance, Mira moves through shadows like she owns them. Her dark curls frame a pale, angular face, eyes glinting like obsidian under low light. She wears a long, embroidered coat stitched with protective wards in forgotten languages, and her scent carries a mix of myrrh, smoke, and bitter herbs. Her lair shifts—sometimes a derelict greenhouse, other times a rusted boxcar in the railyards—but it’s always marked by dead birds and symbols scorched into the ground.

Personality

Mira is cold, cunning, and unflinchingly patient. She speaks like she's read every book and lived every century. She considers most people beneath her, but never underestimates Merissa—because she knows exactly what she’s capable of. She plays the long game and thrives in the grey zones of deals, debts, and destiny.

Habits

Burns something sacred before every major ritual
Refuses to speak a lie, but dances around truth with stories
Keeps a rotating entourage of hexed or bound animals (never the same type twice)
Leaves cryptic notes scrawled on walls in ash, only visible under moonlight

Hooks & Angles

Old Rivalry: She and Merissa were once students of the same mentor. Mira claims Merissa stole something—power, knowledge, a prophecy—depending on who’s asking.
Backroom Dealings: Mira crafts arcane favors for influential criminals, politicians, and even the CPD. Her magic always comes with a cost, often paid in secrets or soul fragments.
Shadowed Ally: Some of Merissa’s enemies now work with Mira, either out of fear or faith. She’s organizing something bigger—rituals that stir the ghost-veil over the South Side.
Unfinished Business: There’s one spell she won’t cast, one book she won’t touch—because it ties them both to a catastrophe neither will speak about.

Year of Birth

1903 CE 50 Years old

Birthplace

Kraków, Poland

Eyes

Cold and unreadable, like onyx polished to a shine

Hair

Long, black curls with occasional streaks of silver, often pinned back with bone clasps

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale with a faint bluish hue in the right light, high cheekbones, ritual scars hidden under her sleeves

Height

5'9"

Weight

137 lbs.

Belief/Deity

Syncretic occultism with elements of Eastern European paganism and hoodoo