Klera Thaler

Klera Thaler (a.k.a. Augury)

Torn between curiosity and compassion, Klera tries to balance her ethically dubious experiments and her work with Duskvol's poor and downtrodden.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Tall, long-limbed and bony, many people are reminded of a stork when they first meet Klera.

Body Features

No tattoos or piercings. She has a few small scars, but nothing noteworthy. Her fingers are long and thin, but strong.

Facial Features

Her pale eyes tend to stare at people just a little too intensively and a little too long. Gaunt cheeks and dark circles under her eyes coupled with the pallor of her skin suggest unhealthy habits.

Physical quirks

She is twitchy - she is almost never completely still, whether it is flexing her hands, bouncing a leg, looking around or shifting her weight.

Apparel & Accessories

She is usually wearing a collared shirt, sharp trousers held up by suspenders, sturdy work boots and a thick greatcoat that is rather too big for her. (Goodness, whatever would Mother think!).

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Though never noble themselves, many sons and daughters of the Thaler family married into financially-troubled noble houses. Once owning numerous, valuable properties in the Six Towers district as well as ships, the Thaler family has fallen on hard times of late, reduced to little more than petty slumlords.
Born to Gernot and Orsola Thaler, Klera is the second oldest of their five children. Klera, like her siblings, was forced to find a "trade" as her mother called it. Where once the oldest daughter of the Thaler family would have gone to the College of Immortal Studies, she now found herself sent to Charterhall University's Jayan Hall of Alchemy.
Always intrigued by the processes of life and death and rather disappointed by stale and commodified studies, Klera began sneaking out into the city after dark - at first merely to observe, then to use her alchemical and medical skills to help those who needed it, and finally to study the dead.
As her night-time activities began to bleed over into the daylight hours, Klera's absence from lectures was noticed. Notified that his younger sister was jeopardising her degree, Milo Thales entered her small apartment near Bellweather Crematorium only to discover a worryingly fresh and partially dissected body on the kitchen table.
Returning to find a small crowd of bluecoats milling about outside her apartment, Klera turned and fled into the noise and the crowds of Charhollow.

Gender Identity

Cisgender female

Education

Unfinished degree in Anatomical Sciences from Charterhall University

Employment

Self-employed (unlicensed) physicker

Accomplishments & Achievements

She has snatched a few corpses from under the noses of the Spirit Wardens. Saving quite a few lives with her medical skills, and also developing some skill in forensic pathology. Not arrested yet - that's a win

Failures & Embarrassments

She has lost many patients over the years and occasionally it has been due to her own mistakes. Her studies frequently leads to the creation of ghosts which isn't great. Her inability to finish her degree grates at her

Mental Trauma

She's watched a lot of people die during her career as a physicker. Sometimes, it's easier to just bury herself in anatomical and pathological studies - corpses generally don't scream for their mothers.

Intellectual Characteristics

She is curious and driven in her studies and in her work. She is highly focused when she is working, she is also empathetic which can be both a hindrance and a boon.

Morality & Philosophy

You do the job that's in front of you.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

She wants to study the human body to understand life and death. In addition, she wants to use what she's already learned to help the people that the rest of the city doesn't care about. Finding a way to study corpses without letting loose ghosts would also be nice. And finding a way to get her hands on better medical equipment.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies: Living in Charhollow, she has learned to tinker with more than the human body - she has learned to manipulate the machinery of the city. The steady hands of a doctor are excellent for picking locks and disabling alarms.
Ineptitudes: She is an awful liar and while she isn't in terrible physical condition, she is far too worried about damaging her hands to get involved in fisticuffs.

Likes & Dislikes

Besides her passion for her work, she enjoys high places, libraries and the food at Kellen's.
She dislikes failure, meaningless violence and being confined.

Virtues & Personality perks

She is generally quite compassionate and rather empathetic.

Vices & Personality flaws

Obsessive, tends to loose sight of immediate dangers when she is working.

Personality Quirks

Touches her face when she is lying. Difficulties staying still when she's not working. Stares.

Hygiene

She has generally good hygiene - she's a doctor, after all.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Eckerd  - a corpse thief
Malista Sevoy - a priestess of the Lady of Thorns, also her least favourite cousin and the only member of the family who knows (roughly) where Klera is currently living.

Family Ties

Gernot Thaler - Father Orsola Thaler - Mother Milo Thaler - Older brother Two younger siblings

Religious Views

She leaves the theology to her cousin.

Social Aptitude

She isn't terribly gifted in this area of life - she's a bit too posh for the lower classes and far too grimy for the upper classes.

Mannerisms

Doesn't emote much. Her mother hammered "proper posture" into her from a very early age and she still hasn't managed to shed it.

Hobbies & Pets

No pets. Is trying to learn to roll a coin over her knuckles and some simple magic tricks (mostly as a way to keep her hands occupied, but it might also serve as a distraction).

Speech

She has abandoned most of the rather affected, posh mode of speech her mother taught her, but occasionally it'll slip in.

Wealth & Financial state

She has a few slugs to her name

A bony, twitchy young woman.

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Honorary & Occupational Titles

"That Strange Physicker Lady What Doesn't Charge for the Medicine"

Currently Held Titles

• Thaler

Birthplace

Duskvol

Current Residence

Charhollow

Gender

Female

Eyes

Pale blue

Hair

Black

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale

Height

5'7"

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Today's specimen: 51 year old, Skovlander male. Height: 169 cm, weight...approximately 65 kg. Cause of death: as yet undetermined. External signs of trauma: minor abrasions on the palms and bruising of the left calf. Beginning incision-"
"Mother would not approve of this. Oh, not at all. When can we start?"

Known Languages

Common