Avenca

Avenca was born in February in St. Petersburg to the Minslaik family, second born of three siblings. Her father was a necromancer, while her mother was a devout member of the Orthodox Church. and was mostly cared for by her mother until she was 5 years old, to which she was then left in the care of her father's assistant, after she displayed a natural aptitude for mage-craft. She practiced with her father’s assistant without him even knowing due to his research, for a few years. When she was eight, her mother stumbled upon the pair practicing basic magic, and she confronted her father. This incident caused a rift in the family, and her siblings both left with her mother, while Avenca, the only child to actively engage in magecraft, stayed with her father, who now never left the atelier behind their villa. She continued to practice magecraft for the next five years until her father’s assistant helped her get accepted to the Clock Tower in London, where she moved at 13.

Avenca displayed only a slightly above average physical aptitude for mage-craft. Her academic and mastery though was unparalleled, and she quickly learned new things during her tenure at the Tower. However, due to her home life, she was really unable to find anything to really stick to and pursue for her future as a mage. When she was 16, one of her instructors, a Sealing Designation Enforcer, offered to allow her to tag along on a bounty he was pursuing of a rogue mage. Trying to find her calling as a magus, she joined him, and found the excursion to be ‘justifying’, as she told him. She found it to be satisfying to enforce the laws of magecraft and immediately began to focus on whatever she needed to be able to become a Sealing Designation Enforcer, and devoted all her time to mastering things needed to be one. A month before her 19th birthday, she managed to obtain the rank of Cause, and began her new life as an Enforcer, working both with the Association and the various Churches.

Avenca moved back to St. Petersburg, hoping to operate out of Russia to hunt rogue mages. Her first target, contracted to her by the Orthodox Church, was her own father. Due to the rift in the family, his mental state had declined, and her father began to do much more nefarious things in his search of eternal life. She challenged him both due to the Sealing Designation and for the family crest. A minor duel broke out between the two, with Avenca coming out victorious and claiming the crest and title as head of the Minslaik family for herself, after turning over her father to the Church for his transgressions. Following this, she instead sold her family estate, and used the funds to procure mystic codes specialized for countering mage-craft. Many of her targets she pursued were also targets of Church Executors, and by the time she was 21, she had been excommunicated due to having eliminated several of them in fights, and nowadays her reputation with most churches, excluding the Orthodox Church, is very low. She inevitably wound up having command seals manifest on her hand at some point, the grail having recognized her desire to make a name for herself and her clan, and eventually she'd depart for the location of the war in order to prepare.

Sorcery Trait: Camouflage, unique to her- She can halt the magic flow in her to mask her presence from things searching for mages. Of course, by doing so, she can't cast magic at all, and it takes a lot of focus to maintain. She has to constantly be thinking about her mana flow being nonexistent, and she can't just exit the concealment easily either, instead having to gradually bring the flow back or she'll cause a painful discharge through her magic circuits, which will also happen if her concentration is disrupted. As a master in a grail war, this can be detrimental at times as during its use, her servant would also receive about 10% of the mana they normally receive from her.

Mystic Code: Secace- A specially crafted rapier commissioned from a magus blacksmith, named after the famed shortsword of King Arthur known for its use in mortal combat. The rapier has an innate ability to dispel low level magic such as wards or familiars by slicing through them.

Pendant of Ataraxia- An enchanted pendant of her birthstone, it enhances Avenca’s focus and intuition, allowing her to analyze and react to situations much faster, giving an equivalent to a E-rank Instinct skill, while also enhancing her affinity to her Water element and attempts to clear her mind to a ‘tranquil state’. It also amplifies her control of the Water element.

Black Military Uniform- The outfit she usually wears, an old black officer’s uniform, has been modified to provide an ability to amplify her touch to disrupt magic circuits. If she’s able to hold a magus long enough, she can cause their circuits to fail them if they try to use magic until she releases the seal. This can also be used in tandem with her sword, to which if she stabs or slices in deep enough, typically needing to be able to sever a muscle, tendon, or nerve, she can cause the injury to begin freezing the circuits within the injured area.

Gandr- Avenca has become very skilled in the application of the Gandr spell, and uses it quite frequently on her targets if she can avoid confronting them. She has extremely skill in manipulating the strength, even making it so minor the spell leaves no trace of magic and takes potentially years to progress. While her own version isn't specialized into projectiles like Rin's, it is much more potent in it's efficiency.

Scrying- Avenca has an aptitude for scrying that seems to have just been innate. While it takes a lot of focus and clarity of mind for her to do, which is why she uses her pendant in tandem with it, she is usually able to gleam very high amounts of information, although she has a chance to fail.