Appearance | Inside and out, Cordelia Briggs is an unusual beauty. Of average height and thinly sculpted, she carries herself with an air of fluidity, every motion carefully composed and intentional, though never severe or sharp.
Her features are delicate, canvas a pale foil to the dark brown hair she keeps in loose waves, falling well past her waist. Gaslight blue eyes, wide and eerily bright, are set beneath thin, arched brows and thick, dark lashes.
Name | Cordelia 'Oracle' Briggs
Age | 25
Vocation | Fortune Teller [thief]
Short Biography |
Fortune favors those with a fortune to favor… or so the story goes. A glittering bandage slapped over a festering wound, looks are often deceiving for anyone who lacks the vision to really see. One thing Cordelia Briggs has never lacked is vision. Born and orphaned on a starless night, she came into a broken, damaged world more tool than child and for this, the first several years of her life were hard.
Thieves. Grifters. Killers. Theses were the family she came to know. The world of darkness became a home to Cordelia, the underbelly of Eldrassir a way of life. By her eleventh, her adopted father had honed her into his partner. The girl took to conning like a fish to water, and made of herself a valuable enough commodity. And so she existed for the next several years, her father picking pockets, while Cordelia balanced on the marginally more sophisticated edge of fortune telling. But delving into the shadows always comes with a price...
Weapons | In her youth, Cordelia was trained to wield both a solitary blade, as well as daggers. She is also quite proficiently versed in many applicable uses for poisons.
Magic | Dark | Cordelia utilizes a mild form of dark magic, tapping into the Darkness to allow her to look into another's mind. Initially, this will manifest in the form of involuntary dream walking and thought sharing, but eventually, Cordelia will possess the ability to sift through the thoughts and memories of individuals she comes in physical contact with, or, conversely to shield memories from said individual.
The ramifications of this magic are two fold - physically, Cordelia suffers from violent headaches, dizzy spells and epistaxis. Mentally, Cordelia is challenged by debilitating nightmares, which have resulted in increasing bouts of insomnia.
Equipment | Her wardrobe while reading is at times ostentatious and flamboyant, but outside of work, on her person, Cordelia carries very little beyond what is absolutely necessary: A dull grey cloak, two stiletto blades and a silver necklace she believes once belonged to her birth mother.
INTUITIVE | FOCUSED | ENCOURAGING
GUARDED | EMOTIONAL | WARY
Cordelia is a simple creature, with a very complex sense of morality. Where her family is concerned, whatever is necessary is acceptable by her standards, but in everyday life she exists within a strict parameter of self control seen pertinently in the way she approaches her talents as a grifter. Most particularly, Cordelia will not 'read' anyone that she has any sort of deeply rooted emotional attachment to, nor will she utilize her talents on children or widows. She can be exceptionally guarded, where her feelings are concerned, but is nevertheless a warm, open individual, quite easy to talk to, promoting a sense of trust and reliability in most she interacts with. When working, Cordelia is extremely focused, tackling every job with the uttermost attention to detail. She can be a bit of a magpie, collecting odd trinkets here and there, largely for strangely sentimental reasons, but she keeps very little and what does not go to her family goes to those in need of the charity.
Because of the sensitive nature of her job and admittedly a bit of paranoia on her part, Cordelia is extremely cautious, using the pseudonym of Oracle to protect her identity with almost any she comes in contact with.
Skills | Cordelia's talents for conning go without saying. Trained at a young age, she possesses a gift of charming most she meets, and in many instances, manages it earnestly, belying her occupation. Beyond her talents of conversation, she is a capable thief, nimble and stealthy, quick footed and quick thinking. Lastly, though certainly not least, Cordelia's intuition is nearly inimitable - her instincts calibrated to the slightest hint of trouble.
Deficiencies | So accustomed to conning is Cordelia, that turning it off is often times impossible. Every detail of her life, from where she grew up, down to her name has become a treasure to protect, at all costs. Conversely, her upbringing and complicated occupation have done little to afford Cordelia with a great deal of trust in others, and this makes it exceptionally complicated to create lasting relationships. Her past also had a way of rebounding upon her at times in far more volatile manners, with dangerous remnants resurfacing from time to time, having certain expectations of their favored prodigy.