Elana Drake

'Hestian'

Played by: Hestian

INFORMATION

Bee, Female, Late Twenties

Aliases: Hestian
Nationality: UK/CAN
Residence: Guernsey
Employer: Templars
Function: Unknown
Twitter: @hestofhere

• The Secret War •

• From TSW to SWL •

• Known Associates/Affiliations •

• Special Notes •

Elana Drake is an Anima-Powered Templar of quiet repute, living in small-time for the past couple of years. Previous roles include research as an Occult Gerontologist, and counseling agents at Temple Hall with occasional multifactional referrals.

She is a Chaos magician with heightened psychoempathic senses, possessing the enhanced physiology and revival factors of typical Bees. Elana expresses her Chaos Magic in combat through martial arts of varying styles with temporary Doppelganger summoning. Has some skill in minor handguns, and Blood Magic, but only on a macro, imprecise scale.

"Seeking to avoid violence we have made a virtue of suppression of anger. This damages the emotional constitution. Denying oneself anger, one loses all the rapture of love. Be ye men and women of great passions." -Peter J. Carroll, An Introduction to Chaos Magic

In an undated still frame, Elana tunes into her extradimensional energy.

As a practitioner of Chaos Magic, the shift to SWL affected her greatly, especially as doppelgangers, or 'Selves', made their appearance in this reality, multiplying her consciousness across dimensions.

It is of multifactional knowledge that Elana has been chaotically altered at least twice by other Selves, once when Agartha shifted into its current form with a visible Seed of Life, and twice after a 'successful' undercover mission--advancing her Faction's knowledge over the course of a year, at the expense of depersonalization from long-term isolation and brainwashing too established for any Templar magi to rehabilitate her.

"Elana Drake", in any given encounter, retains the general knowledge and temperament of the Original, but exponential complexities across realities mean that any previous relationships, romantic or companionate, are vague or fractured. Only the whispers of the Buzzing, her handler, and her husband Robert, are constants that she must re-educate herself with, when this (in extreme circumstances) happens, to avoid a psychotic break outside of Gaia's reach to mend.

She carries herself in an easygoing way when off duty out of necessity, her mind's background noise scattered and daydreaming in the collective attention of other doppelgangers living in close synchronicity across dimensions, or passively processing mundane emotions around her--she admits she could never tend bar at the Horned God with how self-absorbed, sensitive, and poor her short-term memory can be. A self-isolate, her post-mundane social circles have always run small.

Elana is known for taking many pictures, often self portraits--she does this to keep track of her current reality, and to leave a journal for any who may take Her place.

Elana Drake was previously affiliated with Hollow Earth Consulting, a multifactional agency. She operates either at her Faction's behest or independently, sharing cases with Evelyn DeKorte, a Dragon agent of similar, but differing talents in Chaos Magic and Fist Weapons.

Elana is married to Robert Drake, a cybernetically enhanced marksman.

Elana lives in a single detached residence on the island of Guernsey--close enough to London when needed, but far away from the business of big city living. The crowded, daily emotional resonance of bystanders in larger cities weigh too heavily on her senses for a reasonable quality of life.

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Elana has been monogamous and married for over 2 years of real-time plots. This character does not engage in ERP, and does not remember any previous relationships in TSW. Please respect this. Trying to send me old TSW screenshots or otherwise convince my character of the past will be considered a form of godmodding.

Elana's FC is actor Kristin Kreuk. Robert's FC is actor Michiel Huisman.