Elana Drake

'Hestian'

Played by: Hestian

INFORMATION

Bee, Female, Late Twenties/Early Thirties(?)

Aliases: Hestian
Nationality: UK/CAN
Residence: Saint Peter Port, 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. Previous roles include research as an Occult Gerontologist, and counseling agents at Temple Hall with occasional cross-factional 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.

Elana loves Greek cuisine after a lengthy research venture in Ikaria, an island known for the incredible longevity of its residents. Her 'callsign' is an obvious reference to the goddess Hestia[1]. Her favourite beverage in the Horned God is Myrrh Ale.

"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, Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic[2]

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

Within the darkest hallways of Temple Hall, a recursive sacrifice...

((In other words, this character faced a soft reboot post-TSW and her attunement to Chaos informs this.))

It is of multifactional knowledge that Elana has been chaotically altered or intervened with at least twice, once when Agartha shifted into its current form with a visible Seed of Life, and a second time 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.

5 years of service from naivete to self-actualization.

"Elana Drake", in any given encounter, retains the knowledge and temperament of the Original, but exponential complexities across realities mean that any memories of previous relationships are vague or fractured. Only the whispers of the Buzzing and her given faction Handler are constants that she must re-educate herself with, to avoid a psychotic break outside of Gaia's reach to mend.

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.

Warmly devoted yet highly solitary, Elana's attunement across dimensions leaves her apathetic to her own destruction.

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.

Elana participates very openly across factions, believing (to her handler's chagrin) that the uncompromising loyalty espoused by Templars is yet another fixed paradigm unsuitable to Chaos practitioners like her--though this has never caused her to change factions entirely.

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

"Strong emotion leaves traces, psychic signals, in the very air..."

In the Secret World universe, please enjoy the mission "Fierce Competition" in Kaidan, which informs how Elana detects and senses emotion, minus the colourful ribbons of the Astral Vision buff. Make sure to follow the 'wrong' paths of mission tiers, to listen to extra dialogue from Kan'ami.

Additional characterizations of interest:

- Peter J. Carroll[3]

- Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory)[4]

- Postmodernism and Poststructuralism[5]

- Kristin Kreuk (Actress and Elana's face-credit)[6]

- Mantis (Marvel Comics)[7]

- Hestia (Greek Mythology)[8]

- Rune Soup (Podcast)[9]

- Alexandra David-Néel (Esotericist)[10]

- Leonora Carrington (Artist)[11]

- Remedios Varo (Artist)[12]

- Female characters in other medias with a strong focus on martial arts ;)