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The Scholomance is one of the most exclusive and famous occult universities in the world, and Melissa's instructional regimen was both rigorous and personally dangerous. Among her classmates were demons, vampires, and, worst of all, Illuminati. She mastered the arts of elemental magic and blood sorcery while writing her PhD dissertation on the Grail myth. She graduated in 2014. | The Scholomance is one of the most exclusive and famous occult universities in the world, and Melissa's instructional regimen was both rigorous and personally dangerous. Among her classmates were demons, vampires, and, worst of all, Illuminati. She mastered the arts of elemental magic and blood sorcery while writing her PhD dissertation on the Grail myth. She graduated in 2014. | ||
+ | =• Grail Quester •= | ||
+ | Upon her graduation, Melissa reported to Temple Hall for her first assignment. It is no great secret that the Temple has sought to monitor and collect supernatural relics around the world, and the records are full of long lists of such items which the Temple has not yet been able to find, or which have "fallen off the grid" over the centuries. Melissa was assigned to find one of these items: not the Holy Grail itself, but one of its imitators or replicas, the green stone of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. | ||
− | + | Wolfram was a German minstrel and folksinger who composed a tale about the Holy Grail which we read today as Parzival. In that story, Wolfram describes the Grail much differently than how it was described by authors both before and after, such as Chretien and Malory. Wolfram's Grail is not, in fact, a cup at all, nor a dish or platter. It is a green stone which, according to Wolfram's tale, fell from Heaven. Within this stone, angels who had chosen to remain neutral in the war between Lucifer and God had hidden themselves. Words appear upon the stone's surface at various times, and those who can see the stone often have supernatural knowledge imparted to them, directly into their mind. Alchemical language fills the text, and the Holy Grail seems to be conflated with the Philosopher's Stone. It was this unusual object -- which the Temple judged to be not the Grail, but perhaps an extraterrestrial object or a relic of the Third Age -- which Melissa was tasked with finding. | |
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+ | This mission would dominate her life for the next three years. She traveled the world, beginning with Eschenbach in Germany but eventually going to some of the furthest and most hidden corners of the globe, including the Arctic, the jungles of South America, and a hidden U-boat base in the Mediterranean. Along the way, she encountered rivals and enemies-of-chance. She had a close (very, very close) encounter with a Dragon agent and assisted in an Illuminati long con in order to gain access to the Smithsonian's secret archives. But although she found many tantalizing leads, had many adventures around the world, and recovered some priceless occult relics, she never even learned if Wolfram's Grail was a real object, let alone where it might be hidden. | ||
+ | This was the state of her quest when the Tokyo Event occurred, and she was recalled to London. | ||
=• Known Associates/Affiliations •= | =• Known Associates/Affiliations •= | ||
Everyone knows someone. What groups, people, friends, and relatives does your character have ties to? Would other characters know them from a favorite hangout or a particular organization? | Everyone knows someone. What groups, people, friends, and relatives does your character have ties to? Would other characters know them from a favorite hangout or a particular organization? |