Raya Kawanuu Akegata, House of the Arts

Female, age 15; Father Bhaktar Kawanuu, Mother Saijitsu Akegata

Hair - ash with red tips; Eyes - slate grey; Skin - cream with red markings (furry)

Clothing - enjoys leather and simple cloth items, revealing things, smocks and sundresses, does not wear shoes

Specialties - Raya is blessed with an innate ability with Necromancy, she can raise pretty much anything from the dead as long as it's head is intact, the fresher dead the better. She can in fact revive things which are very freshly dead, within a day, though they will still need proper healing to remain alive. However she is also very adept as her mother is, with Genrehopping - the ability to move through different universes with ease, and identify where she is compared to another world just by 'sensing' it.

Weaknesses - Raya does hardly any studying. Though she's not very forgetful, if there is something that requires a diligent attention to a recipe or written instruction she will often just avoid doing it. Potions are her bane, though she values their use, she doesn't mix them very well unless she's staring at the recipe and has everything in front of her. Ritual spells are also somewhat tedious for her, and she prefers to let someone else do the long routines.

Wand - Gelgelan wood (anchoring her magic in that world) staff, with a spiral horn from a unicorn-like creature called an al-miraj. (One of the professors at Domina has a similar one.) This horn is an intense focus for almost any use, though it tends to be of most help with her reanimation.

Familiar - None yet

Dragon - Had been at a place, had a bond, bond doesn't exist now

Unusual Studies - though her mother has a true prophecy power, Raya's is more subtle, though almost always accurate. She tends not to use it, prefering the unexpected and enjoyable surprises that life can give her. Otherwise, she can use almost any scrying device without fail or instruction.

When you were the daughter of a half-elf, generally you'd be considered a half-elf. When you're the daughter of a half-Usagi, most often, you're considered a Usagi, because their features continue prominently in any line. When you're the grand-daughter of the Necromancer King and his Usagi wife, you'd be considered royalty.

Raya was all those things. Half Human - her sire was half-human and half-elf, while her mother was half Usagi and half Human too. As any Usagi would, though, Raya had her mother's tail and longer ears, though she had only the barest, shortest velvet fur on her creamy colored skin. She did however have her father's storm-grey hair and steel grey eyes. Hair tipped in blood red as her grandmother's, eyes keener than any elf's, under the Usagi-bred facial marking as well.

Since both her parents were superb mages, even as young children, it would only be logical to assume that Raya herself was - and indeed, she didn't disappoint there either. Like her mother, she could teleport or more accurately genre-hop from one universe to another with ease. Like her father, she was an adept necromancer which ran in her blood deeply.

So deeply in fact that Raya had been born in the school for the Dark Arts which Bhaktar and Zeramar and Calebrindra and Saijitsu had opened. It lapsed between two or more worlds, overlapping magical boundaries and relying on energies in each location to anchor it there. It was easy to tell which portion of the school one was in, by looking out any of the windows. In Saijitsu's portion, which was anchored near her home in Gelgela, the rolling snow-covered peaks to the north and the farmland to the south were visible. In Zeramar's area, an infernally dark area his ancestors offered him, as the grandson of a vampire, and more, he controlled the night. Calebrindra's area was lofty, seemingly the opposite of Zeramar's, even though he was gifted with wings and flight. Cale's quarter was of marble and ice, clouds of condensation usually found on anyone's breath. And Bhaktar's, well, his section was rooted in an ancient forest where his elfin ancestors finally admitted he'd be strong enough to keep up with them.

Raya's birth heralded a strange new era for the foursome. Cale was not really attached to Zeramar the way Saijitsu was married to Bhaktar. Though both of them enjoyed their share of the other's company, it was Bhaktar and Saijitsu that came as a pair. Iji had prophesied this - or perhaps simply told Bhaktar they would be married and he went along with it so long ago. To be accepted into a family, finally, was what he really wanted after all. Raya however was involved with a much different family than his. She thrived in magic, following her mother around and then her father, but not really entering the others quarters unless they bid her welcome. She was wise, this girl, with a stronger and more forceful personality than her sire.

Their school for the Arts had been open for just over ten years. They had to be very picky about their students, and so far only the four of them were instructing. Raya's parents worked with Necromancy and Summoning, Diviniation, practical spells and travel, Calebrindra with dueling and quick spellcasting, while Zeramar covered many aspects of runes, wards and transformations. With Raya there, though... it seemed at first an odd place for a baby of any breed. But what struck the four school leaders most, was that she loved being there. They were all considered 'outsiders' because of their magic, their preferences toward the darker things in life. But they also loved, and felt, and enjoyed things more normal folks did.

As Raya grew up, learning whatever she could get her eyes on, the school began to prosper. It had a range of ages, though tended toward older students, not fresh ones from their early training. Their youngest was thirteen, and the oldest had remained on after his eighteenth year in order to more solidly get a grip on fast casting.

Raya absorbed this all, knowing that she was part of something both amazing and sinister. She reveled in it, actually. But what she really loved doing on those rare occasions was visit her grandparents at their palace in Gelgela. (Even when, or perhaps particularly after, it had moved from one world to another, to Dragondeep?)

Her own grandmother Queen Sean Akegata taught at House Domina, where her father and the other professors had learned their magic. Domina wouldn't be needed to instruct Raya, she'd surpassed much of their basic teaching before she could even walk. What her grandparents did want for her, however, was a particular item.

** deprecated info, she gets a wand whether the world liked it or not:
Something that if she could hide her ears and tail, and maybe put some shoes on those big-toed feet of hers, she might even be able to pass in Wizard society - a wand.

As it was, obviously, her demi-human status prevented her from getting one in wherever wands were sold. So she had a choice, really, accept the one which her grandparents gave to her, or make her own, or go without - and she wasn't too fond of the idea of not having one! Her mother didn't use a wand, of course, but her father had a staff made of dragon parts. **

A staff would suit her better than just a wand. She could easily claim it was merely a walking stick, if any normie got near enough to ask. But just a stick? No, of course not. Her mother located a beautiful dark wood staff from a local Gelgelan dealer. It had no inherent magical properties, but it did help to ground any magic firmly on that world's anchor. Magic cast through it, in other words, would be sent through Gelgela's side of things. To top it however, there would need to be something specific, something good that could focus her energies.

She was filled with energies, after all...

It was Zeramar who suggested an animal part, he had plenty of them laying around. But it wasn't to be one that had another's touch on it, that Raya would find. It was summoned for her, true, but she struck the creature dead without pause. Even when she saw it looked a little like a rabbit. She looked a little like a rabbit. But then, she had thumbs.

She took the horn from its head; it was an old creature, probably near death anyway, with the length and thickness of the thing weighing its head down. But the horn was as good a focus as any for other magic, and this little aggressive bunny creature wouldn't be needing it any more. Thus now she really had a full compliment of magical abilities. At the age of twelve, she started classes properly, though breezed through most of them. And, they all knew, she would never be taking any normal tests to pass into the higher grades when the time came. She was going to have to avoid that kind of attention, even though this school did offer the levels to the students who would return to their daily lives of potion making and the like.

All went reasonably well. When a wizard patrol or any attackers might come to one of the portions of the School, the other anchors would pull it in and the place would literally vanish before their eyes. It wasn't just not on a map, it was not there. And to be fair, the school wasn't really instructing people on how to be little terrors to the world. That was their own preference after leaving. No, this school would instruct all arts equally, not making judgements - though Calebrindra's instruction often gave a little boost to those who wanted to make trouble, and certainly Saijitsu's teleport spells were of use in 'getting away'.

The one thing that they all missed, however, and that the adults' dragons were getting antsy about, was that there were no dragoning classes yet. Yet. They would always end their complaint about not having much to do with 'yet', because they knew it would be only a matter of time.

And perhaps now... With Raya being around fifteen and her Usagi maturity obviously taking control of her body, perhaps she would be the one to trigger any changes needed to bring this School up to par with at least House Domina in that regard. After all there were already eight dragons present, and plenty more dragon heads than that (since several were hydra!) so they all but had their own dragon stunt team! As a matter of fact they did allow a couple of the older and hardier students ride the dragons which allowed it (which wasn't all of them) and headed over to House Domina on a reasonably regular basis to practice with their team.

Raya expressed interest in many things around her, flying on dragons was certainly among them. Her mother's dragons didn't fly, well, not really, but her father's certainly did and were darkly impressive doing so. So one night Raya sat down in front of one of the larger crystal balls that the Divination room kept under dust-covers, and gazed into it.

"I know there will be a dragon for me, maybe two because I'm ... well, mom and dad are both like that..." she said to no one but the air, "but I'd like to know where. Where will I go, I can get anywhere... just... show me." And she let her magic take control of her requested divination. It was then that she learned of a place, having an unfamiliar hatching. Raya sat back from the images of the parent-dragons swirling in the large crystal sphere, and blinked. "Elessadian, of course ."

She left a detailed note showing where she'd be and what she hoped to do, and since it was spring break for the school and there weren't any students to talk to anyway, she simply moved herself to the hatching grounds with one easy step. Unlike her mother, her travel wasn't instant - she spent a brief moment in the Nexus, spotting ghosts and spirits of all kinds. Some wished her well, others tried to bite her. She would bite back, given the chance, but by then she'd already arrived...