Anat Shaw bani Shaea
Anagnosi
Order of Hermes
Disciple of the Crossroads Chantry
Description
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 131 lb.
Ethnicity: Mixed (White/Middle Eastern)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Black or white business casual
Comportment/Cadence: Welcoming
Distinctions: She is like a beautiful desert flower
Supernatural Qualities: But it is a flower unnoticed, perhaps even intangibly discomforting, for clocks count or spin backwards around her, while all forms of writing seem to whisper their contents aloud to anyone nearby to hear
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 5 (stunning); Style 1; Arcane 1; Strangeness, Echoes (4)
"One good book deserves another."
History
Date of Birth: January 30th, 1969
Home: Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Family: William and Mafuane Shaw (parents), Inarus (twin brother)
The Awakening: Preordainment (she grew up side by side with her fraternal twin, Inarus, and proved to be a precocious bookworm just like him; their father was a Verbena, mother a Shaea Hermetic; she and Inarus always lived close together, and snuggled nightly in contention with their life-long unsettling visions and dreams, and in their adolescence consummated that love in forbidden and secret romance; meanwhile, both twins were expected to Awaken, and did so within days of each other; she did so through reflecting upon ancient papyri hieroglyphs in the family's private collection; perhaps suspecting the incestuous love, she was sent away for her mystickal tutelage all the way to America), 1992
Mentor: Ishaq Kanaani
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (mentor secretly a Janissary who screened Anat for untoward sympathies due to her incestuous love for her brother, but detected none; while he taught her much, she was not inducted into House Shaea, falling well behind her brother's status and tuition)
Comrades: Inarus Shaw, Adara Zahabu, Savannah Colby, Miles Chauncey
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (she stayed in America well past her mentor's guidance and screening, completing her graduate degree in historical studies at Emory University while privately developing her Arts with a more cosmopolitan bent thanks to lacking the formal Shaea training)
Key Event #2: War (she found herself embroiled in conflict with the local Kindred; her chantry deployed her studious cabal to assist a team of war-mages eliminate a threat from a cult of Setite necromancers; her knowledge of her homeland's ancient enemy proved invaluable, but it also made her miss her brother dearly)
Key Event #3: Awe & Wonder (she returned to Cairo at last, a decade later, reuniting with her brother, and affection exploded anew, more passionate than before, though they still kept it secret from their parents, who helped Anat finally attend the Hermetic college for Shaea initiates)
Key Event #4: War (a vengeful Setite targeted Anat and tried to punish her by forcing the Embrace upon her, but between she and Inarus, they thwarted the vampire and fed his soul to Sobk through ancient and deadly magick)
Transition: Victory (though they proved a potent pair, their parents recommended that the twins leave Egypt, and commended them to an American chantry with a burgeoning Hermetic population that could use their talents, so the two moved to Kansas City's Crossroads Chantry)
Imnt Pr (Sanctum)
Location: Handel House (chantryhouse), Rolling Hills, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Structure: Apartment
Stock: Many books of all kinds of academic topics, a few ancient tomes and even older scrolls of papyrus, vellum, and yellowed parchment written in numerous "dead" languages; comfortable sitting cushions and pillows; prudently placed candelabras and incense stands; a "wizard-locked" doorway
Traits: Sanctum 2
Significant Other
Name: Inarus Shaw, 1983
Nature: Romantic
Inarus
Weakness
Too Brilliant
"Too smart for her own good" can apply to Anat Shaw. She knows much and learns more everyday, for the woman is incredibly intelligent and intellectually active. However, she may start to poke her nose into the affairs of things that bite noses off. Or, she may just learn something that drives her mad.
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
Knowledge is power, they say, and power corrupts. In Anat's case, it's more likely that the source of knowledge would try to corrupt Anat rather than the power itself. With her dealings with the dead and other spirits, she risks much. But she is wise and cautious, and her prudence may sustain her.
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