Nobilis Hydrach:Gillian Fortune

Gillian ("Jilly") Fortune

The Power of Imaginary Lands

Stats

Attributes

Aspect 2 Domain 1 Realm 0 Spirit 2

Gifts

Immutable

1 CP

Passage to Imaginary Lands

Major Creation of Gateways (7) + Simple Miracle (-1) + Location things only (-1) + Wide variety of situations (+1) + Rare (+1) = 7 CP's

This miracle has a few condition. If a work of fiction specifies an unusual manner of entry, she can only use that means of entry. For example, a mirror or a rabbit hole would lend entry to Wonderland, though only if you can find a rabbit hole or have access to a large enough mirror. Or she could obtain passage to visit Skull Island via ship or charter plane. To get to a more mundane imaginary land, however, she would need only visit an international airport and purchase a ticket. It all depends on how, in a work of fiction, you would normally get there.

Run Like the Wind

1 CP Jill can run faster than any mundane human, even an Olympian.

Limitations

Affiliation

The Code of the Angels

1. Beauty is the highest principle. 2. Justice is a form of beauty. 3. Lesser beings should respect their betters.

Small Estate

1 CP Gillian's Estate covers only Imaginary Lands and not related matters, i.e. imagination, fantasy, speculation.

Restrictions

Code of conduct

As a well-brought up young lady of her era, Gillian will not swear, smoke, drink or cheat. She will lie, but only white lies and with an element of truth to the deception.

Moral rebound

The laws of her fictional reality dictate that she must suffer the consequences if she mistreats others. Every transgression will come back to her.

Part of popular culture

Knowledgeable humans will find it memorable, amusing or even suspicious that Jill has the same name and a strong resemblance to a character from children's fantasy literature.

Bonds

• 5 The Seven Lands themselves, which she long ago swore to protect
• 4 The sanctity of her Estate, which represents the potential of imagination
• 3 The Seven Lands book series
• 2 An ongoing enmity for Dionysus, the Power of Punk Rock. (They met at a party and hit off badly. Things have not gone well between the two of them.)
• 2 Her Chancel
• 2 Her ongoing sham "struggle" against the Blue Witch
• 1 The Infinite Public Library. She acquired a card to this library and always enjoys a browse in the shelves whenever time allows.
• 1 to assign later

Appearance

Gillian began as one of the auburn-haired tomboy from the Seven Lands series of 1950s children’s fantasies. She dresses sensibly, in the clothing of that era. She wears a skirt rather than pants, though.

History

In Thrice 'Round the Oak Tree, Jill and her brother Robert found themselves in the Seven Lands by passing three times clockwise 'round the eponymous oak tree located on the estate owned by their uncle. They saved the Seven Lands (which resembled an idealized pastoral England of meadows, forests and seashores) from the threat from the Grey Witch with the help of the Grey Witch's own sister, the benevolent Green Witch, also known as the Summer Lady. In the sequel, Time and the Oak Tree, they met their uncle as a boy. The following three books had them defeat the other witch sisters. At the end of the last of the books, only the Blue Witch remained unvanquished. (The Blue Witch remains at large to this day. Though as a Noble, Jill could defeat her with ease, Jill likes having a villain around to vanquish from time to time.) At the end of the last book, the Green Witch passed into the spirit of the Seven Lands themselves.

Though an actual girl named Holly Emerson (now a quite elderly chain smoker, who still manages to retain her sharp wit) provided the inspiration for the character of Jill's Ymera Imperator passed her over in favor of the fictional creation. Jill came into the world with little in the way of a past other than that directly stated in the books and a personality limited by the imagination of her author. As much as she could, she clings to the simple morality of her historical period and genre.

Among other personal faults, she finds it difficult to make true friends.

Notes

As of now, I have one CP left over.