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Baudelaire is the charming ringleader of the Seekers, handsome, cunning, flamboyant, ambitious, and prideful above all else. The Order despairs of her.

She's earned a reputation for her "distasteful personality" among friends and rivals alike, owing to her smug, flippant demeanor. As likely to play up her superficial charm as she is to serve boldfaced threats, Baudelaire has a past littered with petty rivalries, adoring admirers, and exasperated mentors. Beyond her flirtatious insouciance, she is a driven, well-rounded mage who takes the Quaesitum very seriously. Her single-minded zeal for Ascension (whatever that entails) is rivaled only by her trust in her fellow Seekers, as Baudelaire never feels more powerful than when the Circle is in perfect harmony.

Still, Baudelaire feels inferior to those hailed as prodigies or considered innately gifted in some domain. Such individuals tend to bring out the petty, rash aspects of her nature.

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Louche, lascivious, brutal, provocative, absurdly sensual; Axyzigal likens himself to sex on legs on drugs. He's an avid practitioner of the ecstatic arts (including, but not limited to, getting high as a kite and partaking in mind-meltingly intimate carnality), and delights in imparting lessons in total, compassionate abandon to the uninitiated.

While he's proven capable of coaxing even the most reticent into his bed, to say Axyzigal is only in it for sex, drugs, and wanton hedonism would be a gross misrepresentation of his dedication to the Serpent Road. Underneath his shrewd, scheming exterior is an intense and sensitive temperament, searching for a state of everlasting Ananda through the mind–body–soul communion of sexual climax. ...Though he's certainly willing to walk other paths of ecstasy, from joyous pursuits like music to more violent, primal engagements in the grip of unconsciousness.

Creation has a heartbeat, and Axyzigal seeks to connect himself and others to the pulse of the world, again and again—until he's nothing more than the beat in someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood.

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Perceptive, imaginative, distant, performative, and pleasingly courteous, Kaloosh delights in their understated brand of showmanship. In everything, they seek to keep the audience guessing, whether it's a crowd attending a Cirque du Soleil show or friends who have known them for years. They despair of honest, straightforward communication—of words and motions that blunder thoughtlessly to their destination, without any care for that sacred rite of betweenness.

Fittingly, their talents lie in the manipulation of patterns and spaces, constructing elaborate, reality-altering illusions that provoke questions about the nature of reality and the physical 'laws' that govern our world. Never one to bore their audience with simple optical illusions or mundane magicians' tricks, Kaloosh is a demanding sort of performer—the kind to summon one's rapt attention, push the boundaries of plausibility, and possibly even catalyze a mass Awakening. Of course, such endeavours carry great risk of Paradox to the mage.