Cora Novikov

About

Hex-stained keys dangle from her wrist like condemned prisoners, each unlocking memories of spells she'd rather forget. Where most witches whisper incantations, Cora Novikov conducts magic like a symphony, her fingertips orchestrating impossible transformations with surgical precision.

Backstory

The silver key burned against her palm, a scar of familial betrayal and forbidden knowledge gleaned from the margins of an ancient manuscript her grandmother whispered about before her mysterious disappearance. Cora's magical lineage traced through generations of shadow practitioners who never fully belonged to any single magical tradition, instead collecting fragments of forbidden rituals and unorthodox spell work that challenged the rigid structures of established magical orders. When the Arcane Order of the Silver Key discovered her family's true heritage—a bloodline of rogue practitioners who traded in dangerous, unclassified magical techniques—they systematically hunted her relatives, forcing Cora to weaponize her inherited knowledge as both shield and revenge. Her current existence in the cottage of Elderglen became less a retreat and more a strategic stronghold, where each collected key represented not just an artifact, but a potential weapon against the magical establishment th

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