Only in Darkness can you see the Stars

Catherina Renard
Mystic Knight

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"The Stars, they speak to me."

Age: Older
Birthplace and current home: Valnain, Dalmasca
Gender: Female
Race: Hyur, Midlander
Languages: Eorzean, Dalmascan
Orientation: Pansexual
Occupation: Mystic Knight, retired company founder and co-leaderHeight: 5 fulms, 2 ilms
Weight: 120 ponzes
Hair: Sandy blonde
Eyes: Green, 1 violet materia eyeHistory
The midlander going by the name of Catherina Renard is a lady that appears in her early thirties, some would say late twenties, but something clouds definitive numbers. Born in nobility in Valnain, an important port city and merchant hub in Dalmasca, she lived an easy childhood with a life that was mostly traced before her eyes. By alliance, and for political reasons, Catherina was to be married with a young man in the military, soon after her family and her would come back from Eorzea for good. Which never happened.Instead, the Garlean occupency prevented all entry and exit from the country, and so Catherina and her family stayed on Vylbrand, where she continued her learnings. Later, persued her studies in thaumaturgy, moving alone to Ul'dah and met an aristocrate that owned a mining business in Limsa Lominsa. They quickly got married, because this was life. Or was it? Mistreated and abused by her husband, the midlander lived many years in isolation before turning to a man who would offer her a way out: black magick. Fueled by passion and knowledge, Catherina mastered the principles of environmental aether manipulation and found a way out with pure destruction.After her Master passed, she was but alone in a world that was now completely strange to her: away from home, without her parents, left our of the society her husband had prevented her to see and live. A few years of seclusion went on, during which she researched magick even further and joined a coven. Determined to come back to the surface, Catherina joined a privateer crew, which she had thought to be a tea shop. It was far from it, but it opened the door to a whole new world where she met the people she trust the most today, with whom the woman founded the Aetherwatch Society.In the latest years, Catherina founded and led the Aetherwatch Society with Emeline, her closest companion. They worked as redressers to heal the realms of the devastation of dark magick. She dreams of a better magick ethic that would guide the world in the old ways without causing harm or losses. Although what this woman has the most is time, the work of many generations awaits her. After four years on the frontlines and behind a desk, Catherina retired from her position to concentrate her efforts on teaching young girls magic and ladyship etiquette in Dalmasca.Mystic Knight
Following in her late father's footsteps, Catherina learned the ways of spell fencing to become a Mystic Knight. Using her father's runeblade, Star Ocean, Catherina mastered the art of sword magick: to enchant her magical weapon with elemental aether. After a few years, she had her own runeblade, Aurora, forged by a Dalsmascan runesmith.Books written and researches by Catherina Renard or in collaboration
On Magick and Romance, a collaboration.
Soul Transfers and Humunculi in the Process of Saving Lives (pulled out of publication).
Magick Synergy, vol. II, research contribution.
Meta-Analysis on Modern Environmental Aether Manipulation.
The Grey Ethics of Magick.
Espers: From Demons to Saviors of the Desert Sapphire.
Live Foci (pulled out of publication).
Blacker Magick, 2nd edition.

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"You have the whole night to dream, make the most of it."

Dalmascan: Catherina was born in Valnain, Dalmasca. Her father was well known and highly ranked in the Royal Navy. His ship, the Celestial, was amongst the largest warships of the fleet. She has moved back to Valnain after Dalmascan's liberation and is now involved in its reconstruction and restitution of the crown. Maybe you are Dalmascan as well or associated with her father, somehow and would have seen or heard about this royalist daughter of Dalmasca?Enemies: Through the years, she made a lot of them. Whether it is from an old grudge, a fight or even her attitude, Catherina got on the wrong page of many people in the past. Maybe you were wronged before? Catherina may have gotten unwanted attention from Hunters, maybe the price on her bounty is worth the risk.Teaching: Catherina operated an academy for the aetherically gifted and ladyship. She teaches children, but maybe she is opened to teach the chosen one.A Witch: Catherina is a witch in the coven of the 13 Witches. This knowledge is rather obscure, but is known by a few and words tend to travel far. Maybe you are familiar with the magick community and you seek her out for advice, services or knowledge?Book collector: She has a vast collection of books, some in double or triple copies because she forgets already owning it. She also roams around different libraries in search of rare and interesting finds. Catherina even had the priviledge to write a few works herself. Maybe you read some of it?