Gwendoline Harding

Gwendoline
title
Information
Affiliation	Arcanum Investigation Team
Known Associates	Kord Von Einzberg, Isobel Shaw Buchanan, Leon Elias Malachi
Title	Professor
Magic & Affinity
Hermetic Sigilist, Sorceror, & Conjuror
Played By	Jessi

Gwendoline Harding is a practicing and teaching Hermetic sorceress from Earth-1834 assigned to the Arcanum investigation. She is a Professor of Antiquities at Oxford University, where she supervises archaeological studies and curates the University's artifacts. She teaches Hermetic magic as well as archaeology and arcano-archaeology.

Magical Skillset

Gwendoline is a skilled Hermetic specializing in conjuration. Her knowledge of Hermetic seals is unparalleled, both due to her intense study and her seemingly photographic memory of them. These seals allow her to create a variety of magical effects, from healing to harm to summoning, binding, and commanding spirits under and above the firmament. Every day of the week she inscribes additional seals to ensure she has additional ones to replace any she has that are damaged, as some must be applied to parchment. They are written on cloth, vellum, parchment, and thin metal sheets, depending on the requirement of each spell.

Gwendoline keeps on her person a Master Vessel to which she binds every spirit she summons and intends to keep in her service. This vessel is inscribed with multiple Holy Pentacles associated with each of the planets to ensure that all spirits bound to it are forced to obey her command and cannot cause her harm. Some of the spirits she keeps are purely useful spirits, while some others are far more sinister.

The Investigation of Imminent Threat

Invitations sent by Heinrich Stratton were answered by Gwendoline, Kord Von Einsberg, Isobel Buchanan, and Leon Elias Malachi. After a brief test of their skill and ability, Heinrich explained that they were hand-selected by the Arcanum to investigate a threat detected within the Nexus. The Nexus forms a crucial axis point between other worlds and a threat detected within it has the potential to spread across the entire Multiverse. To that end, their group was selected to investigate and report back.

Departing from Zbraslav Chateau in the Czech Republic by way of Zeppelin, the group travelled to Warsaw, Poland for their entry into the Nexus.