Faustina Demonte was a 15th century female French slave who'd been abused by her master and his friends her whole young life. One night, a fellow slave setup a staged accident making it look like Faustina had died in a fiery death. Instead, Faustina and her new friend escaped their slavers and made their way to Portugal, stowed away on a ship to the New World (America) and arrived in New Amsterdam (New York City). Faustina's friend actually hid both of them from being discovered on the ship by placing spells on the crew of the ship using a crude version of Charm magic (mind manipulation). Upon alighting in New Amsterdam, Faustina wanted to learn how to use those same magics, which her friends was more than happy to do so once they got settled in New Amsterdam.

 

In time Faustina's friend revealed that she was a rogue witch from a secretive magical society called 'The Conglomerate' and that she'd been watched over the years. She told Faustina that she'd more than likely finally 'shook off' her trackers...but that wasn't the case.

 

A few years later, Faustina found her friend murdered by witch hunters. Faustina went on the run into the hills and found her way to Canada (later called Quebec Territory, then after that, the Province of Quebec). There, she set used her barely developed charm powers to 'influence' the locals to do and get her anything she wanted. As such, Faustina became the 'belle of the region'. Thanks to the spells she'd learned, she was able, through both Charm magic and alchemy, to make herself a young beautiful woman - a woman any man (or more to the point, frontiersman) would do anything for. As such, she became a power of the area that would soon become the Province of Quebec...but for Faustina, the witch hunt for her become far more deadly.

 

In those few years in Canada, Faustina was able to hone her charm powers. To accentuate herself, she created her own 'menagerie' of followers that she'd started training in using charm powers; they were her 'Sœurs Charmées' or 'Charmed Sisters'. Although only a dozen or so, their numbers helped to not only bolster Faustina's ego, but also control others.  She was dubious in her teachings, inflicting cruel discipline or 'lessons' for those sisters that didn't do what she wanted them to do. One such sister, Evie,  had enough of Faustina at one point and decided to contact some witch hunters to come take her and kill her so that Evie herself would take over Faustina's fortune and base of power.

 

Instead of human witch hunters, the Conglomerate's scouts sent in the Knights Arcanus and decimated nearly all of Faustina's sisterhod. In a pitched battle, resulting in the death of two knights, Faustina was eventually transformed into a tree, imprisoning her for all eternity (or until the tree was destroyed, whichever came first), due to her being too powerful to stop in battle by any of the other knights.

 

For the next few hundreds years, up until 2015, Faustina remained in her inanimate state, that is, until another witch, Malconna, found Faustina and freed her. Malconna had mentioned she once had a band of 'Sisters of the Mind' much like Faustina's 'Charmed Sisters' that worked together in Malconna's previous 'Arcane Sisterhood'. As such, Malconna requested Faustina to head up and recruit new witch recruits to reform a new 'Sisters of the Mind'.  Faustina knew that she was going to only be a pawn in Malconna's game, but with little choice before her, Faustina followed through.

 

By 2016, Faustina had nearly fifty 'Sisters of the Mind' under her leadership. They all died in a devastating plot against the modern era's Knight Arcanus on Halloween 2016, resulting in the death of all fifty of Faustina's sisters...as well as Faustina's permanent and near fatal injuries she also incurred.

 

Today, Faustina, still horribly mangled from the 2016 Halloween battle, continues to reluctantly work for a resurrected Malconna (who initially died in the same battle). Faustina is NOT happy with the current Arcane Sisterhood leadership, but again, what choice does she have? In time, Faustina intends to break away from Malconna and take charge of what is now Quebec City and call it her own kingdom.

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