Rev
From SCMage
Rev is an Obrimos of the Free Council and belongs to the Torches Cabal. In her professional life, she is known as Dr. Cecilia Telling
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Description
Rev is a fairly young looking thirtysomething. She is typically found wearing tasteful outfits and is rarely seen in jeans and enjoys necklace and rings. She typically wears a gold necklace with large key charms. Rev likes eyeshadow and almost always is playing with color, with up to four colors all vying for attention. Although Rev herself is not as flashy as her eyeshadow would suggest. Rev has a quiet, but visible presence, and is a talented public speaker.
Backstory
Born in a very poor city and household, Rev is the oldest of three and was raised in a quietly devout family There she learned how to seek the divine and the holy in little things, as well as within the walls of a Church. She is an ordained minster in the Universal Unitarian Church as well as being recognized as a Priestess in a dual god/goddess pagan tradition based in Illinois and active in several states.
Rev worked her ass off to get a scholarship to a prep school in Chicago for her high school education, where she graduated in the top 25. This pattern continued and she writing page after page of scholarship essays to pay her way through school. Rev holds a B.A was in American Studies from a Illinois State University, her Master of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, and her Ph.D in Religious Studies from Chicago University.
Rev's mother and youngest sister were killed in a car accident while she was finishing her Master's degree. Her father passed shortly before she moved to Lansing, her bother and his family are her only relatives.
Magic and Training
Rev is currently a Disciple of Prime, and an Apprentice of Forces and Space.
Rev is also well trained in the art of Jiu-Jitsu and is a brown belt ranking.
Professional and Private Life
Rev is currently a Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. She holds a Ph.D in Religious Studies from University of Chicago and a Master’s Degree from the Divinity School at Harvard. Before moving to East Lansing she taught at a Northwest University in Evanston on a temporary basis before securing a tenure track position at MSU. Her graduate dissertation, on Neo-Paganism and occult traditions in North America was edited and published to a warm reception, in popular non-fiction and academic studies. She is currently finishing a book on Wicca in the United States and Canada.
Rev is determined, loving, and passionate about teaching and her studies. She is the head of a open campus group on world religions and spirituality, MSU Center for Religious and Spiritual Studies, which is both an active campus office as well as a front for the Free Council Lansing Lorehouse.
Outside of her work she lives in a tiny near campus in East Lansing and drives a mini-van. She tries to go out on a date once a week and isn't afraid to play the field. She is not currently involved with anyone serious.
Rev is the High Priestess of a small Wiccan group in East Lansing as of June 2011. She gives guest sermons at the University Unitarian church in East Lansing.
Mage Life
Rev awoke in the Summer of 2010, while finishing work on her second book in a remote cottage. She is an Obrimos of the Free Council.
Rev joined the Free Council, against her mentor, causing them to become estranged as he wished her to join the Silver Ladder. While she appreciates the Silver Ladder, being the poor student in expensive and powerful schools has turned her against an order that is so hierarchical. Rev has spend too much time being at the bottom of the chain for being poor to espouse such strict orders. She’s about freedom of expression, not so much about modernization, but she does embrace the use of computers and digitization of information.
As of January 2011, she is creating a Lansing Lorehouse for the Free Council. She is a member of the Torches cabal. You can find a list of her goals here.
OOC Information
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