Nova Aquila

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Nova Aquila is an Icon that's currently trapped as one of Mr. Musser's familiars.<ref name=":0">Nova Aquila was one of his father’s Others, an Icon. Her skin was like ivory, her hair raven black, her top a silver silk halter that very intentionally draped down in folds to reveal her décolletage. A god had put some of its essence into a statue to breathe power and existence into her. Not life, exactly, but animation. It was possible her skin was ivory, as a matter of fact. Icons served as decoration, representatives, errand-runners, and sometimes guardians. They had a lot of divine power, but it was a finite source that didn’t tend to replenish without the direct attention of the god that made them. A lake’s worth of water that didn’t refill when it was drank from, used to grow trees, used to put out fires. When it was spent she would go still and never move again.

They’d found her in the midst of her journey to learn pop culture, music, computers, movies, plays. She’d gone dancing, she was studying, trying on wildly different fashions. All led by a young practitioner who’d found her alone in a disused temple for a god that was no more. A guy who’d seemed to find vicarious enjoyment in exposing her to, well, everything. The young man had taken her as a familiar, to bring her even further into the world of humans, and Reid’s father had taken her away less than a day later.

- Excerpt from False Moves 12.a</ref>

Personality

She has an interest in modernity and wants to learn about pop culture, movies, plays and computers. She was learning dancing and studying fashion.<ref name=":0" />

Relationships

Drowne attempted to talk to her and advocated for teaching her to read but his attempt was rebuffed.<ref>“Things as small as Nova. Teaching her to read would-”

“Is that what’s nettling you? Do you have a crush, Drowne? She’s attractive by design-”

“Affinity, not a crush. Teaching her to read would make us all stronger, if only a little.”

- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>

Appearance

She has ivory skin and black hair, she wears a halter that reveals her cleavage.<ref name=":0" />

Abilities

She was created when a god put a vast amount of power into a statue, animating her. This gives her a huge pool of power that will not replenish if used.<ref name=":0" />

She is unable to read.<ref>Reid was fairly sure she didn’t know how to read very well- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>

Chronology

She was left in an abandoned temple of a vanished god and eventually found by a young practitioner, he showed her the world and took her as a familiar. A day afterwards Abraham Musser took her away and added him to his collection.<ref name=":0" />

Under Musser's care she was used as decoration.<ref>It seemed to him that it was more important that she have something she appeared to be doing, and have something to occupy her eyes. She existed in part as decoration and it was to Reid’s father’s tastes that a fashionably dressed, beautiful woman could be seen in his vicinity, keeping his general company, reading proper literature.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>

Trivia

Nova means new in Latin and Aquila means eagle, it can also refer to the constellation Aquila.

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