Arial Gutersson

Arial is the granddaughter of the Witch of Enninfeild. Members of her highly regarded family have a tradition of becoming wise elders, herbalists, and midwives of the town. Arial is next in line and excels at the lessons her grandmother gives. Her grandmother thinks it would be best if Arial studied at Arcturus in order to receive a well rounded education. Arial has a tendency to play creative tricks and has more than once made an unwilling test subject of her younger brother.

A complicated curse
Ariel comes from a long line of female witches and shamans in her village. Her society is matriarchal and always has been. The women in her family however, were cursed several generations back. The story goes that the main village Witch, Ariel’s great great great grandmother’s husband, became jealous of the power that his wife held. Her power over the village as leader made him mad and he wanted that power. He also came to loath more and more that the power would continue to be passed to the next female heir in the family as opposed to a male heir.

So the Witch’s husband desire and heart became more and more darkened and corrupt and hateful. He began to practice dark magic and evil sorcery.

In the end his dark powers lead him to cast a terrible curse upon the females in the family and he was exiled.

The spell awakens for each woman in the family when she turns 13 years old and become subject to its destructive affects. Whenever she becomes emotionally overwhelmed or angry, she begins to rapidly age. If she cannot bring her emotions under control, the aging cannot reverse and she can grow old so fast it leads to her death. Several women in Arial’s family have perished because of this. Needless to say, any kind of dark magic is absolutely forbidden to be used because of this incident.

Her family has never found a way to break the curse. And Arial is reaching the age and requirements to take over as leader of her village. Arial went away to study magic further, an opportunity her family never had.

Now much more knowledge and resources are at her leisure and she is having a hard time trying to resist the temptation to look into the dark arts. What made Arial’s great3X grandfather become so evil? What corrupted his heart? Why is Arial drawn to the same area of forbidden magic? Is the answer to cure the curse through dark magic? Will she ever be able to break the spell and learn to be a leader for her village?