but because there is a loophole that if one adept kills another they love they must pay the appointed cost and so they suffer dissolution. Appearance Medea is described as small and slender. She is portrayed as beautiful. She has long black hair, deathly pale skin and black pupilless eyes. She wears long-sleeved dresses. Personality Medea has an odd personality. Medea is a vindictive, selfish girl who resents her siblings and sees them as having more of her parents' love then herself. She is dark, cold-hearted and mysterious. She is mainly quiet but is intelligent and cunning. She is detached from everyone and feels no compassion for anyone or anything. She has no friends and never wishes to socialise with her family. She prefers to spend her time locked in her tower room where she feels safest. When she does join her family she is locked in a deep and brooding silence. She blames her family for her loneliness. She has great trouble communicating her needs and her feelings. She chooses to become evil rather than good as those with magical ability inherited from the Old Ones must make that choice. She thinks that she is misunderstood and blames others for her own evil nature. Character Origins As with a lot of Stuart Hill characters, Medea is based upon a character from history. She is based upon Medea from Greek mythology who was a cunning, evil sorceress. Her middle name of Clytemnestra, as with her forename is based on another character from a Greek tragedy. It also bears a heavy resemblance to Thirrin's late aunt Elemnestra. Her surname Lindenshield is named after a Viking shield made of linden wood. Abilities Medea's magical ability is first discovered when she is a child. It is weak at first and merely consists of predicting what they will have for dinner and making a mouse materialise across her bed but by 14 her powers have grown strong. Medea has the ability to manipulate matter and create lifeforms from it. Medea is a talented weather witch. She can create storms and draw lightning from the skies. She counters the lightning so it doesn't burn her with a blood-freezing arctic cold. She also has a far-seeing ability allowing her to see across the ocean though it is limited. Her far-seeing is a lot stronger than her father's that can barely make it to the eaves of