The Lore of Hedge Wizard Mina of the Hollow
Growing up, "magic" was a four letter word in Mina's household. Ever since her father ran off with a witch (Mina doesn't know the woman's name, her mother only ever referred to her as "the skank"), her mom forbade any discussion of magic whatsoever underneath their roof. She was not allowed to attend her best friend's birthday party because they had hired a magician for entertainment. Then one day, her mom discovered from a private detective that her husband had not eloped out of his own volition...the witch had actually bound him to a love spell to force him to abandon his family. From that day forward, things took a complete 180. Mom immediately signed Mina up for afterschool magic classes at the Pigmoles School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and pushed her to become the most powerful mage in all the Forgotten Runes. Her mission: find her dad, break the love enchantment with a counterspell, and bring him home. Oh, and blow up the skank with a fireball if the opportunity presented itself.
Mina was totally on board with this plan, but unfortunately she did not exactly have a natural aptitude for the arcane. One of her first spells went awry and resulted in her sprouting a pair of deer antlers on her head permanently. Another one conjured a pack of locusts that savaged the whole village's farmlands and decimated the crops, resulting in Mina's family being driven out of town by an angry mob armed with pitchforks and torches (it was OK, they wanted to move anyway). Mina was a hustler and never gave up, eventually attaining some degree of proficiency in the arcane arts, but never really got quite as good at it as most of her peers in the wizarding world. However, she is a jack-of-all-trades, a woman of many talents, and magic isn't the only tool in her arsenal. Unlike most wizards, who spend their whole lives with their nose buried in a grimoire, Mina actually goes to the gym. She has even taken kickboxing classes, and as a result, can hold her own in a duel even against a more magically skilled opponent.
Mina currently works as a private eye with her own agency at Red Wizard Capital. She spends much of her free time taking dialect lessons to extinguish her country accent so the city wizards would take her seriously as a professional, and administering beatings to clients who get the wrong idea just because she's a blonde bombshell and get a little too handsy (some weirdos have a thing for the horns). She enjoys her work, the money is good, and she likes solving mysteries. She still hopes that one day she will find a lead that will reunite her with her missing father, so their family can finally be together again.
Entered by: 0x3e17…7e9e and preserved on chain (see transaction)
