Fors

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Fors’s mother became seriously ill while Fors was attending grammar school. Unable to help, she watched her mother die in a hospital bed. Her father replied to her letter a month later, revealing that he had established another family in East Balam. He transferred his Backlund property and additional money to Fors 341.

Through the retired officers’ club, her father arranged an introduction to the Yousef Clinic. Fors worked there, learned from experienced doctors, and saved money. An elderly woman who frequently sought treatment became an important acquaintance 341.

By her introduction to Audrey, Fors had left medical practice and become the author of Stormwind Villa. Her professional contacts extended across literary circles, publishing, and middle-class doctors. Invitations to noble literary gatherings brought her into contact with Viscount Glaint 107 146 454.

Appearance

• Hair: Slightly curly brown hair, worn loose at her first appearance 107.
• Eyes: Pale blue, often carrying a relaxed or amused expression 107 130.
• Distinguishing details: Yellowish cigarette stains on her fingers and a pronounced callus where she holds her pen 107.
• Clothing: Introduced in a beige, high-collared dress with ruffles; later wears a veiled hat decorated with blue flowers when meeting Dorian 107 651.

Personality

Fors is languid, witty, and openly reluctant to exert herself unnecessarily. Her apparent indolence does not reflect a lack of intelligence: she distinguishes between being unwilling to think and being incapable of doing so. She recognizes Audrey’s observational ability and refuses Xio’s suggestion to infiltrate Earl Hall’s residence, correctly anticipating Beyonder security 153 178.

Comfort strongly influences her ambitions. She enjoys food, cigarettes, and a settled life in Backlund. Traveler particularly appeals to her because it promises access to distant scenery and cuisines without exhausting journeys, questionable inns, or bulky luggage 107 863 1047.

She habitually turns frightening experiences into writing material. The Qilangos investigation inspires plans for a murder novel, while carrying Lewis Wien’s severed head prompts thoughts about a detective story 193 792.

Despite her caution, Fors is deeply loyal to people who treat her well. She refuses to sell information about Dorian merely for money and returns to help Xio attempt to save Shermane. Even then, she insists that they observe first and retreat if intervention is impossible 773 1031.

Abilities & Skills

Door Opening

• Passes through locked doors and walls, allowing entry, escape, and discreet movement 107 868.
• Can bring another person through a barrier while holding them 866 1031.
• Opens a small aperture in a wall to observe an adjoining room 868.
• Does not regard the ability as sufficient protection against a residence guarded by Beyonders 178.

Trickmaster Spells

• Possesses varied minor spells associated with performance and deception 65 569.
• Uses fire to destroy Botis’s portrait after memorizing it 1087.
• Improvises with recorded abilities as components of a trick: she uses Wings of Darkness as cover for disappearing rather than for its intended movement or attack functions 965.

Astrology and Spiritual Intuition

• Uses divination to confirm that the masked Mr. X is Lewis Wien 769.
• Recognizes that an unusual dream about sealed treasures may contain a genuine mystical warning 868.
• Interprets her later nightmare as connected to the apocalypse, the Abraham Family, and the Apprentice pathway, prompting an immediate visit to Dorian 1371.

Record

As a Scribe, Fors stores observed Beyonder powers through her mind and Spirit Body, then reproduces them later 1024.

• Potion digestion improves her recording capabilities 1024.
• Successfully Records Saint-level Lightning Storm and Historical Void Image Summoning under Gehrman Sparrow’s supervision 1196.
• As a Traveler, can Record four demigod-level powers, with reproduced effects approaching Sequence 4 1201.
• Powers she Records herself do not count as outside assistance for the Secrets Sorcerer advancement ritual 1308.

Teleportation and Invisible Hand

• Gains both abilities upon becoming a Traveler 1201.
• Demonstrates Invisible Hand by drawing a tarot card through the air 1201.
• Transports Gehrman Sparrow to a meeting in Backlund and later carries Dorian between Abraham Family locations 1244 1371.

Medicine, Writing, and Investigation

• Has clinical experience and a network of former teachers, classmates, and colleagues useful for gathering hospital information 341 1117.
• Earns continuing royalties from her novels and gains access to noble literary salons 454 822.
• Helps analyze investigative leads, including questioning why Qilangos came to Backlund 178.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Lemano’s Travel Notes / Lemano’s Spellbook — A gift from Dorian that Records observed Beyonder powers for one subsequent use. Recording powers above Sequence 6 can fail, with higher levels being more difficult 651.
  • Ten parchment-like pages hold Sequence 5–6 powers at roughly 70–80% effectiveness; twenty-five other pages hold lower-Sequence powers with effects close to the originals. Higher-level recorded powers have approximately half their original effect 651.
  • Only five pages remain usable when Dorian gives it to her 651.
  • Each use causes dangerous disorientation unless she spreads her own blood over the cover 651.
  • Fors rents it to Tarot Club members for money and additional recorded powers 795 796 798.
• Abraham Family bracelet — Came from Mrs. Anlisa. Fors connects her use of it with the family’s full-moon curse 396 773.
• Devil Oil Painting — Used for her Secrets Sorcerer ritual. It imprisons and seals targets but cannot draw them inside by itself 1308 1309.

Full-Moon Ravings

• Fors suffers dangerous ravings during full moons and blood moons, linked to Mr. Door and her use of an Abraham Family item 298 396 798.
• At lower Sequences, the ravings threaten mental breakdown and loss of control. Escaping their torment becomes a major reason for pursuing advancement 313 465.
• Full-moon effects remain hazardous after she becomes a Traveler; she explicitly rejects a proposed spirituality enhancement based on creating a full moon 1243.
• Becoming a Secrets Sorcerer allows direct communication with Mr. Door, but his voice still causes pain and pushes her toward losing control 1309 1349.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Audrey and Investigating Backlund

Fors approaches Glaint and Audrey to obtain help freeing Xio, who has been imprisoned after seriously injuring a gang leader involved in usury. In exchange, she offers introductions to Beyonder circles and access to formulas and materials 107 112.

Joining the Tarot Club

During a blood moon, Fors is brought above the gray fog after invoking The Fool. She asks to join the regular gathering and becomes The Magician 298 313.

The club provides resources unavailable through her ordinary circles. She purchases the acting method from Justice for 200 pounds and obtains the Trickmaster formula through The World and The Fool 313 338.

Dorian’s Student and the Abraham Family

Fors delivers Lawrence’s final letter, notebook, and Beyonder characteristic to Dorian Gray. He thanks her for helping Lawrence and Anlisa, and later accepts her as his student 409 434.

Dorian initially conceals the Abraham Family’s identity from her, presenting their connection as membership in a secret organization. Fors already knows more through the Tarot Club and carefully separates that knowledge from what her teacher has told her 434 1086.

When she identifies Lewis Wien as Mr. X, Fors commissions Gehrman Sparrow to kill him. She subsequently presents Wien’s head to Dorian, fulfilling her wish to avenge those harmed by his betrayal 651 769 792.

Ruins and Xio’s Investigation

Fors accompanies Xio into an underground ruin, where they defeat two ancient evil spirits using Xio’s attacks and powers stored in Lemano’s Travel Notes. The encounter ends with ominous pounding behind sealed bronze doors 965 966.

Later, both women return to a warehouse rather than abandon Shermane. They subdue Viscount Stratford, but Shermane has already lost control. Fors helps evacuate the group using a copied Travel power; interrogation reveals that Stratford serves the king 1031 1032.

Hunting Botis

Fors agrees to act as bait in the hunt for Botis, the Aurora Order’s Saint of Secrets and another traitor connected to Dorian’s organization. Before the operation, Gehrman Sparrow helps her digest her Scribe potion through repeated recording practice 1086 1196.

The battle concludes before Fors can summon Gehrman Sparrow’s Historical Void projection. She later brings Botis’s cursed eyeballs to Dorian and introduces Gehrman Sparrow, who offers the Abraham Family protection from its curse 1215 1220.

Demigodhood and Mr. Door

After advancing to Secrets Sorcerer, Fors confronts Mr. Door about the devastation his cries have caused the Abraham Family. He claims that full-moon madness makes the cries uncontrollable and supplies two rituals for freeing him, offering to help Fors become an angel in return 1309.

Fors reports the entire conversation to The Fool before telling Dorian. Klein, who has monitored the encounter, judges part of Mr. Door’s account deceptive and plans to restrict which ritual information reaches the family 1309 1310.

The Abraham Family Crisis and Final Commission

A nightmare about the apocalypse and the Abraham Family prompts Fors to Teleport to Dorian. She learns that a seal has nearly failed, transports him to other family members, and witnesses numerous High-Sequence characteristics materialize before them 1371.

Despite being the only demigod present, Fors steps aside rather than claim the characteristics and warns the family about their negative effects. She suggests praying to The Fool for an explanation 1372.

Before entering slumber, The Fool commissions her to protect the Abraham Family from temptations originating in the starry sky. He also asks her to gather Fourth Epoch information, establish Mr. Door’s condition during that era, and uncover hidden problems within the family 1406.

Relationships

• Xio Derecha — Close friend, housemate, and frequent partner. Fors seeks help during Xio’s imprisonment, supports her effort to restore her father’s reputation, and encourages her to join Military Intelligence Section 9 107 454 1135 1196.
• Audrey Hall / Justice — Friend, employer, and Tarot Club colleague. Audrey teaches her the acting method; Fors and Xio later suspect Justice’s identity but refrain from investigating out of respect 107 313 1004 1028.
• Dorian Gray Abraham — Teacher and benefactor who supplies mystical education, formulas, ingredients, and equipment. Fors values his affection too highly to sell information about him 434 651 773 1086.
• The Fool — Protector and leader of the Tarot Club. Fors reports dangerous encounters to him and receives responsibility for safeguarding the Abraham Family before his slumber 298 1309 1406.
• Gehrman Sparrow / The World — Initially a frightening associate, later an essential source of aid and reassurance. He kills Lewis Wien, helps her potion digestion, and becomes someone whose absence genuinely alarms her 792 1196 1405.
• Anlisa and Lawrence — People she helped whose connection leads her to Dorian. Dorian explicitly praises her kindness and trustworthiness toward them 409.
• Bethel Abraham / Mr. Door — Source of the ravings afflicting her and the Abraham Family. Fors questions him directly after becoming a demigod but submits his proposals to The Fool rather than acting independently 1309.

Notable Quotes

“I’m different from you. I simply can’t be bothered to think, while you think with your muscles.” 178

“Only by staying alive do we have all sorts of possibilities...” 1031

“Besides thanking Mr. Fool, I must thank you too, Teacher.” 1309