Gender: Female
Age: 11
Ethnicity: Canadian-English
Hometown: St. John's, Newfoundland
Affiliation: Non-Affiliated
Purity: Pure

Magic Type: Learned (Stagecraft), Inherited (Phantom Mantle)
Active status: Active

Primary Ability:

• Stagecraft
  

Stagecraft users have the ability to magically manifest items that are generally associated with the stage. These items are imbued with magical properties. Properties can be anything from a simple glamor or illusion to something with real combat value. Due to these items being made purely from the user's mana they have a limited time use and the offensive minded ones are often unstable, but provide a large amount of power. Stagecraft abilities do not require any vocal component to activate, but due to the dramatic backgrounds of many of the users they are often incorporated into the spells.

Known Abilites:
Knitted Maw (Unstable)
Riley manifests a hand puppet in the shape of a dragon's head. Her personal puppet appears to be homemade and has sewn on button eyes, the right eye is loose and shifts around as the puppet is moved. Despite its appearance the puppet can be used to create a blazing ten foot long cone of fire, this can be cast in bursts or channeled until all her mana is used up. Due to the nature of Stagecraft this attack can be very effective, but runs the risk of sputtering out when invoked too often or even creating an explosion that engulfs the user.
Minor Illusions
Riley can create multiple small illusions of objects or one full sized person. These illusions can make sounds, but are not complex enough to actually speak. If the illusion's task is predetermined or only reactionary she can still move and use other abilities while it's active.
Blank Masks
Riley manifests up to four featureless stage masks. These are projected at enemy creatures, summons, or mages and when they come in contact with their target's face the masks silence the opponent and begin to drain their mana. The masks are very difficult to pull off as they mold to the enemies' face, but can be rather easily broken.

Secondary Ability:

• Phantom Mantle
  

A non-combat ability that takes an immense amount of concentration. The Phantom Mantle is most often used to allow Riley to get into position and set up for one of her attacks, it can only rarely be used as an escape mechanism as it requires her full attention to enable. The mantle itself manifests around Riley as an ash Grey cloak with a deep hood; it is darker around the hood and lightens as it goes down, the very bottom turning incorporeal and giving the cloak a ragged, torn appearance. While active the Mantle renders Riley incorporeal this can only be extended for a maximum of one minute. This ability does not require any of her mana, but instead taxes her physically . Because of this though, the Mantle is not detectable by magical means.

The Mantle can also be passively summoned where it serves as protection against physical attacks. This use of the ability does not require any concentration and only registers on Riley as four or five pounds of added weight.

How powers were granted:
Riley's Father, Joseph Alstad, was an accomplished stagecraft user and the previous inheritor of the Phantom Mantle ability. Her father was still an active magician after his Riley was born (she is his illegitimate child and has no mother), but after he came home from what he refers to as an 'accident' with his body still regenerating from horrendous burns and, despite bringing all his magical power to the fore to try and heal himself, his eyes permanently blinded. After recovering Joseph quickly dumped all of his power into a focus statue in their small theater and home and then anchored his Phantom Mantle around the building, making the magical energies undetectable from the outside world. He then began to teach stagecraft to the then five year old Riley and she soon was able to create her own reserves of mana and manifest a Phantom Mantle. Over the years her stagecraft has been honed through the two putting on plays where Joseph is the only actor and the rest of the cast are illusions created by Riley using both her own and her Father's magical power.

Skill level: 25 (11 for Unstable spells)
Power level: 7 (35 for Unstable spells)
control: 18 (-14 for Unstable Spells)

Appearance: Riley is only four-foot, eight-inches in height and weighs seventy-five pounds. Her body is undeveloped and lean in build. She has some muscles, due to learning acrobatics, but as she is still a child they are not overly developed or noticeable. Riley has short, dark brown hair and pale skin. Her eyes are slightly angled and a light green in color. She holds an intense dislike of dresses, skirts, and even overalls (OVERALLS HAVE BEEN REEVALUATED, ACCEPTABLY SORTA AWESOME) and can be most often found wearing jeans or shorts and is very fond of t-shirts with animal prints on them.
Magical Item: None
Magical Outfit: None
Familiar: None