| Pema has always been someone who walked between worlds, once in a figurative sense and now in a literal one. Born to a Tibetan mother and American father, she spent her youth living part of every year in Philadelphia and part of it in a remote part of the Himalayas, exposed to the cultures of both her parents and never feeling fully like a part of either one.
As an adult she devoted her life to healing others, but feeling like a permanent outsider meant she had a bit of a chip on her shoulder about many things. The only thing that ever seemed to knock it off was her Awakening, which gave her a fresh perspective and a stronger devotion to helping others understand themselves and ease their own passages through life.
Even now she's a bit of an outsider, having Awakened in a land with its own perspectives on the nature and purpose of magic and very different traditions than the ones that most of the developed world seems to adhere to. In a bit of serendipity she met someone from the legacy she would eventually join who happened to have come from her American hometown, and after joining that Legacy she returned to America to learn from new perspectives, and to help as many people as she can.
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Psychiatry: Pema is a psychiatrist who consults with medical doctors when they have patients who have mental health concerns. This might range from health problems that exacerbate existing psychiatric conditions to helping patients who are experiencing distress as a related to the reasons they're seeking care from their physician. She also specializes in cross cultural psychiatry and the cultural context of medical disorders.
Alternate Traditions: Even though she's currently a member of the Children of the Tree, Pema was a member of a smaller magical community in Tibet prior to her return to Philadelphia, and her early education on the supernal arts has a foundation that differs significantly from the teachings of the Diamond or the Assembly.
Half Local: Pema's family life is a peculiar one, with a mother who lives in Tibet and a father who lived in Philadelphia. She spent school years in Philly and breaks abroad, so she might know people who are from the area from either grade school or her time as a student or a professor at UPenn, a job from which she had been on sabbatical for the last two years. She returned just a few months ago.
Attitude Adjustment: People who knew Pema before she Awakened and haven't seen her in years might find her to be almost a different person than she used to be. While she always had a good bedside manner when it came to patients, she was often arrogant, aloof, and harsh on her students. Her obvious depth of knowledge and talents meant that she was in demand for consultations and she was an effective educator, but not a popular one. These days she's very different.
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Brandi Carlile - The Stranger At My Door
- We exorcize the demons of the things we used to know
- The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes
- We think we're moving on, from materials we long
- To forget we ever sold our souls to own
- There's a chilling absolution that we're given at our birth
- A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth
- But nothing scares me more than the stranger at my door
- Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth
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Adia Victoria - The Needle's Eye
- Deep down in the gallows, in the lion's den
- There’s no light, there's only night
- No one to call, no body's listening
- There, there, keep your head up
- Lift that chin, watch the shapes shadows make
- And soon enough they’ll be your friends
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Be Afraid
- We've been testing you and you failed
- To see how long that you could
- Hold it in before you screamed
- But you only exhaled
- I don't think you even recognize
- The sound of your voice
- When it's blasting through the speakers in the sky
- And if your words add up to nothing
- Then you're making a choice
- To sing a cover when we need a battle cry
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| Long-Term Nimbus: Things upon which Pema's long-term nimbus settles seem to be aware of their surroundings and watching, particularly interested in the actions of those who are aware of them.
Immediate Nimbus:
Being exposed to Pema's immediate nimbus results in a feeling as if all the current emotions and motivations a subject is feeling are independent entities speaking together to try to influence behavior, along with a sense of being consciously piloted by those shards of personality rather than being a single cohesive self. (Tilt: -1 Resolve, -2 Composure)
Signature Nimbus:
Everything that Pema's signature nimbus touches seems to be speaking to the person studying it, though the message it's trying to deliver always feels like it's just beyond the reach of understanding.
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| Full Name:
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Pema Frey
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| Shadow Name:
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Phurba
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| Virtue/Vice:
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Patient/Ambitious
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| Birth:
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February 22, 1985
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| Nationality:
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Tibetan-American
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| Age:
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36
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| Height:
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5'7"
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| Occupation:
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Psychiatrist
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| Path:
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Mastigos
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| Legacy:
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Agathodaímōn
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| Order:
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Children of the Tree
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| In Philly: Master Exorcist Phurba, Scion and Psychonaut on the Path to Pandemonium, Supernal Realm of Mind and Space, and abode of Demons, Scion of the Watchtower of the Iron Gauntlet, Master of Mind, Adept of Life and Spirit, Disciple of Death and Space
In Mêdog: Adept Phurba, Exorcist of the Black Waters of Pandemonium, Adept of Illusion, Disciple of Existence, Laic of Manifestation, Passage, and Prediction
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