Daniella Carrington-Leigh

History
Dani is rather cagey about her past, she prefers not to go into the specifics in any great detail but her mother, Penelope, was well known as a model in the 90s and was an advocate of body postivity and diversifying aesthetics within the industry. Her father, Sir Alistair Carrington Leigh, was a well known industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist who put his wealth to good use as a captain of industry in Knightsbridge Financial, an investment company.

Tragedy struck, however, when Daniella's mother died in an accident from which the pretty, lively young seven year old girl returned much different. She was turned monochromatic and with her "freaky" appearance even her pedigree, wealth and status bought her very little in life. She vanished from the public eye, moved from one private school to the next as her father sought to find a way to fit her in somewhere. Anywhere. Or that is how the British Tabloids spun it.

And of course they are positively bastions of truth and grace.

Opening Something Wicked
While holidaying in Melbourne, Australia, Dani was accosted very publicly by a group of monster hunters wielding silver sickles and icons of death. Unfortunately for them Dani was suceptible to neither and quickly dispatched them with the help from the cryomancer Travis Stillman, an apostate sorcerer from the local magical culture. With her funds and Travis' expertise as a magician, the pair set about establishing a place for themselves in the world. Finally settling on an agency that would help people with their stranger, more supernatural issues.

The Nature of the Nyxian Girl
Dani is an Avatar of the Primordial, she has somehow become saturated in the power of Darkness and thus been transformed into a potent entity, growing stronger with each passing day. This has lead many to decide she is evil, though her powers do lend themselves to hunting evil more than to committing it. Due to her status she is often maligned by practitioners and pursued by Hunters who, of course, believe her to be inherently dangerous to others - as such her friendships are few and often distant outside of those who can comprehend her abilities for what they are.

There have been some concerns raised that if Dani loses control she could plunge the world into eternal darkness, a state some creatures would crave - this alone has made her very popular with vampires, granting her a small amount of extra clout in her investigations. Amongst sorcerers she is popular as a prospective source of power like other Avatars and of course there are various cults that view her as the rebirth of some deity or entity or another. Mostly she just likes to go shopping, watching films and listening to music.

Powers & Abilities
Dani is able to manifest darkness as a tangible force, projecting it at will in a variety of forms or using it to restrain and subjugate her foes. She is also able to sense darkness of a literal and metaphysical variety, on the souls or auras of others and in places she is presently located. With her powers she can also teleport and open portals, often amplifying her range with the ritual Circles built and sanctified by Travis.

In terms of abilities Dani is a skilled "social engineer" and has a top notch education while also being very athletic, having taken medals in marksmanship, fencing, swimming and running and studied as a ballerina (always forced to play the black swan of course) and in more modern forms of dance. She has learned Cantonese from her paternal grandmother and also speaks French, Russian, Italian, German and Dutch. She has also obtained a provisional drivers license but this seems largely to be from the fear driving instructors had of her "Cruella at the Rally Races" style of driving.