Career Change

Character Name: Elixa Mordent
Character Biography: http://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=13747.0
Previous Job/Position: St Mungo's Apothecary
Position Applying For: Healer in Training, Potion and Plant Poisoning

Why have you chosen to change careers?:
It is what Elixa always intended to on joining the team at St Mungo's. Now established as an apothecary since January 2010, she is itching to get back to healing. She has been shadowing the likes of Jules Deville and now feels ready to take on the extra responsibility and study to qualify.

Elaborate on your expertise in this new field:
Elixa followed the tangibles path through Durmstrang which focused on the foundations and related subjects for healing. Followed by initial healer training at the Frolich Institute in Sweden, which she regrettably did not complete.

Elixa became an apothecary for Drammes Apoteke. She was promoted up through the ranks to managing a branch in Sweden, and was sent to Britain to report on the apothecary market there. She has spent the past 10 years in apothecary and the 3 or 4 years before that studying healing.

Her role in the St Mungo's apothecary was to stock regular healing potions for each of the floors, and also brew the more specialist potions for use on the floors, although often the very rarely used or specially prepared brews are produced by healers on the individual floors, Elixa was rather prepared to help or prepare them on their behalf.

She dispensed run-of-the-mill healing advice, rather like a pharmacist, from the apothecary, dispensing regular prescriptions. Although apothecaries up and down the country will dispense prescriptions, they will not always have stock, and the hospital has the most comprehensive and wide range of preparations.

When not on front line duty, Elixa involved herself in keeping up to date with latest developments in healing, and will sneak up to the floors above to question or discuss things she has read in journals with particular healers it may interest.

Describe your new job and how you go about doing it:
As a Healer in Training, Elixa's role is a mixture of shadowing more experienced healers to make sure she understands a procedure, to getting hands on and treating patients directly under a watchful eye (or a distant one).

She takes on as much of the role of a fully qualified healer that is appropriate according to the exams she has taken and the number of hours she has practised.

As Elixa has trained before (1995-99), she is ahead of the summer intake who are mostly in their late teens/early twenties. She still will sit the same tests and exams, but at a faster rate, hoping to fast track her qualification as long as she can complete the required hours.

Career Change

Character Name: Elixa Mordent
Character Biography: https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=13747.0
Previous Job/Position: Trainee Healer, Potion & Plant Poisoning
Position Applying For: Healer, Potion & Plant Poisoning

Why have you chosen to change careers?:
Elixa previously trained right up until her final exams at Frolich Institute of Wizarding Medicine in Sweden. She has spent the year at St Mungo's redoing her exams intensively to qualify. At the end of December she completes her final exams, and qualifies for January 2012.

Elaborate on your expertise in this new field:
See above and trainee career change.

Describe your new job and how you go about doing it:
As a qualified Healer, Elixa's role now exhibits increased independence. She handles patients solo, or with small teams if severe. A healer never stops learning, and as a newly qualified healer, she certainly feels this is the case, continuing to observe and study the work of more experienced healers on the floor, and when permitted, elsewhere.

Character Name: Elixa Mordent
URL link to the Character's Bio: https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=13747.0

Character Age: 41 turning 42 in February 2018
Character Occupation: Unspeakable / Potions Researcher for the Department of Mysteries

Character History 2013 - 2017:

Elixa started 2013 continuing as she had for the last couple of years now, a healer for St Mungo’s Potion and Plant Poisoning floor, but her interest was starting to move in a new direction.

She had supported Auror Andromeda Gamp and Hitwitch Tara Sallow with their investigation into fake wolfsbane for a number of months, celebrating at the arrests and convictions that made werewolves safer. Her parents, also healers, celebrated too. James and Violetta Mordent work for the Frolich Institute of Wizarding Medicine in Sweden, where Lix originally trained. They specialise in the affliction of lycanthropy and raised their children to be well-informed. Lix is abruptly (or refreshingly forward) when speaking with werewolves, asking about how the bite was received and other symptoms. Lix was also curious about the work of ELF (Eradicate Lycanthropy Foundation) and where that was going.

Towards the end of 2012 Elixa’s relationship with Eva Kuester fizzled out, partly because Lix is a bit commitment-phobic, never wanting to be tied down for too long, combined with the publicity Eva’s job brought and the awkward position Lix felt she was in as a relative Edwin Glass. She still would, but Lix got the vibe that Eva’s intense relationship had itched the scratch the lawyer needed, both physically and deeper. Always an advocate for women expressing their needs in the bedroom, Lix doesn’t feel any ill towards Kuester, and certainly would bring those boots to visit again.

Meanwhile, her housemate, Arcturus, finally got back together with Cepheus Gamp, and in 2013 began to spend less and less time in the house they shared. Lix encouraged this, not because she didn’t like sharing the space, but because she was stoked for the wizards and their chief cheerleader. Arc stayed living in the house though, and Lix recognised he was reticent to move in with Ceph because of her. He’d paid his rent even when he was away in Malaysia for goodness sake. The universe was starting to tell her it was time to change things up, take on a new challenge, and she really missed Sweden.

So, in the summer of 2013 she told Arc and her family that she was heading to Sweden to be reunited with her close family, but also to study werewolves like her parents were experts in. She did Ceph a solid by telling Arc it was definitely time he moved in officially with Cepheus, if only so she knew where to address her letters and postcards. The pair of them ended their lease on the place about the Divination shop and moved out. Lix made sure someone organised a decent leaving party for her, of course.

Lix threw herself into the werewolf research laboratory at Frolich, relishing in learning something new and also getting to reunite with her family, particularly her brothers. She worked on experimental treatments pioneered by her parents and the team they had joined while Lix was a child, but approached it from the healing angle. There were close shaves at times, especially at full moon, but she got through it. It was wholesome to reunite with her twin brothers, too. With the news of the British Department of Mysteries making progress with wolfsbane, Lix got in touch - turned out that another Gamp was behind it, and he was working on more, needed more hands on deck… ooh, tempting.

Towards the end of 2017, exchanging letters with Arc, Lix heard that their old place above the divination shop was up for rent again. The universe was calling her back to London, it was the sign she needed. Only rather than the hospital, she’d be entering the labyrinth of Level Nine.

Summary: One paragraph to be used as overall character summary and in wiki

Lix moved back to Sweden in 2013, leaving her healing job at St Mungo’s to take one up at the Frolich Institute of Wizarding Medicine in Sweden, where she originally began her training and where her parents still work. There she joined a specialist team focused on werewolves and trying experimental treatments. During that time she started to correspond with Hyperion Gamp over developments in wolfsbane by the Department of Mysteries. The universe nudged her back to London, to join the team on Level 9.

January 2018

• 22 Rock Steady, Baby

March 2018

• 2 Hopeful Housemates
• 20 Rebels at Stagnation
• 24 Bottle Fame

May 2018

• 10 Cure or Control?

June 2018

• You are Invited...

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