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Jordan is about 5'8” with blond hair that varies in length depending on her mood though most of the time she has bangs, and her hair is almost always straight. Her eyes are a dark blue color, and she has strong cheekbones. Her body is slender and toned, though she's on the pale side, looking like she hasn't been out in the sun for a while. Most of the time she wears pant suits, and the occasional skirt or dress, but not very often. She likes to maintain a professional look, though when she's at home she's been known to actually dress down. No one ever sees her like that though, well not unless they come to her house.
Unique Features: Her skin is very warm to the touch. Not to the point of burning someone, but it feels as if she constantly has a fever.

Birth Location: Hungary
Blood Family: Imael (father – deceased), Orael (mother - alive)
Adoptive Family: None
Residence: In a forest cottage
Residing With: None
Profession(s) Held: Funeral Director
Employment: At the mausoleum

Physical Strengths:Much stronger, faster, and agile than humans, several times over. She has much stronger senses than humans as well. She is immune to disease and heals much faster than humans as well. All of these are about four times what they are in humans.
Physical Weaknesses: Water is her major weakness and causes major damage to her and prevents her from doing any kind of fire magic.
Magical Abilities: Most of her magical abilities comes from fire magic, being able to call forth fire and manipulate it. She can also absorb fire (only fire she has made, not fire from somewhere else), but it drains her considerably to do so. Manipulation of fire can come not only from fire she creates, but fire that's been created from something else. She can also grant wishes, but being a djinn she usually twists the magic and the wish so that the wish is granted in a way that would actual do damage instead of giving the person what they want. The following wishes she cannot do at all: Reviving the dead, time travel, taking life or removing someone's free will. On top of that she really despises doing wishes that involve changing the appearance of someone else, so when she's requested to do so, those wishes are the ones she makes the worst interpretations for. Her third biggest power is concealment and invisibility magic. If she doesn't want you to know something is there, you won't find it, or her. She can also levitate and move small objects but not very well.
Personal Skills & Training: Jordan has been in a couple of wars whether she's liked it or not. She knows how to fight though doesn't like doing it and would rather stay away from it completely. She knows how to handle most human weapons, or at least the ones that don't hurt her. She's pretty good at tracking people, subterfuge and defending herself physically. Because she's been around a long time and because she seems to have this weakness for watching humans, there's many things she's picked up by being around them like the way they give proper burial and funeral to the dead which is something she's tried to perfect over the years.
Personal Weaknesses: Jordan is very fascinated by humans in a not so practical way. Because she doesn't really care for them, she doesn't always have their best interest in mind but she's very curious about them. The amount of curiosity she has is almost overwhelming. She also doesn't like them very much and believes herself to be above most of them. Of course when she says that, she turns around and does something uncharacteristic like offer to help find lost people or take care of the dead. She doesn't like to talk about why she does the things she does, she doesn't think she has to answer to anyone, not even the Council but when pressed she'll probably give in. Her pride is overwhelming, and it takes a lot to get her to bend to someone else's will, which when enslaved completely breaks her of everything.

Jordan is known for being the most loyal to whoever can do the most for her. Her allegiance has switched from side to side over the years. Sometimes she's for the humans, sometimes she's against them. It doesn't always have to do with money, she believes she is above such things. But it is above what other gains that can be had, and what side she believes the most in. Sometimes she's moral, but she believes that morality doesn't have much to do with it either. Above all she's in it for herself, and if it suits her to change sides in the middle of something, she'll do so. Over the years she's been a double agent, a triple agent once or twice.

There are only a few that she will absolutely do anything for. She abhors being enslaved as most djinn do, and those are the occasions that she will rebel the hardest. If enslaved and she doesn't particularly like her master, she will go out of her way to do what is necessary to bring ruin upon that person. Of course she's enslaved, but that doesn't mean that she won't try and wiggle out of her commandments. She actually likes giving wishes for that reason, because she enjoys twisting what they want and bringing them grief when it's not exactly what they need.

To the average person she's neither pleasant or unpleasant. It takes her a while to judge people on whether or not she could be friendly towards them. Therefore most people probably think that she's an incredible bitch who never smiles. That would be true for the most part but it's not that she just hates everyone or something, it's just that she likes to know a person and what makes them tick. She's very curious about humans and why they do the things she does. Through the years there have been people she's set her sights on and become almost obsessed in figuring them out. You'd have to talk to those people to find out how much they liked her following them around of course.

Of course there is the fact that she goes out of her way to help bring in survivors as much as she can which pegs the question of how much she actually dislikes them and how much of her is just lonely.

Being born at the beginning of the 16th century in Hungary, the djinn named Anerael was born with much darker skin than she has now. She was born during the Battle of Mohacs, out of the death and destruction that came to Hungary out of the Ottoman empire. Her clan of djinn tried not to get themselves in the war, but when it came to their land, they could not help but to get involved. However though they were once in favor and supported Hungary, it was not long before their allegiance switched when they realized that fighting the Ottoman Empire was a losing battle. From a young age she was fascinated with the humans, not so much as a species but in individual cases. Her parents tried to dissuade her from learning too much about them or else she would be disappointed in what she found out.

When the Ottoman Empire took over Hungary, they made a shaky truce with the djinn, asking for their help protecting some of the noblemen in exchange for other things that a djinn needed. In the end only a handful of noblemen were protected by djinn, most not wanting anything to do with the humans. One such djinn entreated with protection of the son of the king was Anerael's own father. However the boy was killed by another family who wanted to rise up to power. Her father was imprisoned by a powerful sorcerer and forced to be enslaved and was banished from her clan for allowing the boy to die and not saving him. That was the last time she ever saw her father until much much later. After that, she and her mother were removed from their posts with the humans and went back to live with the rest of their clan. At home her mother taught her everything she needed to know about the djinn magic.

The Ottoman Empire continued to span, and eventually the djinn were tired of living there, and so her clan decided to move to another country where they stayed away from humans and other praeternaturals all together. However Jordan was still fascinated by humans, and snuck out to watch them and other praeternaturals to learn what she could about them. One night she met a metahuman who could move objects with their mind, and so they tried to teach her how to user her own magic to move things. She learned a little but being a djinn she couldn't do it nearly as well. He also taught her the way to properly take care of the dead to bury them. It was fascinating, she didn't really know death that well at that point, only here and there. So when he taught her, she kept the things he taught with her. She and the human became tangled together, maybe not quite love but there was a bond there that she could not deny herself. When one of the elder djinn found out that she was entangled with the human, she was cursed to be stuck in the same pale skin for the rest of her days.

Though she kept her human safe, she knew that it was time to end things and so she went off by herself, almost into exile, not wanting to be around her clan anymore. Sometimes she stuck to residing in England, and other countries that were near by. She tried to blend in and leave a very quiet life by herself, practicing her magic. When the Holy Roman Empire was at it's most glorious, she lived amongst the other noble humans, never revealing what she was. It was there when she met her father for the second time. It had been nearly a hundred years since she had seen him but he had not changed at all. He was still keeping watch over some of the praeternaturals, and helping other djinn that were in exile. She stayed with him a while, and she helped sneak exiled djinn and other praeternaturals through countries, especially through the Thirty Years' War. Eventually they moved again, and Jordan realized that she needed a newer, modern name. Her father suggested Jordan based upon the river where he had spent most of his exile.

She and her father parted ways in the early part of the 1800s and has not seen him since, believing him to be dead thanks to some part in the America's Civil War. Eventually she had gone to America to see what the big deal was, but she wasn't sure she liked it very much. But the people were intriguing and the humans were new and so very young, and the times were changing. That fascinated her, as did both World Wars, the Industrial Revolution and every thing in between. Though she took an odd job here and there she always thought she was above such things. For a period of about fifty years, right up until the 1980s, she was forced into slavery thanks to getting her nose involved in a sorcerer's business that she should not have. He made her do his bidding and grant wishes, and that broke everything she liked about the praeternaturals and the humans. She's loathed them ever since.

When the prophecy of what was about to happen reached her ears, she was still alone living in a small town in Hungary (finally coming home though she did not go back to her clan). She heard the news from her mother of all people and wasn't quite sure whether she wanted to believe the prophecy, but she never spoke a word of it to anyone. Her mother pleaded for her to go to Elysium and even packed up her things for her. Jordan asked her mother to come with her, but she declined. That was the last time she saw her. Half of her did not want to leave, have to board up with all of those she despised, but allowing herself to believe the devastation that was about to come, she went to one of the safe havens (for she really believed that humans were stupid enough to make a virus that would kill them all).

Once she got there, she found that though she wasn't quite happy about living with the others, the need to learn about them was urging her on, pulling at her. Despite the fact that she mostly loathed mortals and some other praeternaturals, the fact that they were just dying out there made her.. sad in some ways. So she decided to help find survivors, and that's what she's been doing ever since. On some rare occasions when someone dies in the haven, she asks to be the one to prepare them for funeral rites and take all the proper steps to give them their last rites, like a funeral director if you will.