Nevermore Character Stats: Renata Dunn

Renata

Eyes: dark brown
Hair: long, mahogany brown, straight, she keeps it braided most of the time.
Height: 5'9"
Abilities: powerful psychic, second sight, can hunt down any Dunkin Donuts and Taco Bell within a 6 mile radius. Professional exorcist; is a living legend in the Baltimore Necropolis.

Renata was possessed by a demon when she was twelve. This event has, understandably, affected her outlook on life quite a bit. After spending almost a year hidden in a corner of her captive mind, planning escape, Renata managed to reassert her will in an epic battle royal, absorbing the demon into herself, imbuing her with powers of Hell. Then there was the older demon to deal with, who had caused all the initial trouble and created the demon that possessed Renata. Accounts of the following differ depending on who's telling the story, but it is clear that Renata, thirteen and powered by Hell, bitch slapped a millennium old demon into being her man-whore/servant.

Over the past three years, Renata has become a staple of the Baltimore Necropolis. If you don't know her and claim to be part of the spiritual and psychic scene along the East coast, you're a damn liar and everyone knows it.

Renata has the unique and terrifying ability to cross from the land of the living to everywhere else. There are a series of interconnected worlds which overlap and intersect with our reality but which humans - with a few rare exceptions - can't enter while alive or conscious. Renata refers to these other realities as the Never Worlds and she is the only human who can enter them without leaving her body.

Among her many occupations, Renata is first and foremost an exorcist. She tracks down others who may be victimized like she was and helps them. But when she's not doing that, she has a long list of other projects which demand her attention.

Her two largest projects involved mapping the Never Worlds and where they connect with our reality, and rating how dangerous they are. Some points of connection, sometimes called portals or vortexes, are relatively harmless and can be left alone with only some small wards to keep anything malevolent from entering or exiting them. Others require sealing, as they lead to dangerous, unpleasant, or downright evil realities/worlds/etc. There is no strict dichotomy with portals and the Never Worlds. They function within a continuum of danger and deadliness. Even if a vortex doesn't need to be sealed, many still need to be monitored, and Renata has routine road trips during which she checks on her known vortexes.

The second project is similar but involves locating and listing all the haunted spots in Maryland and rating the severity of the haunting. She keeps track of these location on her blog, Renata's Guide to Haunted Maryland.

Renata has been home schooled since she entered high school, enabling her to have time to do all these jobs. And she has a (pet)demon on standby to help her with her homework. And though she doesn't consider it her job, Renata also finds and mentors young psychics like Raven Jenkins, and most recently Fin Constantine.

Renata can be found holding down the cashiers station and chit-chatting with customers of dubious humanity at Red Emma's bookstore and coffee house in Mt. Vernon, Baltimore.