"Interconnections"
Episode 1: Families, Friends, and Fellows
Free Reach: 2
Used Reach: 3
Method: Improvised
Casting Time: Instant
Range: Sensory
Potency: 2
Duration: Scene
Scale: 1 (Self)
Yantras: Hag Stone
Successes: 3
Oldest child of Friedrich and Antonia Bauer, born 1827. The family left their home in the Black Forest when she was ten years old, and immigrated to the United States. After an attempt to settle in Tennessee, Friedrich packed up the family and headed west, settling in Purgatory Bluff in 1843. Gisela went to work immediately, lending a hand in any shop that would take her, while taking on side jobs as a seamstress. She was a hard worker and a quick learner, and soon got taken on as shopkeeper/main proprietor for the town's general store, where she also runs a side business selling her mother's baked goods.
She has little formal education, but grew up with a few well-worn books (including a volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales). She is determined to fix her family's fortunes, one way or another.