Professor Draza Raines

Science Guild member, professor of elemental humanism at Sagaris University. She runs an active lab with graduate student assistants, experimenting with and studying the energies created by elementals. Mother to Farris Raines.

Physical Description
A tall and severe woman with spectacles, and rarely seen without her rust colored lab coat (which denotes her standing as a professor).

History
A dedicated scientist of the highest order. More interested in study than internal politics, she nevertheless understands the hierarchy well enough to have positioned herself just high enough to have access to all the resources she desires without being bogged down by the administration. She's not a great team player. While not particularly obsessed with credit or glory, she knows that since most other scientists are it taints their approach to things. She'd much rather command high level students than have to be in the same room as those with a skill level comparable to her own. But she'll at least respect her colleagues, while she harbors borderline open contempt for the administration of the Guild.

The one person who has ever known the softer side of Professor Raines is her son, Farris. She can be over-protective of him, fearing what will happen to him in the wider world.