Karina Oblay

Karina Oblay is an orphan and planeswalker from Festenya. After living on her own for nearly two years, she was possessed by Okus and shortly afterwards brought to The Arena. During this time, she got a temporary job with the Seventh Circle Initiative and was given Kirino Oblay's planeswalker spark. After freeing herself from the Okus, she befriended her now girlfriend, Hannah Delcarlo-Nisita and was invited for a permanent position in the Seventh Circle. She currently lives across Suldefsra, Tena, and Volaria.

Early life
Karina was the only child to a poor Festenian couple, who were not really prepared to raise a child. While her parents meant well, Karina developed issues with guilt and self-doubt at a young age.

When Karina was 8 years old, her parents were killed by a vampire settling debts. Karina escaped, and with no other family to run to, began fending for herself in the city of Festenya. She slept during the plane's short days both for safety against vampires, and prevent freezing during the long, cold nights. For nearly two years, Karina survived on her wits and whatever she could find in the massive city.

At 10 years old, Karina found and wore a hat that was Okus in disguise. Okus possessed the child, and after a few weeks on Festenya, entered the planar portal and brought the pair to the Arena.

Okus's Possession
Okus brought Karina to the Arena as a way to covertly build its strength and locate a more powerful host. Being disguised as a child allowed it to operate safely and usually outside the notice of the planeswalkers it was following. Despite, or perhaps because of, this two entities on the Arena took special notice of them: Kirino Oblay, an empath who was aware of the hat's possession, and the Seventh Circle Initiative, who hired them to begin training as a spy due to their apparent skills between Karina's experience and Okus's illusions.

After multiple interferences with Okus's spell by Kirino, the pangolin Wiejis, and an explosion caused by the robot Base Zero<span style="color: rgb(185, 187, 190); font-family: Whitney, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, Karina began breaking through Okus's spells faster than expected and making little actions against the hat or influencing the hat to act more as she would. While effectively dreaming during the initial parts of her possession, Karina was nearly fully consious after Base Zero's attack.

Nearly two weeks later, during the final moments in the battle against Kirino Oblay, Kirino offered her spark to the possessed Karina, which Okus gleefully accepted. The hat reported its new planeswalker status to the Seventh Circle's Interim Director Rettai Ba'alzur, who expanded their internship to the Division of Exploration. That night, while puzzling out why Kirino would give the hat the key to everything it had ever wanted and dooming the child, Karina tricked the hat into knocking itself off her head, freeing her from its possession after many months.

Life on the Arena
Karina was finally free, and found herself in a far better life than the one she left behind. Afraid that telling the truth to the Seventh Circle would result in her being sent back to Festenya and losing everything, she kept the hat a secret and continued living as though nothing had changed. Over the next few days she would take the last name Oblay in honor of the woman who helped her, was officially adopted by Aiden of Sunspear, spent as much time as she could with Hannah Delcarlo-Nisita as she recovered from aether exhaustion, and was given an Entelan transceiver by Hannah that would allow the two to contact each other even when Hannah left the Arena.

After Malextros's attack on the Arena, mysterious occurences started happening across the plane, and to Karina's eyes, all the attacks pointed to Okus having returned. She told her mentor Reyhsia in secret what had happened to her with the hat. Reyhsia took this information to Deputy Chief Hana Cheyn, and asked for any information on the plane Rhak. When refused, Reyhsia, who had been possessed by Okus herself the entire time, attacked Hana, and unleashed chaos across the Arena, including releasing a dragon on the rest of Arena Station, performing an anti-magic attack against the assassin Arina Nisita, performing a damaging sonic attack on Officer Lumen, and distracting the geomancer Aylin with a fragment of Malextros left behind after his attack.

During this attack, Karina was trapped in her room and unable to do anything, until she was rescued by Hannah. The two of them and Aiden sought out Reyhsia, but found that she had already nearly killed Chief Cheyn, and had been left for dead by Okus, who had already fled the plane after determining the Seventh Circle truly did not know anything about Rhak. Thanks to the efforts of Doctor Timotar Arueth, Reyhsia was revived and Karina came clean about all that she had been through with the hat. After her confessions, she was given the Sunspear by Aiden, who told her he would be leaving for a short while, but he would see her soon.

The next night, Karina returned to Aiden's shack, where she discovered his corpse and had flashbacks to finding her dead parents in a similar manner. The problem was exacerbated by discovering that Hannah had been hurt and her tunneler damaged as part of Okus's attack. She asked Hannah to stay away from her, as "everyone that helps me gets hurt." Hannah refused and stayed with her through the night to console her. That night, Hannah had a magical nightmare from one of Tshosiech's demesne and attacked Karina in her sleep.<span style="color: rgb(220, 221, 222); font-family: Whitney, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">