Talia Howell is a twenty-four-year-old Caucasian woman who graduated from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass Amherst with a bachelor’s in horticulture. She stands 5’10” and has well-toned arms and strawberry blonde hair. While she is thinking of going to graduate school, she currently works for the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the agency that oversees the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, which sits atop the Big Dig. Talia works in the home office growing some of the more delicate plants before harvesting them and planting them in the parks. She has no siblings and rarely speaks to her parents; they had her because it was expected and are so wrapped up in their work they don’t really notice her. She grew up upper-middle-class, and came to Massachusetts for college. She lives in Somerville in a dinky attic apartment with unrestricted access to the roof. She grows pot illegally, and has since college. She started growing it for personal use and as a challenge, but started dealing to pay for college. Talia was in Boston during the riots, but has no memory of those days,

Talia Awakens as a Thyrsus mage.