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Moxana
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| Name | Moxana |
| Age | Around 200 |
| Occupation | Augur |
| Residence | Probably Sturmhalten |
| First Appearance | First mentioned by Master Payne and Countess Marie ✣ ; first seen when Abner introduces Krosp ✣ . |
| Parents | Van Rijn, creator |
| Relatives | Two (known) remaining "sisters," Tinka and Otilia; other Muses presumed destroyed |
Moxana is one of the Muses built by master spark van Rijn for the Storm King. She plays games and tells fortunes, and seems to be exceptionally perceptive. She's been called the "Muse of mystery", though this may have been less a reference to her purpose than to her cryptic communications. It's not her fault; she just can't talk.
She tends to express herself in the form of Tarot cards [1] and particularly symbolic chess moves [2], which became a significant factor in the decision-making process in the Circus.
In the backstory, her "sister," Tinka, had travelled with her, with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure. But in a trip through Sturmhalten, Tinka was taken by Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Since then, until Agatha Heterodyne was accepted into the circus, Moxana had become increasingly despondent. Agatha was going to try and build her a new sister, but Tinka and Moxana were once again united in Sturmhalten. Moxana apparently decided to stay with Tarvek, accepting him as hereditary heir to the Storm King.
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The injured Tarvek has recently escaped from the Great Hospital at Mechanicsburg to Castle Heterodyne where he has fallen quite ill from complications of his injuries. Moxana may be hiding in Sturmhalten unless she was "liberated" by "Lunevka".
Moxana PointsEdit
Moxana points are a notion developed on the Yahoo! mailing list, the idea being that they are earned when a correct prediction is made, rather like "brownie points" or "winning an internet".
Possibly relevant outside informationEdit
Moxana's design is inspired by the The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century by Wolfgang von Kempelen. The machine consisted of a life-size mechanical puppet operated by a hidden person under its chessboard, tricking observers into believing that the machine itself was capable of playing chess against human opponents. In the comic, Abner offers this same story [3] to Krosp before Moxana's true nature is revealed.
