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Professor Katina Black is a renowned Adventurer and independant void researcher. Also author of the bestselling book, "Shard of the Damned: A Field Guide to the Void and its Inhabitants".

Katina was born into a life of privilege, having proven lineage with some of the finest sorcerers of ancient Mhach as well as being rumored to be descended of a race of dwarves that legends say escaped to the Source from the Thirteenth before it became the Void and intermingled with the native Lalafell. Her parents, as well as many of her forebears, held high status at the Ul'dahn Ossuary as researchers of the Void.

Around the age of seven, Katina peered into a cursed monacle kept in the Ossuary's relic vault and stared directly into the eye of the voidsent Angra Mainyu, turning her left eye into a void singularity that showed her horrors beyond one that age should ever see.

Marked with the curse of such a high rung voidsent, Katina was outsted from the walls of Ul'dah, forced to fend for herself in the camps of Lost Hope while her parents were sent to the gaol for letting such a thing to happen.

Living on her own for two years at such a young age was rough, but she met a young Mi'quote lad named Edmund Black who's mere presence, for unknown reasons, would allow her cursed left eye to give her peace and not show her the horrors of the void. She originally forged a friendship with him due to this, and stuck to him like glue. Over the years the two formed a loving relationship and cemented it with the Eternal Bond ceremony, taking on his surname.

In the following years, Katina used her curse to her advantage and made a name for herself as an adventurer, void researcher, and exterminator of voidsent. Her biggest client is the Ul'dahn Ossuary, who have since released her parents from the gaol and allow her to enter Ul'dah once more, even allowing her to take up residence in The Goblet.

The Black House, as it is dubbed (not only for its occupants, but also for the color of its exterior and rumors of dark magic being perfomed within) sits on a corner lot in the 12th Ward of the Goblet, and is considered an eyesore to her neighbors, who insist that all houses in the subdivision be a matching blue.

In recent years, something happened in the Void, causing her cursed eye to go blind, leaving the pupil milky and sightless, as opposed to the whorl of tainted aether it once was. It was soon after, she was given word that Angra Mainyu, the creature who cursed her in her childhood, was felled by the Hero of Light during the Crystal Tower incident.

Despite losing her connection to the void, which gave her an advantage over other Void researchers, as well as a loss of depth perception, Professor Black is more than happy to know the peace of her curse being lifted.

Currently she leads a Free Company known as the Acolytes of the Void, taking on adventurers who dedicate themselves to learning about and exterminating voidsent, passing on her knowledge to those who seek it.