|species = [[Humans|Human]]
|status = {{Status|Deceased}}|first appearance = [https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/13/6-37-e/ Chapter 6.37 E]
|family = [[Nanette Weishart]] (''Daughter'')|residence = *[[Izril]] (formerly)
|image = Califor by JohnDoe.jpg
|caption1 = By [[Fanworks/John Doe|John Doe]]
'''Califor Weishart''' is a [[Witches|[Witch]]] and [[Nanette|Nanette's]] mother and teacher.
She is a tall, thin, older, stern-faced woman with a black dress and a worn pointed black hat. She pays attention to her posture and keeps a straight back.<ref name=":6.37 E">[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/13/6-37-e/ Chapter 6.37 E] </ref> She has a worn riding cloak that sometimes swirled like a moving shadow, and a walking staff that might leave behind patches of vibrant grass.<ref name=":6.37 E" />
Califor is decisive and neither hesitates nor loses her calm, even when in danger, as "a good [Witch] does not show fear." She values the older ways of witches and tries to remain polite, at least towards other witches, although she views it far less important than Mavika does.<ref name=":6.37 E" /> Califor has a stern demeanor. She believes in letting her pupils learn by experiencing, once telling Wiskeria to practice a mending brew herself when she cut her arm to the bone.<ref name=":0">[[Chapter 6.41 E]]</ref> However, she didn't practice this philosophy with Nanette, being highly protective of her daughter.
Califor originates from a border-town in [[Golaen]].<ref>{{VERef|10.33 MNK}}</ref><blockquote>"Califor’s good at everything she does. Illusions to charms to basic magic and non-magical things—she’s a teacher, and she sorts problems out"<ref name="6.40 E" /></blockquote>She is mainly seen using sympathy and illusion magic :
*When a bandit attacked her, she made him think she was to his left while she was in fact to his right. The bandit was looking right at her but swung in the wrong direction towards his ally.<ref name=":6.37 E" />
* Instantaneous movement, by using her cloak of Balkshadow, she was able to make Nanette and her disappear, and cover some ground to escape from the bandits :
<blockquote>"She lifted her travelling cloak and whirled it across the air, blocking the two from sight. [...] The two on horseback wavered and then ''vanished''. [...] They saw two distant figures on horseback."<ref name=":6.37 E" /></blockquote>
* She was able to protect Nanette and her from the bandits' arrows using sympathy magic, by tossing a handful of twigs taken from the ground left and right :
<blockquote>"The arrows that landed close enough for Nanette’s horse to flinch were meant for the two [Witches]. —But no matter how hard the [Archers] tried, they couldn’t seem to land a shot"<ref name=":6.37 E" /></blockquote>
*She made Nanette sleep by using sympathy magic to link them both :
<blockquote>"Califor whispered and flicked fingers across her eyes. Instantly, she felt her mouth force a yawn out; her target, Nanette, would feel the effects just as strongly, if not more so."<ref name="6.40 E" /></blockquote>
* She can ride through fire unarmed<ref name=":1" /> :
<blockquote>"Witch Califor [...] drew a blade. She swung it and cut through a wall of fire and parted the inferno for her rearing horse. Then dismounted to drag both her horse and Nanette’s pony through the ash."</blockquote>
*By sacrificing her life, she was able to take into her the wildfire that was devouring all of Riverfarm :<ref name=":1">{{VERef|6.46 E}}</ref><blockquote>“''Halt, fire! You race and burn everything away! But I? I have a life I must save! So burn and follow me!''” The [Witch] rode forwards. Her voice called the flames. They halted, across the river, as they licked at Riverfarm’s houses.[...] The flames on Wiskeria stopped burning and—turned. Towards the [Witch]. She lifted her hand, beckoning them, spreading her arms wide, welcoming them, and the fire ran. It leapt off Wiskeria. [...] It caught the [Witch] in a moment. [...] The [Witch] screamed and the fire leapt from the people. It abandoned the ground and raced after her. She clutched her hat to her head as she galloped, a fireball.
“''Come, flame, I offer my magic and craft. I offer a [Witch]’s bones, a mother’s love! I offer my life to turn your wrath! So come and burn away. That my daughter might live one more day.''”
The flames burning the forest, the village—the entire region ablaze followed after like a stream of destruction. Bound in a single woman’s wake. Still, the [Witch] rode on, though the horse was stumbling, and her skin was immolating, turning molten. She was pulling, now. Pulling the flames—all of them—after her. They roared across the ground, leaving the village, leaving the [Witches]. [...] They burned the [Witch]. Devoured her down to her bones, now. And there she stopped. Still sitting upright in that saddle, a skeleton holding onto a burning hat."</blockquote>She can also use vengeance magic<ref>{{VERef|8.85}}</ref>, which could be an application of sympathy magic :*When her ghost possessed a skeleton thanks to [[Khelt]]'s ritual, she attacked [[Belavierr Donamia|Belavierr]] by summoning the same inferno that had killed her due to Belavierr’s manipulations:
<blockquote>"The fire that had engulfed her burst into flames across Belavierr’s body. Califor’s death-flame engulfed the Witch of Webs."</blockquote>
*When the physical manifestation of the fire failed, she managed to trap the Witch of Webs inside her own body, forcing her to relive her final moments as the fire that had scorched an entire region consumed her :
<blockquote>''"Califor’s gaze sucked Belavierr into a witch’s body. The Stitch-Witch [..]'' felt the heat of a wildfire’s blaze engulf her. She began to scream, racing across the ground, a living torch. ''Her death, given to Califor.'' Belavierr burned until the body was ash. [...] Belavierr stumbled and fell to the ground, unharmed, yet writhing, ''burning.'' [..]The pain of dying ran through her "</blockquote>
**??? - Sleeping spell<ref name="6.40 E">[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/24/6-40-e/ Chapter 6.40 E]</ref>
*Her surname was revealed in [[Chapter 6.47 E]].
*Califor doesn't like cackling, believing it to play into stereotypes about [Witches].<ref name=":0" />
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Nanette-and-califor-by-kazakka.jpg|Nanette and Califor, by [[Fanworks/Kazakka|Kazakka]]
Nanette-and-califor2-by-kazakka.png|Nanette hiding behind Califor, by [[Fanworks/Kazakka|Kazakka]]
Witches Ritual by Tomeo.jpg|Witches Ritual, by [[Fanworks/Tomeo|Tomeo]]<br />(6.47 E)
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/13/6-37-e/ To] [[Nanette]]) “Keep up, Nanette. And sit properly; you’re riding the horse, not letting it bear you to market. Don’t make a poor impression. First ones are the only ones you get.”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/13/6-37-e/ To] [[Nanette]]) “You see, Nanette? A small spell works better than obvious magic. What we see and show is more important. You are not a [Mage]. Remember that.”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/13/6-37-e/ To] [[Rie Valerund|Rie]]) “So you’ve informed me. And this means I should change myself to suit you how, exactly?”
* ([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/09/21/6-46-e/ As Belavierr to the Fire]) <em>“Come, flame, I offer my magic and craft. I offer a [Witch]’s bones, a mother’s love! I offer my life to turn your wrath! So come and burn away. That my daughter might live one more day.</em>”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/09/24/6-47-e/ To] [[Nanette]]) “<em>My daughter. You have lost your craft. You have lost your way. And you have lost me. I would give any of these back to you. But I am dead.</em>”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/09/24/6-47-e/ To] [[Mavika]]) “<em>What do I see? Nothing. It is empty. Terribly empty. There is nothing here. They are all gone. I will not stay either. I will not be eaten.</em>”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2019/09/24/6-47-e/ To] Witches) “<em>Something walks this ground, sisters. Something older than us all. Something </em>hungers<em>. And it has devoured the land of death. It comes for you, the living. And it is strongest here. On these lands. Something—I know it. We all do. But it is nameless. It must be so. </em>He<em> must never return. I have seen the past in him. And yet I fear the future.</em>”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2021/03/30/8-15/ To] [[Erin Solstice|Erin]]) “To be a [Witch] is to try. You need not even bother to try. Do you think we would leave it to chance? You can struggle or protest or run. We will ''make'' you a [Witch]. Yet we will ask. Will you give it your all?”
*([https://wanderinginn.com/2022/05/03/8-85/ To] [[Belavierr Donamia|Belavierr]]) “Yes, I am, Belavierr. Dead by your design. By weft and web and wretched threat, to quell a blaze. For my daughter’s life, I burned. Now—it is your turn.”
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