Lumi/Introduction

Dr. Lumi Aino Niskanen was never someone who completely fit in with her peers in the mundane world. From a young age in Helsinki, when they were out playing football or tag, she was usually to be found sequestered comfortably in a corner somewhere with a book and a voracious appetite for knowledge. Her social media presence was low, but her work ethic was strong and her hunger for more sharp. After graduation, she enrolled into the Theology and Religion department at Oxford, and moved to the UK to start a new life.

The new life ended up becoming far more than she had at first assumed as she caught the interest of one Ellen Kirkland, a physicist ten years her senior. Pushed and nudged in directions she never would have gone in herself, her life took a sharp turn when a revelation during a psychedelic trip led her into the Order of Hermes and House Criamon.

She's never stirred much notice, but her papers from that point on became broader, sharper, a deeper dive into the old shamanistic practices and their echoes in the modern world. She finished her doctorate, and recently landed a teaching position at King's College, moving to London just before Christmas of 2024.