Tallisibeth Enwandung-Esterhazy is a 19-20 young mage with the Circle of Enlightenment. Her inherent talent is pretty unimpressive, she was raised by adoptive parents who also fostered the changeling Axel, and one of her great-grandfathers was a changeling, and on top of that, the mage she apprenticed under when she was seventeen died in a working that she survived. Snootier mages don't care for her and have blocked her out of a lot of the really interesting work she's interested in.

However, her thorough and detail-oriented nature means she's really good at the magic she does. Scout manages to live reasonably well off of tedious slow-to-perform magic, particularly warding; she's got rent paid for half a year thanks to a spell that banishes vermin. Still, she always wants to do more. She keeps going back and forth on if she wants to apprentice under Ashleigh, as has been offered, and does a lot of independent study. Tallisibeth found an old spell for summoning a probably-angelic flaming sword! Her white-and-gray cockatiel Thranta is her familiar and goes with her everywhere.

She knows a little about most things, but largely keeps to her research. Her magic is always signed "Scout", but outside of the mage community, everyone calls her Tallisibeth.