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<b>Caste:</b> Secrets<br>
 
<b>Caste:</b> Secrets<br>
 
<b>Nature:</b> Follower<br>
 
<b>Nature:</b> Follower<br>
<b>Concept:</b> Wyld expert<br>
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<b>Anima:</b> ???<br>
<b>Quote:</b> "A storm of possibilities... beautiful, is it not?."<br>
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<b>Concept:</b> Wyld-touched
<b>Experience Points:</b> normal PC build, plus 769 XP
 
  
 
<b>Attributes:</b><br>
 
<b>Attributes:</b><br>
Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2<br>
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Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4<br>
Charisma 3, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2<br>
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Charisma 1, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2<br>
Perception 4, Intelligence 5, Wits 3
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Perception 4, Intelligence 4, Wits 3
  
 
<b>Abilities:</b><br>
 
<b>Abilities:</b><br>
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<b>Awareness</b> 3, Bureaucracy 2, Craft Fate 1, <b>Investigation</b> 4, <b>Larcency</b> 3, <b>Linguistics</b> 3, <b>Lore</b> 3, <b>Martial Arts</b> 3, <b>Occult</b> (The Wyld +2) 4, Resistance 1, Ride 1, Socialize 3, <b>Stealth</b> 3, <b>Survival</b> 2
  
Athletics 2, <b>Awareness</b> 3, <b>Brawl</b> 5, Bureaucracy 3, <b>Craft</b> (Fate) 4, <b>Dodge</b> 5, Endurance 1, <b>Investigation</b> (Research 3) 5, <b>Larcency</b> 5, Linguistics 4, <b>Lore</b> 5, Martial Arts 2, Melee 4, <b>Occult</b> (The Wyld 3) 5, Performance 4, Ride 1, Socialize 4, <b>Stealth</b> 3, Survival 4
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<b>Backgrounds:</b> Acquaintances 2, Backing (Gold Faction) 3, Celestial Manse 2, Connections (Division of Secrets) 1, Connections (The Threshold) 2, Salary 3, Sifu 2
 
 
<b>Backgrounds:</b> Acquaintances 4, Artifact 5, Backing (Bronze Faction) 3, Celestial Manse 2, Connections (Division of Secrets) 2, Connections (The Threshold) 2, Manse 4, Salary 3, Savant 3
 
  
 
<b>Virtues:</b><br>
 
<b>Virtues:</b><br>
Compassion 2, Conviction 4, Temperance 4, Valor 3<br>
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Compassion 1 Conviction 4, Temperance 2, Valor 3<br>
  
<b>Willpower:</b> 8<br>
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<b>Willpower:</b> 7<br>
<b>Health:</b> -0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-4,Incapacitated<br>
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<b>Health:</b> -0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-4,Incap<br>
<b>Essence:</b> 4<br>
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<b>Essence:</b> 3<br>
<b>Personal:</b> 16, <b>Peripheral:</b> 45, <b>Committed:</b> 5 (+15 with Ring of Being)
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<b>Essence pool:</b> 13/35
  
 
<b>Colleges:</b><br>
 
<b>Colleges:</b><br>
The Guardians 4<br>
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The Key 2<br>
The Sorcerer 3<br>
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The Mask 2<br>
 
The Treasure Trove 3<br>
 
The Treasure Trove 3<br>
  
 
<b>Charms:</b><br>
 
<b>Charms:</b><br>
<b>Athletics:</b> Burn Life; Forgotten Earth<br>
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<b>Investigation:</b> Efficient Secretary Technique<br>
<b>Awareness:</b> Expected Pain; Prior Warning; Supernal Awareness<br>
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<b>Martial Arts:</b> Air Dragon's Sight, Shrouding the Body and Mind, Wind Dragon Speed<br>
<b>Brawl:</b> Crimson Palm Counterstrike; Easily Accepted Proposition Stance; Horrific Wreath; Tolerant Strife; Unobstructed Blow<br>
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<b>Larcency:</b> Creation Smuggling Precedures, Sidereal Shell Games<br>
<b>Bureaucracy:</b> Slick Essence Replenishment; Underling Invisibility Practice<br>
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<b>Linguistics:</b> Blue Vervain Binding<br>
<b>Craft:</b> Elegant Patterns of Fate; Elemental Vision; Excellent Implementation of Objectives; Mending Warped Designs; World-Shaping Artistic Vision (Theoretical Matters; Dealing With the Wyld)<br>
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<b>Lore:</b> Systematic Understanding of Everything, Of the Shape of the World<br>
<b>Dodge:</b> Absence; Avoidance Kata; Duck Fate; Neighborhood Relocation Scheme; Trouble Reduction Strategy<br>
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<b>Stealth:</b> Soft Presence Practice<br>
<b>Investigation:</b> Auspicious Prospects for Secrets; Efficient Secretary Technique; Embracing Life Method; Marvelous Inclusion of Details; Research Assistant Invocation<br>
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<b>Survival:</b> Becoming the Wilderness<br>
<b>Larceny:</b> Conning Chaos Techniuqe; Creation Smuggling Procedures; Dream Confiscation Approach; Honorable Thief Spirit; Name Pilfering Practices; Sidereal Shell Games<br>
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<b>Thrown:</b> Willful Weapon Method
<b>Lore:</b> Systematic Understanging of Everything; The Methodology of Secrets<br>
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<b>Melee:</b>Harmony of Blows; Impeding the Flow; Serenity in Blood<br>
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<b>Equipment:</b> ???
<b>Occult:</b> Celestial Circle Sorcery; Terrestrial Circle Sorcery<br>
 
<b>Performance:</b> Defense of Shining Joy; Heart-Brightening Presentation Style; Perfection in Life<br>
 
<b>Investigation:</b> Cash and Murder Games; Hot-Eyed Snake Whispering; Life Without Compunction; Shun the Smiling Lady; Stern Essence Replenishment<br>
 
<b>Survival:</b> Adopting the Untamed Face; Becoming the Wilderness; Dreaming the Wild Lands<br>
 
  
 
<b>Combat:</b><br>
 
<b>Combat:</b><br>
<b>Base Initiative:</b> 6<br>
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<b>Base initiative</b>: 6)<br>
<b>Soak:</b> 2B/1L/0A (unarmored)<br>
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<b>Soak</b>: 4B/2L/0A (unarmored)<br>
<b>Dodge:</b> 12<br>
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<b>Dodge</b>: 3<br>
<b>Attacks:</b><br>
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<b>Attacks</b>:<br>
Slayer Khatar (Riddling Leviathan): Spd 6, Acc 8, Dmg 4L, Def 11, Rate 4<br>
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Chakram: Spd 6, Acc 6, Dmg 3L, Def 7, Rate 3, Range 20<br>
Fist: Spd 6, Acc 9, Dmg 2B, Def 10, Rate 5<br>
 
Horns: Spd 3, Acc 9, Dam 6L, Def 7, Rate 4<br>
 
 
 
=== Combos ===
 
<b>Furious Mars</b>
 
:Harmony of Blows
 
:Tolerant Strife
 
:Unobctructed Blow
 
:Impeding the Flow
 
:Serenity in Blood
 
:Duck Fate
 
Multiple enhanced attacks with optional reflexive defenses.
 
 
 
<b>Hazardous Research</b>
 
:Marvelous Inclusion of Details
 
:Impeding the Flow
 
:Serenity in Blood
 
:Avoidance Kata
 
:Duck Fate
 
Instantly find information while defending against danger.
 
 
 
<b>Cleansing Rite</b>
 
:Mending Warped Designs
 
:Excellent Implementation of Objectives
 
Heal the ravages of the Wyld.
 
 
 
<b>The Virtue of Absence</b>
 
:Expected Pain
 
:Forgotten Earth
 
:Impeding the Flow
 
:Serenity in Blood
 
:Duck Fate
 
:Avoidance Kata
 
The full repertoire of reflexive Charms.
 
  
<b>Tip the Scales of Power</b>
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<b>Merits:</b> Mutation: Horns (4 pts)<br>
:Cash and Murder Games
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<b>Flaws:</b> Permanent Caste Mark (1 pt), Greater Curse (3 pts; reduces her maximum Paradox pool by 3)<br>
:Heart-Brightening Presentation Style
 
:Hot-Eyed Snake Whispering
 
Rewrite power relationships.
 
  
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=== History ===
 
=== History ===
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There are those among the Chosen of the Maidens who believe the Wyld can only be understood by a mind that has experienced it. Since it is their duty to oversee the Fate of all of Creation, they argued that there was a need for someone among their numbers who understands the infinite possibilities of the Wyld.<br>
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After a satisfying number of planning sessions, policy meetings and Astrological predictions were held, the Chosen decided to guide a Sidereal Essence to a birth in a Bordermarch of the Wyld.<br>
 +
Even though the Sidereal took much care to predict the course of the Essence shard, the energies of the Wyld twisted the flow of Essence and redirected the spark into the sister of the boy who had been chosen for this project. For a short moment, the Exalts wondered whether their plan to control the touch of the Wyld could ever succeed when it wasn’t even working in its first stages, but once initiated, the Sidereal were unwilling to stop their project.<br>
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The Sidereals observed the growth of Triumphant Wave, the Wyld child. They saw her become a shaman of her tribe, and they saw her venture into the chaotic depths of the Wyld, hoping to be granted a vision of her fate. She received the vision she had sought and foresaw a future full of stars.<br>
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When she reentered stable Creation, she was doubly changed. The Wyld had touched her, and her Exaltation had taken place.
 +
Before she could reach her tribe, the Sidereals ushered her into Heaven, where her Sidereal training begun. She learned all the accumulated wisdom of the Wyld, and she learned of the Fair Folk, the formless natives of raw chaos. She visited all manner of Wyld-touched and communed with the gods who lived in the Bordermarches.<br>
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Sidereals and gods alike consulted her on matters of the Wyld even while she was training. Triumphant Wave came to believe that the constant questions meant that her answers were lacking.<br>
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After she had finished her education in the matters of Fate and Wyld, she served as roving consultant. Her journeys to all parts of Creation gave her much opportunity to secretly watch the Lunars and the Fair Folk in their dealing with the Wyld. As she grew bolder, she started to interact with them under the guise of Resplendent Destinies. Not long, and she had regular clandestine meetings with beings that were thought to be great dangers to Creation by her Sidereal comrades.<br>
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Her drive to truly know the Wyld is so strong that even though she is already mutated from her time spent at the borders of the Wyld, she plans to travel into the deepest Wyld, to search again for understanding through visions.
  
The Bronze arranged for Triumphant Wave's birth to a tribe of Wyld barbarians in the east of Creation. Her childhood was full of strange omens, so the shamans of the tribe initiated her into their ranks. She made many vision quests into the Wyld, dutifully learned the magic of her tribe and had dealings with both Lunars and fae.
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=== Expanded Merits & Flaws ===
 
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<b>Mutation: Horns:</b> When she came back from her vision quest, the Wyld had given Triumphant Wave horns. They grow from the back of her head, fitting closely around its sides and pointing forward, giving them a crown-like appearance.<br><br>
When her understanding of the Wyld surpassed that of all her elders, the Sidereals spirited her away to a Manse built on an island of stability within the Wyld. There, she learned all about her nature and her duties. She was to further her superiors' insight into the Wyld. Again, she did as she was told, and dedicated herself to her studies.
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<b>Permanent Caste Mark:</b> Due to the twisted nature of her Exaltation, Triumphant Wave's Caste Mark is clearly visible on her forehead.<br><br>
 
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<b>Greater Curse:</b> The Wyld distorts petitions sent by Triumphant Wave to the Pattern Spiders. The Spiders have to straighten them out first, which tests their patience. Consequently, Triumphant Wave's Paradox pool is smaller than that of other Sidereals.
Repeated controlled exposure to the Wyld left her with mutations, but also with an intuitive knowledge of it. Her master argued about whether they should risk an Essence shard like this, whether it could be destroyed, or worse, changed into something dangerous, by the Wyld.
 
 
 
While they argued, she ventured once more into the Wyld where she experienced the most intense vision of her life. As her elders had feared, it changed her deepest core, her Exaltation itself. They do not know exactly what the strange energies of the Wyld did to her. But they watch her very, very carefully.
 
 
 
=== Roleplaying Hints ===
 
 
 
As long as they do not deny her downright obsessive need to study the Wyld, she dutifully does as her masters in the Bronze tell her. She is very analytical and not at all prone to rash action. Indeed, she mostly evades combat and other dangerous situations, as she considers herself an intellectual.
 
 
 
=== Image ===
 
 
 
Triumphant Wave is tall and thin, with skin the color of charcoal and bright red hair that she keeps cropped short. One of her mutations is obvious – horns grow from her temples and wind themselves tightly around her head. Unless a Resplendent Destiny necessitates otherwise, she wears simple grey robes befitting a scholar.
 
 
 
=== Equipment ===
 
Unusually for a Sidereal, Triumphant Wave has only a tiny Manse in Heaven, but a much larger one in Creation. The latter lies in the east of Creation, near the Wyld, and is protected by a tribe of beastmen. When not on a mission, she prominently displays Riddling Leviathan, a pair of Slayer Khatars given to her First Age incarnation by a Lunar lover, inside her Creation Manse. The building features a vast library of tomes and scrolls on the Wyld. She always carries a Ghost-Seeing Blindfold, a Hearthstone Amulet and a Ring of Being on her; she only attunes to the ring when she expects to deal intimately with the Wyld. On missions, she carries a pair of Starmetal Hearthstone Bracers. She possesses two Hearthstones, one from each Manse: a Godspeaking Trillion and a Rose of Millions.
 
 
 
=== Resplendent Destinies ===
 
 
 
<b>Blood-Cry Celene</b><br>
 
College: Guardians, Remaining Duration: 10 years, 13 Effect Points<br>
 
She enjoys appearing as wise old shaman to the tribe that calls the lands surrounding her Creation Manse its home. When not "away on a vision quest", she gives them aid in the form of talismans, predictions of the weather and the fate of the people and other tasks trivially easy for a Sidereal.
 
 
 
<b>Victorious Tide</b><br>
 
College: Sorcerer, Remaining Duration: 400 years, 3 Effect Points<br>
 
This is her front identity as young and eager-to-learn Sidereal. She dons this resplendent destiny when she wants to be remembered as a specific Chosen of the Maidens, be it for her work in Heaven or her dealings with the elder Lunars who have retained knowledge of her kind.
 
 
 
<b>Mnemon Talia</b><br>
 
College: Treasure Trove, Remaining Duration: 1 year, 5 Effect Points<br>
 
Talia is a scholar-monk of the Immaculate Order studying the Wyld who is often there to counsel the Wyld Hunt on hunting Fair Folk and the occasional Lunar. That her advice is of a more theoretical nature than the members of the Hunt would prefer doesn’t bother her at all.
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 20:17, 23 January 2005

Name: Triumphant Wave
Type: Sidereal
Caste: Secrets
Nature: Follower
Anima: ???
Concept: Wyld-touched

Attributes:
Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4
Charisma 1, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2
Perception 4, Intelligence 4, Wits 3

Abilities:
Awareness 3, Bureaucracy 2, Craft Fate 1, Investigation 4, Larcency 3, Linguistics 3, Lore 3, Martial Arts 3, Occult (The Wyld +2) 4, Resistance 1, Ride 1, Socialize 3, Stealth 3, Survival 2

Backgrounds: Acquaintances 2, Backing (Gold Faction) 3, Celestial Manse 2, Connections (Division of Secrets) 1, Connections (The Threshold) 2, Salary 3, Sifu 2

Virtues:
Compassion 1 Conviction 4, Temperance 2, Valor 3

Willpower: 7
Health: -0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-4,Incap
Essence: 3
Essence pool: 13/35

Colleges:
The Key 2
The Mask 2
The Treasure Trove 3

Charms:
Investigation: Efficient Secretary Technique
Martial Arts: Air Dragon's Sight, Shrouding the Body and Mind, Wind Dragon Speed
Larcency: Creation Smuggling Precedures, Sidereal Shell Games
Linguistics: Blue Vervain Binding
Lore: Systematic Understanding of Everything, Of the Shape of the World
Stealth: Soft Presence Practice
Survival: Becoming the Wilderness
Thrown: Willful Weapon Method

Equipment: ???

Combat:
Base initiative: 6)
Soak: 4B/2L/0A (unarmored)
Dodge: 3
Attacks:
Chakram: Spd 6, Acc 6, Dmg 3L, Def 7, Rate 3, Range 20

Merits: Mutation: Horns (4 pts)
Flaws: Permanent Caste Mark (1 pt), Greater Curse (3 pts; reduces her maximum Paradox pool by 3)


History

There are those among the Chosen of the Maidens who believe the Wyld can only be understood by a mind that has experienced it. Since it is their duty to oversee the Fate of all of Creation, they argued that there was a need for someone among their numbers who understands the infinite possibilities of the Wyld.
After a satisfying number of planning sessions, policy meetings and Astrological predictions were held, the Chosen decided to guide a Sidereal Essence to a birth in a Bordermarch of the Wyld.
Even though the Sidereal took much care to predict the course of the Essence shard, the energies of the Wyld twisted the flow of Essence and redirected the spark into the sister of the boy who had been chosen for this project. For a short moment, the Exalts wondered whether their plan to control the touch of the Wyld could ever succeed when it wasn’t even working in its first stages, but once initiated, the Sidereal were unwilling to stop their project.
The Sidereals observed the growth of Triumphant Wave, the Wyld child. They saw her become a shaman of her tribe, and they saw her venture into the chaotic depths of the Wyld, hoping to be granted a vision of her fate. She received the vision she had sought and foresaw a future full of stars.
When she reentered stable Creation, she was doubly changed. The Wyld had touched her, and her Exaltation had taken place. Before she could reach her tribe, the Sidereals ushered her into Heaven, where her Sidereal training begun. She learned all the accumulated wisdom of the Wyld, and she learned of the Fair Folk, the formless natives of raw chaos. She visited all manner of Wyld-touched and communed with the gods who lived in the Bordermarches.
Sidereals and gods alike consulted her on matters of the Wyld even while she was training. Triumphant Wave came to believe that the constant questions meant that her answers were lacking.
After she had finished her education in the matters of Fate and Wyld, she served as roving consultant. Her journeys to all parts of Creation gave her much opportunity to secretly watch the Lunars and the Fair Folk in their dealing with the Wyld. As she grew bolder, she started to interact with them under the guise of Resplendent Destinies. Not long, and she had regular clandestine meetings with beings that were thought to be great dangers to Creation by her Sidereal comrades.
Her drive to truly know the Wyld is so strong that even though she is already mutated from her time spent at the borders of the Wyld, she plans to travel into the deepest Wyld, to search again for understanding through visions.

Expanded Merits & Flaws

Mutation: Horns: When she came back from her vision quest, the Wyld had given Triumphant Wave horns. They grow from the back of her head, fitting closely around its sides and pointing forward, giving them a crown-like appearance.

Permanent Caste Mark: Due to the twisted nature of her Exaltation, Triumphant Wave's Caste Mark is clearly visible on her forehead.

Greater Curse: The Wyld distorts petitions sent by Triumphant Wave to the Pattern Spiders. The Spiders have to straighten them out first, which tests their patience. Consequently, Triumphant Wave's Paradox pool is smaller than that of other Sidereals.