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Terianessi, The Desirous Urge Freed

Terianessi rolled off of the back of Anapyxi, and the child looked at her and laughed. "You are not as free as you think" she said, and then walked away. Terianessi has been doing what she was born for ever since. She is one of the more seductive beings to ever walk the demon realm, and few that even understand the concept of lust can resist her wiles. She is a hostess and a predator, and holds great feasts with food she has summoned and her dances as entertainment, picking her favourite target from the assembled guests, or she walks dark paths and finds them alone. Anyone she sees may fall under her desires, and it is difficult to predict who will; just that it happens very often.

When she is on her own, she is a short woman just under five feet tall, with hair of spider silk and a robe of the finest silk, shimmering in rainbow colours in the light though predominantly crimson. Indeed, she may be seen in this form in the middle of a crowd; but as soon as she decides on one or a few beings to charm, she transforms instinctively into whatever that being most desires. It is unknown whether the woman with spider hair is her true natural form, or simply the form that is most appealing to her; it is known that if she sees herself in the mirror, she will take that shape again. There are many who have been, in retrospect, embarrassed by what form their deepest desire takes, although at the time such worries seem unimportant.

It has been said that she takes a single strand of hair from any being she sleeps with, and works it into her robes, though none have ever noticed their hairs being taken. Some have pointed out that she always walks away with a hair, no matter whether the original being had one or not, leading to theories as to what exactly it is that she takes. She is said to find desire far more interesting than its culmination, and a very strange understanding of sex; many of her consorts have found that she has mated by doing things such as singing a song of loss or touching their ear, but none are disappointed.

Nature: Hedonist
Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3, Charisma 4, Manipulation 5, Appearance 7, Perception 5, Intelligence 3, Wits 3.
Virtues: compassion 5, Conviction 4, temperance 0, Valor 3
Abilities: Athletics 3, Awareness 4, Dodge 4, Martial Arts 5, Performance 7, Presence 5, Resistance 3, Socialize 5, Stealth 1
Charms: Summon Food, Portal, Essence Inveigle 1, Essence Inveigle 2, Sense Domain, Stoke the Flame, Instill Obedience, Details, Host of Spirits, Creation of Perfection, Donning Spiritual Armor, Uncanny Prowess, shapechange.
Cost to Materialize: 65
Base Initiative: 7
Attack: Heart's truth (war fan) Speed 7, Accuracy 13, Damage 4L, Defense 15, Rate 6

Dodge pool: 8 Soak: 9B/8L (Robes of Loves Lost, 6B/6L)
Willpower: 7
Health Levels: -0x12, I (No aversion to pain.)
Essence: 6 Essence pool: 105

Other Notes: Terianessi's Donning Spiritual Armor is heavily modified; instead of adding to soak, it applies a difficulty penalty to attack her equal on successes rolled on socialize. She has two versions of Essence Inveigle; her essence inveigle 1 functions normally, and is delivered through her dance to any number of people that she chooses to apply it to, at the full cost each. Her essence inveigle 2 is delivered through sex (however she interprets the idea at the time) and makes any mortal it is used on permanently unable to feel any emotion except for longing in addition to its normal effects. Her shapechange allows her to change to exactly whomever a single individual whom she is seducing would be most attracted to, man, woman, both, neither, or something terrible. This ability raises her effective appearance to that person's view by 2; if she is using the power on more than one person at once, it only raises her appearance by 1 in their sight as sacrifices must be made. She once had to turn into the Thing in Horror of Itself, and it was her one sexual experience she did not enjoy. She must use this charm every time she seduces someone.
Her fan, if it strikes, causes its victim to lose a dot of temperence for a scene. This may be done any number of times, down to a minimum of 0 temperance.
Any successes that Terianessi obtains on a seduction roll are applied to her, too. She cannot restrain herself unless commanded by a sorceror.

Comments

"Want to sleep with me?" "No! You're a demon." [The noise of a fan hitting a neck.] "How about now?" "I shouldn't. I've been married for two hundred years, and I'm pretty sure that you're still a demon." [The noise of a fan striking an arm.] "Now?" "You know it! Hey, did it get less temperate in here, or is it me?" I love that weapon. - TheHoverpope