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Forty-Four Devil Blossoms

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Title: Forty-Four Devil Blossoms \\ Caste: Day \\ Nature: Fanatic \\ Concept: Street Urchin

Attributes:\\ Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 4\\ Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2\\ Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 4

Abilities:\\ Athletics 2, Awareness 2, Brawl 2, Dodge 2, Endurance 3, Investigation 1, Larceny 1, Lore 1, Melee 2, Occult 1, Resistance 3, Socialize 1, Stealth 3, Survival 1, Thrown 2

Backgrounds: Abyssal Command 1, Artifact 3, Familiar 3, Liege 3, Resources 4, Underworld Manse 1

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

Resonance: 2\\ Resonance Flaws: Ashen skin; air grows cold and damp in her vicinity

Willpower: 7\\ Health: -0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Incapacitated \\ Essence: 2\\ Essence pool: 13/31

Charms:

• Athletics\\

Raiton’s Nimble Perch \\ Spider Pounce Technique

• Brawl\\

Ravaging Strike \\ Lashing Tempest Attack

• Dodge\\

Flitting Shadow Form

• Endurance\\

Ox-Body Technique \\ Pain-Eating Focus

• Melee\\

Furious Blade \\ Slashing Ghost Talon\\ Elegant Flowing Deflection

• Resistance\\

Spirit-Hardened Frame

• Stealth\\

Concealing Distraction Discipline

Equipment: Ornate soulsteel armor, soulsteel daiklave, pouch full of gemstones, fire-eyed black underworld steed (carrying battleaxe, food supplies and clean clothes)

Combat:\\ Base initiative: ?\\ Soak: ?B/?L/?A\\ Dodge: ?\\ Attacks:\\ Soulsteel Daiklave: Spd ?, Acc ?, Dmg ?L, Def ?\\ Bare Hands: Spd ?, Acc ?, Dmg ?B, Def ?

Character Description

A frail girl-child, pale of skin and hair, with wide gray eyes and a tiny rosebud mouth. Shortly before Mask of Winters sacked Thorns, his servants crept through that city’s streets in search of prospects for the Black Exaltation. One of the few to survive the Exaltation was a simple street urchin on the cusp of puberty, who received the title Forty-Four Devil Blossoms from her new lord. She channels her fear, loneliness and rage into mastering her newfound powers and serving the Mask of Winters; no act is too vile or too depraved, for dark deeds help to drown her memories of the past. Forty-Four Devil Blossoms hates Thorns and all of its citizenry. She feels the entire city betrayed her; she lived in abject poverty in the city streets, suffering all manner of privation and abuse, and no one would help her until the Deathlord set her free.

In order to distance herself from her memories of squalor in the Gray Stews, the worst slum in all of Thorns, she bathes daily and always keeps ready a supply of clean garments. She favors black silks and jewelry of imperishable gold or white jade. Her youthful face and childlike frame embarrass her; when traveling, she affects baroque armor and a concealing hood or casque to conceal her appearance.

Mask of Winters commands all of Forty-Four Devil Blossoms’ loyalty. He raised her up from poverty and filth, replacing the foulness of a beggar’s life with the clean, pure existence of a princess of the dead, and she remains ever grateful. The one thing that sways her from perfect obedience is the knowledge that some few people of Thorns yet live. She hunts down these witnesses to her former degradation when she can, but most have taken refuge in other Eastern cities – Great Forks, Sijan, Lookshy, Nexus – and she burns for the day when Mask of Winters finally looses her full fury upon the Scavenger Lands.

Expanded Backgrounds

Abyssal Command •

Half a dozen skeletal soldier on zombie steeds, provided by Mask of Winters as an escort.

Artifact •••

A soulsteel daiklave and a reinforced soulsteel breastplate.

Familiar •••

A fire-eyed black warhorse named Coal, with clawed feet and a taste for human flesh.

Liege •••

Mask of Winters sees Forty-Four Devil Blossoms as a tool for killing, but a tool with great potential. He calls upon her services on a regular basis to sow terror among the villages and towns near to Thorns.

Resources ••••

A pouch filled with dark gems mined from a shadowland vein.

Underworld Manse •

A pool of black water in a grotto south of Thorns.

Comments

She's missing a dot in Social Attributes. It also seems odd to think of a kid who's stronger and tougher than most adults. Exactly what age range are we talking here? Prepubescent? Early teens?

Like the writeup, though. I have a soft spot for fanatical nihilists.

_Ikselam

I'm glad you like her! She started with an image of a white-haired little girl tossing an armored soldier through a wall, hence the high physical stats. She's probably about 13 years old, right around the edge of puberty... and due to the slowed aging processes of Exalts, she'll stay at that physical age for a long, long time. Her enormous physical talents are supernatural in nature, a lucky gift of the Black Exaltation and a manifestation of her inner rage. Plus, I really want her to toss some of my PCs through walls.  :)

As to the missing Social dot, I don't worry too much about balancing stats for NPCs. There just didn't seem to be much cause for giving her higher Social attributes.

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