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The Bloody, Wicked Lady

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Title: The Bloody, Wicked Lady

Caste: Moonshadow

Nature: Hedonist

Concept: Murderous Troublemaker

Deathlord: The Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible

Experience: 205

Attributes:

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

Abilities:

Brawl 4, Endurance 3, Presence 4, Resistance 4, Survival 3, Investigation 3, Larceny 4, Bureaucracy 4, Linguistics 5, Ride 3, Socialize 4

Backgrounds: Abyssal Command 1, Artifact 2, Familiar 3 (Blackwing), Influence 1, Liege 3, Resources 1

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

Willpower: 7 Health: -0 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -1 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -2 / -4 / Incapacitated Essence: 3 Essence pool: 16/38/20

Charms:

• Brawl

Dead Man's Grasp, Rapacious Lamprey Technique, Inescapable Iron Grip, Owl Seizes Mouse

• Endurance

Ox-Body Technique x2 (2x -1, 4x -2), Pain-Eating Focus, Insensible Corpse Technique (permanent)

• Presence

Elegant Tyrant's Majesty, Soul-Flaying Gaze

• Resistance

Spirit-Hardened Frame, Ivory Blossom Carapace, Bone Arsenal Method

• Survival

Essence Engorgement Technique x2

• Investigation

Excellent Inquisitor Attitude

• Larceny

Cunning Criminal Style, Theft of Face

• Bureaucracy

Authority-Eroding Technique, Argument-Slaying Remark

• Linguistics

Language-Absorbing Technique, Peerless Fluency Style, Theft of Words, Confusion of Tongues

• Socialize

Passion-Unveiling Glance

Equipment: Travelling gear, sturdy clothing, ornate soulsteel-backed mirror (The Truthful Reflection), soulsteel earrings (Bells of Weakness)

Combat:\ Base initiative: 8\ Soak: 3B/1L/0A (with Ivory Blossom Carapace and Bone Arsenal Method, 14B/12L/11A)\ Dodge: 4 (3 with soak Charms up)\ Attacks:\ Fist: Spd 8, Acc 9, Dmg 3B, Def 10, Rate 5\\

Character Description

In the Northwest, the children tell stories of The Bloody Wicked Lady, a small and evil woman of Western features. They shiver at the thought of how she enjoys ruining the lives of others, in order to teach them rather directly that life is pointless and can only end in evil. She has disgraced some, embarrassing them in the deepest ways in front of all who knew them, driving them to suicide. Others she takes a more direct hand with, killing their families before scarring their chest with her title in Old Realm with a long, sharp bone claw, and leaving them to despair in their wreck of an existence.

Many of her victims, their lives ruined in various manners, both bloody and civil, become adherents to the Shining Path, members of a faction that worship her as an enlightened goddess, teaching humanity, forcefully if neccessary, that they must face the loss of all they hold dear. Their holy symbol is the scars on their chests, given by the goddess herself.

The Bloody Wicked Lady herself is less an adherent to the Shining Path and the worship of her Deathlord, and more the woman who was murdered in revenge for a horrible shame she intentionally caused to her family. She is furious at the world for the nature of her death, and authentically enjoys picking apart humanity, with sharp words or a sharper set of fangs, bit by bit until they're either dead or until they abandon themselves to the worship of the death she did not give them. Time will tell if this game will satisfy her forever.

The Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible is concerned at her lack of faith in the Shining Path, but her extreme effectiveness in driving her victims to accept it has garnered her much favor from him. She is among his senior lieutenants, and is often sent off on missions to randomly terrorize and ruin entire towns.

She prefers to avoid combat with armed and prepared opponents, but if forced, she prefers to sprout layer upon layer of protective bone spines. She is a bully and prankster of professional degree, and her schemes often involve her orchestrating betrayals and the like. She is a plague on the living world.

Expanded Backgrounds

Abyssal Command •

A small, decidated number of warrior monks on the Shining Path are allowed the honor of fighting to further their mistress' cause.

Allies •••

The Bloody Wicked Lady is seen at times to travel with her favorite pet, Spike. Their relationship goes back a long way, to their First Age marriage, when they reigned bloodily as joint despots over a large kingdom in the Northwest of Creation. Both were killed during the Usurptation, and only the Lunar spark reincarnated, every time seeking out a host with a taste for wanton violence and leading to a long line of Lunars who were eventually rejected by the Silver Society. Spike is the latest incarnation in this line, and has found his wife again, although now, as the Bloody Wicked Lady, her taste for destruction has taken on the grandest ambitions.

One of the Urrach-Ya, Lunars held in disgrace by their peers, Spike revels in butchering those weaker than him. For him, hunting and killing are the games of heroes, ever-destined to battle and destroy. He holds himself in high esteem and is deeply loyal to the Bloody, Wicked Lady, who loves him with all the care of a princess for her favorite hunting hound.

The lovers avoid killing one another by taking perodic breaks from one another, and as such, Spike is often adventuring on his own and is sometimes unreachable by the Wicked Lady, but he always finds his way back to her in time.

Nearly a century old, Spike is a dangerous Full Moon Lunar killer beast who is obsessed with the ways of death and has learned the deadly ways of the ghosts and dead. Normally a large-shouldered, 7-foot man with prominent claws where his nails should be, when going to battle (even against unworthy opponents) he shifts into a 10-foot tall, half-wolverine battle form with razor-sharp spine hairs, applying a mixture of the Hungry Ghost Style and his natural physical prowess to glut in power from the death of his enemies at his ghostly moonsilver talons.

Artifact ••

In her belongings the Bloody Wicked Lady carries the Truthful Reflection, an ornate soulsteel-backed mirror. When she shows someone their reflection in the mirror (those who wish may close their eyes and avoiding meeting the mirror's gaze, but suffer all penalties for blindness) and spends 10 motes, they see their many reflections over the many possible years of their life, watching their face decay from youth to the most frightening of cadavers, and the magic of the mirror saps their wllls.

Only those with well-anchored spirits can resist the magic of the mirror. The victim rolls his Willpower at a difficulty of (6-his highest Virtue). Those who fail the roll lose all their temporary Willpower. Those who botch the roll are rendered unconscious.

She also wears a set of soulsteel earrings (2 mote commitment). She may, with a simple success on a Perception+Socialize check, identify the lowest Virtue rating of anyone who speaks with her.

Familiar •••

The Bloody, Wicked Lady's second-favorite pet is Blackwing, a hybroc she raised from birth after killing its mother. When she is in Creation, she tracks Blackwing down and the hybroc willingly does its trainer's bidding, usually to transport her safely across the Northwestern tundra and occasionally to help her hunt for food in a pinch.

Influence •

Those who are interested to know will eventually discover that the Bloody, Wicked Lady acts on the behalf of the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible, and so those who are intrested in respecting him respect the Wicked Lady.

Liege •••

The Bloody, Wicked Lady gets results and terrifies the living, starting horrific legends that spread the fear and worship of death far across the land. Her master is pleased, and rewards her generously.

Resources ••

The Bloody, Wicked Lady generally finds herself able to steal or otherwise take whatever resources she needs, and as such only travels with a moderate budget for minor expenses.

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