Steeped In Moonlight

Name: Steeped in Moonlight
Caste: No Moon
Concept: Zen lunar
Nature: Savant
Anima: A shifting veil of dark-blue and purple light with a silver tint on the edge that as more essence is spent the colours grow deeper and flow faster. At the greatest essence expenditures a giant great horned oul bursts out from her and surrounds her with slowly flapping wings.
Totem: Great horned owl
XP Left/Spent 0/0

Attributes
Strength 2, Charisma 2, Perception</b> 4
<b>Dexterity 5, Manipulation 3, Intelligence 5
Stamina 3, Appearance 3, Wits</b> 3

<b>Abilities
Athletics 1, Awareness 1, Craft 1, Dodge 1, Endurance 1, Investigation 1, Linguistics 1, Lore 3, Martial Arts 3, Medicine 2, Occult 3, Performance 3, Presence 1, Resistance 1, Ride 1, Stealth 1, Survival 3

Backgrounds</b>
<b>Artifact 1(Moonsilver Hearthstone Amulet)
Heart's Blood 1(Great Horned Owl)
Manse 2
Renown 3

Virtues</b>
<b>Compassion 3, Conviction 2, Temperance 3, Valor 2
Virtue Flaw Curse of the Drunken Weasel
Willpower 6
Essence 3
Personal 15
Peripheral 36

Renown</b>
<b>Succor 10, Mettle 7, Cunning 10, Glory 8

Charms
Shapechanging - Hide of the Cunning Hunter(1m), Finding the Spirit's Shape(1m)
Body Enhancement - Ox-Body(-2*4)
Interaction and Knowledge - Tale-Spinning Mastery(1m/die), Lore-Speaking Method(3m), Diving the Hidden Truth(5m, 1wp)
Unarmed Combat - Body Weapon Technique(1m), Deadly Claw Blow(2m/success), Claws of the Silver Moon(4m)

Power Combat</b>
<b>Soak 3B/1L/0A, Base Initiative 8, Dodge 9
Fist: Speed 8, Accuracy 9, Damage 2B, Defense 10, Rate 5
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 9, Damage 5B, Defense 5, Rate 3
Claws of the Silver Moon - Claws: Speed 11, Accuracy 9, Damage 7L, Defense 9, Rate 4
Claws of the Silver Moon - Bite: Speed 5, Accuracy 7, Damage 10L, Defense 7, Rate 2

Description</b>
Steeped in Moonlight is a lithe young woman with long silver hair that turns into Great Horned Owl feathers at the tips that are almost completely imperceptable. Her body is covered in moonsilver tattoos and her skin tone suggests the one of her parents was one of the Delzhan or someone from that area of the south. The tattoos cover more at the lower down on her body at her feet and legs and grow slowly less frequent as they work up her body. By the time they reach her head they are completely gone with just a swirl or two on her neck. She has deep blue knowing eyes and when she smiles with them more then her lips. She goes barefoot and dresses in a simple pair of travelers pants and a simple shirt.

<b>History
She was born to the horselords of Marukan and was expected to be a scribe working in a library. She was a willfull girl and fought the life her parents forced on her. At first she was too young to do anything to change it and with time came to enjoy the work as a scribe, copying books and even picking up how to read on her own.

Her father used to be a mercenary from Chiaroscuro and on a bodygaurd mission to Marukan for a merchant found himself falling in love with this one maiden he spotted along the way. Unable to forget her he eventually ended his contract to find her and win her heart. It was a quick courtship but their love was true and a daughter was born to them.

She picked up some martial arts skill from her father and do to her tendancy to quickly pick up things she was exposed to gathered a few other skills as well. She still didn't like how much her parents tried to run her life and longed for freedom. When they arranged her marriage that was too much for her and she chose to run away.

Running away wasn't at all like the stories she had read but she learned quickly, quick enough that she didn't starve or get eaten by some of the creatures that wander the east. It was likely her adaptability, her refusal to have her life dictated to her that attracted Luna's eye. Luna appeared as an effeminate young lad and at first glance she feared that this was one of the Fair Folk come to ravage her soul and dreams. He just smiled though and touched her forehead saying "There are greater truths then you know." At that touch she was exalted and the world opened up to her eyes as if she had always been blind.

In less then a week two different No Moons had found her and wanted to teach her. One was of the Pact, the other not. Neither one was willing to just back down over this and she saw first hand just how some things work with her people. Though the No Moon Terio Windwatcher who was seperate from the Pack won he allowed the other No Moon, Grassdancer, as an assistant and they both trained her. She learned quickly from them both and soaked up all the lore and secrets they shared with her.

When her training was complete Terio Windwatcher marked her body with the tattoos of a No Moon and left, to continue his own quest for knowledge and a territory. Grassdancer introduced her to the Silver Pact and she found it to her liking. Community but without anyone telling her how to run her own life. They parted on good terms and he as a gift, and because he didn't have the time to watch over it and his other manse gave her a lunar manse hidden in a vale. In respect to Terio he could not be her mentor anymore.

2 years she has spent wandering the east. 2 years since she ran from home. 2 years in which she has sought to master her body and mind. She spends a lot of time at her manse performing the Unfettering and learning the hidden truths to be found in the space that seperates reason and instinct. She also sends her psyche out to learn hidden secrets of the world around her. It was through such meditations she learned of a buried and forgetten amulet which she now wears.

When she travels it is often to small villages to provide help as a medicant or share stories that have hidden snippets of secrets and lore for those who listen well. So long as a lunar she meets is friendly and doesn't seek to take her territory(manse within the vale) she returns the friendship and freely shares her knowledge with them and has made a bit of a name for herself for helping out lunars that ask nicely.

Plots Hooks</b>

• A lunar pack might have need of some piece of lore. Instead of solving that problem for them her investigations reveal a threat to someone they care about!
• There have been brutal murders in the area she comes to the PC's for help. A rogue and murderous abyssal is on the loose and she can't stop it on her own.
• Someone has been intruding on her thoughts whenever she tries to meditate. The reincarnation of her mate is one of the PCs and has to deal with the attentions of someone who can learn a great deal about them and views there relationship like some puzzle to be figured out. A strong potential ally but woe the solar that doesn't meet her standards.

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