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Derethan, The Sprouting Blight

The Soul that is Derethan crawled off of Anapyxi's back and fell to the ground, and she spoke to it. "You will be feared most of all, I am sure." Then she walked away. Her words were truth, for of her souls, Derethan is the most known. Occultists have called him upon their enemies, and he has torn thousands of souls from their bodies. Derethan is pestilence and plague, famine and decay, and he spreads across the world. Derethan is the growth of countless little beings from the body of the mighty, bringing the great to the ground with its power. It is the death of a thousand husks of grain, and the starvation of a thousand peasants.

Derethan has many forms, and he can take all of them at will. He can arrive as a dry wind that shimmers in the air with a faintly visible device of the red circle showing his location, which renders all sick at his will. He can arrive as a swarm of locusts and maggots, all of whom will congregate around one central beetle eight inches across with a red circle on its back. As a man, he is a tall man with pale skin, showing signs of pox and cholera, of all diseases. He wears a long black cloak and a wide-brimmed hat all in black, and on his back is a red circle. When he fights, he bares his short claws all covered in dripping ichor, and fights with incredible martial arts acumen, an engine of slow death. In all of his forms, he is terrible and mighty, and his quiet laughter echoes through the air as he spreads his touch. He knows no greater joy than to infect.

Nature: Hedonist
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 4, Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 0, Perception 4, Intelligence 3, Wits 4.
Virtues: compassion 1, Conviction 5, temperance 3, Valor 4
Abilities: Awareness 3, Dodge 6, Endurance 4, Linguistics 1, Lore 2, Martial Arts 5, Medicine 6, Presence 4(intimidation +3), Resistance 2, Socialize 1, Stealth 4 Charms: Shapechange, Uncanny Prowess, Donning Spiritual Armor, Principle of Motion, Hurry home, banish, teleport
Cost to Materialize: 54
Base Initiative: 9

Attack:
As wind: NA
As swarm: clinch, Speed 1, Accuracy 10, Damage 3L, Rate 1.
As man: claws of disease, speed 10, Accuracy 10, Damage 7L, Defense 10, rate unlimited.
Dodge pool: 11
Soak:
As wind: 24B/22L (The Wind Impenetrable, 20B/20L) As swarm: 10B/8L (Thousands of chitinous spawn, 6B/6L) As man: 13B/11L (Vestments of Disease, 9B/9L)
Willpower: 6 Health Levels: -0 x 4, -1 x 8, -2 x 4, -4 x 1, I. Essence: 6 Essence pool: 104

Other notes: As the dry wind, Derethan may pay 1 mote to expose any being he sees to a disease roughly equivalent to smallpox; virulence 4, untreated morbidity 3, treated morbidity 2, difficulty to treat 3. The victims of this disease will become emaciated and collapse within a month. For 5 motes and a willpower, he may cause any being he sees to be infected with a disease harsher than men will ever be like to survive; untreated morbidity 6, treated morbidity 5, difficulty to treat 5. This disease causes its victims to turn grey and disintegrate over the course of a week. Any creature killed by this disease rises as a Talethus. a successful difficulty 6 perception + occult roll will diagnose this disease, and it may be cured by a difficulty 5 intelligence + medicine operation to remove the demonic parasite causing it.
As a swarm of insects, Derethan may consume all the crops on an acre of land for three motes over three turns.
As a man, every being that he kills leaves a corpse poisoned and diseased; a ten foot radius around its burial site is barren for ten years. Every being that he deals damage to successfully is poisoned with the equivalent of coral snake venom

In all of his forms, wounds he inflicts are at a +3 difficulty to resist infection.