Kahavi/Ember
Dawn of the Five Springs
Name: Shallowsea Ember
Caste: Dawn
Motivation: Prove the Anathema stigma wrong.
Anima: A peacock tail of lavender and bronze blades forming a plumage behind her.
Concept: An honourable mercenary.
Attributes
- Strength: 3, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 5
- Charisma: 3, Manipulation: 2, Appearance: 2
- Perception: 3, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 3
Abilities
- Archery: 2, Martial Arts: 2, Melee: 3, Thrown: 0, War: 3
- Integrity: 0, Performance: 0, Presence: 2, Resistance: 2, Survival: 2
- Craft: 0, Investigation: 0, Lore: 2, Medicine: 0, Occult: 0
- Athletics: 3, Awareness: 1, Dodge: 3, Larceny: 0, Stealth: 1
- Bureaucracy 1, Linguistics: 1, Ride: 3, Sail: 0, Socialize: 1
Specialties
- Melee: Swords +1, Melee: Polearm +1, War: Guerilla Warfare +1, Resistance: In Combat +1
Languages
- Riverspeak, High Realm.
Backgrounds
- Allies: 1 (Firemoor Reikar, captain of the Blackhooves)
- Contacts: 2
- Familiar: 5 (A Marukani battler stallion named Cinder)
- Resources: 3
Virtues
- Compassion: 2, Conviction: 2, Temperance: 3, Valor 3.
- Virtue Flaw: Contempt of the Virtuous (Temperance)
Willpower: 6
Essence: 2
Essence pool: 12 / 30 / 5 (from Cinder)
Health Levels -0/-0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap/Dying
Charms
- Melee
- First Melee Excellency
- Second Melee Excellency
- Call The Blade
- Dipping Swallow Defense
- Hungry Tiger Technique
- Resistance
- Ox-Body Technique x1
- Ride
- First Ride Excellency
- Master Horseman's Techniques: Speed-Sustaining Technique
- War
- First War Excellency
- Mob-Dispersing Rebuke
Equipment
- Yoroi-style lamellar armour without the helmet, a slashing sword, a long-bladed polearm, a decent composite bow and a quiver of 20 arrows, riding gear, an extra set of clothing, camping gear, extra ratios, rope, a waterskin.
Combat
- Join Battle: 4
- Soak: 5 (13) / 2 (8) / 0 (6)
- Dodge DV: 4 (2)
- Knockdown: 7 / 8
- Stunning: 5 / 7
- Attacks:
- Punch: Spd- 5, Acc- 6, Dmg- 3B, Def- 4, Rate- 3
- Kick: Spd- 5, Acc- 5, Dmg- 6B, Def- 2, Rate- 2
- Clinch: Spd- 6, Acc- 5, Dmg- 3B, Def- 3, Rate- 1
- Knife (close): Spd- 5, Acc- 7, Dmg- 5L, Def- 3, Rate- 3
- Knife (ranged): Spd- 5, Acc- 3, Dmg- 5L, Def- NKahavi/Ember/A, Rate- 3, Range- 15
- Polearm: Spd- 6, Acc- 6, Dmg- 8L, Def- 4, Rate- 2
- Slashing Sword: Spd- 5, Acc- 7, Dmg- 6L, Def- 3, Rate- 3
Social Combat
- Join Debate: 4
- Mental DV: 4
- Attacks:
- Presence: Spd- 4, Hon.Att- 5, Hon.MDV- 3, Dec.Att- 4, Dec.MDV- 2, Rate- 2
- Performance: Spd- 6, Hon.Att- 3, Hon.MDV- 2, Dec.Att- 2, Dec.MDV- 1, Rate- 1
- Investigation: Spd- 5, Hon.Att- 3, Hon.MDV- 2, Dec.Att- 2, Dec.MDV- 1, Rate- 2
Description
Shallowsea Ember is a relatively new member of the Blackhooves, the Nexus-based mercenary company. She is from Lookshy and clearly has served in the military for longer than the required four years. She shares a long and deep friendship with the Marukani captain of the Blackhooves, Firemoor Reikar. Their friendship began in their youth, when both of them were attending a salon specialized in the art of warfare in Lookshy. One clear sign of this friendship was Reikar's gift to Ember when she joined the company; he gave her a young Marukani battler, raised and trained by his own family.
Ember is as close to the ideal warrior as possible, at least by nature. She is brave without being foolish, educated without being scholarly, contained without being retiring, and virtuous without being unrealistic. The battlefields have taught her a lot, informing both her manners both in good and bad; she can be considerate, but she does not hesitate stating her honest opinion.
Ember is a tall woman. She stands 5'9" tall and has a strong-boned build. She is muscular and sinewy - she has taken her warrior-calling seriously, and it shows in her physique. She is not grotesquely muscular, but well-proportionate. Ember is not beautiful, nor is she ugly. Her features are even and strong, but lack beauty. The years spent in the woods and on the move have left her skin permanently tanned. Her eyes are coal grey and round, shadowed by thick lashes. Her hair is straight and of a dark strawberry blonde colour. It is her only vanity, and thus she takes good care of it, keeping it often on a complex braided bun.
Like all the members of the Blackhooves, Ember maintains a military dressing style. Her usual outfit is rather Lookshyan, consisting of dark red hakama-like trousers, neatly pleated and tucked into black leather boots; of a dark red high-collared long-sleeved tunic and a black, simply decorated vest; and when working or in a battle, of a red-lacquered lamellar armour with black bracers and shinguards, and a black-lacquered metal mask covering the lower half of her face.
