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Name: Triumphant Wave
Type: Sidereal
Caste: Secrets
Nature: Follower
Concept: Wyld expert
Quote: "A storm of possibilities... beautiful, is it not?."
Experience Points: normal PC build, plus 769 XP

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

Abilities:

Athletics 2, Awareness 3, Brawl 5, Bureaucracy 3, Craft (Fate) 4, Dodge 5, Endurance 1, Investigation (Research 3) 5, Larcency 5, Linguistics 4, Lore 5, Martial Arts 2, Melee 4, Occult (The Wyld 3) 5, Performance 4, Ride 1, Socialize 4, Stealth 3, Survival 4

Backgrounds: Acquaintances 4, Artifact 5, Backing (Bronze Faction) 3, Celestial Manse 2, Connections (Division of Secrets) 2, Connections (The Threshold) 2, Manse 4, Salary 3, Savant 3

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

Willpower: 8
Health: -0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-4,Incapacitated
Essence: 4
Personal: 16, Peripheral: 45, Committed: 5 (+15 with Ring of Being)

Colleges:
The Guardians 4
The Sorcerer 3
The Treasure Trove 3

Charms:
Athletics: Burn Life; Forgotten Earth
Awareness: Expected Pain; Prior Warning; Supernal Awareness
Brawl: Crimson Palm Counterstrike; Easily Accepted Proposition Stance; Horrific Wreath; Tolerant Strife; Unobstructed Blow
Bureaucracy: Slick Essence Replenishment; Underling Invisibility Practice
Craft: Elegant Patterns of Fate; Elemental Vision; Excellent Implementation of Objectives; Mending Warped Designs; World-Shaping Artistic Vision (Theoretical Matters; Dealing With the Wyld)
Dodge: Absence; Avoidance Kata; Duck Fate; Neighborhood Relocation Scheme; Trouble Reduction Strategy
Investigation: Auspicious Prospects for Secrets; Efficient Secretary Technique; Embracing Life Method; Marvelous Inclusion of Details; Research Assistant Invocation
Larceny: Conning Chaos Techniuqe; Creation Smuggling Procedures; Dream Confiscation Approach; Honorable Thief Spirit; Name Pilfering Practices; Sidereal Shell Games
Lore: Systematic Understanging of Everything; The Methodology of Secrets
Melee:Harmony of Blows; Impeding the Flow; Serenity in Blood
Occult: Celestial Circle Sorcery; Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Performance: Defense of Shining Joy; Heart-Brightening Presentation Style; Perfection in Life
Investigation: Cash and Murder Games; Hot-Eyed Snake Whispering; Life Without Compunction; Shun the Smiling Lady; Stern Essence Replenishment
Survival: Adopting the Untamed Face; Becoming the Wilderness; Dreaming the Wild Lands

Combat:
Base Initiative: 6
Soak: 2B/1L/0A (unarmored)
Dodge: 12
Attacks:
Slayer Khatar (Riddling Leviathan): Spd 6, Acc 8, Dmg 4L, Def 11, Rate 4
Fist: Spd 6, Acc 9, Dmg 2B, Def 10, Rate 5
Horns: Spd 3, Acc 9, Dam 6L, Def 7, Rate 4

Combos

Furious Mars

Harmony of Blows
Tolerant Strife
Unobctructed Blow
Impeding the Flow
Serenity in Blood
Duck Fate

Multiple enhanced attacks with optional reflexive defenses.

Hazardous Research

Marvelous Inclusion of Details
Impeding the Flow
Serenity in Blood
Avoidance Kata
Duck Fate

Instantly find information while defending against danger.

Cleansing Rite

Mending Warped Designs
Excellent Implementation of Objectives

Heal the ravages of the Wyld.

The Virtue of Absence

Expected Pain
Forgotten Earth
Impeding the Flow
Serenity in Blood
Duck Fate
Avoidance Kata

The full repertoire of reflexive Charms.

Tip the Scales of Power

Cash and Murder Games
Heart-Brightening Presentation Style
Hot-Eyed Snake Whispering

Rewrite power relationships.

History

The Bronze arranged for Triumphant Wave's birth to a tribe of Wyld barbarians in the east of Creation. Her childhood was full of strange omens, so the shamans of the tribe initiated her into their ranks. She made many vision quests into the Wyld, dutifully learned the magic of her tribe and had dealings with both Lunars and fae.

When her understanding of the Wyld surpassed that of all her elders, the Sidereals spirited her away to a Manse built on an island of stability within the Wyld. There, she learned all about her nature and her duties. She was to further her superiors' insight into the Wyld. Again, she did as she was told, and dedicated herself to her studies.

Repeated controlled exposure to the Wyld left her with mutations, but also with an intuitive knowledge of it. Her master argued about whether they should risk an Essence shard like this, whether it could be destroyed, or worse, changed into something dangerous, by the Wyld.

While they argued, she ventured once more into the Wyld where she experienced the most intense vision of her life. As her elders had feared, it changed her deepest core, her Exaltation itself. They do not know exactly what the strange energies of the Wyld did to her. But they watch her very, very carefully.

Roleplaying Hints

As long as they do not deny her downright obsessive need to study the Wyld, she dutifully does as her masters in the Bronze tell her. She is very analytical and not at all prone to rash action. Indeed, she mostly evades combat and other dangerous situations, as she considers herself an intellectual.

Image

Triumphant Wave is tall and thin, with skin the color of charcoal and bright red hair that she keeps cropped short. One of her mutations is obvious – horns grow from her temples and wind themselves tightly around her head. Unless a Resplendent Destiny necessitates otherwise, she wears simple grey robes befitting a scholar.

Equipment

Unusually for a Sidereal, Triumphant Wave has only a tiny Manse in Heaven, but a much larger one in Creation. The latter lies in the east of Creation, near the Wyld, and is protected by a tribe of beastmen. When not on a mission, she prominently displays Riddling Leviathan, a pair of Slayer Khatars given to her First Age incarnation by a Lunar lover, inside her Creation Manse. The building features a vast library of tomes and scrolls on the Wyld. She always carries a Ghost-Seeing Blindfold, a Hearthstone Amulet and a Ring of Being on her; she only attunes to the ring when she expects to deal intimately with the Wyld. On missions, she carries a pair of Starmetal Hearthstone Bracers. She possesses two Hearthstones, one from each Manse: a Godspeaking Trillion and a Rose of Millions.

Resplendent Destinies

Blood-Cry Celene
College: Guardians, Remaining Duration: 10 years, 13 Effect Points
She enjoys appearing as wise old shaman to the tribe that calls the lands surrounding her Creation Manse its home. When not "away on a vision quest", she gives them aid in the form of talismans, predictions of the weather and the fate of the people and other tasks trivially easy for a Sidereal.

Victorious Tide
College: Sorcerer, Remaining Duration: 400 years, 3 Effect Points
This is her front identity as young and eager-to-learn Sidereal. She dons this resplendent destiny when she wants to be remembered as a specific Chosen of the Maidens, be it for her work in Heaven or her dealings with the elder Lunars who have retained knowledge of her kind.

Mnemon Talia
College: Treasure Trove, Remaining Duration: 1 year, 5 Effect Points
Talia is a scholar-monk of the Immaculate Order studying the Wyld who is often there to counsel the Wyld Hunt on hunting Fair Folk and the occasional Lunar. That her advice is of a more theoretical nature than the members of the Hunt would prefer doesn’t bother her at all.