CharacterRelay/ConcealingBlossom
Name: Concealing Blossom Nature: Architect Concept: Lunar ex-lover, vengeful bitch. Caste: Terrestrial Air
Attributes
Str: 2 App: 4 Int: 4 Dex: 4 Cha: 3 Per: 2 Sta: 2 Man: 4 Wit: 3
Abilities: Linguistics 3, Lore 5, Occult 4, Stealth 3, Thrown 5, Larceny 3, Investigation 2, Awareness 4 (favored), Martial Arts 5 (favored), Medicine 2, Survival 4, Athletics 4, Dodge 4 (favored), Presence 4, Socialize 4, Ride 2.
Essence 4
Willpower 8
Compassion 2
Conviction 4
Temperence 4
Valor 3
Merits and Flaws: Enemy 4 (Newly exalted Solar and old Lunar) Driving Passion (Reunite with her love; she believes she must kill her rival to accomplish this)
Backgrounds:
Resources 2
Artifact 3
Breeding 4
Connections 3 (Threshhold)
Connections 2 (Wyld Hunt)
Connections 2 (Outlaws)
Descrption: Ahh, love triangles. Those frequently obtuse, often sharp and unfortionatly usually two-dimensional complications that everyone but the people involved enjoy watching.
Concealing Blossom was once a Dynast of House Tepet, a courier and diplomat who was attached to one of their legions. While they were being destroyed, she was part of a small supply caravan far from civilization. Unfortionatly, her caravan bore the Tepet insignia as well.
She was half-dead and half-mad when an old Lunar, Wild Crimson-Feather Raptor, came upon her in the woods. He took her under his wing- literally, at times- and improved upon her pathetic survival abilities out of some charitable impulse (or a simple loneliness for a human-like companion). It was hardly a suprise when they shared the nights, but what astonished them both was their growing affection, even love for one another. Concealing Blossom had never experienced such a depth of feeling before. As for Wild Crimson-Feather Raptor, the only love he had ever felt stronger than this was for his long-vanished Solar mate. Feeling so deeply for this Princess of the Earth, he taught her the martial arts style he had taught his vanished Solar mate long ago, to the limits of his own knowledge. Concealing Blossom was an avid student, feeling her own Aspect resonate with this ephmereal dream-stuff.
And when Scarlet Flower of the Setting Sun was reborn, he knew. Concealing Blossom sensed something was wrong over the next few months; he became more distant, less affectionate. And one morning, he was gone. He left a short note, clawed into a branch he placed beside her. And Concealing Blossom knew another deep emotion: despair.
She swore to kill the usurper to her true love, and began tracking Wild Crimson-Feather Raptor with the techniques he himself had taught her. In most cases, they were insufficient; her training was good, but he was cunning and possessed Charms that would render his trail invisible to even the best tracker. She had another advantage, though; as a former Dynast and skilled seductress, every town she passed was a wellspring of information. All the hunters fell over themselves to tell her of any strange beasts or birds they had seen in the woods- sometimes, she shared their beds, but never feeling the passion she had for her wayward Lunar.
Scarlet Flower of the Setting Sun, a Twilight Caste Solar, knows of Concealing Blossom's pursuit- she has reuinited with her spouse, and they are slowly exploring her ancient memories. And while she knows that while Concealing Blossom isn't inhuman or truly mad, the Terrestrial is possessed of a jealous rage, and Scarlet Flower fears the day her rival will come to her- possibly with the hounds of the Hunt behind her. Wild Crimson-Feather Raptor tries to reassure her, but he is still torn over his abrupt departure. And Concealing Blossom, for her part, has spread rumors of the Anathema to every town she meets, sometimes working her own subtle mischiefs to rile the place against her rival. Neither hell nor the raging tempest hath her fury.
Charms: Walker-Among-Irises Perception Iris-Bulb Discourse Demure Carp Feint Pearlescent Filigree Defense Lethal Paper Fan Attack Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form Flurry of August Leaves Concentration Resplendant Sash Grapple Technique Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata Seven Storms Escape Prana Language-Learning Ritual Thousand Tongues Meditation Poisoned Tongue Technique Voice of Mastery Elemental Concentration Trance Elemental Empowerment Meditation Elemental Succor Method Elemental Bolt Attack Feeling-The-Air Technique Soundless Action Prana Distracting Breeze Meditation Whirlwind Shield Form Vengeful Gust Counterattack Seeking Throw Technique Precision Observation Method All-Encompasing Earth Sense Feeling the Dragon's Bones Entombed Mind Technique Ox Body Technique Effortlessly Rising Flame Fiery Prowess Threshhold Warding Stance Hopping Firecracker Evasion Flickering Candle Meditation Loquacious Courtier Technique Seizing-the-Tongue Technique Brother-Against-Brother Insinuation Warm-Faced Seduction Style
