FourWillowsWeeping/Zhumaydan

Zhumaydan Soul of the Eagle and the East

Navigator of the Five-Metal Shrike

Caste: Solar, Zenith
Nature: Explorer
Concept: Hacker revolutionary
XP: 28/28 Unspent
Gain Willpower when you make a significant discovery.

A Look

Golden Daggers

Enarae

Zhumaydan gets on well with the Eclipse, though Enarae's habit of lying casually gets on her nerves severely, and Zhumaydan is less a woman of talk than action.

Oaryet

Zhumaydan finds Oaryet's naive outlook charming.

Tyver Froyn

In Zhumaydan's opinion, Tyver could do well to have his ego cut down a few notches. Maybe then he'd be less insufferable!

Unrepentant Glory

Her brother is a good man, but sometimes his head is a little too far up in the clouds. There is always a little tension between these two, because they tend to go about similar things in very different ways.

= Three Keys

Zhumaydan was called "Laughing Hawk" in her childhood. She is memorable as being jovial, cunning, and talkative. She is known to have a weakness for gambling.

A Vision

Zhumaydan is striking in appearance. She has richly tanned mahogany skin, and against this the golden tattoo of her Castemark shines very brightly. In her curly black hair, she has braided many gold rings. Here and there there are strands the deep colour of orichalque, reminiscent of her brother's fully golden mane. Her mode of dress is sort of a cross between Assyrian and Thai style...I'll need to get some drawings of this up.

A Cup of Light

Zhumaydan's anima is a pillar of red-gold motes that swirl around her like a dust devil. In its upper airs, gold and violet raptors wheel on the thermals.

Anima Tools

• 0 Motes: Zhumaydan's golden Twilight Castemark is visible at all times.
• 1-3 Motes: As she begins to spend Peripheral Essence, the Castemark begins to flicker with otherworldly luminosity. Anyone who can see her can make a Perception + Awareness roll at standard difficulty to notice these flashes of light.
• 4-7 Motes: At this level of display, Zhumaydan's Castemark glows like a beacon, and its light will shine through anything placed over it.
• 8-10 motes: Now Zhumaydan begins to be surrounded by her desert pillar. She stands in the centre of a sunbeam, and those standing close to her have their shadows blur into a bwitching half-light, where sun and shadow are indistinct.
• 11-15 motes: The pillar begins to twist and dance, and its light is visible for miles. The ground becomes dry under Zhumaydan's feet; mud hardens and leaves begin to wilt and brown along their edges, as if it has not rained in a long time. Feathers have begun to form in the anima's display, and silhouettes of birds fly high above.
• 16+ motes: The pillar becomes a huge sandstorm, and Zhumaydan is surrounded by amethyst-and-gold eagles of Essence, who circle in its subtle winds, giving piercing cries.

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• 0 Motes: Know the precise time of day.
• 1 Mote: Invoke anima displays at 4 motes or 8 motes.
• 5 Motes: Roll Essence, subtracting the successes from the damage successes of an attack against the Exalt.

Traits

Attributes

Strength: 1, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 5

Charisma: 4, Manipulation: 1, Appearance: 4

Perception: 3, Intelligence: 4, Wits: 4

Abilities

• Dawn
  • Melee 2
• Zenith
  • Endurance 2
    • Ox-Body Technique (x2)
• Twilight
  • Craft 3
    • Flawless Handiwork Method
    • Object-Strengthening Touch
  • Investigation 5
    • Ten Magistrate Eyes
  • Lore 3
• Night
  • Athletics 5
    • Graceful Crane Stance
    • Lightning Speed
    • Spider-Foot Style
    • Feather-Foot Style
    • Eagle Wing Style
  • Dodge 2
• Eclipse
  • Bureaucracy 3
  • Linguistics 1
  • Socialize 3

Tempers

Essence: 3
Willpower: 8/8

Compassion: 2, Conviction: 2, Temperance: 3, Valor 3.
Temperance Vice: Zhumaydan loses 2 dice on any Temperance roll involving gambling.

Virtue Flaw: Berserk Anger
Condition: The character is insulted, belittled, demeaned, or deliberately frustrated.

Limit: 0

Essence pool:
17 / 17 Personal | 33 / 39 Peripheral | 6 Committed

Essence regeneration:
8 per hour with activity | 12 per hour with light activity | 16 per hour while resting

Health Levels:
-0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/Incap

Advantages

Backgrounds

• Artifact 4
  • "Vermillion Heart of the Coast", Orichalque Flame Spear Tree (4)
    • +7Spd +2Acc +2Def +6/+8Dam 3 Rate 6 Commitment
    • The tree ordinarily burns hot and bright as a small lantern; the Exalt can spend 1 Mote to cool it to the temperature of a hot bath and darken its glow. Grasping it and willing it will instantly cause it to flare back, at no cost.
    • Spend 3 Motes to cause the tree to burn hot as a bonfire; this increases its damage by two points.
• Manse 4
  • Gem of Adamant Skin (Set into the tree's branches)
• Virtual Manse 3 (Free, for the Shrike)
  • Cartic Anaglyph

Merits & Flaws

• Legendary Stamina (0)
• Permanent Castemark (2)
• Vice (1)

Quick Combat Stats

Init: 7(14)
Attack: 7
Parry: 7
Damage: 7L/9L + extra successes
Dodge: 8
Soak: 5B/2L