ScarletTigerofCrimsonJade
Scarlet Tiger of Crimson Jade, Grand Feline of the Dragon Pride
In the deep South East lives an unlikely ally to those whose who wish to over throw the dragon blooded. Once a dragon blooded herself but altered beyond all recognition by sorcery, Scarlet Jade stalks her former fellows with endless patients and supernatural ferocity.
Scarlet Jade is a huge panther like cat, standing 15 feet high at the shoulder and 45 feet long nose to tail. Her face is vaguely human looking with a short muzzle that extends into a huge jaw with lined with moonsilver fangs when angered. Her hide is covered jade plates of all five varieties. The plates cover about 50 percent of the body and resemble suit of armor. Where plates are not her skin is covered by a tawny coat of fur with a reddish tinge at the tips. Her claws are wickedly curved and made of red jade and her tail is tipped with a massive stone of white jade.
Ages ago, in the days of the shogun, a foolish group of five Dragon blood hunted a powerful first age Lunar known only as Dancer of the Crimson Sands. She scattered their army with a single spell and then tore into the group with such speed that two were dead before they realized she was in their midst. The five were three then one. The fifth warrior, the youngest of the five stood face to face with a being more than thrice her essence and faltered. She tossed her diaclave aside and knelt in front of Dancer, begging for her life.
The Dancer had been one of the first age’s most skilled fleshcrafter and saw in the young exalt the opportunity to practice her trade once again. The Dancer bound the young exalt to her with a moonsilver collar which robbed the bearer of both name and voice. Over the next century the Dancer shaped her new pet in mind and body. Carefully crafted stories redirected her hate and instilled loyality. While rituals performed by Luna’s light coaxed her shape to mimic her master’s totem. As she changed and grew the Dancer augmented her with the jade artifacts of the Dragonblooded she slew. The armor was grafted to her skin with an artistic eye and the diaclaves were hammered in to her claws. When she slew a young lunar that dared to challagen her mistress, his diaclave was alloyed to her teeth. Finally monk’s grand gore maul was attached to her tail.
After a century of shaping the dragon blood reach her current form and the Dancer gifted her with a new name Scarlet Tiger of Crimson Jade. Additionally the Dancer named Scarlet her companion and restored the power of speech to her.
Scarlet reveled in her newfound freedoms although their relationship changed little. Scarlet served her mistress without question until the Dancer’s death 50 years before the disappearance of the empress.
However in the days before the Dancer’s death she performed a final augmentation on her beloved servant but died before she told Scarlet Tiger the purpose of the ritual. Scarlet Tiger was so consumed by grief that she forgot about the strange heavy object imbedded deep within her for years.
Recently She has shaken off her grief and has found a new calling, mother hood. An outcast scavenger lord wandered within her territory. His scent drove Scarlet tiger insane with hunger and she swallowed him whole. Six months later she gave birth to her first kitten. The kitten’s blue jade plating bore a striking resemblance to the armor of the devoured scavenger lord.
Current Where abouts: Scarlet Tiger’s pride now includes four kittens and on young adult, Shadow of the Mist. Nursing four kittens is proving difficult for Scarlet. She is having difficulty finding enough high essence meals to produce her essence laiden milk. Mist, has bringing her spirits. They sate her for now.
As for Shadow of the Mist, he remembers nothing of his former life but retains most of his old skills, including his charms. He appears as a lion with a light green Hue to his fur. Mist drifts out of his nose, mouth and off his blue jade armor plates
Here's the stats
Scarlet Tiger of Crimson Jade\\
Nature: Follower\\
Aspect: Fire\\
Attributes: Strength 13, Dexterity 6, Stamina 9, Charisma 3, Manipulation 1, Appearence 4, Perception 4, Intelligence 3, Wits 3.\\
Virtues: Compassion 4, Conviction 2, Temperance 3, Valor 5.\\
Abilities: Athletics 4, Awareness 4, Brawl 6, Melee 6 Dodge 6, Endurance 3, Resistance 3, Linguistics (Native: High realm, Eastern tribal tongues, Old realm) Stealth 4, Survuval 4, Presence 3, Socialize 2. Lore 4(+2 Lunar lore), Occult 2\\
Supernatural powers: Dragon blooded Charm: Elemental Bolt attack, Elemental Burst techique, Dragon vortex attack, Feeling the air technique\\
Soundless Action Prana\\
Zone of silence stance, Presicion observation method, Effortlessly Rising flame, Falling star Maneuvar, Bellows Pumping stride, Incense smoke ladder, Fiery Prowess, swift legion technique, Threshold Warding stance, Hopping firecracker evasion, virtyuopus Negation defense, Flickering Candle meditation Smoke obscuring effect, Safety amonf enemies (this one doesn't work unless the enimey is the same size as scarlet) Arrow consuming flame defense, smoldering karma strike. Dragon Graced weapon, Ghost fire blade, Refining the inner blade, stoking bonfire style, portentous somet deflecting mode, deadly wildfire legion, threshing floor floor techinque(no longer useable), Ringing anvil onslaught, Phantome Fire-warrior Horde, Drowning embrace, Riptide Method, Pound surf style, first-spinning maelstrom, Flow past defenses.\\
Other powers: Fire aspect anima ablitity, May use either brawl or melee for claw and tail attacks, Essence Devouring stomach, Birth of the Jade Cub, Jade milk. Know thy child.\\
Base Initiative: 9\\ Attacks:\\ Moonsilver bite: Speed 9 Accuracy 13 Damage 18L(or B) Defence 7\\ Jade Claws: Speed 15 Accuracy 15 Damage 14L Defence 10\\ Grand Maul tail: Speed 7 Accuracy 11 Damage 25L Defence 0\\ Dodge pool: 11\\ Soak: 24B/20L (Jade Plates and tough hide)\\ Willpower: 5\\ Health Levels: -0x3/ -1 x4/-2x6/-4/Incap\\ Essence:6\\ Essence pool: Personal: 11 Peripheral: 34
Notes: It should be noted that for all the external difference Scarlet and her cubs are still dragonblooded. Their are a couple differences, because of their difference from the dragon's orginal design, Scarlet and her pride regain essence at half the normal speed, however they heal at twice the normal rate. Scarlet can also sense any Dragonblood within 100 meters. This affect is perfect and infallible. This doesn't mean she knows where they are exactly, but she will know that are in the area.\\ Roleplaying Notes: Scarlet is unused to making decisions for herself and tends toward indecision when the matter is not life threatening. Her current concern is seeking a new source of essence such as a manse and will bargen with anyone who might give her access to even a minor manse. She hates Dragon blood and will devour (If she has less than three cubs) or slay any she detects. (Anyone who points out that Scarlet and her children are Dragon Blooded had best be wary.)\\ Once Her immediate concerns for essence are sated, she will begin searching for a cause or powerful being to ally herself with. Perferably a circle of Lunars or the rencarnation of her Former mistress, but a she be impressed enough with a group of solars or siderials (if she manages to remember them). She will not bow to any group that she precieves weaker than herself or threatens her cubs. Nor will she work with any being of death. She also abores trickery, anyone that tricks or manipluates her will earn a very long lived enemy.
Power Mechanics:\\ Essence Devouring stomach: On a successful bite attack that does not kill the target, Scarlet Tiger may reflexively swallow her oppenent. While in her stomach the target will take an unsoakable level of bashing damage and lose ten motes of essence per turn. The essence is transfered to Scarlet's Essence pool and may increase it past the maxim. The swallowed may attempt to cut him self out of the stomach by doing five health levels of damage to it. The stomach has a soak of 20L/20B and due to the confines of the stomach no weapon larger than a short sword may be brought to bare. If the swallowed succeed he will do a single health level of damage to Scarlet and find him self directly under her.\\ Once the target is incapacitated essence drain will continue normally. If the target is Dragon blooded, he or she is transfered to the moonsilver womb, other wise the stomach starts to convert the target's body into essence, harvesting the target's perment essence in motes per additional health level inflicted, until the target is dead. Healing artifacts or hearth stones do not function in the stomach.
Birth of the Jade: Any DragonBlooded that has succombed to the essence devouring stomach is tranfered to Scarlet's moonsliver womb. The womb can hold up to two DB's at a time. Scarlet has has access to all the charms of those in her womb and may "borrow" their ablities for a mote in order to use those charms.\\ By commiting 5 motes per individual in the womb they will metamorphise into cubs. The process takes the individual's permanent essence times two months and will not work on those with essence higher than 5. The process merges any jade artifacts with the new cubs.\\ Cubs take a year to mature and are helpless for most of that year. When they mature they have the atributes of great cats and access to their permanent essence number of their own charms. As they age they will Learn "remember" one charm, one atribute dot and two dots of abilities per month. They will never remember their old lives and generally obey their mother but are not compelled to do so.
Jade Milk: 10 motes per dose. Scarlet Nurses her cubs on this milk, which resembles molten jade. It takes two doses a day to keep a cub fed and happy. On mortals and exalts the milk will act as a sweet cordial, although there is a high incident of side affects.
Know thy child: 1 mote. By using this power Scarlet will know the exactly location and condition of one of her children. Even if a "cub" was somehow restored this power will still function.
Comments
I love, love this idea. Dunno if I could use it, but it's brillant. - Etrangere
Wow. I seriously suggest you organize the stats stuff a little...it's very hard to read that way. - Seiraryu
