Shantak/HeptaNellensMyka

Nellens Myka

Name: Nellens Myka
Aspect: Water
Nature: Judge
House: Nellens
Age: 14

Description: Myka was weak and scrawny as a child and his Exaltation hasn’t done much to correct this. His deep blue eyes gaze expressionless and his dark hair reaches little below his neck. Myka has a fine dark robe with yellow and blue ornamental shapes but he has cut the Nellens symbol away from it. His voice has recently broken and often sounds a bit creaky unless he pays attention to it.

ATTRIBUTES
Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3
Charisma 2, Manipulation 3, Appearance 3
Perception 2, Intelligence 4, Wits 3

VIRTUES
Compassion 2
Conviction 3
Temperance 4
Valor 2

ABILITIES
Archery 1
Athletics 2
Awareness 3 (Sense ambush +1, Smell +1, Hearing +1)
*Brawl 1
*Bureaucracy 2 (Small organizations +2)
*Craft (Artifice) 3
Endurance 1
*Investigation 2
*Larceny 2
Linguistics 2 (Low Realm, Old Realm)
Lore 3
Medicine 1
Melee 1
*Occult 4
Performance 2 (Sitar +1)
Presence 2
Ride 1
*Socialize (Discern motivation +2) 3
Stealth 2
Thrown 3 (Needles +1)

BACKGROUNDS
Allies 1 (Nellens Jeroba, a lone Nellens upperclassman in Heptagram)
Breeding 1 (Mother is Exalted from a patrician family)
Connections (House Nellens) 1
Familiar 3 (Darknut, great horned owl)
Backing (House Nellens) 3

CHARMS
Shaping Hand Style
Observer Awareness Method
Elemental Concentration Trance
Ox-Body Technique
Seeking Throw Technique
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

Spells
Emerald Countermagic
Demon of the First Circle
Unstoppable Fountain of Depths
Mirror of Bending Light

Willpower: 7
Essence: 3
Personal Essence: 11 Peripheral Essence: 27

COMBAT SUMMARY
Base Initiative: 5
Attack:
Punch (Speed 5, Accuracy 3, Damage 2B, Defense 3)
Throwing knives (firmin needles) (Speed 5, Accuracy 6, Damage 4L, Rate 3, Range 15)
Needle sword (Speed 5, Accuracy 4, Damage 5L, Defense 4)

Dodge Pool: 2 Soak: 1L/3B
Health Levels: -0/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-4/Incapacitated

EXPERIENCE
Experience: 53 + 13 (specific)
Used: 3 (Awareness: Hearing +1), 3 (Endurance 1), 3 (Performance: Sitar +1), 2 (Athletics 2), 4+1 (Occult 4), 4 (Lore 3), 3+1 (Thrown 3), 0+4 (Strength 2), 7+1 (Appearance 3), 3 (Thrown: Needles +1), 2+1 (Socialize 3), 1 (Bureaucracy 2), 5+1 (Conviction 3), 2 (Presence 2)
= 42+9

BACKGROUND
House Nellens rejoiced when Nellens Mahana’s youngest son Myka Exalted like his mother once did and added to the handful of Dragon-Blooded the house claims. Myka himself tried to take pleasure in Exalting, but found it hard when his jealous still-mortal elder siblings withdrew from him and his mother started to preach about the great responsibility he now bears to his house.

During the last years of the primary school Myka began to be ashamed of House Nellens with its pariah status and few Dragon-Blooded. Most of the other houses seemed so much greater to him. When his mother stressed that she wanted Myka to join the Spiral Academy, he soon started to practice and learn (often by mistake) mystical arts, hoping to make it to the Heptagram where he thought the Great Houses had less meaning.

Fortunately his teachers agreed with him and recommended Myka to the Heptagram. Nellens Mahana initially opposed this point of view but finally acknowledged that Myka could make most of his talents there. Myka now waits his transportation to the Isle of Voices. He hopes to do well there, despite his House, and to finally decide whether or not he should dedicate himself to House Nellens like his mother has done.