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<blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8147573" data-attributes="member: 30538"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: purple">Mhaim Ashenputtel</span></span></p><p><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-wSQq6QQ/0/6df10156/S/Rider.%28Medb%29.full.2369967-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Once upon a time, a little girl lived with her mother and father in a tiny village far from the centers of power in the land of Galantri, and though they were poor and times were always hard, they were happy. And then one day a beautiful sorceress came into their village and accused her mother of seducing the sorceress' husband, and even bearing his child. Her father tried to protect her, but died in the blink of an eye. The sorceress promised to allow the little girl to keep her wretched life if she didn't let out a tear during her mother's punishment, and when her mother finally took her last breath, the sorceress owned that her the child had kept her word. So she only killed everyone else in the village, leaving the little girl in its ashes. Mhaim Ashenputtel was her name from that day forward.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, the little girl left the ruins, and tried to flee to the mountains in hopes that she could find a pass that would lead to another land, but all that she found was frostbite and starvation, before she took shelter in a deep, dark cave. Within the depths, she heard a voice addressing her, asking what she desired. For a moment, she considered asking for her parents to be alive again, but then pain and anger burned away those gentle thoughts. She asked to become the agent of vengeance on the sorceress and all those like her, and the Shadow Dragon agreed to grant her this, so long as she brought this land under the rule of Great Ananke. She didn't know who that was, but she was past caring.</p><p></p><p>A few years later, a young magical prodigy was discovered in one of the provinces of Galantri, and quickly brought to be a student there. Her charm and beauty won her many friends among the young men of the school, and many enemies among the young ladies. But strange and terrible things happened to those who sought to bully her, such as the strange death of Rossandra Colleyne. And in addition to her apparent romantic conquests, she found other allies among those who had grown weary of the sorcerous aristocracy.</p><p></p><p>The revolution began in winter, with blood staining the white snow. Many sorcerers died, many fled, and finally the assembly sued for peace. A Committee of Public Security was set up, with Mhaim as one of its leaders, officially. (Unofficially, the others were all her poppets.) And then the trials began, with one particular sorcerer and his family dragged before her ... along with an unfamiliar-looking woman. The sorcerer stammered out some tale about how his wife had been mad with paranoia, slaughtering a village for an imagined crime, how she had finally taken her own life years before, how he would abandon his title and donate all his property to -- and then she stopped listening and drove her sword's point through his eye into his brain, telling her guards to smother the man's wife and brats in the dungeon.</p><p></p><p>It brought her no solace. Nothing will, she suspects, until the land is reduced to a few scattered villages like the one where she lived. Of course, such small villages can probably only sustain a much smaller population than the country now possesses, so she'll have to decrease the surplus population to something more manageable. The unceasing executions are a means to that end, as well as being amusing, and committed to instill the worship of Great Ananke in the remnant population.</p><p></p><p>Her greatest fear is somewhat bewildering. At the start of her great war, she was ordered to poison a certain aristocratic woman, whom she framed as her persecutor. She was only supposed to leave her weakened and injured, but something about her just aroused all of her anger and fear, and so she used enough of the poison to end her. That should be the end of it, surely, but she keeps having dreams in which her enemy returns from the grave, somehow ...</p><p></p><p><strong>Mhaim Ashenputtel -- PL 9</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Abilities:</strong></p><p><strong>STR</strong> 0 | <strong>STA</strong> 3 | <strong>AGL</strong> 2 | <strong>DEX</strong> 3 | <strong>FGT</strong> 4 | <strong>INT</strong> 5 | <strong>AWE</strong> 7 | <strong>PRE</strong> 4</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Gifts of the Shadow:</em></strong> Array (39 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong><em>Shadow Consumption:</em></strong> Cloud Area Nullify Magic 9, Broad, Simultaneous - 1 point </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong><em>Shadow Domination:</em></strong> Perception Range Affliction 9 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Concentration Duration, Insidious, Subtle; Senses 1 (communication link with compelled or controlled target) - 39 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong><em>Shadow Poison:</em></strong> Cumulative Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Fatigued, Exhausted, Dying), Subtle; Energizing Healing 9, Self Only, Subtle - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong><em>Shadow Step:</em></strong> Movement 1 (dimensional movement [Shadowland]); Accurate Extended Teleport 12, Medium (shadows) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> <strong><em>Solid Shadows:</em></strong> Perception-Ranged Damaging Move Object 9 - 1 point</li> </ul><p><strong><em>Shadowed Eyes:</em></strong> Senses 2 (darkvision) - 2 points</p><p><strong><em>Shadowshield:</em></strong> Enhanced Defenses 10 (Dodge 5, Parry 5) - 12 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Advantages:</strong></p><p>Attractive, Benefit 3 (commissioner of public security, independently wealthy), Connected, Contacts, Equipment, Fascinate (Persuasion), Fearless, Ritualist, Ultimate Effort (Will), Well-Informed.</p><p></p><p><em>Equipment:</em></p><p>Sword (Strength-based Damage 3, Improved Critical).</p><p></p><p><strong>Skills:</strong></p><p>Close Attack: Sword 6 (+10), Deception 8 (+12), Expertise: High Society 5 (+10), Expertise: Magic 8 (+12), Insight 4 (+11), Investigation 5 (+10), Persuasion 8 (+12), Sleight of Hand 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8).</p><p></p><p><strong>Offense:</strong></p><p>Initiative +2</p><p>Unarmed +4 (Close Damage 0)</p><p>Sword +10 (Close Damage 3, Crit 19-20)</p><p>Domination -- (Perception-Range Will 9)</p><p>Poison +4 (Close Fortitude 9)</p><p>Solid Shaodw -- (Perception-Range Damaging Move Object 9)</p><p></p><p><strong>Defense:</strong></p><p>Dodge 13/8, Parry 15/10, Fortitude 5, Toughness 3, Will 13 </p><p></p><p><strong>Totals:</strong></p><p>Abilities 56 + Powers 56 + Advantages 12 + Skills 28 + Defenses 18 = 170 points</p><p></p><p><strong>Complications:</strong></p><p><strong><em>Revenge--Motivation. Fear</em></strong> (Rossandra Colleyne.) <strong><em>Hatred</em></strong> (aristocracy.) <strong><em>Vulnerability</em></strong> (magic of the heart.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davies, post: 8147573, member: 30538"] [size=150][color=purple]Mhaim Ashenputtel[/color][/size][color=purple][/color] [img]https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-wSQq6QQ/0/6df10156/S/Rider.%28Medb%29.full.2369967-S.jpg[/img] Once upon a time, a little girl lived with her mother and father in a tiny village far from the centers of power in the land of Galantri, and though they were poor and times were always hard, they were happy. And then one day a beautiful sorceress came into their village and accused her mother of seducing the sorceress' husband, and even bearing his child. Her father tried to protect her, but died in the blink of an eye. The sorceress promised to allow the little girl to keep her wretched life if she didn't let out a tear during her mother's punishment, and when her mother finally took her last breath, the sorceress owned that her the child had kept her word. So she only killed everyone else in the village, leaving the little girl in its ashes. Mhaim Ashenputtel was her name from that day forward. Eventually, the little girl left the ruins, and tried to flee to the mountains in hopes that she could find a pass that would lead to another land, but all that she found was frostbite and starvation, before she took shelter in a deep, dark cave. Within the depths, she heard a voice addressing her, asking what she desired. For a moment, she considered asking for her parents to be alive again, but then pain and anger burned away those gentle thoughts. She asked to become the agent of vengeance on the sorceress and all those like her, and the Shadow Dragon agreed to grant her this, so long as she brought this land under the rule of Great Ananke. She didn't know who that was, but she was past caring. A few years later, a young magical prodigy was discovered in one of the provinces of Galantri, and quickly brought to be a student there. Her charm and beauty won her many friends among the young men of the school, and many enemies among the young ladies. But strange and terrible things happened to those who sought to bully her, such as the strange death of Rossandra Colleyne. And in addition to her apparent romantic conquests, she found other allies among those who had grown weary of the sorcerous aristocracy. The revolution began in winter, with blood staining the white snow. Many sorcerers died, many fled, and finally the assembly sued for peace. A Committee of Public Security was set up, with Mhaim as one of its leaders, officially. (Unofficially, the others were all her poppets.) And then the trials began, with one particular sorcerer and his family dragged before her ... along with an unfamiliar-looking woman. The sorcerer stammered out some tale about how his wife had been mad with paranoia, slaughtering a village for an imagined crime, how she had finally taken her own life years before, how he would abandon his title and donate all his property to -- and then she stopped listening and drove her sword's point through his eye into his brain, telling her guards to smother the man's wife and brats in the dungeon. It brought her no solace. Nothing will, she suspects, until the land is reduced to a few scattered villages like the one where she lived. Of course, such small villages can probably only sustain a much smaller population than the country now possesses, so she'll have to decrease the surplus population to something more manageable. The unceasing executions are a means to that end, as well as being amusing, and committed to instill the worship of Great Ananke in the remnant population. Her greatest fear is somewhat bewildering. At the start of her great war, she was ordered to poison a certain aristocratic woman, whom she framed as her persecutor. She was only supposed to leave her weakened and injured, but something about her just aroused all of her anger and fear, and so she used enough of the poison to end her. That should be the end of it, surely, but she keeps having dreams in which her enemy returns from the grave, somehow ... [b]Mhaim Ashenputtel -- PL 9 Abilities: STR[/b] 0 | [b]STA[/b] 3 | [b]AGL[/b] 2 | [b]DEX[/b] 3 | [b]FGT[/b] 4 | [b]INT[/b] 5 | [b]AWE[/b] 7 | [b]PRE[/b] 4 [b]Powers: [i]Gifts of the Shadow:[/i][/b] Array (39 points)[list] [*] [b][i]Shadow Consumption:[/i][/b] Cloud Area Nullify Magic 9, Broad, Simultaneous - 1 point [*] [b][i]Shadow Domination:[/i][/b] Perception Range Affliction 9 (Resisted by Will; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Concentration Duration, Insidious, Subtle; Senses 1 (communication link with compelled or controlled target) - 39 points [*] [b][i]Shadow Poison:[/i][/b] Cumulative Affliction 9 (Resisted by Fortitude; Fatigued, Exhausted, Dying), Subtle; Energizing Healing 9, Self Only, Subtle - 1 point [*] [b][i]Shadow Step:[/i][/b] Movement 1 (dimensional movement [Shadowland]); Accurate Extended Teleport 12, Medium (shadows) - 1 point [*] [b][i]Solid Shadows:[/i][/b] Perception-Ranged Damaging Move Object 9 - 1 point[/list] [b][i]Shadowed Eyes:[/i][/b] Senses 2 (darkvision) - 2 points [b][i]Shadowshield:[/i][/b] Enhanced Defenses 10 (Dodge 5, Parry 5) - 12 points [b]Advantages:[/b] Attractive, Benefit 3 (commissioner of public security, independently wealthy), Connected, Contacts, Equipment, Fascinate (Persuasion), Fearless, Ritualist, Ultimate Effort (Will), Well-Informed. [i]Equipment:[/i] Sword (Strength-based Damage 3, Improved Critical). [b]Skills:[/b] Close Attack: Sword 6 (+10), Deception 8 (+12), Expertise: High Society 5 (+10), Expertise: Magic 8 (+12), Insight 4 (+11), Investigation 5 (+10), Persuasion 8 (+12), Sleight of Hand 6 (+9), Stealth 6 (+8). [b]Offense:[/b] Initiative +2 Unarmed +4 (Close Damage 0) Sword +10 (Close Damage 3, Crit 19-20) Domination -- (Perception-Range Will 9) Poison +4 (Close Fortitude 9) Solid Shaodw -- (Perception-Range Damaging Move Object 9) [b]Defense:[/b] Dodge 13/8, Parry 15/10, Fortitude 5, Toughness 3, Will 13 [b]Totals:[/b] Abilities 56 + Powers 56 + Advantages 12 + Skills 28 + Defenses 18 = 170 points [b]Complications: [i]Revenge--Motivation. Fear[/i][/b] (Rossandra Colleyne.) [b][i]Hatred[/i][/b] (aristocracy.) [b][i]Vulnerability[/i][/b] (magic of the heart.) [/QUOTE]
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