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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8237441" data-attributes="member: 30538">Arkadiyye<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-Pvt8MBF/0/05a20c14/S/636252771953950206-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Though the island of Teyango was long a province of the Empire of Troas, the Troatians generally left it to itself, content to treat it as one of the breadbaskets of their empire and making no attempt to impose their own culture on the Teyanjin. Over the centuries, a handful of Troatians settled there, generally operating self-sustaining estates that lasted no more than a few generations before the descendants of the founders returned to their homeland for whatever reason. But that only addresses the humans of Troas, and they were not the only ones who investigated the land.Arkadiyye (ar-KAY-dui-e) was born in the forests of Zrchev in the western parts of Troas some three hundred years ago. She will not argue with those who refer to her as a dryad, though she has never had anything to do with oak trees, and prefers the term ' napaead'. Despite human paranoia, she was not born from any romantic encounters that her mother might have had with males of their kind, but from a union between two napaeae whose roots intertwined. Hidden in the valley where she awoke for the first time, she did not see humans until she was well into her second century.She was less than impressed by what she saw. By that point, the wood elves of Zrchev had stopped fighting human expansion into their homeland and started trying to gradually make an elf-like human culture of the immigrants. Most of the fey spirits at least passively accepted this program, and some supported it as best they could. Arkadiyye, young for one of her people, found it harder to do this, and her mother encouraged her to travel a bit and gain some perspective.So she did, learning just how much worse things could get for the fey in other parts of the Empire, which regarded the wilderness as something to be feared, subdued and possibly destroyed. She was starting to hear the wisdom of her ancestors, but then her wandering ways brought her to the sea, and she heard its siren song, choosing not to go back but to keep traveling. And so she came to Teyango.Here, the people treated their wilderness with greater respect than they did in the mainland, but with no less fear. Despite this, Arkadiyye felt a comforting presence here, especially among the cherry trees, and so decided to remain for a time. She even tried to communicate with the local humans, learning their language, but they regarded her as a spirit to be propitiated, not one with whom they could ever become comfortable. She slowly got used to the idea that she would always be viewed as a dangerous being, something to be feared.And then a four year-old girl challenged that belief, when she and Arkadiyye met as the child wandered further into the forest outside her father's estate than she should have. Asaru seemed to regard her new friend as just a different kind of person than anyone she had met up until that point, and treated her with all the kindness that she expressed to everyone who did not annoy her. Arkadiyye did not have a heart, as such, but parts of her emotional landscape that had been cold and dreary grew warm and cheerful in Asaru's presence.When at last they were separated, with Asaru packed off to live in a temple, Arkadiyye decided that the time had come to move on as well. Yet where she had been wandering aimlessly for so long, now she had a plan and purpose. She would become the immortal and transcendent being that people imagined her to be, and teach others the lessons that she had learned in the process. Where most of her comrades stumbled into Ascendance without really knowing what they were getting into, Arkadiyye pursued it with deliberation and forethought.Like them, though, she was a bit surprised when she met her patron, whom she assumed would be one of the other fey who had won Ascendance in the past. In fact, Petra, one of the founders of the civic religion of Troas, had been a very human woman, and her followers had often fought against the fey as threats to humanity. But immortality had broadened her perspective, and she approved of Arkadiyye's ambitions and wished to support them. Arkadiyye is still not sure what to make of this, but welcomes Petra's aid and tries to serve her interests as best she can, while serving among the Princesses, among whom is her first and truest friend. She backs Lady Fuurin to the hilt, but isn't above teasing her leader for her more childish moments.More troublingly, she has also acquired a nemesis, in the form of Baba Suten, a fiendish entity who claims to have been an oni in mortal life, and to have fought against the human invaders of Teyango in a time two thousand years in the past. That causes Arkadiyye a certain amount of moral discomfort, for she recognizes that situation as not unlike her own dissatisfaction with the human invasion of her homeland. But Baba Suten is a cruel and vicious being, and whatever similarities Arkadiyye might see, she will not let the oni's bloodstained path continue any longer than she has to.Arkadiyye - PL 10Abilities:STR 9 | STA 4 | AGL 1 | DEX 1 | FGT 6 | INT 0 | AWE 3 | PRE 1Powers:Ascendant: Immortality 5 (one day); Immunity 1 (aging); Movement 1 (dimensional travel to home plane), Reaction (death); Movement 2 (dimensional travel to planes of the Sphere of Time), Standard Action - 15 pointsHuman Disguise: Morph 1 (human form) - 5 pointsPlant Creature: Immunity 3 (need for sleep, starvation, suffocation); Impervious Protection 8, Noticeable; Regeneration 10; Visual Concealment 4, Limited to while in vegetation - 32 pointsPlant Powers: Array (20 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Green Network: Remote Sensing 5 (all senses), Medium (plants) - 20 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Pollen Cloud: Cloud Area Affliction 10 (Resisted by Fortitude; Fatigued, Exhuasted, Incapacitated) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Root Transport: Teleport 10, Extended, Medium (plants) - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Tanglevines: Burst Area Cumulative Affliction 10 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Damage; Hindered and Vulnerable, Defenseless and Immobile), Extra Condition, Limited to Two Degrees, Requires Ambient Plant-life - 1 point</li> </ul>Sense Immortal: Senses 2 (ranged detect immortal) - 2 pointsSpeak For And With The Trees: Comprehend Plants 2; Senses 4 (postcognition), Limited to while in vegetation - 8 pointsAdvantages:Daze (Intimidation), Equipment 4, Language 3 (Atelane, Koine, Nuhari, Teyango, others [Akelo is native]), Power Attack, StartleEquipment:Home Plane: Size Huge; Toughness 10; Features Communications, Concealed, Defense System, Grounds, Habitat, Isolated, Living Space, Power System, Personnel, Security System 2 - 18 points. Skills:Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+10), Expertise: Nature 8 (+8), Intimidation 8 (+9), Perception 4 (+7).Offense:Initative +1Unarmed +10 (Close Damage 9)Entanglement -- (Burst Area Affliction 10, Resisted by Dodge)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 8, Fortitude 6, Toughness 12, Will 7 Totals:Abilities 50 + Powers 85 + Advantages 14 + Skills 12 + Defenses 15 = 178 pointsComplications:Responsibility--Motivation. Alien Perspective, Inhuman Appearance. Nemesis (Baba Suten.) Patron (Petra.) Secret (immortality).</blockquote>

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