User:HUGE/Void

Basics

• Campaign: OOB
• Name: the Gentle Caress of the Void that Signifies the End of All Suffering
• Concept: Conflicted preacher of Nirvana
• Caste: Midnight Abyssal
• Motivation: Though the executioner's blade may hurt terribly, the release from suffering that follows is all that matters; let all of Creation join with the Neverborn to enter Oblivion and thereby end the eternal suffering of existence.
• Anima: Pure black wings that embrace or reach out to gently touch; looking into the blackness gives a sensation of impossible depth.. and that it's looking back.
• Positive Intimacies: the Perfected Principle of Consumption, "You'll look better in red.", Chomper, Breath's End is so strong -- very useful in this line of work (building, 1/5)
• Negative Intimacies: Admiral Tirak and his goons, misogynists and homophobes
• Experience: 7/92

Appearance

Original character, do not steal

She's 6 feet tall, with long wavy dark auburn hair, deathly white skin, and cold green eyes. She wears dresses in red and black with black leather over-the-knee boots. Completely impractical soulsteel armor covers the upper half of her chest and lower arms. She wears a simple black choker around her neck, set with an opalescent stone.

see also

Backgrounds

As a Zenith in prehistory and the early First Age

In an age now lost to history, the Soaring Osprey of Alabaster and Copper was exalted as one of the first Zenith-caste Solars on Okeanos.

There she worked to forge an effective fighting force out of the humans, Dragon Kings, and Terrestrial Exalts, even while expanding her own capabilities to prepare for the coming War.

Osprey had copper-red hair and pinkish skin; she tended to ignore fashion and wear simple functional clothing, relying on her sheer force of personality to win the hearts and minds of others.

Osprey's Lunar mate was a Full Moon whose spirit shape was a peregrine falcon; his name was Star Screams from the Heavens.

After the creation of Saigoth, she occasionally spent time slumming in the Outback, trying to go a certain number of months without using any essence as a test of endurance and to remember what it was to be mortal; she failed the test once, stopping another Solar in limit break from disrupting the natural evolution occuring in the Outback.

Star died in RY 2581, giving his life to stop a Wyld behemoth that took advantage of the weakened Order Conferring Trade Pattern to invade; his shard returned as a peacock-totem Waxing Moon named Emerald Feather Graces the Forest. His Tell was iridescent blue-green irises with dark blue pupils.

Osprey believed that she would live as long as was necessary to protect Creation and to fulfull her duty to the Unconquered Sun, and refused to take advantage of any of the anagathic techniques developed after the death of Facet Raven. Thus it was in RY 2620, after overseeing more than 75 years of peace in her province, that the Soaring Osprey of Alabaster and Copper was finally able to lay down her arms and die of old age.

As a Zenith in the high First Age

Born in RY 2602 as the Period of Long Silence was nearing an end, Tranquil Crane exalted at age 19, giving a speech from the city walls to both the besieging army and the defenders, trying to convince both of them that their conflict could be resolved peacefully, instead of by starting the first war in that province in decades.

Emerald reunited with Crane in RY 2628 after Creation's communication networks were fully restored.

Tranquil Crane fell in the Usurpation while in Limit Break, Emerald by her side, single-handedly trying to stop a Terrestrial brotherhood and Solar circle from trying to kill each other. It wasn't clear which side was responsible for her death.

As a mortal in the Second Age

Born in Azure into the Nefela family, father Haku, mother Lalani, the third child after eldest sister Kahiku and sister Mahina, Nefela Koli knew from an early age that he was different. After much confusion, he learned the hard way to try to pass as just another normal boy. He tried living a second life in secluded bars and associating only with people he thought he could trust.

One day he made a mistake and trusted the wrong people. He ended up being kidnapped, carried off to a small island, tied to a piling below an abandoned pier and slowly tortured by Admiral Tirak thanks to yet another outburst of Tirak's homophobia and misogyny. That was the first day.

Early in the morning of the seventh day, Koli died of dehydration, and the Bodhisattva Anointed by Dark Water appeared with a question on his lips...

As an Abyssal

Void awoke with the nauseating light of the sun in her eyes, still tied to the piling, her face crusted with dried blood. A masked and bandaged man calling himself Poison Wanders through the Veins saw Void was awake, untied her and carried her back to Skullstone for training. Meanwhile he explained that Void wasn't dreaming and wasn't quite dead either, as well as a few other useful bits of information.

Void approached the extreme training regimen with the new confidence of her exaltation and the clear mind of a new "life" free of her earlier troubles. Void soon displayed a talent -- some might say obsession -- with swords, knives, and necromancy; the Bodhisattva gave her special, personal training in these areas. Void's training wasn't all perfect, however: regulations required that she learn the basics of bureaucracy, economics, bookkeeping, and accountancy. Void did the best she could to avoid it, but finally the Bodhisattva locked her in a room with a Daybreak named Screaming Obsidian Didact and wouldn't let her out until Didact had certified while not under the effects of mental influence that she knew the basics. It wasn't fun.

After the trouble he had with Fallen Wolf of the Cutting Sea, the Bodhisattva did not look forward to another rebellious Midnight caste; however, since he was stuck with a Midnight shard, he decided to make the most of the situation. To the best of Void's knowledge, her fervor for ending suffering (and life with it) has convinced the Bodhisattva that she won't cause problems... at least with this operation.

During her time on Darkmist Isle, Void has developed an extreme dislike for the Darkmist staple of spidermeat as well as spider-related things in general; she annoys the Bodhisattva's accountants by consistently ordering imported food and charging it to the Deathlord's tab.

All will be equal in Oblivion.
Hate will end.
Suffering will be extinguished.
The chains of eternal rebirth will be broken.
Strive on untiringly for your liberation.

Attributes

Strength  ●●       Charisma     ●●●      Perception   ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●    Manipulation ●●●●●    Intelligence ●●●●●
Stamina   ●●●●     Appearance   ●●●●●    Wits         ●●●

Abilities

Archery            Integrity   ●●●●● Craft               Athletics ●     Bureaucracy ●
Martial Arts       Performance ●●●●● Investigation ●●●●● Awareness ●●●●● Linguistics ●
Melee        ●●●●● Presence    ●●●●● Lore          ●●●●● Dodge           Ride        ●●●●●
Thrown             Resistance  ●●●●● Medicine      ●     Larceny   ●     Sail        ●●●●●
War          ●●●●● Survival    ●     Occult        ●●●●● Stealth         Socialize   ●

Languages: Seatongue (Native: Azure, Coral), Old Realm

Specialties

Melee (Sword +3)
War (Naval +1)
Integrity (HERESY +2)
Performance (Pretty dress +1)
Performance (Dancing +2)
Presence (Persuasion +3)
Investigation (Good cop~♥ +3)
Occult (DARKEST MAGIC +3)
Athletics (Skirt flipping up +1)

Backgrounds

Liege:    ●●
Whispers: ●●●●    What's that Harvey? Kill them all? OKAY!
U.Manse:  ●●●●●
Artifact: ●●      Skin mount amulet
Artifact: ●●●●    Sword for Swording
Artifact: ●●●     Reinforced BP
Artifact: ●●      Thunderbolt shield
Artifact: ●       Collar of clean

Charms

Melee

• 2nd Melee
• Five Shadow Feint (Melee 2 Ess 1 p130): 2m/DV, Supp, Combo-OK, Instant. -1 to target DV per 2m spent.
• Unfurling Iron Lotus (Melee 3 Ess 2 p130): 2m/atk, EA, Combo-OK Obvious Mirror(Peony Blossom Attack), Instant.
• Blade Summoning Gesture (Melee 2 Ess 2 p130): 1m, Refl (2), Obvious Mirror(Call the Blade), Instant.
• Elegant Flowing Deflection (Melee 2 Ess 1 p131): 2m, Refl (2), Combo-OK Mirror(Dipping Swallow Defense), Instant.
• Vengeful Riposte (Melee 4 Ess 1 p131): 3m, Refl (9), Combo-OK Counterattack Mirror (Solar Counterattack), Instant.
• Eye of the Tempest (Melee 5 Ess 2 p131): 5m 1wp, Simple (Spd 6 DV -1), Combo-OK Mirror(Fivefold Bulwark Stance), One scene. Negate onslaught penalty, reduce DV penalty from actions by 1 minimum -0.
• Infinite Melee Mastery (Melee 4 Ess 3 core 185-6): 2m+ 1wp, Simple (Spd 6 DV -1), None, One scene.
• Ravening Mouth of Melee (Melee 4 Ess 3 p123): 3m, Reflexive, Combo-OK, One scene. Regain 1m per health level of damage inflicted using Melee actions.

Integrity

• Undying Stagnation Defense (Integ 1 Ess 1 p139): 5m 1wp, Refl (2), Combo-OK Mirror(Integrity Protecting Prana), One day.

Presence

• 2nd Presence
• Poisoning the Will (Presence 3 Ess 2 p144): 10m 1wp, Simple (Spd 6 DV -1), Combo-OK Compulsion Social Stackable Touch Mirror(Hypnotic Tongue Technique), Abyssal's Charisma in days. Roll (Manip+Presence) against MDV, 1wp/day to resist; 4wp to recognize that this Charm is being used.
• Lurking Malice Insinuation (Presence 5 Ess 3 p144): Permanent. The duration of Poisoning the Will is one month, the cost to resist is 5wp all at once, and the mote cost is the target's Essence (still +1wp).
• Dread Lord's Demeanor (Valor) (Presence 4 Ess 3 p145): 7m, Refl (2), Obvious Social Mirror(Majestic Radiant Presence), One scene. Attackers must succeed at a difficulty 1 Valor roll to attack the user, or spend 3wp to be free to attack for the scene.
• Heart-Stopping Mien (Presence 5 Ess 3 p145): Permanent. If the user spends an extra 1wp when activating Dread Lord's Demeanor, anyone who attacks her suffers a -2 dice internal penalty and the user's Essence in unsoakable lethal damage dice.
• Killing Words Technique (Presence 4 Ess 3 p145): Permanent. If the user spends an extra 1wp when making a social attack or using UMI, the target must pay in lethal health levels instead of willpower to resist.

Resistance

• 2nd Resistance
• Injury-Absorbing Discipline (Resistance 1 Ess 1 p148): 10m, Supp, C-OK Mirror(Body Mending Meditation), until the night ends. Roll (Sta+Res) diff 1, heal 10x faster. Can use while Inactive.
• Spirit-Hardened Frame (Resistance 2 Ess 1 p148): 3m, Refl (7), C-OK Mirror(Durability of Oak Meditation), Instant. Hardness = 8.
• Wounds Mean Nothing (Conviction flaw) (Resistance 5 Ess 3 p148): 4m, Refl (7), C-OK Obvious Mirror(Adamant Skin Technique), Instant. Get blown up, then get back up.

Investigation

• 2nd Investigation
• Deception-Piercing Stare (Investigation 2 Ess 1 p154): 3m, Refl (1), C-OK Mirror(Judge's Ear Technique), One scene. Scenelong lie detector.

Lore

• Essence-Draining Touch (Lore 2 Ess 1 p157): 3m, Simple (Speed 4, DV -1), C-OK Obvious Touch Mirror(Essence-Lending Method), Instant. Transfer (Essence x3) motes from target to me. Conscious targets may freely resist, invalidating the action.

Occult

• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
• Shadowlands Circle Necromancy
• Labyrinth Circle Necromancy
• Void Circle Necromancy

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

• Death of Obsidian Butterflies (Core 252): 1wp 15m. An area 30yds wide 100yds long 10yds high is filled with razor-sharp obsidian butterflies. Roll (Per+Occ) adding (Ess) successes as an attack against everyone in the AoE. Raw damage is 8L plus extra attack successes.
• Demon of the First Circle (Core 252-3): 1wp 20m+. Start casting at sundown, end at midnight. Roll extended opposed (Ess+Will) between sorcerer and demon; demon takes -1 die per extra 5m sorcerer spends. Continue until one side gets 3 more successes than the other. If the sorcerer wins, the demon will serve for 421 days or until one task's completion, then disappear back to Malfeas. If the demon wins, the sorcerer can try to banish it with (Wits+Occ) diff 3; if this fails, the demon is free to eat who it pleases.
• Emerald Countermagic (Core 253): 1wp 10m or 1wp 20m. Cast as reflexive 0-tick action. 10m to secure self against Emerald sorcery until the end of the first action after rejoining battle. 20m to shatter a spell operating or being shaped within (Ess x50) feet.
• Flying Guillotine (Treatises 48): 1wp 10m. Two-foot-long barbed chain flies at 170 yds/tick (340 mph) at one visible target within 500 yds. Roll (Per+Occ) adding (Ess) successes as an attack that cannot be parried without a stunt or Charm. If a surprise attack, difficulty to spot is at +2. Negates cover and shield bonuses, turns corners to chase. Negates penalty to attack commanders and special characters in mass combat. Damage is 18 lethal levels plus extra successes on attack roll.
• Unconquerable Self (Treatises 67): 1wp 1m. User dies.

Shadowlands Circle Necromancy

• Bone Puppet Dance (Treatises 126): 1wp 16m. Caster now commands target skeleton for (Cha+Occ) hours. Living targets suffer their Ess as an internal penalty. A living target may resist for one action by paying one unsoakable lethal level, which reduces the spell's duration by one hour. Skeletons that kill their hosts or are just lying around become permanent walking dead under the caster's control.
• Field of Fell Dreams (Treatises 129): 1wp 16m. Skeletal hands break through the ground or floor to grab anyone within 50 yards of the casting site. Everyone in AoE takes -1 die to Dexterity and 2 yd movement penalty. Anyone who moves suffers a clinch with attack pool of (caster's Ess +5); anyone who falls down is automatically grabbed. The hands can grab immaterial beings.
• Iron Countermagic (Treatises 131): 1wp 10m or 1wp 20m. Cast as reflexive 0-tick action. 10m to secure self against Shadowlands necromancy until the end of the first action after rejoining battle, taking -2 dice to all physical actions until then. 20m to shatter a spell operating or being shaped within (Ess x50) feet.
• Raise the Skeletal Horde (Treatises 132): 1wp 10m plus 1m per zombie. Raises up to (Int+Occ+Ess) zombies within 100 yds. Zombies stay animate for one scene if animated in daylight or until the next dawn. Caster can commit 1wp to maintain 5 zombies.

Labyrinth Circle Necromancy

• Arisen Legion (Treatises 137): 2wp 30m. Raises all zombies within 100 yds, which Join Battle with the caster. Zombies stay animate for one scene if animated in daylight or until the next dawn.
• Onyx Countermagic (Treatises 144): 2wp 15m or 2wp 20m. Cast as reflexive 0-tick action. 15m to secure self against Shadowlands/Labyrinth necromancy and Emerald sorcery until the end of the first action after rejoining battle, taking -2 dice to all physical actions until then. 20m to shatter a spell operating or being shaped within (Ess x50) feet.

Void Circle Necromancy

• Obsidian Countermagic (Treatises 156): 3wp 20m or 3wp 25m. Cast as reflexive 0-tick action. 20m to secure self against any necromancy or Emerald/Sapphire sorcery until the end of the first action after rejoining battle, taking -2 dice to all physical actions until then. 25m to shatter a spell operating or being shaped within (Ess x50) feet.
• Summon Hekatonkhire (Treatises 158-160): 3wp 40m+. Casting requires 6 hours, the sacrifice of a mortal and a ghost. Caster and hekatonkhire enter extended opposed (Ess+Will) roll, hekatonkhire suffers -1 die per 7m extra spent by caster. This continues until one side has 3 more successes than the other. If the caster wins, the hekatonkhire serves for 421 days. If the hekatonkhire wins, lunchtime!

Awareness

• Ominous Portent Method (Awareness 5 Ess 2 p168): Permanent, Avatar(2) Mirror(Surprise Anticipation Method), Instant. Expect the unexpected. Does not function if the abyssal has more Resonance than (10 - Essence).

Linguistics

• Scathing Cynic Attitude (Linguistics 1 Ess 1 p175): 3m, Refl (2), C-OK Social Mirror(Sagacious Reading of Intent), Instant.

Sail

• Deck-Striding Phantom (Sail 2 Ess 1 p180): 3m, Refl (1/2), C-OK Social War Mirror(Salty Dog Method), One scene. Cancel external penalties up to (Essence), including fog, waves, the rolling ship, and enemy DVs.

C-C-C-Combo's

Abjuring the Light: 1wp, 0m+ (all reflexive)

• 2nd Melee
• 2nd Resistance
• Wounds Mean Nothing
• Vengeful Riposte
• Elegant Flowing Deflection

  The wings of Void's anima snap out to their full length, scattering feathers of unlight everywhere, before retracting to a position suited for guarding.

Cleaving Existence: 1wp, 8m+ (4m per attack, 2 to 6 attacks)

• 2nd Melee
• 2nd Resistance
• Wounds Mean Nothing
• Vengeful Riposte
• Unfolding Iron Lotus
• Five Shadow Feint

  One of the wings of Void's anima swings past an enemy, throwing off feathers of unlight as it passes; some of the feathers conceal thrusts of Void's sword.

Gently Caressing the Mind: 2wp, (target's Essence)m+

• 2nd Presence
• Poisoning the Will

  Outside combat there is no obvious display associated with this Combo.

Essence

• Essence: ●●●●●
• Regeneration: 21/hr hearthstones, 25/hr resting outside Creation, 29/hr sleeping outside Creation
• Personal Essence Pool: 25/25
• Peripheral Essence Pool: 43/58
• Essence Engorgement Pool: 0/0
• Skin Mount Amulet Pool: 10/10
• Committed Essence: 15

Willpower

• Willpower: ●●●●● ●●●●●
• Temporary: □□□□□ □□□□□

Virtues

Compassion ●●●●●
Conviction ●●●●●
Temperance ●
Valor      ●●

• Flawed Virtue: Temperance (Any dice pool involving this virtue causes +1 Resonance)
• Resonance: □□□□□ □□□□□

Inventory

• the Needle in Creation's Eye (Artifact 4, custom) A thin 3-foot-long soulsteel sword with three hearthstone slots in the hilt. It was forged using the ghosts of several murderers and serial killers. The blade seems to bend toward living flesh, seeking the blood within. When blood touches it, the sword moans softly.

  Speed 3 Acc +6 Dmg +6L Def +4 Rate 4 MinStr 1 Attune 3, including MM

  The attuned user can cause the sword to disappear into her palm or forearm as a reflexive action (it is actually stored Elsewhere); causing it to emerge point-first is also a reflexive action. The sword does not emerge with any more force than the user could apply normally. (Compare Void Sheath Technique, p129)

  This weapon ignores Hardness. (Compare Shell-Crushing Atemi, Lunars p145)

  In Step 10, if this weapon's player rolls at least one die of damage, one die is exchanged for one automatic level of damage before rolling. (Compare Unstoppable Lunar Wound, Lunars p145)

  Soulsteel weapons destroy (Essence) = 5 of the target's motes if they cause at least one HL damage.

• While Creation Yet Stands (Artifact 2, Oadenol 36). Soulsteel Thunderbolt shield, silver plated, blazoned argent a rose sanguine. Held with the left arm. Adds +3 DV, Attune 5.
• Soulsteel Reinforced Breastplate (Artifact 3, core 391), completely impractical, covers the upper torso (bare midriff and collarbones), groin (under skirt), and lower arms (looks like bracers). No hearthstone slots:

  Soak 12L/11B Hardness 9 Mobility -1 Fatigue 1 Attune 4, including MM.

• Silken Armor (Liege 2, Oadenol 160), 5L/3B soak that doesn't count as armor, Attune 2.
• Choker of Dusk's Cleansing Darkness (Artifact 1, core 380), a simple black choker with 1 hearthstone slot: keeps the wearer clean in all ways and negates social penalties due to being dirty or unkempt; adds two dice to Sta+Res against disease or poison. Attune 1.
• Skin Mount Amulet (Artifact 2, Wonders 72), middle of the back under the armor, counts as hearthstone amulet and gives (hearthstone rating * 2) peripheral mote pool. Attune 0.
• Perfect knives:
  • One in the left arm-portion of the RBP.
  • One on the back side of the shield.
  • One in the back of the RBP with the handle near Void's neck.
  • A sharpened whalebone comb in the top of the right boot.
  • A child's stuffed toy white rabbit that contains a sheathed knife. The rabbit is named Harvey.

  Speed 5 Acc +3 Dmg +3L Def +1 Rate 3 MinStr 1

• An exceptional chopping sword, slightly bloodstained, only dropped once: at Newstone. Carried on the belt.
• A head-sized round glass bowl containing one zombie goldfish. His name is Chomper. He gets cranky when he doesn't get a few bits of brains occasionally.
• Blood-red silk dresses, blouses and mid-thigh-length skirts; black over-the-knee leather boots; onyx and silver jewelry; etc.

Manses and Hearthstones

• Firebird Gem (Fire 5 95-96), a thumbnail-sized ruby glowing with a flickering golden light, in the skin-mount: Spd 5 DV -0 action to transform into a firebird that flies at 300mph; the character must return to natural form at midday and midnight and rest for an hour. Melee weapons and armor function normally in firebird form, weapons taking +2 damage and igniting objects with a touch. The touch of any liquid more substantial than fog or mist instantly returns the character to normal form.
• Jewel of the Rabbit's Sword (Lunar 2 104), yellow-green shapechanger in the sword: 1wp to reroll 1s, only once per pool
• Memorial Iron (Fire 1 93), a polished iron nugget in the sword: regain 1wp once per day by recalling an inspirational memory
• Jewel of Youthful Suppleness (Wood 1 100), a garnet in the sword: +2 all ath, +2 larceny when escaping bonds; dislocate any joints at will
• Crystal of Seawalking (Water 1 96), opalescent blue oval in the choker: walk on any liquid, can cancel temporarily

Followers

• Loras, the Death Sun Page reference: Black treatise p58, pdf 159

  Motivation: Find out what his Motivation is (Currently necromantically bound by Summon Hekatonkhire)

  Essence 6 Willpower 10 Pool 110 Attuned 8; Str 9 Dex 7 Sta 10 Cha 4 Man 7 App 5 Per 6 Int 5 Wit 7

  Athletics 6 Awareness 6 Dodge 6 Integrity 4 Investigation 3 Lore 2 Martial Arts 6 Medicine 2 Melee 6 (The Pit +3) Occult 5 Stealth 6 Survival 2 (Labyrinth +3); others are zero; speaks only Old Realm

  Compassion 1 Conviction 5 Temperance 1 Valor 5; Summoning Limit 0

  Soak 15A/20L/22B (Armor 15A/15L/12B, Stamina 0A/5L/10B) Pierced 7A/12L/16B Hardness 9

  Join Battle 13; DDV 10; PDV 8; DMDV 10; PMDV 5; Move 7; Dash 13; Health 000|111111|222222|4|Incap|Quiescent

• Innate power Eye of the Nightmare, 10m 1wp reflexive, roll (Per+Awa) diff (power's min Ess), on success learns Solar/Abyssal Charm or Arcanos that Loras observed being activated for which he meets the prerequisites.
• Various Charms of the Solar and Abyssal Exalted, including all sorcery and necromancy Charms and several spells.

  All Essence 1-3 Charms for which he meets the prerequisites, 6x Essence 4 (MAFlow CCS LCN Acumen EagleWing DodgeFlow), 4x Essence 5 (VCN PoCB +2), 1x Essence 6 (0+1). 10 spells.

  Charms: 2MA 3MA MAFlow 2Mel 3Mel MelMast RMM PoCB SCW(lots more Mel) 2Integ IPP 2Surv 2Inv JudgeEar IQT(more Investig) 3Lore ELM/EDT 2Med 2Occ 3Occ CCS/VCN AESS(all core Occ but SBCC) 3Ath Acumen EagleWing(all core Ath but MCLT) SAM(all core Awa but Eye) 3Dodge DodgeFlow(all core Dodge) (all aby Stealth)

  Sorcery:

  Necromancy: Abyssal Aegis(3),

• Combos as a spirit: non-spirit Charms are required to be placed in a valid Combo.

  Defense: 2Mel(1) 3Mel(1) 3Ath(1) HGD(4) RST(3) Ready8(5)

  Iron Whirlwind: 2Mel(1) 3Ath(1) IW(5) HGD(4) Ctr(4)

  total value 30/30xp

Punch:   Spd 5  Hit 14  Dam  9B/6  PDV 8  Rate 3
Kick:    Spd 5  Hit 13  Dam 12B/6  PDV 6  Rate 2
Clinch:  Spd 6  Hit 13  Dam  9B/6         Rate 1         Piercing
The Pit: Spd 5  Hit 18  Dam 21L/8  PDV 8  Rate infinite  Piercing Reach Overwhelm/4 2hand held one-handed

Combat

• Join Battle: 8
• Dodge DV: 7 (including +3 from shield and -1 mobility penalty; 5 natural)
• Parry DV: 12 (including +3 from shield)
• Dodge MDV: 10 (11 against HERESY)
• Parry MDV: 7 with Manipulation+Presence+Persuasion
• Soak: 17A/19L/18B (17A/17L/14B armor, 0A/2L/4B stamina)
• Pierced: 8A/10L/11B
• Hardness: 9
• Move: 4 Dash: 10 (Dex 5, -1 mobility penalty)

Attacks

Punch:           Speed 5  Hit 6   Damage 2B    PDV 4   Rate 3
Kick:            Speed 5  Hit 5   Damage 5B    PDV 2   Rate 2
Clinch:          Speed 6  Hit 5   Damage 2B            Rate 1 Piercing
Bite:            Speed 6  Hit 5   Damage 2L            Rate 1 Piercing, Clinched only, maximum 4LHL, regain 1m/lvl
Thrown Knife:    Speed 5  Hit 8   Damage 5L    Rng 15  Rate 3
Perfect Knife:   Speed 5  Hit 13  Damage 5L    PDV 6   Rate 3
Chopping Sword:  Speed 4  Hit 15  Damage 7L/6  PDV 7   Rate 3
the Needle:      Speed 3  Hit 19  Damage 8L    PDV 9   Rate 4

Health

□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated
□ Dying
□ Dying
□ Dying
□ Dying

Advancement

• (15bp 58xp start)
• 8bp: Specialties
• 3bp: Compassion 5
• 2bp 4xp: Combo Abjuring the Light (54/58)
• 2bp 7xp: Combo Cleaving Existence (47/58)
• 32xp: Essence 5 (15/50)
• 4xp: Strength 2 (11/58)
• 4xp: Wits 2 (7/58)
• 8xp: Wits 3 (-1/58)
• 3xp: U.Manse 5 (-4/58)
• (6xp get -- Session 2, now 2/64)
• 3xp: Valor 2 (instant, now -1/64)
• (9xp get -- Session 3, now 8/73)
• (13xp get -- Session 4, now 21/86)
• 8xp: Ravening Mouth of Melee (13/86)
• 8xp: Essence-Draining Touch (5/86)
• 4xp: Combo "Gently Caressing the Mind" of Poisoning the Will and 2nd Presence (1/86)
• (6xp get -- Session 5, now 7/92)

Shopping List

• 8xp: Strength 3 (2 days)
• 16xp: Stamina 5 (4 days)
• 12xp: Charisma 4 (3 days)
• 16xp: Charisma 5 (4 days)
• 12xp: Wits 4 (3 days)
• 16xp: Wits 5 (4 days)
• 3xp: Temperance 2 (instant)

• 3xp: Martial Arts 1 (3 hours)
• 2xp: Martial Arts 2 (1 hour)
• 4xp: Martial Arts 3 (2 hour)
• 6xp: Martial Arts 4 (3 hour)
• 8xp: Martial Arts 5 (4 hour)
• 3xp: Martial Arts (Bare Hands +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Martial Arts (Bare Hands +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Martial Arts (Bare Hands +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: War (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Resistance (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 1xp: Survival 2 (instant)
• 3xp: Survival 3 (instant)
• 5xp: Survival 4 (instant)
• 7xp: Survival 5 (instant)
• 3xp: Lore (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Awareness (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 1xp: Athletics 2 (instant)
• 3xp: Athletics 3 (instant)
• 5xp: Athletics 4 (instant)
• 7xp: Athletics 5 (instant)
• 3xp: Athletics (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Athletics (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Dodge 1 (3 hours)
• 2xp: Dodge 2 (1 hours)
• 4xp: Dodge 3 (2 hours)
• 6xp: Dodge 4 (3 hours)
• 3xp: Dodge (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Dodge (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Dodge (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 2xp: Larceny 2 (1 hour)
• 4xp: Larceny 3 (2 hours)
• 3xp: Larceny (Disguise +1) (1 hour)
• 2xp: Linguistics 2 (1 hour)
• 4xp: Linguistics 3 (2 hours)
• 6xp: Linguistics 4 (3 hours)
• 8xp: Linguistics 5 (4 hours)
• 3xp: Ride (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 3xp: Sail (??? +1) (1 hour)
• 2xp: Socialize 2 (1 hour)
• 4xp: Socialize 3 (2 hours)
• 6xp: Socialize 4 (3 hours)
• 8xp: Socialize 5 (4 hours)
• 3xp: Socialize (Concealing the truth +1) (1 hour)

roughly prioritized

• 8xp: 3rd Lore (1 hour)
• 8xp: Essence Engorgement Technique (5 hours, 3Lore)

• 8xp: Death Deflecting Technique (Valor flaw) (4 hours)
• 5xp: Add DDT to Combo Abjuring (1 hour)
• 8xp: Fluttering Moth Defense (5 hours, can refill during combat but counts as charm use, so use combo)

• 8xp: Resistance Flow

• 8xp: Time-Scything Technique (5 hours)
• 15xp: Combo TST 2Mel WMN VR
• 8xp: Thousand Wounds Feinting (5 hours)

• 8xp: 2nd Integrity (1 hour)
• 8xp: Faithful Killer's Reprieve (2Integ, 4 hours)
• 8xp: Terrors Yet to Come (FKR, 5 hours)
• 6xp: Add TYtC to Combo Abjuring

• 8xp: Thieving Raiton Claws (3 hours)
• 8xp: Ebon Lightning Prana (TRC, 5 hours)
• 8xp: Savage Shade Style (2 hours)
• 13xp: Combo 2Mel ELP SSS WMN

• 8xp: Artful Maiming Onslaught (SSS, 3 hours)
• 8xp: Soul-Cleaving Wound (AMO, 5 hours)

• 8xp: Integrity Essence Flow (5 hours, 2integ)
• 8xp: Unconquered Hero's Faith (5 hours, integ flow)

• 8xp: Melee Essence Flow (5 hours)
• 8xp: Ultimate Mastery of Melee(Sword) (5 hours, melee flow)

• 8xp: Celestial Circle Sorcery

• 8xp: War exc (1 hour)
• 8xp: Glorious Carnage Typhoon (3 hours)

• 15xp: Combo of Tempest RMM WMN 2Melee

• 16xp: Unassailable Aegis of Dual Armament (5 days, melee flow, UHF)

• 8xp: Armor-Calling Kata
• 8xp: Ghost Armor Prana

• 8xp: Spirit-Sensing Meditation
• 8xp: Through Dead Eyes (SSM, AESS-mirror)
• 8xp: Corpus-Rending Blow (SSM)
• 8xp: God-Slaying Torment (CRB)
• 8xp: Oblivion Triumphant (GST)

• 10xp: 3rd Awareness (2 hours)
• 10xp: Awareness Flow (3Awa, 9 hours)
• 10xp: Superior (Sense) Focus (3Awa, 5 hours)

• 8xp: Ox-Body Technique (1 hour)
• 8xp: Cadaverous Torpor Technique (1 hour)

• 8xp: Flitting Shadow Form (dodge 3)
• 8xp: Foe-Shaming Defense (dodge 3, FSF)
• 8xp: 2nd MA (MA 1, 2 hours)
• 8xp: MA flow (MA 5, exc, 9 hours)

• Morale-Shattering Method
• Arise and Slaughter
• Hardened Killer Training Style
• Soul-Numbing Prowess

• Heart of Darkness, 140
• Lesser Horrors Scorned, 141
• (Solar) Phoenix Renewal Tactic (Compassion)

• 2nd Performance
• Performance Essence Flow
• Morbid Fascination Style
• Inescapable Massacre Technique
• Haunting Apparition Trick
• Withering Phantasmagoria
• Soul-Desiccating Style
• Irresistible Succubus Style

• Ultimate Mastery of Presence(Persuasion)
• Heartless Fiend Insinuation

• ECSJ mirror, works on negative intimacies, okay'd
• Wound-Denying Mockery Stance, mirror of Wound-Mending Purity Stance, okay'd

• Will-Feasting Onslaught
• Virtue-Devouring Hunger
• Breath-Draining Prana

• 3rd Athletics? 2nd? 1st?
• Raiton's Nimble Perch
• Crouching Gargoyle Stance
• Mist Over Ice
• On Wings of Night
• Falling Scythe Attack 167 ath 3 ess 2

• Mystique-Spoiling Guess 175 ling 5 ess 2
• Screaming in Silence 176 ling 3 ess 2
• Voiceless Horror Mastery 177 ling 4 ess 3

• 2nd Socialize? 3rd?
• Exquisite Etiquette Style 182 soc 2 ess 1
• Honey-Tongued Serpent Attack 182 soc 5 ess 3
• Imprecation of Ill Manners 182 soc 3 ess 2
• Bitter Sweetness of Betrayal 182 soc 4 ess 3

• 8xp: Thunder Wolf's Howl 10m 1wp
• 8xp: Flight of the Brilliant Raptor 10m 1wp
• 8xp: Conjuring the Azure Chariot
• 8xp: Flight of Separation
• 8xp: Summon Elemental
• 8xp: Private Plaza of Downcast Eyes

• 8xp: Threefold Binding of the Heart
• 8xp: Demon of the Second Circle
• 8xp: Sapphire Circle Banishment
• 8xp: Travel Without Distance
• 8xp: The Faithful Ally
• 8xp: Swift Spirit of Winged Transportation
• 8xp: Summon the Heavenly Portal
• 8xp: Imbue Amalgam
• 8xp: Shadow Theft

• 8xp: Shattering Void Mirror

• 8xp: Reaping the Fallen 25m 2wp scene, 1m per death within a league=3 miles (2 hours)
• 8xp: Shield of Shattering Bones 18m 2wp sunrise (2 hours)
• 8xp: Stealing the Gathered Breath 15m 2wp instant: 1L damage to all within Essx5 yds, 1m/HL inflicted (2 hours)

• 8xp: Blood from the Slaughter 35m 3wp scene: 1HL per death within a league=3 miles (3 hours)
• 8xp: Abyssal Aegis 20m 3wp sunrise: +Ess to soak, immune to anti-CoD stuff (3 hours)
• 8xp: Forsaken Life Engine 50m+ 3wp
• 8xp: Grandmother Void 40m+ 3wp 1lhl: spectres everywhere
• 8xp: Lord of the Dead 25m 3wp 1 day: command any dead with ess < mine
• 8xp: Mouth of the Void 50m 3wp: 30A levels to all living in 40yds radius
• 8xp: Void Cocoon Warrior ?m 3wp, must stat
• 8xp: Incomparable Destruction Engine (takes craft/med and forever to use bleh)

Custom charms

• Terrors Yet to Come
• Cost: 5m; Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Avatar (1), Combo-OK, Mirror (Lion's Roar Recovery; DotFA p58)
• Duration: Instant
• Prerequisite Charms: Faithful Killer's Reprieve

Though ultimately an Abyssal is utterly doomed, Creation still exists and a weak-willed servant is of little use to the Neverborn. The deathknight taps into her Whispers, and the Neverborn show her a horrible vision of what work she must yet accomplish.. and what will happen to her if she fails. Though disturbing, this does provide the deathknight with a certain amount of incentive.

• I Do What My Friends Do Methodology
• Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 3; Type: Simple (Speed 6, DV -1)
• Keywords: Combo-OK, Compulsion, Mirror (Glorious Unity of Purpose; follows)
• Duration: One scene
• Prerequisite Charms: Morbid Fascination Style

If an Abyssal jumped off a bridge, so would you.

When activating this Charm, the Abyssal decides on a purpose such as "tear down this temple to the Unconquered Sun" and begins working toward it. The Abyssal's player then rolls (Manipulation + Performance) once, applied against the MDV of anyone who can perceive the Abyssal working. If the roll exceeds a target's MDV, that target must spend 2 Willpower or work toward the same purpose as the Abyssal. The targets are not required to emulate the Abyssal's actions identically.

This Charm's effects last until the scene ends or the Abyssal stops working toward the original purpose, whichever comes first.

The MDVs of affected Fair Folk are cut in half (round down) when applied against this Charm.

New Solar Charm: Glorious Unity of Purpose (Prerequisites: Respect Commanding Attitude). This Charm functions identically to its mirror, though it is usually used toward different ends.

• Wrath of the Undying
• Cost: 2m; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental
• Keywords: Avatar (1), Combo-OK, Cross-Ability, Obvious, Social, Mirror (Enemy-Castigating Solar Judgment; core p205)
• Duration: Instant
• Prerequisite Charms: Any Presence Excellency

By drawing on the endless hate of the Neverborn, a deathknight can channel her own hatred to cause grievous harm.

This Charm can enhance a physical attack. This Charm causes the attack to inflict aggravated damage against targets of the user's negative Intimacies.

This Charm can also enhance social attacks that create fear, disgust, or loathing, or where the Abyssal uses a stunt to draw on these emotions. Targets of the Abyssal's negative intimacies treat the attack as unnatural mental influence that costs one Willpower to resist. This Charm also halves the creature's base MDVs against the attack.

This Charm is specifically permitted to enhance actions based on other Abilities.

• Glancing into the Abyss
• Cost: 5m; Mins: Presence 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Avatar (3), Combo-OK, Compulsion, Obvious, Mirror (Mind-Blanking Rebuke; DotFA p59)
• Duration: Instant
• Prerequisite Charms: Dread Lord's Demeanor

By exposing one target to the true horrors of the Neverborn, an Abyssal can provide sufficient distraction to cause that target to abort one action which the Abyssal can perceive.

• Scratching Words on the Walls of the Mind
• Cost: --; Mins: Presence 5, Essence 5; Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Avatar (3), Mirror (Searing After-Image Passion, DotFA p59)
• Duration: Permanent
• Prerequisite Charms: Wrath of the Undying, Presence Essence Flow

The Neverborn have had eons to perfect their understanding of hate. Deathknights draw on this to augment their mind-destroying abilities.

The Abyssal chooses a negative emotion such as hate, a negative Intimacy, or her Motivation (which must involve causing harm or otherwise furthering the cause of Oblivion). When making social attacks that inflame the negative emotions, contribute to the destruction of the Intimacy, or further her Motivation, targets must spend an additional two Willpower to resist.

The Abyssal can augment only one passion at a time, and must spend 1xp to switch this Charm to a different one.

• Wound-Denying Mockery Stance
• Cost: 12m, 1wp; Mins: Resistance 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Mirror (Wound-Mending Purity Stance; DotFA p60)
• Duration: One scene
• Prerequisite Charms: Any Resistance Excellency, Injury-Absorbing Discipline

Wounds that would fell lesser beings mean nothing to deathknights who have already died once.

The Abyssal's death-infused flesh heals one lethal and (Resistance) bashing levels per action.

This Charm won't function if one or more of the Abyssal's Dying levels are filled or during any action in which the Abyssal goes against her Motivation or any negative Intimacies, such as by sparing a hated enemy.

• ???
• Cost: ???; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 3+; Type: ???
• Keywords: ???
• Duration: ???
• Prerequisite Charms: Breath-Draining Prana