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KESSA
Name: Kessa Nature: Caregiver Caste: Night Concept: Worker
Attributes Â
Strength 3 Â Intelligence 3 Â Appearance 3
Dexterity 4 Â Perception 3 Â Manipulation 3
Stamina 4 Â Wits 3 Â Charisma 3
Caste Abilities: Athletics 3, Awareness 2, Dodge 5, Larceny 3, Stealth 4
Favoured Abilities: Endurance 3, Martial Arts 3, Resistance 3, Ride 5, Survival 5 Â
Abilities: Lore 1, Occult 1, Presence 2, Performance 2, Bureaucracy 1, Socialise 2, Medicine 1, Linguistics 2 (Low Realm, Riverspeak: Native, Forest-tongue), Melee 2, Thrown 2
Virtues: Compassion 3 Conviction 2 Temperance 2 Valour 2
Flaws: Heart of Tears
Willpower: 5 Â Initiative: 7 Â Essence: 3
Personal: 15 Â Peripheral: 42 Health Levels: -0/-1x3/-2x3/-4/Incap.
Backgrounds: Allies 2 (Rowan), Artifact 1 (Luck Charm), Contacts 2 (Marukani), Resources 2 Â
Caste Charms: Graceful Crane Stance, Monkey Leap Technique, Sensory Acuity Prana, Reed in the Wind, Shadow Over Water, Seven Shadow Evasion, Reflex Sidestep Technique, Flow Like Blood, Seasoned Criminal Method, Flawless Pickpocketing Technique, Easily Overlooked Presence, Invisible Statue Spirit, Blurred Form Style
Favoured Charms: Ox-Body Technique, Crimson Leaping Cat Technique, Striking Fury Claws Attack, Durability of Oak Meditation, Iron Skin Concentration, Master Horseman’s Eye, Horse-Summoning Whistle, Phantom Steed, Friendship with Animals Approach, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit, Trackless Region Navigation Charm, Food-Gathering Exercise, Tireless Traveller's Stamina
Charms: Excellent Strike, Golden Essence Block, Body-Mending Meditation, Wise Arrow, Precision of the Striking Raptor
Merits/Flaws: Amnesia -1 (Fall of Thorns), Sterile – 1, Lucky +1, Common Sense +1 Â
History: Â
Born in the city of Thorns and descended from a Marukani grandmother, the first sixteen years of Kessa’s life were spent tending the horses at the stables of the cheap inn where she and her large family lived and work, supplementing her meagre income by pilfering small objects and picking pockets in the marketplace and dodging the blows of her father when he was drunk. On the day that Thorns fell, she was outside of the city with two of her sisters working temporarily for a horse-trainer; mounted on the old nags that were their payment, the girls turned and tried to flee. They were caught by zombies and war ghosts that consumed the lives of Kessa’s sisters before she suddenly Exalted, flowing away from their attacks. But that wasn’t enough to save her from joining her sisters in death; it took a Solar of the Zenith Caste named Rowan to frighten away the undead with his anima and burn the corpses of the other girls to save them from being created as zombies. He physically dragged her onto his packhorse and galloped away as fast as he could into the coming dawn.
Eventually, the duo reached Nexus, where Rowan attempted to use his abilities as a healer to bring the shocked young Night Caste back into the world. When she had regained a bit of balance, he booked them passage in a Guild caravan that was travelling to Great Forks, Sijan, Rubylak and Chanta and back again. During that long trip, Kessa eventually returned to herself and became a hardened traveller with extraordinary skills in handling beasts of all kinds and living off the land, fluent in two languages besides her native Riverspeak and able to hold her own with melee or ranged weapons against most common opponents. She had gained the basics of metal-smithing, making things like horse-shoes, and had learnt much about working a crowd for profit by entertainment and business. By the time they returned to Nexus, her grief had subsided, though it still cast a shadow over her life.
Personality
Kessa is a quiet woman with the shadow of grief and sorrow making her sombre and reticent even when she smiles. She is very compassionate and basically decent, though she has no problems with helping herself to the goods of the rich and careless. Despite her honest labour, she keeps her hand in with obnoxious and wealthy customers, and is a capable covert operator who is not afraid to fight when necessary.
Appearance
Kessa is a slim woman of medium height with chin-length straight blonde hair that lacks body, sun-browned skin and large brown eyes that are sad beyond her youthful years. She wears plain, serviceable clothing that is both well-worn and well-mended, usually consisting of a loose linen or cotton shirt, snug leather vest that doubles as a bodice, a split-skirt made from heavy canvas or wool or snug leather leggings, and knee-high laced leather boots; an ankle-length canvas waterproof jacket and woollen pullover cap in the Western style or an oiled canvas poncho is added during winter. Her anima, when fully realised, is a rearing horse.
NB: Kessa was made for a high-powered game.
KESSA
Name: Kessa Nature: Caregiver Caste: Night Concept: Worker
Attributes Â
Strength 3 Â Intelligence 3 Â Appearance 3
Dexterity 4 Â Perception 3 Â Manipulation 3
Stamina 4 Â Wits 3 Â Charisma 3
Caste Abilities: Athletics 3, Awareness 2, Dodge 5, Larceny 3, Stealth 4
Favoured Abilities: Endurance 3, Martial Arts 3, Resistance 3, Ride 5, Survival 5 Â
Abilities: Lore 1, Occult 1, Presence 2, Performance 2, Bureaucracy 1, Socialise 2, Medicine 1, Linguistics 2 (Low Realm, Riverspeak: Native, Forest-tongue), Melee 2, Thrown 2
Virtues: Compassion 3 Conviction 2 Temperance 2 Valour 2
Flaws: Heart of Tears
Willpower: 5 Â Initiative: 7 Â Essence: 3
Personal: 15 Â Peripheral: 42 Health Levels: -0/-1x3/-2x3/-4/Incap.
Backgrounds: Allies 2 (Rowan), Artifact 1 (Luck Charm), Contacts 2 (Marukani), Resources 2 Â
Caste Charms: Graceful Crane Stance, Monkey Leap Technique, Sensory Acuity Prana, Reed in the Wind, Shadow Over Water, Seven Shadow Evasion, Reflex Sidestep Technique, Flow Like Blood, Seasoned Criminal Method, Flawless Pickpocketing Technique, Easily Overlooked Presence, Invisible Statue Spirit, Blurred Form Style
Favoured Charms: Ox-Body Technique, Crimson Leaping Cat Technique, Striking Fury Claws Attack, Durability of Oak Meditation, Iron Skin Concentration, Master Horseman’s Eye, Horse-Summoning Whistle, Phantom Steed, Friendship with Animals Approach, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit, Trackless Region Navigation Charm, Food-Gathering Exercise, Tireless Traveller's Stamina
Charms: Excellent Strike, Golden Essence Block, Body-Mending Meditation, Wise Arrow, Precision of the Striking Raptor
Merits/Flaws: Amnesia -1 (Fall of Thorns), Sterile – 1, Lucky +1, Common Sense +1 Â
History: Â
Born in the city of Thorns and descended from a Marukani grandmother, the first sixteen years of Kessa’s life were spent tending the horses at the stables of the cheap inn where she and her large family lived and work, supplementing her meagre income by pilfering small objects and picking pockets in the marketplace and dodging the blows of her father when he was drunk. On the day that Thorns fell, she was outside of the city with two of her sisters working temporarily for a horse-trainer; mounted on the old nags that were their payment, the girls turned and tried to flee. They were caught by zombies and war ghosts that consumed the lives of Kessa’s sisters before she suddenly Exalted, flowing away from their attacks. But that wasn’t enough to save her from joining her sisters in death; it took a Solar of the Zenith Caste named Rowan to frighten away the undead with his anima and burn the corpses of the other girls to save them from being created as zombies. He physically dragged her onto his packhorse and galloped away as fast as he could into the coming dawn.
Eventually, the duo reached Nexus, where Rowan attempted to use his abilities as a healer to bring the shocked young Night Caste back into the world. When she had regained a bit of balance, he booked them passage in a Guild caravan that was travelling to Great Forks, Sijan, Rubylak and Chanta and back again. During that long trip, Kessa eventually returned to herself and became a hardened traveller with extraordinary skills in handling beasts of all kinds and living off the land, fluent in two languages besides her native Riverspeak and able to hold her own with melee or ranged weapons against most common opponents. She had gained the basics of metal-smithing, making things like horse-shoes, and had learnt much about working a crowd for profit by entertainment and business. By the time they returned to Nexus, her grief had subsided, though it still cast a shadow over her life.
Personality
Kessa is a quiet woman with the shadow of grief and sorrow making her sombre and reticent even when she smiles. She is very compassionate and basically decent, though she has no problems with helping herself to the goods of the rich and careless. Despite her honest labour, she keeps her hand in with obnoxious and wealthy customers, and is a capable covert operator who is not afraid to fight when necessary.
Appearance
Kessa is a slim woman of medium height with chin-length straight blonde hair that lacks body, sun-browned skin and large brown eyes that are sad beyond her youthful years. She wears plain, serviceable clothing that is both well-worn and well-mended, usually consisting of a loose linen or cotton shirt, snug leather vest that doubles as a bodice, a split-skirt made from heavy canvas or wool or snug leather leggings, and knee-high laced leather boots; an ankle-length canvas waterproof jacket and woollen pullover cap in the Western style or an oiled canvas poncho is added during winter. Her anima, when fully realised, is a rearing horse.
NB: Kessa was made for a high-powered game.
