Editing Campaign:SidCOPS/RavenousOrchid (section)

== Basics ==
*'''Campaign:''' [[Campaign:SidCOPS | SidCOPS]]
*'''Name:''' Ravenous Orchid
*'''Concept:''' Arbitrator and justicar
*'''Caste:''' Endings
*'''Motivation:''' Defeat a Deathlord
*'''Positive intimacies:''' Status quo, Five Score Fellowship (Camaraderie)
*'''Negative intimacies:''' Human suffering
*'''Anima:''' An elaborate mandala of Celtic knots, at the edge of your vision there seem to be clear breaks in the ethereal rope.
*'''Experience:''' 0/10

=== Background ===
Orchid was born in the slums of Chiaroscuro, roughly twenty years ago. His parents were slain by hungry dead when he was a child and he became yet another orphan on the streets of the city. Orchid spent the next few years living from day to day, picking pockets and stealing when he could and going hungry when he couldn't. As he grew up, he came to regard his fellow scum more highly and went about trying to improve their lot in life by arranging soup kitchens and night watches in the slums for the restless dead. Of course, all this was funded by incessant thievery, which did not endear him or his efforts to the lawful authorities of Chiaroscuro. His decade long crime spree earned him the nickname ''Ravenous Orchid.''<br/>
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One night, while out on a night watch shift with some other urchins, they came under attack from a group of war ghosts intent on disrupting Fate by killing Orchid before his exaltation. They would have succeeded too if Orchid's men hadn't spent their lives carefully holding back the undead. Orchid exalted with Saturn burning bright in the night sky. He fought valiantly but eventually succumbed to seemingly endless ghosts. His last memory was of a flash of red as an arrow split the night sky.<br/>
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Xu Zheng, a Sidereal, had been assigned to convince Orchid to come to Yu Shan and found his task incredibly easy. Orchid was bedridden by his wounds for several weeks, during which Xu Zheng and various visiting deities gave him bits and pieces of information about the Heavenly City and truth of things. It wasn't until he was able to walk again and see Yu Shan that Orchid began to accept what had happened. He was both unhappy at having to leave his home, and happy that he would finally be able to make a real impact in the world as one of the Chosen of the Maidens.

=== Appearance ===
Ravenous Orchid is a short, wiry young man of clear Southern descent. Stemming from his rather malnourished childhood, he stands at a meager 5'6". His coarse black hair, once shaved, has made a slight return, adding to his roguish demeanor. His eyes are purple, an odd colour considering his deep brown skin colour. His body is lean from a decade of near-starvation and another of break-neck and downright savage training. He always bears a smile and is as easily noticed by others as he is forgotten by them thanks to the devices of the Arcane Fate. When in Yu Shan, Orchid wears the clothes of his homeland, though made with the finest spider-silk interwoven with threads of gold and silver and adamant. In Creation he wears whatever is appropriate to his guise, having been many people over many years.