Campaign:Acts of Villainy/Anja
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Basics
- Campaign: Acts of Villainy
- Name: Anja of the Clock Tower
- Concept: BIG VIRTUES, BIGGER SWORD
- Caste/Aspect: Defiler
- Motivation: Bring back the lost glory of the First Age.
- Urge: Beat the Celestial Bureaucracy into submission, wrestle back control of the Loom of Fate, and kill every single Sidereal.
- Positive intimacies: She Who Lives in Her Name (Adoration)
- Negative intimacies:
- Anima: Giant clock gears spinning against each other in perfect harmony.
- Experience: 0/200
Background
If she remembered, Anja would know that she spent her childhood on the Blessed Isle, the rigors of being a prospective member of the Dragon-Blooded Host shaping her into a knowledgeable, intellectual girl who read entire books about things their parents hadn't ever heard of, yet with enough sensitivity to enjoy and create art. She'd also remember a fateful day, when her parents were accussed of a crime she didn't think they committed, how they were sentenced to death. She'd remember being spared of that fate but thrown to the streets, orphan, alone and rejected, with no chance to survive at all.
But there's no point in remembering, Anja knows that. She was gifted with a particularly powerful and experienced shard, and her mortal mind wasn't able to hold together during the experience. Anja understood now, with unnatural stoicism, that Creation was a failed experiment of her patrons, and that in due time she'd be able to do something about it.
Yet when she first entered Malfeas she understood she had been there before. In fact, it looked like she even had some property there. She entered the giant clock tower she knew was hers and started training the strength she knew she once had. She didn't leave the Demon City in years, honing body and mind to the limit, digging up forbidden knowledge, rediscovering her First Age martial skills, and even sparring against Ligier's creations a few times to help the Demon Prince test the limits of his brilliance. Anja's inhuman ability to endure this deadly routine greatly pleased her patron Yozi, She Who Lives in Her Name, who commissioned a fine sword make of a Second Circle demon for her. And, while her awkwardly outgoing First Age personality sometimes got her in weird situations, her refined singing and dancing gave her some recognition among part of the demon population.
Appearance
(what other people see when they look at your character.)
Attributes
Strength ●●●●● Charisma ●●●●● Perception ●● Dexterity ●●●●● Manipulation ● Intelligence ●●●●● Stamina ●●●● Appearance ●● Wits ●●●●●
Abilities
Archery X Integrity ●● Craft X Athletics X Bureaucracy X Martial Arts ●●●●● Performance ●●●●● Investigation X Awareness ● Linguistics ●● Melee X Presence ●●● Lore ●●●●● Dodge ●●●●● Ride X Thrown X Resistance ●●● Medicine X Larceny X Sail X War X Survival X Occult ●●●●● Stealth X Socialize X
Languages: High Realm (native), Old Realm, Riverspeak
Specialties
Backgrounds
- Backing (She Who Lives in Her Name) ●
- Influence (She Who Lives in Her Name) ●
- Cult ●
- Past Life ●●●
- Artifact ●●● (Perfect Freeze)
- Artifact ●●● (Prosthetics of Clockwork Elegance, Skin-mount Amulet)
- Artifact ●●● (Infinite Resplendence Amulet, Skin-mount Amulet)
- Artifact ●● (Perfect Kata Bracers)
- Artifact ●● (Wings of the Raptor)
- Manse ●●●●● (The Clock Tower)
- Manse ●●●●
Charms
(Malfeas)
- Hardened Devil Body (x3)
- By Pain Reforged
(She Who Lives in Her Name)
- First Pyrian Excellency (x4)
- Realization of Pyrian Potency
- Sorcerous Enlightenment of She Who Lives in Her Name
- Factual Determination Analysis
- Cosmic Transcendence of Temperance
- Essence-Dissecting Stare
- Counter-Conceptual Interposition
(Martial Arts - Violet Bier of Sorrows Style)
- Secrets of Future Strife
- Flight of Mercury
- Blade of the Battle Maiden
- Joy in Adversity Stance
- Violet Bier of Sorrows Form
- Death-Parrying Stroke
- Life-Severing Blow
- Metal Storm
- Conclusion-Pursuing Approach
Combos
Essence
Essence: ●●●●
Regeneration: 19/hour (+4 when relaxed, +8 when sleeping)
Personal Essence Pool: 22/22
Peripheral Essence Pool: 41/41 (51 Base +20 Realization of Pyrian Potency +18 Skin-mount Amulet -48 Committed)
Committed Essence: 48 (+10 Perfect Freeze +8 Perfect Kata Bracers +8 Green Iron Heart +1 Wings of the Raptor +5 Infinite Resplendence Amulet +11 Prosthetics of Clockwork Elegance +5 Principle of Motion)
Willpower
Willpower: ●●●●● ●●●●●
Temporary: 10/10
Virtues
Virtues:
- Compassion ●
- Conviction ●●●●●
- Temperance ●●●●●
- Valor ●●
Torment: □□□□□ □□□□□
Inventory
- Jade Perfected Kata Bracers (Artifact ●●●●): Adds Essence to Accuracy, Damage, Defense and Soak and +2 to Rate when using a Form charm.
- Infinite Resplendence Amulet (Composite) (Artifact ●●●●●):
- Orichalcum Wings of the Raptor (Artifact ●●●●):
- Skin-mount Amulet x2 (Artifact ● each): hearthstone sockets that add extra peripheral Essence.
- Prosthetics of Clockwork Elegance (Artifact ●●●●●): +10 Strength to actions using the right hand. These dice count against the dice limit for Excellencies.
- Perfect Freeze (Artifact ●●●● Sapience ●●● Warstrider Grand Daiklaive): Anja's huge sword, forged by Ligier as comissioned by her Yozi patron. A warstrider weapon, made of a second circle soul who embodied the frozen immutability of perfection, magically reforged until shrunk to a mere 10 foot long sword (though still as heavy as any strider weapon).
- Urge: Freeze everything it considers "perfect".
- Charms:
- Hurry Home:
- Affinity Water Control:
- Landscape Travel:
- Loom Stride:
- Meat of Broken Flesh:
- Spirit-Cutting:
Name Speed Accuracy Damage Defense Rate Strength Tags Perfect Freeze 5 2 +30L/8 +0 3 14 2,O,P,R
Manses and Hearthstones
Anja has a hearthstone amulet in each of her ankles, socketed with a Blood-stained Wind Gemstone and an All-Encompassing Cadence Crystal.
- The Clock Tower: A tall clock tower, this building is one of the highest points in Malfeas. Apart from having a giant, fully functional clock inside and a suitable residence for the Occult-inclined, it's programmed to broadcast a song at midnight once a week, letting demons get a slight sense of the flow of time outside. Anja's First Age incarnation made the manse to suit her needs, and used to sing herself at the indicated times. She took enormous pride of being one of the few beings allowed to own a clock in Malfeas, and Anja is well aware of the privilege having the device is.
Merits, Mutations and Flaws
- Amnesia: Anja doesn't remember her life before her exaltation. The ones who conspired against her family think she has been dead for years, but they might take steps against her if they realize she's still alive and well.
- Throwback: The overwhelming force of personality of Anja's First Age incarnation wasn't pruned from her shard, and she has some trouble controlling it. Anja must check for control whenever she meets, observes or interacts with any of her past life's intimacies, which include singing and dancing, among others. Anja's particularly prone to dancing around Malfeas whenever she meets him.
- Slow Healing: Anja's body is very resistant to change. So, while injuring her isn't easy, she also takes twice as usual to heal her wounds.
- Large: Anja is a tall girl, around 6 feet in height. She gains one dot of Strength and Stamina and a -0 health level.
- Tough: Anja adds two dots to Strength and one dot to Stamina, and she gains one -1 and two -2 health levels. She may soak lethal damage with her entire Stamina.
- Brutal Attack: Anja's combat style relies on overwhelming her opponent with superior power. She can add her Strength instead of her Dexterity to her Melee or Martial Arts rolls and when using her Violet Bier of Sorrows charms.
Combat
Join Battle: 6 (5 Wits + 1 Awareness), double successes
Dodge DV: 7 (5 Dex + 5 Dodge + 4 Essence)/2, round up; DV 10 when flying (+3 Wings of the Raptor)
Dodge MDV: 8 (10 Willpower + 3 Integrity + 4 Essence)/2, round down
Soak: 9B/9L/0A (4 Stamina + 5 Infinite Resplendence Amulet)
Pierced: 9B/9L/0A (4 Stamina + 5 Infinite Resplendence Amulet)
Hardness: 0B/0L/0A
In Violet Bier of Sorrows Form:
- Soak: 13B/13L/0A (4 Stamina + 5 Infinite Resplendence Amulet +4 Perfected Kata Bracers)
- Pierced: 13B/13L/0A (4 Stamina + 5 Infinite Resplendence Amulet +4 Perfected Kata Bracers)
Attacks
Name Speed Accuracy Damage Parry DV Rate Tags Perfect Freeze 6 25 +45L/8 5 3 2, O, P, R Clinch 6 24 +5B - 1 C, N, P Punch (Right Hand) 5 24 +15B 6 3 N Punch (Left Hand) 5 14 +5B 6 3 N Kick 5 13 +8B 4 2 N
(In Violet Bier of Sorrows Form)
Name Speed Accuracy Damage Parry DV Rate Tags Perfect Freeze 6 29 +49L/10 7 5 2, O, P, R Clinch 6 28 +0B/6 - 3 C, N, P Punch (Right Hand) 5 28 +19B/6 8 5 N Punch (Left Hand) 5 18 +9B/6 8 5 N Kick 5 17 +12B/6 6 4 N
Health
□□ -0 (+1 Large)
□□□ -1 (+1 Tough)
□□□□□ □□□□□ □□□ -2 (+2 Tough, +9 Devil-Hardened Body)
□□□□ -4 (+3 Devil-Hardened Body)
□ Incapacitated
□□□□ Dying (Stamina 4)
Advancement
Bonus Points
- Brutal Attack (Merit) (4 BP)
- Amnesia (Flaw) (+3 BP)
- Throwback (Flaw) (+5 BP)
- Conviction ●●●● to ●●●●● (3 BP)
- Temperance ●●● to ●●●●● (6 BP)
- Performance ●●● to ●●●●● (2 BP)
- Martial Arts ●●● to ●●●●● (2 BP)
- Dodge ●●● to ●●●●● (2 BP)
- Lore ●●● to ●●●●● (2 BP)
- Occult ●●● to ●●●●● (2 BP)
- Slow Healing (Debility) (+2 BP)
- Tough (Affliction) (2 BP)
Experience
- Large (3 XP)
- Essence ●● to ●●●● (40 XP)
- Appearance ● to ●● (4 XP)
- Perception ● to ●● (4 XP)
- Valor ● to ●● (3 XP)
- Artifact ●● (Perfect Freeze) (6 XP)
- Sapience ●●● (Perfect Freeze) (9 XP)
- Artifact ●●● (Infinite Resplendence Amulet, Skin-mount Amulet) (9 XP)
- Manse ●●●●● (5 XP)
- Manse ●●●● (4 XP)
- Past Life ●●● (9 XP)
- First Pyrian Excellency x2 (16 XP)
- Realization of Pyrian Potency (8 XP)
- Sorcerous Enlightenment of She Who Lives in Her Name (8 XP)
- Violet Bier of Sorrows Style (72 XP)
Shopping list
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