Priestess

Priestess

Modern Dame-Errant
Deprived, Yet Devoted
Discord	@ezene
Reddit	onomatopus
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
D.O.B.	December 17th, 2061
Age	23
Folder	Drive
Priority	Metatype - E Attributes - B Magic/Resonance - A Skills - B Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	5

Character Information

Summary

Priestess is a female Italian human who can be most commonly found in an armored Catholic habit. Short and with soft features, she looks like someone who has done little work with her own hands. What stands out after the initial impression is her speech: Priestess speaks quietly and carefully as though unused to doing so, and rather than raise her voice, she relies on gestures, sign language, or text chat.

The apparent nun's expressions are cold and blank. Though, to those who can discern it, her attitude is far less the stone-hard criminal and far more simply stunted in feelings, whether through birth or trauma. She is known to insist on acting morally good despite this, at least by her metrics. Much of this is shrouded in her pursuit of the Catholic faith - a worldview she makes openly clear to anyone.

Despite her appearance, Priestess advertises her role as a direct fighter. Her weapon is a form of magical telekinesis which she wields to strike at a distance, often sending weapons normally wielded in close combat to fight at range.

Goals

• Extol the word of the Lᴏʀᴅ to those who will listen.
• Secure justice for the poor, and uphold the cause of the needy.
• Feed the hungry, cast out unclean spirits, and heal the sick.
• Further learn the mysteries of faith and the ways of the Lᴏʀᴅ.
• Prepare this Earth for the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Background

Born Flora Gentile, a citizen of the Italian Confederation, her upbringing was rather normal for a lower-middle-class Catholic family there. An Awakening on the cusp of puberty upended this stability, an event just as normal in its own way. Fearing powers that none of them - not even Flora herself - could properly understand, her parents sought aid from a priest whose church they attended. He in turn swiftly led a Sylvestrine scout to her before her Awakening could be noticed by the government or corporations.

Flora's conservative parents, unnerved at the thought that their child might have something they cannot control, were happy to entrust her to the Church. They were just as happy to accept the Church's charity - a practice that certainly isn't selling children into servitude, as that would be frowned on. Nonetheless, Flora was assessed for where her talents laid. What was discovered was a natural aptitude for embedding mana into objects; she had already been imprinting possessions of hers with emotion to try to understand the power, in a sort of proto-form of enchantment.

This in turn led to being shuffled around to hide her destination like a shell game, losing her trail in anonymity and delivering her to the Vigilia Evangelica. She was raised the rest of the way in a monastery, indoctrinated and taught the ways of magic under them. This was not limited to sanitized Christian teachings - the clerics of the Vigilia Evangelica must learn of many faiths and understand their workings, that they can properly judge and contain that which mankind must not be allowed to have. It is there that she worked, examining artifacts and reverse-engineering the formation of legends, and it is there that she died.

Her monastery was subject to a sudden, planned raid by a squad of Infected in service to a horrid patron. In search of a relic they thought to hold a piece of a key ritual, anyone in the way of a direct run to the vault was killed or captured, Flora herself included. With the dubious honor of being subdued to be taken as food, she at least survived until their next stop at a safehouse, but no longer than that.

Her misfortunate luck continued, however. She returned the next day, proving her promotion from 'meat' to 'conscript'. Flora, once they were at a more central hideout, was promptly subjected to brainwashing and breaking. Part of this was revelations of the nature of the world, as well as their 'god'. Amidst delirium and dissociation, she witnessed the shape of the void, and began to hear its scream between threads of silence. And yet, even as she gave in, what her new world was built upon was not this horrific thing, but the faith she had been taught.

Flora distantly recalled a concept from Aztec mythology: the tzitzimime, "monsters that descend from above", said to be the stars themselves. They sought to end the world, but the world was defended by the sun which battled them each dawn and dusk - and the sun was strengthened by the willing sacrifices of the faithful to continue this. This served as the catalyst for her realization: that the forms born of the void are not one whole, but each their own. If some of these blood-fed beings shielded the world and were called gods for it... then could not the God of Abraham who was sacrificed to be the same?

Keeping this faith in her heart, Flora concealed her thoughts and blended in as best she could as a fellow follower until she had shed enough suspicion. Then, she fled without hesitation, securing a way off the continent as soon as she could to flee to the Americas. Here she would begin to refine her thoughts - to study the Bible and understand how the children of Israel progressed, to work out how their histories were shaped by these star-gods, how the one called Jehovah came to shepherd them and shield them. YHVH would be alien to mankind, in this view, yet was that ever not the case? And if the stars seek to descend once more, if the patterns that make themselves known upon the threshold of oblivion are beginning to scream their hate as they once did... what hope for survival has mankind, but to trust in one who wishes them to prosper instead?

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• Infected (Vampire): "Except ye that eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you."
• History Is Not As Certain As We Are Taught: "Blessed are they that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."

Negative

• Big Regret (Elder God Cultist): "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lᴏʀᴅ."
• Wanted (Vigilia Evangelica; ¥40,000, Alive): "Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.'"

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Clever Pun About Docks	Dawnfire		High	14 April 2085
Dimensionless Numbers in Everyday Life	John		Medium	28 February 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Anna Van Der Pelt	6	1	Fixer	Talismonger	Awakened Fixer, Awakened Philanthropist, Big Stick Diplomancy, Drake Sympathizer, Hocus Focus, Talismonger	Even

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