Tianxia Blood Silk & Jade:Silver Qilin Qin
Contents
Silver Qilin Qin[edit]
Jianghu Rank: 1
Refresh: 2
Current Fate Points: 4
Picture:[edit]
Aspects:[edit]
High Concept: Mountain Demon Berserker
Trouble: First In, Last Out
Phase One: It'll All Work Out
Phase Two: Quick For His Size
Phase Three: A Wee Bit Crazy
Form Aspect: Cobra Strikes in the Moonlight
Skills:[edit]
Great (+4) Fight
Good (+3) Deceive, Physique
Fair (+2) Notice, Stealth, Will
Average (+1) Athletics, Chi, Provoke, Rapport
Stress:[edit]
Physical O O O O
Mental O O O
Consequences:[edit]
Mild [2]: _________________________
Moderate [4]: _____________________
Severe [6]: _______________________
Kung Fu:[edit]
Moonlit Cobra (Storm Serpent)
Form Aspect: Storm Serpent style users prize flexibility and speed over all. Using swift strikes, twisting locks, and nerve strikes they seek to slow opponents to better exploit their weaknesses. Practitioners are cautious not to overcommit on attacks and rely on evasion more than blocking incoming attacks. A Storm Serpent fighter does not strike until he is ready; when he does, he does so with alarming effectiveness.
Techniques:
Serpent Strikes Twice: +2 bonus to Deceive rolls to create an advantage based on disorientation, distraction, or unbalancing against opponents you have already inflicted stress on this combat
Storm Flows Around Mountain: If a target uses Full Defense in combat against you, gain a +2 bonus to your next attack against them. You gain this bonus regardless of whether their Full Defense succeeds or not
Serpent Bites the Hand: If you gain shifts on a defense, you can sacrifice your action next turn to immediately inflict an attack on your opponent using the shift value of your defense as your attack result
Stunts:[edit]
Demon King's Hammer: +1 to Fight Attack and Defend Actions when using the Demon King's Hammer
Spirit of the Mountian: +2 to Stealth Actions in Wilderness Regions
Tough: Use Physique instead of Chi for tests to determine Chi Armor
Background:[edit]
Qin is very optimistic, to the point of a fault. After all, if Divine Appointment really is a thing, ultimately then if you do your utmost, the best outcome for all under heaven should eventually come to pass, shouldn't it? This goes for demons and devils, gods and men, and everything in between, as far as Qin is concerned. A simple man of simple things, he does not worry about the intricacies of religion. What will come to pass will come to pass, regardless of what one does. Not that life doesn't call for the stacking of odds every now and again... what came to pass came to pass because his efforts were greater than his opposition's. Simple enough. He is a rather fun-loving man, although his build and almost permanent scowl would not have you initially think it. Being of barbaric decent, he stands almost a full head above most men, at least. A quiet man, for one who has a mouth that is open more than it's closed, he enjoys the simple things... fame and fortune are not motivation for him whatsoever.
That's not to say he doesn't care about it... after all, something's gotta put food on the table. He started his career early as a security officer for the Twelve Winds security company, the security company started by his Jiangzhou native father. It wasn't until a year or so ago that Qin found out the true reason for his father's company: to act as a clean-up and cover-up crew for the actions of certain rebel elements across Shenzhou. Disgusted and unable to morally remain with the company, but unable to destroy his father's work, Qin disappeared in the dark of the night. These days, he sells his sword arm as a traveling security detail. Well, perhaps hammer arm might be more appropriate.
The night he left the Twelve Winds, although unable to undo his father's work, his rage still kept him from doing nothing. That night, he absconded with the large weapon-artifact the Twelve Winds had been sent to recover: the Demon King's Hammer. This hammer was, and still is by certain parties, believed to have once belonged to a great demon king in ages long passed. As to whether or not it truly is, Qin leaves that up to the gods (or GM, as the case might be.) All he knows is that there is no weapon he has ever held that he has felt a deeper, more spiritual connection with. If the weapon indeed once belonged to a demon king, then that may not be such a good thing... but such worries are better saved for if and when they pop up.
He learned his kung fu from his father, Master Twelve Qilins Ma, although his mother passed on some of her more barbaric martial learning as well. When she passed, his father took him on as a full-time pupil, and made it *very* clear to the other pupils that there was no special treatment for Qin to be had. If anything, he had to work harder, got harsher punishments, and had less free time. While some of the students took this to mean Master Ma did not respect Qin as a pupil, let alone as his son, Qin knew the truth to be the opposite... that his father was pushing him so that he would become greater than any other of the other pupils.
Which is why his father's betrayal to the Empress cut all the more deeply when Qin found out. What other secrets had his father been hiding? Was there some grand design in his raising of Qin? He ponders these things as he travels the empire, and as he tries to find himself beyond just a simple security officer.
