Fower that never blooms

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Flower

Daybreak Caste Abyssal

Concept: Adorabysal Engineer with Mommy Issues

Motivation: To give the Cycle of Rebirth a swift kick and to supercharge it so it sucks up the Neverborn themselves, taking the Underworld and every damn ghost (including the Deatlords, especially that bitch the Lover) with it. Call me a little girl after that!

Anima: As the darkness grows behind her it begins to take on the shape of holy symbols which then are torn apart in the swirl of darkness that surrounds her.

Intimacies

• Her Mother: She’s dead, but I still hate her!
• The Astrologer who told Esrina what Petra would become: I hate him, I think he must have been a Sidereal, I’ll find him and get him!
• The Black Pram: I may not be happy with the name, but I really love my war strider
• Orphea: She’s my friend, and I like her.
• The Lover: She’s a bitch!
• The Glorious Factory of the Setting Sun: My manse, it gave me the stone I needed to escape, and I feel both ill at ease and at peace there.
• Soul Mirror: Creepy, and weird, but keeping it is a way to get back at Lover, and it really is good at chopping people.

Physical

• Strength: 3
• Dexterity: 4
• Stamina: 2

Seeing as she spent a lot of time in a nursery, she did not get too many chances to build up her strength or endurance, but she is reasonably agile.

Social

• Charisma: 2
• Manipulation: 2
• Appearance: 5

It’s hard to by inspired by someone who does not quite project an air of maturity, and her attempt to lie are, well, juvenile, but no one can deny her death touched beauty.

Mental

• Intelligence: 5
• Wits: 3
• Perception: 3

She is, without a doubt, Brilliant, her mind is fast, and she has a keen eye.

Caste Abilities

• Craft 5
• Investigation 0
• Lore 4
• Medicine 4
• Occult 5

Under the Lover’s Tutelage her keen mind was turned towards matter of building and of the more esoteric mysteries, as well as ensuring that years of enforced ignorance were undone.

Favoured Abilities

• Melee 5
• Dodge 4
• Athletics 2
• Resistance 4
• Awareness 4

While the Lover likely never intended for Flower to be a combat servant, she did make sure that Flower could defend herself, and was more in tune with the world around her.

Other Abilities

• Linguistics 2
• Integrity 2
• Performance 3

She can speak a few languages, not be distracted and sing pretty songs.

Specialties

• Craft Magitech 3
• Craft Necrotech 3
• Craft Genesis 3
• Dodge Unarmoured 1
• Melee Sword 3

Backgrounds

• Manse 5 (Hidden Factory Cathedral of the Sun, Stone of Perfect Mobility) The Glorious Factory of the Setting Sun

-Flower kept this secret manse of her Mother’s kingdom hidden from the Lover, as well as the powerful Solar Heart Stone that she took from her mother’s dead body. The stone is slotted into the Black Pram when the Warstrider is active,

• 2 Soul Steel Skin Mount Amulets

-The Lover enjoyed having these two settings implanted into Flower’s shoulder blades, a lesson in pain, she called it.

• Soul Steel Wings of the Raptor

-Around the skin mounts, and across her back are fine and beautiful tattoos of soul steel that make Flower with a pair of wings. When she commits the motes to them they tear free of her skin in a spray of blood to become a pair of full sized wings.

• Whispers 3

-The Neverborn speak to her

• Cult 2

-While Flower never went out of her way to attract mortal prayers, she is both dangerous and stands out, and people have begun to pray to her in secret.

• Allies 2

-Fox and Wolf are a pair of Terrestrial Exalted who were servants of the Lover. The Lover put Flower under their care when she sent the Death Knight to her nursery. Fox and Wolf continue to travel with Flower, doing their best to take care of her.

• Level 5 Earth Fortress Manse, Iron Soul Stone, slotted into the Black Pram’s flight system when in use. The manse is called the Bastion that Breaks the Wylds Teeth.
• Level 5 Earth Research Manse, Gem of Immortality, stone slotted into the skin mount over her right shoulder blade. The manse is called the Geode Laboratory of Stone.
• Level 3 Air Manse Library, Gem of Forgetting, slotted into the skin mount over her left shoulder blade, The manse is called Quiet Whispers of Knowledge
• Royal Soulsteel Warstrider - The Black Pram

-Level 5 Flight System

-Warstrider Grand Daiklaive - Ghost Rattle (Lover named that as well)

• Grand Daiklaive Soul Mirror

-She found Soul Mirror in the Quiet Whispers of Knowledge, in a demon summoning sanctum, held by an imprisoned demon. She not only had to puzzle out how to break the shields so she might enter, but then she had to defeat a demon holding a very powerful blade. It took her a week to accomplish the first and a full night, fighting between the floating rooms of the library, to accomplish the second.

Willpower 9

• Personal 24
• Peripheral 57 (16 Additional from Skin Mount Stones)

Committed

• 1 to Wings of the Raptor
• 8 to Soul Mirror

Virtues

• Compassion 4
• Conviction 4
• Valour 3
• Temperance 2

Flower is fairly kind for a Death Knight, so people die quickly with little suffering, and and she is fairly brave, and certain, but she is easily distracted by shiny things.

Charms

Craft

• Fault Finding Scrutiny
• Frenzied Forge Within
• Soul Forging Fury
• World Slaying Arsenal x2
• First Craft Excellency(Free)
• Craft Essence Flow(1 of 5 Free)
• Second Craft Excellency(5 of 5 Free)

Lore

• Dream Slaying Mastery
• Essence Draining Touch
• First Lore Excellency (Free)

Integrity

• Blood Before Surrender
• Heart of Darkness
• First Integrity Excellency (Free)

Linguistics

• Scathing Cynic Attitude
• First Linguistics Excellency (Free)

Melee

• Elegant Flowing Deflection
• Savage Shade Style
• Vengeful Riposte
• Death Deflecting Technique
• Five Shadow Feint
• Unfurling Iron Lotus
• Eye of the Tempest
• First Melee Excellency (Free)
• Second Melee Excellency (2 of 5 Free)
• Infinite Melee Mastery (3 of 5 Free)
• Ravenous Mouth of Melee (4 of 5 Free)

Dodge

• Flitting Shadow Form
• First Dodge Excellency(Free)

Resistance

• Ox BodyX4(Free based on Resistance)
• First Resistance Excellency(Free)

Occult

• Spirit Sense Meditation
• Corpus Rending Blow
• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
• Celestial Circle Sorcery
• Shadow Circle Necromancy
• Labyrinth Circle Necromacny
• First Occult Excellency

Spells

• Demon of the First Circle
• Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
• Sapphire Countermagic
• Imbue Anagram
• Bone Puppet Dance
• Walking War Machine
• Door of the Dead
• Incantation of Effective Restoration
• Sapphire Banishment
• Golden Shadows Cast in Frieze
• Spurring the Beast of War

Medicine

• Pitiless Triage Judgement
• Plague Eating Kiss
• Charnel Chirugen Deftness
• Infinite Medicine Mastery(Free)

Comboes

Thorn of the Rose

• 1st Melee Excelency
• Savage Shade Style
• Death Deflecting Technique
• Vengeful Riposte

Shower of falling Blossoms

• 1st Melee Excellency
• Death Defying Technique
• Unfurling Iron Lotus
• Five Shadow Feint

Scent of a Flower Touches the Dead

• 1st Melee Excellency

Corpus Rending Blow

Merits and Flaw

• Dark Secret 3 - She has Soul Mirror. So far the Lover has been content, apparently, to let Flower run free, but were she to discover one of her own Death Knight (rogue or not) was holding that weapon, well, let’s say Flower would be in for a long time out.
• Eidetic Memory 3BP She remembers everything perfectly and so...
• Nightmares -3BP, some things are better forgotten
• Past Lives 4, she sometimes forgets that she is in the age of Sorrows, and knows she was once something very different.
• Phobia Clowns -1BP, the less said about this part of the Lover’s training course, the better.

History

The Good Blooded Queen Esrina ruled the small Southern kingdom of Hesh. She was a friend to the Realm, and her country was rich in psychotropic plants, Jade, Silver and a secret, First Age Factory Manse. Esrina was a cold beauty, happy with her power. She had several husbands and children, but cared little for any of them.

One of her children was a girl she she named Petra. Some years after the girl’s birth a Soothsayer came to Hesh and told Esrian that Petra would grow to be more beautiful and power than her mother. However he also told her that Petra’s death would spell the doom of Hesh.

Esrina decalred that Petra would never leave her nursery, that she was to remain a child so that she might never become a woman who could eclipse her. Various potions and devices were used in an attempt to stunt the girl’s growth, and she was kept ignorant where not deliberately fed misinformation.

As Petra grew older her mind grew sharper, and while she was ignorant, she was quick witted, and the treatment grated on her. She tried fighting against it, but was punished, or worse, disregarded. Being talked over as caretakers decided to put her in her crib because she was being ‘fussy’ was worse than any smack.

Sometimes Esrina would parade Petra around, as if to say, ‘Surely this over grown child cannot be greater than I’.

Eventually Petra had had enough and planned her escape. The nursery had become more a prison over the years, for Esrina recalled the Soothsayer’s words about what might happen were Petra to die, and the girl was guided well.

Petra had turned eighteen some weeks before she decided to escape. Her sharp mind had allowed her formulate an escape plan.

For the first time ever, she left the Nursery on her own, in secret, her heart gladded by her escape.

However Creation is not a forgiving place for an ignorant, beautiful girl.

In a dark alley in the Capital of Hesh Petra was taken by slavers, who only saw a lost looking girl who likely would bring a great deal of coin. However the men soon realized they had made a mistake, so news of the missing Petra spread across the city and the face that Queen Esrina wanted her back and would kill anyone who was found to have taken part in the girl’s disappearance.

The men argued and fought and one finally took matters into his own hands. ‘Best to run and make sure this one can’t talk.’ He grabbed her and stabbed her through the chest before all of the would be slavers fled in fear.

As she lie there dying a voice echoed in her head, telling her that she had spent her life surrounded by the death of what she might have been, choked off before she might blossom. She was offered life, for the small price of her freedom, her fate and her freedom. Scared of death, and angry at what she had never had, she accepted this.

She rose, clad in her blood stained nursery clothing, beautiful, healthy... strong.

Before her new Mistress’s servants came for her she would destroy Hesh, and her mother. As she choked the life from Esrina she said, ‘I am so much more than you!’ She was crying at the time however...

She was then taken to The Lover Clad in Rainment of Tears, she she bowed down to her. The Lover smiled at her. ‘I shall give you the pleasures and the pains of an adult, and you will become the woman I wish you to be.’

Of course what the Lover wanted was not what the young woman once known as Petra would want, but it would be some time until she learned that.

The Lover trained the new Abyssal in arts of combat and craft and love, creating a brilliant and deadly Engineer, sharpening her already sharp mind. As the same time she planted the the wedges in the Abyssal mind, slowly preparing her.

And on the day that the Lover named her a Death Knight and gave her the Title of The Flower that Will Never Bloom, she used these psychological wedges to fracture Flower, causing the subservient, child like nature of her psyche to raise up and dominate the newly confident woman.

The Lover likely thought it quite amusing to send Flower once more to a nursery. ‘You can draw up diagrams for wondrous Necrotech in your crib as well as any other place,’ she said.

When Flower was let out, her anger made her a useful tool for the Lover. And her mind came up with various wonders for the Lover’s forces.

She was able to build a Soul Steel Royal Warstider, her most proud accomplishment, ruined when the Lover dubbed it the ‘Black Pram’.

Finally tired of it all, Flower once more escaped her nursery, but this time she had her Warstrider and other weapons, as well as a grand plan. She would bloom! Damn them all she would finally bloom!