Editing Empress Upon a Throne of Ravens (section)

==Extras==

===Images===
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===Merits and Flaws===

===XP and Training===
* <u>'''XP Gained:''' 13</u>
** Post 61: 6
** Post 78: 4 
** Post 86: 1
** Post 210: 1
** Post 311: 1

* <u>'''XP Spent:''' 11</u>  
** Essence 2: 8
** Upgrade from Glories: 2 (Treats Flitting Shadow Form and Flickering Wisp Technique as the same Charm for purposes of Charm activation and Combos.)
** Linguistics 2: 1

* '''Debt XP:''' 0
* '''Unspent XP:''' 2
* '''Currently training:'''

===Character Creation Questions===
'''How old are you?'''
* The girl who would become Empress Upon a Throne of Ravens was born in RY 752.  She fled Coral in 765 and accepted the Black Exaltation shortly thereafter.  She has recently turned sixteen.

'''What was your family life like?'''
* The girl was born into a middle-class merchant family in the Coral Archipelago, and chafed under the restrictions her culture put upon women.  Her male relatives could take advantage of their wealth – travel, gamble, see the world – while she was less free than the meanest shop clerk, who at least was allowed outside her house to tend shop.  While her brothers trained at diplomacy, sailing and fighting, she received tutoring in the barest necessities to ensure the accountants were not skimming profit.  While her elder sister accepted her place, and cheerfully became a dutiful housewife, and her younger sister displayed a remarkable talent for numbers, earning praise and admiration for her bookkeeping and profit-maximization, the girl could stand her life no longer, and fled.

'''Where are you from?'''
* The girl was born in the Coral Archipelago, and received her initial training in the houses of the dead beneath the Hidden Tabernacle. 

'''How were you Exalted?'''
* When the girl fled from Coral, she bribed a sailor to take her on his ship.  Jealous Storm Mothers drove the ship off course to the north, where all aboard were enslaved by a Rajtali raider tribe.  The girl’s machinations set her captors against two neighboring tribes (and each against the other) in a three-way conflict that nearly annihilated all involved.  The Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible noted the growing influx of ghosts and turned his attention to its source, visiting the girl in her dreams and discoursing upon the philosophy of vengeance, power and life.  He was intrigued enough to offer her the Black Exaltation when she died in the aftermath of her tripartite war.

'''When did you meet your companions?'''
* When Empress fled the tombs of the Neverborn, she eventually emerged into Creation through a newly formed shadowland and made the acquaintance of Enyo, who was in the process of eating the serial killer who’d created the shadowland.  She has recently seen, though not yet made the acquaintance of, Eight Treasures.

'''How has power changed you?'''
* Power allows Empress to do all the things her family and culture have prevented her from experiencing.  She still prefers subtlety, but her goals and desires are now unfettered by mortal limits.

'''What do you think of mortals?'''
* Empress cares as little for the concerns of others now as she ever did.  Mortals, god-blooded, Chosen, spirits – all are there to contribute to her gratification.

'''What motivates you to be a hero?'''
* Empress is determined that she will outstrip her old family’s desires and expectations, and surpass the deeds of anyone who hails from the wretched archipelago known as Coral.

'''Who or what do you worship?'''
* While Empress has a perhaps-more-than-healthy respect for the Neverborn, she truly worships only her boundless ambition.  She pays lip service to the dead gods to ward off their displeasure.

'''What would drive you to commit murder?'''
* Convenience, or whim.

===Accounting===
Freebies: 18 (+9 from flaws=27)

* Artifact +2 (to 5) = 4
* Willpower +3 (to 8) = 3
* Skills +15 = 15
* Specialties +10	= 5
* Total: 27

CASTE ABILITIES 	(5) +3
* Bureaucracy 	1 
* Linguistics 	1 
* Sail 		1 
* Socialize 	2  (+3)

FAVORED ABILITIES 	(5) +12
* Martial Arts 	1 (+4) 
* Thrown 	0 (+1) 
* Performance 	2 (+3)
* Presence 	2 (+3) 
* Occult 	0 (+1)

OTHER ABILITIES		(18)
* Athletics 	1 
* Awareness 	1 
* Dodge 	5 
* Integrity 	2
* Investigation 5 
* Larceny 	1 
* Lore 		1 
* Resistance 	1 
* Stealth 	1