Editing Orphea (section)

=Backgrounds=
==Artifact 1: Hearthstone Amulet==

==Artifact 2: Tenfold Fangs==
Created for Aja, the Waxing Moon member of the Black Nadir Concordat, this artifact resembles a set of ten artificial nails made of black jade and tipped with moonsilver. When the set is attuned for 6m, the nails adhere to the bearer's fingers and cannot be forcibly removed without a stunt. The nails have the stats of moonsilver razor claws.<br>

==Artifact 3: Clarity==
A beautiful diamond and orichalcum perfume bottle, this artifact usually appears empty. When attuned for 3m motes, the bottle fills itself with a clear golden perfume. When applied (a 2m activation), the perfume's clean, clear scent inspires clarity of mind in its creator, granting +2 INT and +1 MDV (both Parry and Dodge). However, everyone else who smells this perfume instead smells a delicate, carnal musk, inflicting a -1 MDV (again, Parry and Dodge) penalty towards the wearer as they are distracted by erotic thoughts (1wp to resist per day, Emotion effect). <br>

Each application of scent lasts for one scene; multiple doses may be stacked to increase the perfume's duration, but bonuses and penalties do not stack. Should the bottle be de-attuned while the perfume is still in effect, its benefits fade over the course of the scene (regardless of how many doses are currently worn).<br>

==Manse 2: Stone of Mending Flaws==
During her travels, Orphea once went to Nexus, the City of a Thousand Lice. She quite quickly found herself drawn to a young man called River Runs Dry, an enlightened mortal Scavenger Lord from the Southeast. Aside from having a very attractive bound servant (Ignatia), he was charming and witty, and eventually mentioned to Orphea his plans to investigate rumors of a ruin to the north, on the edge of the Black Chase. Concerned for his safety, Orphea accompanied him on his journey, which eventually led them to an abandoned, small castle in the middle of an eerie forest. <br>

The interior was a cobweb-covered nest filled with eclectic piles of junk and treasure; River found more than enough wealth to retire in comfort, and Orphea found a gorgeous moonsilver pendant (and the manse's hearthroom behind a false bookcase). The castle intrigued Orphea, so she persuaded River to allow her to keep it- not difficult, given the creepy location and the magnitude of his new wealth.<br>
:'''Archive:''' Once Orphea tore down the cobwebs that covered the place, she discovered that the castle had an extensive library. Spidery handwriting contained notes in Shogunate-Old Realm, clearly written by a reclusive scholar of the occult who was obsessed with study of the nearby shadowland. Though it's never mentioned specifically, Orphea suspects the castle's previous owner was a Lunar from the tone of the writing. His books contain information on the Black Chase (Occult), as well as a handful of necromantic spells he clearly found useful (Summon Ghost, Flesh-Sloughing Wave, Banish Ghost, Piercing the Heel, and Iron Countermagic)<br>
:'''Hidden Passages:''' The entire castle is riddled with secret passages and hidden doors, behind bookcases or tapestries or worked into murals.<br>

==Resources 3==

==Contacts 1: Mortician's Guild==
Orphea still keeps in contact with her husband and several old friends who have risen in the ranks of the Mortician's Guild. Orphea and Rising Smoke are currently separated due to the emotional trauma they both suffered upon losing their child, but they still keep in contact through letters.

==Contacts 1: Stygia==
During her stay in Stygia, Orphea met many important figures in the Monarch's court and made a distinct impression. One of those she spoke to most often was Weeping Raiton Cast Aside, the self-proclaimed herald of the Neverborn. Weeping Raiton was always pleased to wax lyrical about her masters to Orphea, even if her conversation was always laced with attempts at conversion. Orphea in turn found the deathknight's insights to be extremely useful, and the company pleasant enough.

==Influence 2: Stygia==

==Allies 1: Mistress With The White Hands==
Orphea's best ally in Stygia was always the Mistress, the Councillor of the District of Paper Lanterns and owner of the House of Dolls. In exchange for Orphea's not inconsiderable necromantic and political support, the Mistress aided Orphea in her quest for knowledge. After a significant period of cooperation, the two formed a fast friendship.

==Whispers 3==
Orphea follows the Ajaian school of necromancy, learned from an ancient copy of the Book of Bone and Ebony she found collecting dust in Twinborn's Death. Following the book's instructions, Orphea was guided through the Trials of the Void, culminating in the Trial of Decay. As per the book's suggestion, for her final trial she travelled down to the edge of the Void itself and stared directly into it, contemplating its utter nothingness. In this nightmare-like communion with the dreams of the Neverborn, Orphea found necromantic enlightenment...and something else. <br>

When Orphea emerged from her trance, she found herself lying naked in the Labyrinth, drenched in blood and utterly alone. Her hair, which was once nut-brown, had turned utterly white. Though she has long since recovered from the shock of her initiation, Orphea still hears the whispers of the dead titans, something that she embraces as a boon in her quest to become more intimately connected to the Neverborn. But since her trial, Orphea has occasionally noticed an absence in her memory, and has the most annoying feeling that she's forgotten something...<br>

==Heart's Blood 5==
===Elementals===
'''Nymph:''' Named Nephele. Fell to mutual seduction when Orphea met her on the Eastern coast of the Inland Sea.<br>
'''Mercury Ant:''' Hunted through the Underways, brain eaten to indulge Orphea's curiosity about their alleged hive mind. Has a poison that makes people horny.<br>
'''Fire Butterfly:''' Named Ignatia. A bound servant of a Nexan Scavenger Lord, wooed by Orphea with scrolls of poetry praising the butterfly's beauty.<br>
'''Carmine Lily:''' Found in a shadowland in the East, was very intriguing and therefore eaten. Bears the story of a spell used by a deathknight called Searing Stars Asunder to raise the dead.<br>

===Ghosts/Plasmics===
'''Griefbee:''' Feed on strong emotions, produce a honey that distills them. Favored by ghosts.<br>
'''Walker of the Midnight Sun:''' Humanoid figure concealed by tattered robes and a mask with a Dusk castemark. Champions of the Neverborn, hunted on the Isle.<br>
'''Lethe Serpent:''' Exterminated from the Mistress' brothel, to win her goodwill. Creates lethe venom.<br>
'''Resplendent Burning Lotus:''' Found in the gardens of Soul's Lost district, drains a victim's Essence to create languorous dreams and visions. Turns white to red.<br>
'''Mistress With The White Hands:''' One of Orphea's best allies in Stygia, a comrade-in-arms in the Dual Monarch's court. Traded her favors and form for Orphea's patronage.<br>

===Humans===
'''Ledaal Daisuke:''' A young Water aspect man, part of a small, impromptu Wyld Hunt Orphea dealt with while on a vessel sailing around the Isle. She sunk their vessel after dealing with them to cover up the evidence. A graduate of the Cloister of Wisdom, was travelling to Deshan to oversee some of his family's slave holdings there. Very faithful, had a crush on his sorceress cousin (Ledaal Catala Yukina) who lives in her family's manse in the East. Breeding 1, APP 3. ''(Memories retained through Predator's Insight)''<br>
'''Rising Smoke:''' Orphea's husband, took his form (unbeknownst to him) when Orphea returned to him after her five-year sojourn to Stygia.<br>

===Animals===
'''Great Eagle''': A giant eagle, hunted from Gerd Marrow-Eater's flock- can bear riders. Orphea owes him a debt for this.<br>
'''Portee Ivory:''' Fetter to a Dynast's ghost (Tepet Lien). Allowed Orphea to experiment with becoming a ghost's fetters in exchange for a casting of Five Gifts.<br>
'''Other animals:''' Ice weasel, gravehound, rainbow trout, angler fish, dolphin, mosquito, black widow spider, gecko, rat, pidgeon, mouse, bat, lobster, polar bear, reindeer, etc.<br>

==Solar Bond 2==