Silla

• Silla, the Sword That Swings True
• Caste: No Moon
• Totem: Jackal
• Concept: Guardian of knowledge
• Description:

Motivation

• Create a center of learning that is better than Sperimin of old

Intimacies

Natural

Negative

• Sondok (Resentment)
  
• Intentional ignorance (Hatred)
  

Positive

• Knowledge (Possessive lust)
  
• The Circle (Friendship)
  
• Her acolytes (Fond pride)
  
• Her libraries and schools (Protectiveness)
  
• Getting Kimiko's book back (Obsession)
  
• Beezelbub (Friendship)
  
• Luna (Respect)
  

Supernatural

Positive

• Kimiko (Devotion)
  

Attributes

Physical

• Strength 4
• Dexterity 5
• Stamina 5

Social

• Charisma 5
• Manipulation 3
• Appearance 3

Mental

• Perception 5
• Intelligence 5
• Wits 4

Abilities

Favored

• Melee 5 (+3 Dual-wielding)
  
• Survival 3 (+1 Deserts)
  

Unfavored

• Archery 0
• Martial Arts 3
• Thrown 0
• War 1
• Integrity 3 (+3 Protecting Intimacies)
• Performance 1
• Presence 3 (+1 Intimidation)
• Resistance 3
• Athletics 2
• Awareness 2
• Dodge 3
• Larceny 1
• Stealth 1
• Bureaucracy 1
• Linguistics 4 (+2 Poetry)

Native language: Old Realm (Malfean dialect). Others: Riverspeak, Forest-tongue, Flametongue, Clawspeak

• Ride 1
• Sail 0
• Socialize 3
• Craft (earth) 3

(water) 3

• Investigation 4
• Lore 5 (+2 First Age)
• Medicine 2
• Occult 5 (+2 Malfeas, +1 Sorcery)

Backgrounds

Allies 1 (Beezelbub)

Silla's oldest friend, Beezelbub is a greedy little aalu who has always been willing to accept a little bribery to supplement his diet- a habit that got him into his current situation. He's been around since the First Age and got along well in Malfeas for years off the story of the time he ate an entire library that belonged to a Solar. He hasn't been summoned for more than a day or two since then, so until he ran away with Silla he was woefully behind the times. These days, Silla keeps him in a practical paradise for an aalu, feeding him students' papers to grade and bits of her own poetry as treats. In return, he helps her out here and there, often providing his fine paper-silk for Silla's transcription of books for her library.

Followers 2 (Enlightened Acolytes)

Asphodel, the Defining Acolyte

Silla's first acolyte, the extremely intelligent daughter of a Delzahn noble. Keen and ambitious, clearly hungers for an Exaltation herself. Was once a Dereth for the social standing aspects, but has abandoned that lifestyle since leaving Chiaroscuro. Was with Silla in Mahalanka.

Lamia (The Iron Queen), the Warden Acolyte

Previously the leader of one of the Jackal Tribes, daughter of the god of the Diamond Road. Knows many secrets of the South from her wanderings.

Sudden Thunder, the Indulgent Acolyte

The finest mortal artist and poet in Marukan, a wandering bard with his faithful horse. Now married to Asphodel; a charming, outgoing man.

Fisher of Men, the Messenger Acolyte

A social worker from Great Forks, taught free literacy classes at the temple of his god. Evangelical about education, does administration.

Stargazer Shade, the Reflective Acolyte

A graduate of the Jade Sickle Academy of Husbandry from the Lap, an expert in genealogy and breeding. A patrician, too intelligent and too far in the Threshold to buy the Immaculate faith entirely. Interested in the origin of eight-tailed mole hounds.

Blood Runs Cold, the Expressive Acolyte

A retired gladiator from Gem, ran the best school for gladiators until Silla stole him away. An amateur philosopher and brutal fighter, a student of historical treatises on conflict.

Blind Thebe, the Acolyte of Wisdom

An old woman, a mortician wooed away from her Order in the interests of gaining favor with the Exalted. Has the collected wisdom of the dead.

Light of Hidden Flowers, the Constructive Acolyte

An innovative researcher, focuses on the application of knowledge. Travelled from the River Province to find Silla, an accomplished graduate of Nexus University who was exiled for prying into the Solar tombs. Specializes in enchantment and craft assistance- possibly helps Kimiko?

Library 5

This represents the recorded knowledge that Silla has collected over her years as an Exalt. It includes the best of the commonly-available tomes on a huge array of subjects, as well as a handful of extremely rare treatises. These include The Genesis of Heathen Ritual, from which Silla learned the majority of her thaumaturgy. Also present is a copy of The Black and White Treatise, as well as The Book of Bone and Ebony raided from a nephwrack's lair. Silla also has an impressive collection of editions of The Lover Clad in Blue, a little indulgence of hers. She has been on the lookout for a copy of The Broken-Winged Crane for some time, but at the moment only has fragments. Silla carries this impressive collection with her in Elsewhere, unfolding it into reality when she has the urge to study.

Knacks

• Changing Plumage Mastery
• Hybrid Body Rearrangement
• Deadly Beastman Transformation

Gazelle's Pace

Fangs (Lethal natural attack)

Enhanced Sense (Tase & Scent)

Armored Hide (+4L/B Soak)

• Humble Mouse Shape
• Towering Beast Form
• Quicksilver Second Face
• Lightning Change Style
• Prey's Skin Disguise
• Green Sun Child
• Compassionate Mirror Nature
• Internal Form Mastery

Charms

Dexterity

• 2nd DEX Excellency
• Instinctive DEX Unity
• Golden Tiger Stance
• Ferocious Guardian Beast Stance
• Heron Sheds Rain
• Vigilant Mastiff Technique
• Wasp Sting Blur
• Wary Swallow Method
• Wind-Dancing Technique

Stamina

• 2nd STAM Excellency
• Relentless Lunar Fury
• Bruise-relief Method
• Halting the Scarlet Flow
• Steadfast Yeddim Meditation
• Luna's Fortitude
• Southern Mastery Technique
• Ox-Body Technique x5
• Hide-Toughening Essence
• Durable Battle Mind
• Lightning Starfish Concentration (HFE)

Charisma

• 2nd CHA Excellency
• Sacred Guardian Renewal
• Thousand Streams Defender
• Shepherd and Sheep Understanding (ECTG)
• Boundary-Marking Meditation
• Essence-Damming Beaver Architecture (ECTG)
• Luna's Light Awakened (ECTG)
• Feral Smile Tactic
• Silver Lunar Resolution x4
• Dog-Tongue Method
• Nature-Reinforcing Allocation
• Sharing the Gifts of Luna
• Wolf Pack Training Technique

Manipulation

• 2nd MAN Excellency

Appearance

• Hide of the Cunning Hunter

Perception

• 2nd PER Excellency
• Instinctive PER Unity
• Eye and Fingertip Wisdom
• Holistic Knowledge Transmission
• Wyld-Sensing Instincts
• Outland-Navigating Guile
• Sense-Borrowing Method
• Watchful Spider Stance
• Blood on the Wind
• Eye of the Cat
• Instinctive Essence Prediction
• All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight
• God-Cutting Essence

Intelligence

• 2nd INT Excellency
• Instinctive INT Unity
• Silver Protector Procedures (HFE) (Alchemy, Geomancy)
• Inevitable Genius Insight
• Instruction in Leaf and Bone (ECTG)
• Lesson of the Learned Ape (ECTG)
• Moon and Earth Blessing
• Shaman and Acolyte Lodge (TDO)
• Argent Muse Approach
• Lessons in the Blood
• Counting the Elephant's Wrinkles

Wits

• 2nd WITS Excellency
• The Spider's Trapdoor
• Thieving Magpie Prana
• Many Pockets Meditation
• Implausible Lunar Panoply

Spells

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

• Emerald Countermagic
• Summon First Circle Demon
• Emerald Banishment
• Conjuring the Azure Chariot
• Infallible Messenger
• Dragon of Smoke and Flame

Celestial Circle Sorcery

• Sapphire Countermagic
• Raise the Puissant Sanctum
• The Faithful Ally
• Gift of Knowledge
• Shadows of the Ancient Past
• Servant of Infallible Location

Essence

• Essence: 4
• Personal: 20

Current: 20

• Peripheral: 52 (92)

Current: 92

• Committed to Charms:
• Committed to artifacts:
• Willpower: 8
• Anima status: Quiescent

Virtues

• Compassion: 2

Current channels: (2/2)

• Conviction: 4

Current channels: (4/4)

• Temperance: 2

Current channels: (2/2)

• Valor: 5

Current channels: (5/5)

Flawed Virtue

• Conviction: Curse of the Hungry Wolverine

Conflict

Physical (Human)

• Join Battle: 6
• Dodge DV: 6
• Parry DV (Short daiklaves): 8
• Soak (Lamellar): 12L/14B/9A
• Hardness (Lamellar): 5L/B

Attack

• Short daiklaves: Accuracy 19, Speed 4, Damage 8L, Rate 4
• Punch: Accuracy 9, Speed 5, Damage 4B, Rate 3
• Clinch: Accuracy 8, Speed 6, Damage 4B (P), Rate 1

Movement

• Move:
• Dash:

Physical (Warform)

• Join Battle: 6
• Dodge DV: 7
• Parry DV: 9
• Soak (Lamellar): 16L/19B/9A
• Hardness (Lamellar): 5L/B

Attack

• Short daiklaves: Accuracy 20, Speed 4, Damage 9L, Rate 4
• Punch: Accuracy 10, Speed 5, Damage 5B, Rate 3
• Clinch: Accuracy 9, Speed 6, Damage 5B (P), Rate 1

Movement

• Move:
• Dash:

Social

• Join Debate:
• Dodge MDV:
• Parry MDV:

Health Levels

-0
-1, -1
-2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2
-2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2
-2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2
-2, -2, -2, -2
-4
Incapacitated
Dying (x15)

History

The only daughter of Sondok, warden soul of Malfeas, Silla was raised in Hell, sequestered away in her mother's fortress-manse. As her mother's only weakness, she was kept in isolated luxury, tended by demonic servants and only occasionally visited by her over-protective mother. Sondok was thorough in seeing to Silla's martial education, but she was always thirsty for knowledge and wasn't content with the ignorant tutors her mother provided. To satisfy her curiosity, Silla hatched a plan. She managed to catch the attention of a passing aalu, and through a judicious application of epic poetry managed to convince him to write her some papers about the outside world and slip it through her barred windows in exchange for her own poetry. Through this ongoing exchange, Silla finally learned about Creation and soon hungered to see it for herself.

Things finally came to a head when Biryu, Sondok's companion who had been tasked with Silla's protection, discovered Silla's stash of writings and was furious that she had been illicitly communicating with the outside world. When he went to destroy the papers in his rage, Silla could take it no more and attacked him. Though Silla was only a mortal, her mother's training served her well and she slew Biryu after a long and bloody battle. In the confused aftermath, she grabbed her most precious possessions and fled out into Malfeas proper. She quickly went to her only friend, Beezelbub, the aalu who had been writing to her all this time. He was fearful for his own life after hearing her story and the two of them swiftly resolved to find a way out of Malfeas. Through a few shady deals, they managed to get the location of a crack out of Malfeas and set off across the desert of Cecelyne. The road was long and hard, particularly for Silla who was no longer protected from Hell's malaise. Nonetheless, she soldiered on through the many perils, determined to see Creation, and eventually they emerged in the dodgy undercity of Chiaroscuro.

At first, Silla was confused- Creation was nothing like the shining, perfect world she had read about. It fairly immediately became apparent that the texts Beezelbub had been producing for Silla were older than she thought- they had in fact come from a First Age library that Beezelbub had been commanded to eat many years ago by a lazy Solar scholar. He had never mentioned this fact, thinking it unimportant, but to Silla it was the biggest disappointment of her life. But when she wiped the tears from her face, she vowed to herself that, even if the world was not how she thought it was, she would damn well make the best of it. At that moment, she Exalted as a Chosen of Luna. She was quickly retrieved by the Silver Pact, since they have a large presence in Chiaroscuro. Though Silla was clever enough to conceal the important detail of her heritage, many Lunars were nonetheless disturbed that she had been raised in Malfeas. She set some of these concerns to rest by performing very well during her Trials, though the elders had a hard time deciding whether she should be caste as a Full Moon (for her direct, martial approach to problems) or as a No Moon (for her driving thirst for knowledge). Eventually it was decided that she should be a No Moon, though those who were advocating Full Moon were allowed to name her (they chose Sword Swings True).

Silla spent the first year after her Exaltation collecting as much knowledge as she could, hoarding precious texts and data crystals and luxuriating in her new-found freedom. Her efforts eventually attracted the attention of Raksi, who offered her the opportunity to study in Mahalanka in exchange for a year of service. Though Silla happily accepted at first, she was horrified by the City of Golden Delights when she arrived. Even worse, upon meeting Raksi she saw many similarities between herself and the ancient, mad Lunar- primarily the hoarding of knowledge. Over the year she was obliged to serve Raksi, she became determined to never become a hoarding, jealous witch like Raksi. When she finally fled Mahalanka, Silla had decided that her utmost calling was to teach, and to found a city of learning better than Sperimin of old. The only problem was that she had no desire or intention of actually ruling a city. Taking her now-impressive collection of tomes and knowledge with her, she set off to find her Solar- who, her ancient texts informed her, would have a natural talent for such things...