Heresy in the Depths:Abathas Vorn

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Voidborn > Astra Telepathica > Mystic

Characteristics

• Weapon Skill: 40
• Ballistic Skill: 30
• Strength: 25
• Toughness: 30
• Agility: 40
• Intelligence: 40
• Perception: 40
• Willpower: 50
• Fellowship: 40
• Influence: 30

Divination "The only true fear is dying without your duty done."

Superstition Feared Octet: When prominent stars are sighted in an eightfold symbol, make the sign of the Aquila, lest foul spirits notice the unprotected soul.

Wounds 12

Fate Points 3

Aptitudes

• General
• Weapon Skill
• Intelligence
• Perception
• Willpower
• Fellowship
• Defence
• Psyker
• Knowledge

Skills

Awareness, Common Lore (All)§, Deceive, Forbidden Lore (Psykers), Inquiry, Logic, Parry, Psyniscience +10, Scholastic Lore (All)§, Scrutiny

§ 1 bonus Degree of Success on successful Tests (Infused Knowledge)

Talents

Weapon Training (Las), Weapon Training (Primitive), Strong Minded, Warp Sense, Resistance (Fear), Infused Knowledge

Traits/special

Psyker, Sanctioned, Child of the Dark, The Constant Threat, Stare into the Warp

Psychics

Psy rating 2

Powers

• Telepathic Link (Telepathy)

Equipment

Black Ship Lash [Mono-edged Whip with Sacred Inscriptions] (Melee 3m, 1d10+2 R, Pen 2, Flexible, Wt 2kg); Sword [shorter, broad blade] (Melee, 1d10+2 R, Pen 0, Balanced, Wt 3kg); Smoke bomb (Thrown 6m, Smoke (4), Wt 0.5kg); Laspistol (Ranged 30m, RoF S/2/-, Clip 30, 1d10+2 E, Pen 0, Rld Half, Reliable, Variable Charge Settings, Wt 1.5kg); Light Flak Coat (AP 2 Body/Arms/Legs, Wt 4kg); Psy Focus (Crystal Ring set with steel Aquila); Asteroid Fragment ; Photo-visor (Wt 0.5kg); Chrono; Lho-sticks; Dataslate (Wt 0.5kg); Filtration plugs; Grapnel and line (Wt 2kg)

Max carry 27 kg

Current carry 14.1kg

XP record

• Psy power: Telepathic Link (100)
• Talent: Infused Knowledge (400)
• Skill: Inquiry -> Known (200)
• Skill: Logic -> Known (100)
• Skill: Scrutiny -> Known (100)
• Skill: Parry -> Known (100)
• Skill: Psyniscience -> Trained (200)

Background

Abathas was born aboard a Black Ship, one of the hereditary crewmen that all starships are filled with. He became one of the ship's Salutants, gaolers, individuals charged with handling the low-level psykers in a way designed to tease out any of their more dangerous secrets they might be hiding. It's not uncommon for Black Ship crew to develop their own psychic powers in such charged environments and that is what happened to Abathas. The system found him before he even knew it himself, and he was thrown into confinement. He wore the Sanctioning well, and the Inquisition plucked him up - he never knew who or how - and subjected him to intensive psy-locutive techniques, filling his head with all manner of lore the full extent of which Abathas doesn't even understand. Then they put him on Desoleum, where his inquisitive skill and psychic sensitivity have been useful in helping to solve the minor crimes the cell has been tasked with so far.

Physicals

• Height 1.8m
• Weight 65kg
• Complexion Fair

Abathas habitually dresses in dim-coloured clothing including a long black flak coat. His black hair is unruly and so often tied back. He claims sunlight is unnatural and often wears his photo-visor; when he doesn't, his heterochromatic green and blue eyes can startle the hidebound.