Cathak Yuusuka

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Basic Info

Name: Cathak Yuusuka
Aspect: Fire Aspect Dragon-Blood
Concept: House of Bells alumna
Motivation: To travel to the ends of the world and beyond to find a cure for the Golden Demon Curse that lays upon her close, childhood friend, Ashadar Shan
Nature: Bravo
(Natures no longer appear in Exalted Second Edition, but Yuusuka is old school, dating back to ’01, so here it is.)
Intimacies: Ashadar Shan
Appearance: need desc
Current Status

Attributes

PHYSICAL:

• Strength 2 (average strength; lift 160 lbs)
• Dexterity 5 (almost inhumanly swift and graceful)
• Stamina 4 (can march all day without being unduly tired; soak 4 bashing / 2 lethal)

SOCIAL:

• Charisma 2 (average charisma)
• Manipulation 2 (average manipulation)
• Appearance 5/7 (by nature, even the most jaded sovereigns turn their heads when she enters the room. However when wearing her Stone of Inhuman Beauty, she can not be made to look anything but divinely gorgeous. If dressed in rags and covered in mud, she appears stylishly disheveled. If disguised to look horribly scarred, she seems to bear noble wounds that must obviously have come from performing some grand feat of heroism.)

MENTAL:

• Perception 3 (keeps careful track of what's going on around her)
• Intelligence 2 (average intelligence)
• Wits 2 (passable at thinking on her feet)

Abilities

Aspect Abilities

• Athletics 3 (can work as an acrobat in the circuses of the Realm, not that she would stoop to do so)
• Dodge 5 (can escape harm when fighting an inhumanly skilled cataphract of the Fair Folk)
• Melee 5 (can defeat a skilled soldier while standing on one foot and blindfolded)
  • Swords 1
• Presence 3 (can inspire completely demoralized troops before a battle)
• Socialize 2 (can hold her own in court without committing any serious faux pas)

Favored Abilities

• Martial Arts 3 (can skillfully fight multiple opponents)
• Occult 3 (can recognize the difference between real and fake talismans and successfully bargain with moderately powerful gods.)
  • Demons 1
• War 4 (can plan a strategy to lead her squad to victory despite being outnumbered and outflanked by superiorly armed troops)

Other Abilities

• Archery 2
• Awareness 3
• Integrity 3
• Lore 3
• Performance 2
• Ride 2

Willpower and Virtues

Willpower: 6 (confident but not unflappable)
Virtues:

• Compassion: 1 "Poor child, at least you're safe from the demons now."
• Conviction: 3 "What you have done with your mighty essence, I have undone with my bare hands"
• Temperance: 2 "Any Realm legionnaire could drink the lot of you yokels under the table without breaking a sweat"
• Valor: 3 "...even when the wisest tactic by far is to act with caution, she willfully refuses."

Essence and Anima

Essence: 3

• Essence Pool: 66 (see Beacon of Power)
• Committed Essence: 8

Anima

• Power: 5m, becomes immune to natural fire and bursts into flame for one scene. Touch inflicts 3L fire damage.

Banner     Essence Spent     Fades One                Anima Flux
Level      (adjusted*)       Level After              (radius 1 yard)      FX
0          -                 -                        -                    skin tone is a deep pink

1          -                 1 hour                   -                    skin tone transitions to a vibrant red, a faint scent
                                                                           of cinnamon is given off

2          1-4               1 scene / 20 minutes     -                    exhales visible wisps of smoke, air shimmers with heat,
                                                                           Stealth Charms that mute sensory impressions fail, use
                                                                           of Stealth to hide in natural cover incurs +2 difficulty

3          5-7               1 scene / 20 minutes     1L per minute**      surrounded by an aura of red, flickering fire, Stealth
                                                                           is impossible

4          8-12              1 scene / 20 minutes     1L per 9 ticks**     engulfed in a brilliant, crackling, red, yellow, orange
                                                                           and white bonfire, anima power auto-activates if not
                                                                           already up

5          13+               any action in which      1L per tick          each expenditure of Essence results in massive, roaring
                             Essence is not spent                          eruptions of flame suffused with images of phoenixes and 
                                                                           firebirds

**Beings that soak Lethal with Stamina are immune

Merits and Flaws

Legendary Breeding (Merit +3)

• The pinnicle of physical perfection, a veritable avatar of those ideals and qualities associated with the element of Fire, Yuusuka is the fruit of the Scarlet Dynasty's labors. Centuries of arranged marriages, genealogical research and extended research into the inheritance of the Blood of the Dragons has increased the chances of the Dynasty's children Exalting and the power of those who did.

Beacon of Power (Flaw -4)

• Yuusuka cannot hide her divinity and as such, she only has a single Essence pool equal to the sum of her Personal and Peripheral Essence, all of which is considered Peripheral for the purposes of anima displays.

Dark Fate (Flaw -5)

• Can Shan save her from the unspeakable plots of the Storyteller? Stay tuned to find out!

Secrets (Flaw -1)

• Even if her dabbling into sorcery wouldn't cause her to lose standing with her unapproving House, were it to come to light, the fact that several of her associates are Anathema would be enough to ruin her if not brand her a traitor.

Backgrounds

Artifact: 5

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Breeding: 6

• This superb ancestry adds 6 motes to her Personal Essence pool and 11 motes to her Peripheral Essence pool. In addition, she reduces the cost of activating her anima banner by 3 and adds 3 to the roll to determine if her children Exalt. The physical signs of Legendary Breeding are patently obvious, conferring an additional die on most Social rolls with other Dragon-Blooded and mortals who respect or fear the majesty of those chosen by the Dragons. However, the distinctiveness of such Breeding adds two to the difficulty of all attempts for Yuusuka to disguise herself as someone else.

Manse: 4

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Resources: 3 (currently 2)

• Yuusuka is currently living under reduced circumstances. Once, she had substantial wealth at her disposal from her marriage, military career and the backing of House Cathak. Now a widow and having resigned her military career, she has only a modest stipend from her House to rely on. The recent acquisition of a copy of the White and Black Treatises during a brief stop in Nexus, as well her extended travels that continue to take her farther afield of the Blessed Isle have only strained finances further.

Charms

Integrity

• Unsleeping Earth Meditation
• Untiring Earth Meditation

Lore

• Elemental Bolt Attack

Martial Arts

• Five Dragon Claw
• Five Dragon Force Blow
• Five Dragon Fortitude

Melee

• Essence Overwhelming - Melee

Panoply

• a worn and nondescript copy of the White and Black Treatises
• Sozin's Comet need stats and desc
• need desc

Extras

Images

• 

  the House Cathak mon

• 

  Cathak Yuusuka in Realmscript

Combat Quick Stats

                            Base         Base Damage
                  Speed     Die Pool     (includes Str)     DV     Rate     Minimums          Attune     Tags 
Sozin's Comet     3         15           7L                 6      2        Str ●             3          -


Lens Augmented
Fire Bolt         6         11           4L + (4L x m)      -      Simple   Lor ●●, Ess ●●    5          -


Clinch            6         8            2B                 -      1        Str ●             -          C, N, P
Kick              5         8            5B                 3      2        Str ●, Dex ●●     -          N
Punch             5         9            2B                 5      3        Str ●             -          N


Dodge             -         -            -                  7      -        -                 -          -

Soak: 4B/2L

XP and Training

• Suttervale XP : 10
• Widening Gyre XP : 23
• Stunt XP: 1
• Ess. 3, -20
• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery (training: 2 of 3 days passed), -10
• Athletics 3, -3

• Debt XP : 21
• Linguistics 1, -3
• Linguistics 2, -2
• Linguistics 3, -4
• Wind-Carried Words Technique, -12

• Unspent XP : 1

Character Creation Questions

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