Character:Clavis Morden

Clavis Morden
Standing no more than 1.55m tall, of slender build and looking much younger than her 29 years by solar reckoning Clavis Morden isn't the most impressive figure in a physical way. Perpetually tousled curly blonde hair and blue eyes shining with curiosity behind slim duralumin-rimmed spectacles complete the impression of unseasoned youth. Few who do not know her would consider her someone to take seriously or even a threat if not for the formal black robes with the insignia of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, the ominous gravitas of which makes most people reconsider that first impression. But even without that chilling reminder the wise man would be less hasty to dismiss Clavis. Behind those blue eyes a sharp intellect is at work and although inexperienced she has been trained by one of the best. For her part Clavis often enjoys the completely different misperceptions brought on by no more than her choice of clothes.

Gender: Female
Career: Imperial Psyker
Rank: Scholar Medicae
Age: 29 solar standard
Planet of Birth: Voidborn, IWS Lightbringer
Divination: There is no substitute for zeal

Characteristics

	Score	History
WS	29	-
BS	28	-
S	23	-
T	40	-
Ag	35	-
Int	49	**
Per	42	**
WP	57	**
Fel	37	-

• Wounds: 8
• Fate Points: 2
• Insanity Points: 2
• Corruption Points: 0

Traits

• Charmed: Preternatural luck. When spending a Fate Point roll 1d10, on a roll of 9 the Fate Point is not lost.
• Ill-Omened: Mistrust due to being void born. -5 on Fellowship tests made to interact with non-void born humans.
• Shipwise: A natural affinity for space ships, Navigation (Stellar) (Int) and Pilot (Starcraft) (Ag) are Basic Skills.
• Void Accustomed: Used to the vagaries of changing gravity Clavis is immune to space travel sickness and zero- or low-gravity environments are not considered Difficult Terrain.
• Sanctioned Psyker: Clavis has been tested and sanctioned by agents of the Golden Throne on Holy Terra itself.
• Unreadable Mind: The deep recesses of Clavis' mind cannot be read by psychic or other means. Any such attempt reveals only a fathomless void of darkness (complete immunity to Mind Scan and similar effects or abilities).

• Psy Rating 3

Basic Skills

Trained: Awareness (Per) +10, Deceive (Fel), Dodge (Ag), Inquiry (Fel), Logic (Int), Scrutiny (Per)

Untrained: Navigation (Stellar) (Int) (Shipwise), Pilot (Starcraft) (Ag) (Shipwise), Barter (Fel), Carouse (Fel), Charm (Fel), Climb (Str), Command (Fel), Concealment (Ag), Contortionist (Dex), Disguise (Fel), Drive (Ag), Gamble (Int), Intimidate (Str), Search (Per), Silent Move (Ag), Swim (Str)

Advanced Skills

Speak Language (IWS Lightbringer ship dialect) (Int), Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int), Psyniscience (Per) +10, Invocation (WP) +10, Literacy (Int), Trade (Merchant) (Fel), Forbidden Lore (Warp) (Int), Forbidden Lore (Psykers) (Int) +10, Scholastic Lore (Occult) (Int), Scholastic Lore (Legend)

Talents

Melee Weapons Training (Primitive), Pistol Weapons Training (Las), Resistance (Psychic Powers), Meditation

Gear

Clothing and Armor

• Civilian clothing, including standard adept and scholarly robes (common quality clothing)
• Formal Adeptus Astra Telepathica robe (Aspirant rank)
• Lathe Mesh Imitation (AP 4, Arms, Body, Legs, 2kg; AP 3, Head, 0.5kg)
  • According to regulation 734B-12 of the Adeptus Arbites any consultants and other outside personal assisting the Arbites are responsible for their own personal protection. No petitions for restitution are allowable in case of injury or death during an investigation if the consultant has not taken proper steps to ensure their own safety. As Quaestor-Inferius Malus Ravion has been called for consultation a number of times over the years Clavis has had to take 'proper steps' as well, especially since some Arbitrators are in her opinion entirely too careless with their shock mauls. So laying down her savings of three years Clavis has acquired a mesh body glove to protect herself - no true Lathe Mesh, but a good enough imitation.

Weapons

• Staff (1d10 I, Pen 0, Balanced, Primitive, 3kg)
• Knife (1d5 R, Pen 0, Range 3m, Primitive, 0.5kg)
• Mars Pattern Mark IV Command Laspistol w/ Red-Dot Laser Sight (S/2/-, 1d10+3 E, Pen 0, Range 70m, Clip 15, Rld Full, Reliable, Accurate, 1.75kg)
  • And old and much used weapon that has seen many battles in the hands of various officers through the centuries. Well maintained with proper care and respect it looks like it will serve well for many years still. Its machine spirit is loyal and experienced, but it takes a few seconds to awake with a high-pitched whine after the safety is thumbed off. The wooden parts of the grip are recently renewed and have burned-in inscriptions: The Emperor Protects and the Imperial Aquila on one side, Stay safe, my disciple, and shine brightly along the personal sigil of Malus Ravion on the other. As a graduation present from her teacher and mentor Clavis treasures the weapon and carries it with her more often than strictly necessary.
• Weapons belt and 1 additional charge pack

• Psykana Mercy Blade (emergency self-termination only)

Other

• Imperial Tarot deck
• Fine branch of a crystalline wood (Psy-Focus)
  • In a curious phenomenon the indigenous trees on the planet Pythus seem to die after only a few years but do not stop growing. Instead they begin to accrete various elements abundant in the strange atmosphere of the planet and slowly over many decades the seemingly dead wood transforms into a sort of semi-living crystal. It has been theorized that [ACCESS DENIED, reference is sealed]. Nonetheless they are sanctioned for use as psy focus and both Diviners and Biomancers prize them.
• A small stone from Holy Terra on a string (Charm)
• Filtration Plugs (+20 to Toughness tests to resist pollutants and gases)
• Data-slate
• Lamp pack

• Glow lantern (memento)
• Animal horn chip (memento)

Spending

• 475T Xeno Mesh with hood
• -15T knife instead of axe
• 150T Mars Pattern w/ sight instead of standard laspistol
• 10T additional charge pack
• 15T filtration plugs
• 25T data-slate
• 15T lamp pack
• 35T various common quality clothes

Total: 700T

Psyker Powers

Focus Power: [1-4]d10+5

Minor Psychic Powers (14)

• Resist Possession (PT 6, Reaction, re-roll failed possession test in the next hour)
• Precognition (PT 6, Half Action, Sustain, +10 Dodge and parry WS)
• White Noise (PT 8, Full Action, Sustain, -20 to detect through tech or psy)
• Spectral Hands (PT 10, Full Action, manipulate object within 30m with S=WP)
• Endure Flames (PT 8, Half Action, Sustain, immune to fire, reduce energy damage by half before soak)
• Chameleon (PT 7, Half Action, Sustain, +30 Concealment, -20 to opposed BS)
• Healer (PT 7, Full Action, heal 1d5 Wounds)
• Suggestion (PT 9, Half Action, opposed WP to implant a suggestion within 8m, +20 to Interaction skills)
• Spasm (PT 7, Half Action, WP or fall down and discharge weapon at nearest creature)
• Haywire (PT 10, Full Action, disrupt one +1/10 overbleed electronic devices or creatures within 25m, stun for 1 round, RH)
• Float (PT 8, Half Action, Sustain, levitate up (max 5m) and down, keep from falling with WP at -10)
• Staunch Bleeding (PT 8, Half Action, halt Blood Loss in one target +1/5 overbleed within 10m)
• Sense Presence (PT 7, Half Action, Sustain, detect all living creatures within 5m+10/5 overbleed)
• Without A Trace (PT 6, Half Action, Sustain, leave no evidence of your passing whatsoever)

Major Psychic Powers (4 - Divination, Telekinesis)

• Glimpse (PT 18, Half Action, sense potential futures, gain +30 to any one skill test)
• Dowsing (PT 11, Full Action, Sustain, test Psyniscience to find target, sympathy: +5, intimate familiarity: +10, within 100m: +5, distance >500m: -10, one among many: -10)
• Precognitive Dodge (PT 11, Free Action, manipulate probability to inflict -30 to all opposing BS tests until the end of the next turn)
• Precision Telekinesis (PT 23, Half Action, Sustain, manipulate objects with characteristics=WP)

Background

Clavis was born 29 years ago on board the IWS Lightbringer, a Battlefleet Calixis war ship of almost suspiciously bland reputation on deep patrol on the fringes of Imperial space. Her mother, Deatrix Morden, was a well-respected proactive security officer (2nd class), but her father Zarkov carried the heavy burden of the psyker talent (some would say 'curse'). Nonetheless he was a faithful Imperial citizen, striving to carry out his duty to the God-Emperor of Mankind and employing his abilities - sanctioned, of course - to serve and protect the Lightbringer in whatever mysterious ways he might. Clavis also had two elder brothers, strong Attilas (7 years older) and gentle Carus (2 years older), to shield her against the superstitious fear and loathing from the other children in segment-daycare. In time both Attilas and Carus manifested psychic talents of their own and under Zarkov's guidance learned to control them. Some may wonder how a loving family could arise from witches and murderers, but to Clavis it seemed only natural that Attilas could move his toy soldiers with his mind, that Carus always knew how people really felt, and that mother was often gone for days or even weeks at a time. That was just how things were and if other children told different stories, well, father had told her that these things had to be a family secret and that other people wouldn't understand, so maybe it was like that for them as well?

It was at age six that the nightmares began. Sporadic and only during sleep shifts at first but more regularly over the months and during work shifts as well: Visions of being surrounded by arcane machinery, being part of that machinery, sometimes being consumed by it. Of being subjected to anbaric shocks, pricked with needles full of strange fluids, of being poked and probed with unnatural apparati. Knifes cutting into her body and mind, vivisecting, trimming, shaping. And all through it those towering figures in white, distant and all-powerful and uncaring. Sometimes she'd even lose time with nothing to account for the events of those hours but vague pains and more nightmares. If not for the support of her family the young Clavis may well have retreated into insanity, but Carus, Attilas and Zarkov were there for her with love, compassion and, she sometimes thought, a fearful unspoken understanding. Whether they too had been plagued with these visions she never found out, though if like herself they were unable to speak clearly of the experience it would explain the wordless and unquestioning support.

With eight years, the nightmares having become less frequent again, Clavis began to have presentiments, feeling in advance that mother would be returning from 'business' the next day or that school would be an unpleasant experience again today. Then as she became aware of it the presentiments turned into full precognitive episodes, her anger would make the walls tremble and her fear terrify half the hab segment. The sudden and uncontrolled first manifestation of psychics powers is perhaps the most dangerous phase a psyker goes through and many are damaged by the trauma or even worse, corrupted. Here it became apparent that her father had been either very wise or precognizant for many of the verses and little games of concentration he and her brothers had taught her turned out to be psykana control exercises. In this way just like Attilas and Carus before her Clavis made her way through that traumatic first phase. And just in time for the Lightbringer had after a multi-year patrol returned close enough to civilization to transfer all her newly found psykers to one of the Black Ships.

Thus began the pilgrimage on board the Semper Vigilans CVII. As is common for the Black Ships and perhaps even intended the conditions and surroundings during the journey were horrific, but to Clavis who had survived the living nightmare and Carus who'd been assigned the same cell block as her it wasn't as terrible as it was for some - at least they had each other. After long months in the Immaterium - several years in the real world - the Semper Vigilans CVII completed its latest circle and Clavis had arrived on Holy Terra there to be tested and evaluated. Oh what glory, the holiest of holies, the one and only Terra! Being found worthy of serving the Imperium of Man as a sanctioned psyker, learning the psykana from the great masters of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, spending day and night knowing that the God-Emperor himself sits on his Golden Throne on the very same holy planet! And only a small drop of sadness marred the otherwise so uplifting time on Earth, not knowing what fate had awaited her brothers upon arriving. Trained, conditioned, subjected to the Rite of Ten-Thousand Needles, and finally sanctioned Clavis was ranked a promising subject, not least perhaps because of the abnormally strong defense against psychic intrusion she'd displayed. Not even the Delta grade psyker assigned to test her had managed to find more than empty darkness in the depths of her mind. It was perhaps only natural, he'd said, that growing up in a family of witches a girl would develop powerful defenses to keep her privacy. After receiving high marks on the mental aptitude test for Adeptus service Clavis was at 21 solar standard (biological age 14) directed to serve the Adeptus Astra Telepathica directly.

Assigned as apprentice-tertiary to Quaestor-Inferius Malus Ravion of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica Calixis, Internal Revision Section 13, 'Sanctionite Morden' began her training in earnest. Adeptus lore and history, dealing with the paperwork, proper bearing and attitude, and of course employing her talents rather than just keeping them under control. The lessons were manifold. All in the context of Malus Ravion's work, of course: Identifying manifest psykers, determining latent potential, finding bright talents before corruption can claim them. Assessing conformity to regulations in Adeptus installations, auditing records, investigating complaints. Advising persons of importance on matters of psychic security, consulting for the Adeptus Arbites when requested. Clavis took to the training with great energy - finally a chance to prove herself, to do her part for the Imperium of Man and Him On Earth. And to show master Ravion, who quickly became something of a father figure to her, that the time and effort he'd invested in her would not be in vain. In just six years, well ahead of the average time, she graduated to apprentice-primary and under the proud eyes of master Ravion gained the additional qualification for fieldwork (supervised) soon after.

Not all things she began brought fruit however. A relationship with the other apprentice-secondary at the time, a young man by the name of Jo Castilan from Hive Ambulon, turned rocky over his recklessness in drawing upon the Warp.

• Dating her fellow apprentice-secondary turns out badly when he loses control and starts to mutate
• Commended for loyal service by Quaestor-Ordinarius Malus Ravion after picking up on the first thread to unravel the so-called Kaltstahl Heresy on <Planet>

Qualifications

• Sanctioned psyker of grade Zeta Epsilon, confirmed Secundus-class failsafe conditioning, no history of major warp manifestations
• Scholastica Psykana training in the theory as well as perception and evaluation of warp phenomena and psychic events or individuals
• Operating deep probe blocks, sufficient up to Delta level intrusion (no tests performed beyond Delta level)
• Licensed to perform psychic healing in emergency situations
• Rated SD (sufficient for self-defense) with staff and las pistol
• Cleared for fieldwork (under supervision)

Personality

Quirks

• Unusually elegant hands

Advances

XP gained: 3400
XP spent: 3100
XP unspent: 100

Starting XP

• Living Nightmare background package (300 XP)
• Willpower * (100 XP)

Sanctionite (0-499 XP)

• Intelligence * (100 XP)
• Perception * (100 XP)
• Forbidden Lore (Warp) (100 XP)
• Awareness (100 XP)
• Scholastic Lore (Occult) (100 XP)

Neonate (500-999 XP)

• Psy Rating 2 (200 XP)
• Deceive (100 XP)
• Forbidden Lore (Psykers) (100 XP)
• Willpower ** (250 XP)

Aspirant (1000-1999 XP)

• Dodge (100 XP)
• Inquiry (100 XP)
• Scholastic Lore (Legend) (100 XP)
• Perception ** (250 XP)
• Awareness +10 (100 XP)
• Intelligence ** (250 XP)

Scholar Materium (2000-2999 XP)

• Psy Rating 3 (200 XP)
• Psyniscience +10 (100 XP)
• Logic (100 XP)
• Scrutiny (150 XP)
• Psychic Power (200 XP)
• Forbidden Lore (Psykers) +10 (100 XP)
• Invocation +10 (100 XP)

Scholar Medicae (3000-4999 XP)

• Psy Rating 4 (200 XP)
• Psychic Power (100 XP)

Miscellaneous

Random character generation
Perception re-roll