Hexen Ward: Character 3

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Adelaide Tanner

Gender: Cisgender Female
Age: 20 years
Appearance and Demeanor: Adelaide doesn’t look like much. She is a young woman, dressed in simple, working-class clothes. She is thin, pale, and sickly-looking. She is soft spoken and hesitant in social interactions. Indeed, she seems to generally prefer having her nose in a book. She reads anything she can get her hands on on a wide range of topics. People who get close to her find that she is a firm and fiercely loyal friend. She is also well informed about a wide range of topics—and, if she doesn’t know about something, she often knows how to find out about it. She also does not take well to people being bossed around and bullied and is more than willing to stand up for herself or others, despite her normally quiet, withdrawn manner. Those bullies who have tried to take advantage of her apparent weakness often discover that she is a very competent fighter—and some come away swearing they’ve seen her do unnatural things in a fight.

Attributes

Guile: 1d6
Nerve: 1d6
Reflexes: 1d8
Savvy: 1d10

Roles

Con: 1d4
Fixer: 1d6
Helper: 1d6
Infiltrator: 1d6
Leader: 1d4
Researcher: 1d10
Scrapper: 1d8

Distinctions

• Streetwise: Soft-spoken, sickly-looking, bookish girl 1d8
• Hexen: A fierce fight and a loyal friend and ally 1d8
• Fae: Rebel against all authority 1d8

SFX

• Boneweaver Limit: Shut down this Mastery until the end of the following scene to earn a PP.
• Hexen: Once per scene, step up or double an Attribute. 1s and 2s count as hitches.
• Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a 1d4 instead of a 1d8.
• Impervious (Boneweaver): Spend a PP to shrug off a physical or magical attack as if your skin was made of impenetrable iron.

Tricks

Second Sight 1d8
Conjuring 1d6
Interdiction 1d6

Masteries

Boneweaver 1d10

Focus

Family copy of The Communist Manifesto 1d6 [ ] [ ] [ ]

Backstory

Adelaide Tanner was born in a poor, London, working-class family, one of many children. With her thin, sickly appearance, her parents did not expect her to survive long, but the girl turned out to be extremely healthy, despite her appearance. Her parents, Cora and Nigel, are both committed radical left-wing activists and Adelaide grew up immersed in Marxist and anarchist ideas. When she showed a bookish bent, her parents encouraged that, using some of their meager funds to buy her books. They took pride in her abilities, the socialist movement needed working-class intellectuals, and with her sickly appearance, she would have a hard time finding work requiring physical labor.

When she turned sixteen, some beings followed Adelaide at night. She prepared to defend herself, but they explained that they had come to reunite her with her own kind. Adelaide was not in fact human but a changeling, a spriggan placed in a human body. Spriggans normally appear as pale, twisted gnomes—thus Adelaide sickly appearance. But when necessary, they swell to enormous size and take on all comers in a fight. Her mission, these fae said, had been to learn about the machines for the Lady of the Seelie Court in order to sabotage them. At first, Adelaide felt drawn to work for the Seelie Court. It was a whole new world of things to discover and sabotaging machinery seemed like it could be part of the struggle against capitalism and authority. But she quickly discovered that many fae had no concern if they killed large numbers of humans with their acts of sabotage and some members of the Unseelie Court and Hunt positively reveled in it.

Adelaide quickly decided, changeling or not, she wanted nothing to do with these fae. They were one more unjust authority to rebel against. Fortunately, she discovered there were other changelings who had decided they wanted nothing to do with their self-proclaimed matters.