Ren Thephanos

Byzantium: Nightmares Undreamed Of

Ren Thephanos

Chaotic Blood Caster 2 (XP/next XP)

Appearance:

Ren inherited the vivid, emerald green eyes of her mother’s line. She’s decided to match that with matching emerald hair. She dyed the hair over three years ago with a strange dust from a nightmare creature and it hasn’t changed since. While generally dressed practically and for comfort, Ren makes an extravagant display when getting ready for a Nightmare-fueled tour. Pointless metal, curved spikes, random straps, and bright makeup clash with a mix of high-fashion black & red silk outfits and overly designed armor that rarely seems practical.

Motivation:

Ren’s motive is simple. Fame and through fame, love. Some say her parents never showed her enough attention so she seeks it elsewhere. Others know it’s no failing on her family’s part. Additionally, her compulsive behaviours prevent you from staying employed.

Attributes

Primary Attributes:

Charisma	Dexterity	Ferocity	Health	Intelligence	Willpower	Social Class
11	11	11	14	15	09	13

A Rebel Heart (Background Aspect)

A father and society may ask a noble daughter to follow expectations. Ren refuses.

All the Nightmares are but a Stage(Defining Aspect)

An musician or an incursionist--but why not both? Ren is the third 'idol' of a gloomy, death & life obsessed cult of personality. She grooms this reputation with sex, drugs, alcohol, and sensual lyrics of the fractured nightmares she's seen.

Risky Business (Secret Aspect)

Ren will try anything illicit at least once. The weirder / more fucked up it is, the better.

Combat

• Hit Die 1d6
• Initiative:
• Speed:
• AC:
• Disposition:
• Psychic Armor:

Weapons

• Weapon 1 Attack +X to hit
• Weapon 2 Attack +Y to hit

Restrictions

• You can't fight while wearing a suit of plate.
• You must roll to cast spells like any other character when you are encumbered, wearing a suit of plate, or using a shield.

Skills

Blood casters follow a magical tradition that allows them to give up their own life energy to fuel their magic. They can know all the same academic disciplines as other wizards, or be more experienced in butchery, surgery, and the like instead. If you use this expertise in a risky situation, you must roll equal to or lower than an appropriate attribute score on a d20 to do so successfully.

You may also be skilled in other areas, depending on your background and history—hunting, music, or strategy, for example. Discuss your character’s identity with the GM, either before or during the game. You may need to elaborate on how and where you learned a skill when you perform an appropriate action during play.

Special Abilities

• If you kill someone while performing a ritual, you cast it correctly without having to roll. You may slaughter a human-sized animal in lieu of a person. [Ren will only ever sacrifice the willing.]

• When you cast a spell and fail to control it, you may choose to ignore your failed roll and lose 1 point of Health instead (this does not count as an injury). If you are still alive, you retain control over your spell.

• When you cast a spell from memory, you may lose 1 point of Health and retain the spell in your memory, instead of forgetting it, if you rolled to control it and succeeded. If you failed to control it, or spent Health to do so, you may lose 2 points of Health to retain the spell in your memory instead of forgetting it. Neither of these losses counts as an injury.

• You have mastery over 2 spells per level, plus spells equal to your Intelligence modifier.

• You have Psychic Armour. Roll a number of Hit Dice (d6's) equal to your level and add them together to determine your Psychic Armour score, just as you do for Disposition. You are not required to re-roll this when you take a rest, but you may, if you like.

Spells

Memorized X/Y

• Imbuement
• Spells

Equipment

Key: (t)-tiny item, (s)-small encumbering, (r)-regular encumbering, (#)-value of item encumbrance
Limits: Encumbering Items: 4/5(4+Health modifier) | Small Items 1+?/14 (Health Attribute)

• Worn
  • Silver Dagger (Sheathed on right hip)
  • Bastard Sword (An elegant weapon with black leather wrappings. Belonged to her sword instructor, one of her father's noble guards)
  • DidosComposite Bow (Made of a composite of buffalo horn and maple. It has a skull embossed in copper on the grip)
  • Quiver with 2 dozen arrows
  • Light Armour - Leather cuirass, greaves, and arm guards usually worn over a dress with a leather kilt covering the dress. The whole ensemble is a clash of black, red, and bright green.
• Backpack
  • hand mirror
  • week of rations
  • A bright green silk fan
• Coinpurse
  • 34c
• Other/Back in her room
  • Ren's Violin, Friki
  • Backup backpack
  • Manacles
  • Shield
  • Vial of Perfume
  • Jar of Beard Oil
  • A book: It's a book made with supple pages of silver, bound in a cover of thin copper, with ink of writhing black flames. Written by a demon penning an aid for its slave-mage, the book is titled Veracitous Folio of Copper Experience, and is about poisons and plays