Syrine

Player Character in The Shadow Over Creation

Syrine

Basic Information

Name: Syrine. She has no other.
Concept: Wandering Ex-Slave with a Grudge
Caste: Night
Anima: A maiden bursting forth from chains
Limit Trigger: Being bound, captured, confined, or enslaved

Supernal: Larceny
Caste Abilities: Athletics, Dodge, Larceny, Socialize, Stealth
Favored Abilities: Awareness, Integrity, Performance, Presence, Thrown

Tracking Stuff

Willpower: 5/5
Personal Motes: 13/13
Peripheral Motes: 16/33 (17 committed)
Health Levels (-0, -1, -1, -1, -2, -2, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated): None Damaged

Regular XP: 22/38
Reed in the Wind: -8
Joint-Wounding Attack: -8
Solar XP: 15/19
Strength 2: -4
Athletics 2: -1
Awareness 2: -1

Important Stats

Join Battle: 5 Dice (13 with Blinding Battle Feint)
Guile: 6 Resolve: 4
Evasion: 5 Parry: 3
Soak: 6 Hardness: 0

Unarmed (Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural) 5 dice (+4 for withering), 9 damage
Leaf of Szoreny (Lethal, Thrown (Long), Cutting, Special) 10 dice (+5/+4/+3/+0/-2 for withering), 14 damage, 4 Overwhelming
Knives (Lethal, Melee, Thrown (Short)) 5 dice (+4 for withering)/10 dice (+5/+4/+3/+0/-2 for withering), 9 damage
Needles (Subtle, Poisonable, Thrown (Short)) 10 dice (+5/+4/+3/+0/-2 for withering), 9 damage
Chain shirt (Concealable) 3 soak, 0 hardness, 0 penalty

Other Items:

• A pretty silk fan she stole from someone
• Varying clothes that weren't hers
• Disguise kit
• Lockpicks
• Things random passerby had until a few moments ago

Syrine in more fun attire

Attributes

Strength 2 Dexterity 5 Stamina 3
Charisma 2 Manipulation 5 Appearance 4
Intelligence 1 Perception 3 Wits 4

Abilities [Specialties]

Athletics 2
Awareness 2
Dodge 5
Integrity 3
Larceny 5 [Disguise]
Linguistice 1
Performance 3 [Dance]
Presence 5
Resistance 1
Socialize 5 [Guile]
Stealth 5 [Crowds]
Thrown 5

Merits

Languages 3: Riverspeak(n), Low Realm, Old Realm, Skytongue.
Artifact 3: A Leaf of Szoreny (3-dot Starmetal, Chalcanth, and Vitriol Skycutter)

• This hard-to-observe skycutter is a jagged, mirror-shined blade with handles of eerily clear leather, that drips a vitriol which seems to gather and stifle color. Barely perceptible on the flat of the blades, except in guttering twilight, the harsh light of Ligier, or certain alchemical preparations, sutras are engraved from the Broken-Winged Crane. Until recently, it was a sacred (and useless) relic to a hidden cult of Ca'ar-Iqqesh, The Harvest of Twisted Seed, a second-circle soul of Szoreny. A slave to one of the Patrician mistresses of the cult (technically slave to a Dragon-blooded Dynast and rented, this being the Realm) used guild and well-placed whispers to ensure that Immaculate attention fell on the cult, and absconded with the Leaf.
• Uses Spring Razor's evocations and stats other than being a Skycutter instead of a Daiklave. A Solar, Infernal, or any sort of Akuma who attunes to A Leaf of Szoreny gains Howling Lotus Strike at no cost. The Leaf of Szoreny boasts two hearthstone sockets hidden by illusion among its mirrored facets.
• Evocations
  • >Howling Lotus Strike (Spring Razor 620)

Artifact 3: Belt of Shadow Walking (page 602)

• All stealth rolls at +3
• 10m to turn into living shadow for 1 scene
  • Pass through tiny cracks
  • Diff 2 to notice in direct light, otherwise invisible
  • Standard immaterial advantages and disadvantages while in shadow form
  • Can transform worn/carried items but not other beings

Familiar 1: Piq the albino mink
Contacts 3: Immaculate Order - monks, missionaries, etc

Solar Charms (Ability and page)

Graceful Crane Stance (Athletics 260)
Reed in the Wind (Dodge 299)
Drifting Lead Elusion (Dodge 300)
Shadow Over Water (Dodge 300)
Seasoned Criminal Method (Larceny 315)
Flawless Pickpocketing Technique (Larceny 316)
Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise (Larceny 317)
Perfect Mirror (Larceny 319)
Reversal of Fortune (Larceny 320)
Flashing Ruse Prana (Larceny 321)
Harmonious Presence Meditation (Presence 369)
Ox-Body Technique (Resistance 375)
Motive-Discerning Technique (Socialize 393)
Perfect Shadow Stillness (Stealth 403)
Blinding Battle Feint (Stealth 404)
Precision of the Striking Raptor (Thrown 415)
Joint-Wounding Attack (Thrown 415)

Intimacies

Intimacy	Intensity	Details
Demon-Worshippers	Defining Negative Tie	She has a very proximare grudge
Break Cruel Chains	Defining Principle	Being a slave to awful masters colors her opinions of the institution. While she's not going out of her way to free every slave, one that requests her aid is likely to get it
The powerful should be wary - of me	Major Principle	She doesn't have a problem with authority per se, just authority figures doing things she doesn't like, and she's likely to take an opportunity to 'keep them honest'
Immaculate Order	Major Tie	They destroyed the cult she used to be a slave of, after all
Anathema are awful demon-things	Minor Negative principle	More than a bit congitively dissonant - she needs to deal with this
Demons	Minor Negative Tie	She has a bit of a grudge, but it wasn't demons that held her in thrall
The Guild	Minor Negative Tie	They trained and sold her, but a lot of her early life was kind of a blur so she's not sure
Order is good	Minor Principle	Obviously, she's a lawbreaker of many kinds, but she appreciates that society needs to function and there are lines not to cross
What I want, I take	Minor Principle	Now that she has power, she has the power to take the things she wants, even if they're not really hers
Wheat	Minor Tie	She appreciates being able to eat and stuff on their journey
108	Minor Tie	Oooooh, pretty
Ranjan	Minor Tie	Fellow cultist-hater
Morning Way	Minor Tie	Usefully Rich
Aria	Minor Tie	Grateful

Backstory

Syrine was a slave in the Blessed Isle, whose mistress was involved with a Yozi cult. She Exalted by secretly spreading enough whispers around that the Immaculate Order took notice of the cult, but not her, and she slipped away with the cult's most sacred artifact