Tepet Garel
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[edit] Description
Name: Tepet Garel
Concept: A Wood Aspected Healer and Monk seeking to stabilize the world.
Age: 27
Height: 5' 2"
Appearance: Garel's hair is soft, fine, and a slightly purplish red, the color of the leaves of a Japanese maple in the fall, and he wears it relatively short, especially in the back, and swept away from his face. His eyes are slanted and delicatly almond-shaped, marking his Realm ancestry despite his coloration, and they are a brown so dark its nearly black. His skin is the color of polished maplewood, and is slightly toughened across the shoulders and upper back, the beginings of the barklike tone that potent wood aspects show often have. Possibly the strangest and most telling of his elemental manifestations is the fact that his blood appears to be the same color as tree sap.
Clothing: Garel favors a soft and loose set of plain brown outer robes over a plain white set of clothing made of a very soft and plain silk, his silken armor. When he's out and about, he generally wears his artifacts, which mark him plainly as a Dragon-Blooded. He consistantly wears a small pendant carved of ebony at all times.
Anima: Garel's anima manifests first as a soft glow and a pool of green at his feet, almost like grass, as leaves from an unseen Japanese maple drift past. As his banner grows, the leaves grow more and more numerous, and whirl and dance faster and faster, until he is standing in a field of swirling grass at the center of a hurricane of purple-red leaves backlit glow of the sun falling in a forest.
[edit] Background
Tepet Garel wasn't born to the power and privelage that is now his right, even in the much-diminished walls of House Tepet. He was originally named Healing Leaf, and was a perfectly normal (if fortunate) boy growing up in the city of Lord's Crossing. His father was a moderatly successful mortal doctor, spending most of his time treating the mundane incidients of everyday life. Garel himself was quite an attentive and studious child, and benifited from his father's moderate wealth with a level of schooling verging on that of a patrician. He grew especially aquainted with the healing arts, and by the middle of his 14th year he was well set in his track to a normal life. He even had his eyes on a certain girl.
Then he took his second breath, and everything changed. In the flood of essence, all those plans were washed away. House Tepet was fortunate enough to arrange for a swift adoption, and Garel vanished into one of the most intensly focused crash-course of studies in his life. He was eventually accepted into the Cloister of Wisdom, there to learn the arts of the Immaculates. The healing methods inherent to the element of Wood were attractive to him, especially as they served as a connection to his former life, the only connection, in fact, other than the simple carved pendant he wore, plain enough to be allowed within the context of the Cloister.
After his graduation, Garel was immediatly put to use in an incident involving a widespread bout of divine misbehavior in House Tepet terretory. He continued to serve his adoptive house in investigating and resolving a variety of disturbances. At a certain point one of these brought him into contact with an Imperial Magistrate, who was silently impressed with the quiet young Dynast's quiet competince and humility. A month or so later, the same Magistrate requested his assistance with a matter involving a renagade spirit. Gradually, word was passed around that Garel was an excellent consultant concerning spirits when involving the Immaculate Order was impossible...or inconvinient.
It was only a little while ago that Garel took his first real vacation, for reasons that he refuses to really explain, though the common theory is that it had something to do with the death of his birth father three months prior. In truth, it had little to do with his father's death, though that had contributed. Garel's experiences had intruduced him to just how much the chaos of the current state of things was causing suffering. In effect, he was working through a crisis of concience and especially of faith. His experiences had revealed that portions of the Immaculate philosophy were not so much flawed as outright lies.
It was at this point that Garel discovered (or was given, his explinations are never exactly clear at this point) a copy of one of the True Texts. Over the next several days, he vanished into his private quarters, absorbed in pouring over the accounts within, so different and yet similar to what he knew, and the truth of them echoed in the depths of his soul. He requested, and was granted, an oppurtunity to travel to the east, and essentially vanished into the primordial forest. Finding there the same ancient temple and treading the same path, he called out to his spiritual Grandmother. She offered him the assuredness of purpose he craved, and he accepted almost without question. The touch of her blessing magnified his essence into a spiritual bonfire, his purty of blood renewed at the source. After his spirit had been refined in that furnace of wood, his very flesh had been altered by the potency of his essence and connection to the element of his aspect.
When it was finished, she guided him through one of the gates, into the Celestial city, and took him to one of her many manses. There she showered her newest child with a number of gifts, including control of the Manse itself, and possesion of its hearthstone. Garel has continued to manufacture a place for himself in the Celestial City, building up a minor staff in addition to the servants staffing the manse. He has gathered a reasonable amount of influence within Yu-shan while maintaining contact with his other adopted family. Garel might not have a family that is truely his own, but he will do his best to aid those that have chosen him as their memebers. He serves as one of the Ambassadors of Heaven and Earth, essentially fufilling a similar role as he had filled before, only with a more grand and profound purpose, and a mandate that carries him, on occasion, far from Tepet lands, or even the lands of the realm.
[edit] Crunch
Aspect: Wood
Motivation: Improve the lives of the common folk of Creation
Intimacies: House Tepet, His Father's Memory, Ava Spyefel
Attributes
Strength 4, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3
Charisma 4, Manipulation 2, Appearance 3
Perception 4, Intellegince 4, Wits 4
Abilities
Air
Linguistics 1 (High Realm, Old Realm), Lore 2, Occult 3 (Spirits +2)
Earth
Awareness 3, Integrety 3, Resistance 2, War 2
Fire
Athletics 3, Dodge 5 (While Unarmored +3), Melee 2, Presence 4, Socialize 3
Water
Bureaucracy 2, Investigation 3, Martial Arts 5 (Fighting Unarmed +3)
Wood
Archery 4, Medicine 5, Performance 5, Ride 1, Survival 4
Virtues
Valor 4 [][][][]
Temperance 2 [][]
Compassion 4 [][][][]
Conviction 2 [][]
Willpower: 6 [][][][][][]
Health:
-0 []
-1 [][][]
-2 [][][]
-4 []
Inc []
Limit: [][][][][][][][][][]
Primary Virtue: Compassion
Essence: 5
Personal 17 / 17
Peripheral 38 / 55
Commited 17
Backgrounds
Breeding 6
Artifact 5 (Unique Jade Perfected Kata Bracers, Jade Dragon Tear Tiara, Silken Armor, Jade Hearthstone Amulet)
Backing: Ambassadors of Heaven and Earth 2
Celestial Manse 3 (Stone of the Heavenly Gate)
Connections: House Tepet 3
Connections: Magistry 2
Connections: Bureau of Heaven 3
Connections: Immaculate Order 1
Manse 3 (Perfection of Form Gemstone, Kata-Sculpting Gem, Stone of Healing)
Reputation 2 (Quiet Competince, Humility, and Potent Essence)
Retainers 3
Salary 2
Charms
Dodge
3rd Dodge Excellency
Safety Among Enemies
Elemental Defense Technique
Threshold Warding Stance
Hopping Firecracker Evasion
Virtuous Negation Defense
Smouldering Karma Strike
Unassaliable Body of Wood Defense
Martial Arts, Generic
1st Martial Arts Excellency
Spirit Sight
Spirit Walking
Medicine
1st Medicine Excellency
Infection Banishing Prana
Disease-Banishing Technique
Madness Analyzing Stare
Wound Closing Touch
Purity of Mind Method
Verdant Curtain of Serenity
Grevious Wound Alteration Energy
Jade Crucible Method
Resistance
Ox-Body Technique
Surivial
1st Survival Excellency
Spirit Charms
Essence Plethora
Wood Dragon Style
Eyes of the Wood Dragon
Mind-over-Body Meditation
Wood Dragon Vitality
Soul-Marking Strike
Wood Dragon Form
Unbreakable Facination Kata
Enthralling Blow Attack
Spirit-Wracking Method
Spirit-Rending Technique
Death-Sensing Pattern Attitude
Fluttering Spirit Evasion
Wood Dragon Succor
Soul Mastery
Experience:
Total: 500
Spent: 430
Remaining: 70
[edit] Artifacts
Twin Dragon Roar (Artifact 5 Jade Perfected Kata Bracers)
Attune 10, 2 Hearthstone Slots
- + Essence to Accuracy, Damage, and Defense of natural attacks while a Form charm is active. Additionally, he gains +Essence B/+Essence L soak and +2 rate
- Double Essence for the purpose of determining DDV while a Form charm is active
- Attacks scoring fewer than his Permanent Essence successes after step 4 are subject to redirection to a target of his choice on step 9
Kashekk (Artifact 3 Genesis Djinn)
Attune -
- +2L/+2B Soak
- +1 die to MA attacks for each level of Anima Flare
[edit] Custom Charms
Fluttering Spirit Evasion
Cost: 5m, 1wp Mins: MA 5, Ess 4 Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Tick
Prerequisite Charms: Death Sensing Pattern Attitude and Moment of Daana’d
With a rippling flutter of his form and the whisper of leaves in the wind, the Exalt’s materiel existence is abruptly converted into a purely spiritual form for a single moment. He remains visible as a translucent and ghostly image, but any purely physical object or effect will pass completely through him. Only effects that can apply to dematerialized spirits can hope to affect him. While this technique has obvious applications in avoiding attacks, it also provides a number of other potential benefits to a clever user, such as the ability to pass straight through a wall.
[edit] Combat Summary
Join Battle: 8
Move: 5
DDV: 9 (12 with Form)
Soak: 9L/8B (14L/13B with Form)
Fists:
- Speed 4 Accuracy 13 Damage 4B Rate 3 PDV 7 (cannot parry lethal without a stunt)
Fists with Form Active:
- Speed 4 Accuracy 19 Damage 9L or B Rate 5 PDV 9
Join Debate: 7
MDDV: 7
MPDV: 4
