Stories of the Ungentle Fall
From Deathmenwalking
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so don't turn away now;
There once was the youngest daughter of a high noble family, quiet, clever, kind and beautiful, the most promising of the eight children born to her mother, the Lady of Dreamfall. The succession did not follow traditional lines in that only the bravest, most suited to rule would inherit, manifesting itself in a cutthroat competition that usually resulted in only one child left alive. And so it happened, again, that the eldest daughter of the High Lady, Aleria, killed her siblings, one by one.
Her youngest sister was her favorite, they had always been close, and so she would have spared her, save that she realized that she was too smart, too capable, and that he threatened her chances to get the throne. And in the end, ambition won out over love.
One evening, when the youngest had returned from a long journey, her eldest sister greeted him with a smile, and invited her to sup with her. And it was her undoing that she was too weary to see the gleam of triumph in her eyes when she accepted.
The wine was poisoned, with half of a special poison that did not kill unless both halves were ingested. She did not suspect, at first, as Aleria drank the wine, too, both eating food from the same platter. However, she had poisoned the fresh figs, a fruit that she knew the younger girl loved, and a fruit that she herself couldn't eat without breaking out in hives, and without thinking, the girl ate one.
Once complete, the poison acted swiftly. and the girl who would become Stories died within moments, in agony.
Only, she did not. A man came to her, and offered a chance for revenge. To avenge her once-beloved, once-adored sister's betrayal. Power to see it done, to ruin her life utterly before the end.
(do you want to die?')
And in rage, she took it, and cast her name into the Void, and became Stories of the Ungentle Fall, Moonshadow in service to the Walker in Darkness.
For two years, she has served him well, and competently, gaining a fair measure of her Deathlord's trust.
Her first-and thus far, only-personal project that she has found time to advance was to orchestrate the downfall of her traitorous sister, Aleria, who had indeed become the Lady of Dreamfal, repaying betrayal with betrayal. In the guise of a ghost haunting her, she drove her past the brink of madness, broke her mind apart with dark truths and shame, drained all her hope away, poisoned the minds of all she cared about against her, and when she had taken away everything Aleria had cared about, left her alive.
Which may probably be a mistake.
these are the scars that silence has carved on me;
Appearance.
they've given up believing;
Personality.
this is the fate you've carved on me;
Title: Stories of the Distant Fall
True Name:
Caste: Moonshadow
Concept:
Motivation:
Intimacies:
Anima banner:
Image Song: Vienna Teng, Gravity
Str: 2
Dex: 3
Sta: 2
Cha: 3
Man: 4
App: 4
Per: 3
Int: 3
Wits: 3
Caste Skills: Bureaucracy 2, Linguistics 4, Socialize 4, Ride 1, Sail
Favored Skills: Performance 5, Presence 3, Integrity 4, Investigation 3, Dodge 5
Other Skills: Lore 2, Melee 1, War 1, Awareness 2, Resistance 1, Occult 3
Charms:
Dodge
- Third Dodge Excellency
Integrity
- Third Integrity Excellency
Investigation
- Second Investigation Excellency
- Crime-Unveiling Wickedness
- Deception-Piercing Stare
Performance
- Second Performance Excellency
- Soul-Desiccation Style
- Lies That Tell Themselves
Socialize
- Exquisite Etiquette Style
- Honey-Tongued Serpent Attack
Backgrounds:
- Liege 3
- Artifact 2 (soulsteel hairchimes, give a -2 internal to dodge and parry MDV, blah blah, will finish later)
- Artifact 1 (hearthstone amulet)
- Underworld Manse 1
Compassion: 1
Conviction: 3
Temperance: 3
Valor: 2
Willpower: 5
Essence: 3
Per:
Peri:
Resonance:
Merits:
Flaws:
Throwback 2
Eternal Vow 1
Enemy 2
turned aside our stories of the gentle fall;
- Standard: Vienna Teng, "Gravity"
- Aggressive:
- Introspective:
- Fighting:
i am turning in revolution;
this the same place/no, not the same place/this is the same place, love/no, not the same place we've been before
