Stories of the Ungentle Fall
From Lynnesheets
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so don't turn away now;
There once was the youngest son of a high noble family, quiet, clever, kind and handsome, the most promising of the eight children born to his 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 killed her siblings, one by one.
Her youngest brother was her favorite, they had always been close, and so she would have spared him, save that she realized that he 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 he had returned from a long journey, his sister greeted him with a smile, and invited him to sup with her. And it was his undoing that he was too weary to see the gleam of triumph in her eyes when he accepted.
The wine was poisoned, with half of a special poison that did not kill unless both halves were ingested. He did not suspect, at first, as his sister drank the wine, too, both eating food from the same platter. However, she had poisoned the fresh figs, a fruit that she knew he loved, and a fruit that she couldn't eat without breaking out in hives, and without thinking, he ate one.
Once complete, the poison acted swiftly. and Stories died within moments, in agony.
Only, he did not. A man came to him, and offered a chance for revenge. To avenge his once-beloved sister's betrayal. Power to see it done, to ruin her life utterly before the end.
(do you want to die?')
And in rage, he took it, and cast his name into the Void, and became Stories of the Ungentle Fall, Moonshadow in service to the Walker in Darkness.
For two years, he has served him well, and competently, gaining a fair measure of his Deathlord's trust.
His first-and thus far, only-personal project that he has found time to advance was to orchestrate the downfall of his traitorous sister, repaying betrayal with betrayal. In the guise of a ghost haunting her, he 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 he had taken away everything she 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
