Adamant Silver

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Basic Character Information

Name: Adamant Silver
Caste: Chosen of Journeys (Sidereal Exalted)
Concept: Iconoclastic wanderer, unhappy in her own skin
Motivation: To help her friends in the Silver Pact, possibly to find a place to belong for herself as well.
Anima: A soft halo of golden light

Attributes and Abilities

Attributes

Physical: Strength 3, Dexterity 5, Stamina 3
Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance 2
Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 3

Abilities

Caste: Resistance 3, Ride 3, Survival 3, Thrown 2, Favored: Dodge 5, Melee 4, Integrity 4, Martial Arts 5 Other: Craft 4, Linguistics 3 (Native: High Realm, Other: Skytongue, Old Realm, Flametongue), Performance 3, Socialize 3, Athletics 4, Presence 3, War 2, Investigation 3, Larceny 4, Lore 3, Occult 2, Stealth 3, Awareness 3, Bureaucracy 3, Medicine 1

Advantages

Backgrounds

Salary 2
Sifu 3
Connections 2 (Silver Pact)
Savant 3
Backing 1 (Convention of Fire)
Artifact 4 (Moonsilver tattoos)
Artifact 3 (Greater Flow)

Willpower, Virtues, and Intimacies

Willpower: 6
Virtues: Compassion 3, Temperance 2, Conviction 2, Valor 3
Intimacies:

Health and Essence

Health: -0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/Incap
Essence: 4
Personal Essence Pool:
Peripheral Essence Pool:
Experience: 400 XP

Merits and Flaws

Flaw: Unusual Appearance (Pox: Albinism) (-2)

Combat Statistics

Defense Statistics

• Dodge:
• Parry:
• Mental Dodge:
• Mental Parry:

Soak

• Unarmored
  • Standard: -3B/-2L/-0A
• Discreet Essence Armor
  • Soak -8B/-7L/-0A, Hardness 2L/2B, Mob -0, Fatigue 0, Attune 5

Combat Statistics

• Clinch
  • Standard: Spd 6, Dmg +0B, Rate 1, Tags C,N,P
• Kick
  • Standard: Spd 5, Dmg +3B, Rate 2, Tag N
• Punch
  • Standard: Spd 5, Acc +1, Dmg +0B, Rate 3, Tag N
• Greater Flow (paired starmetal chain daiklaves)
  • Standard: Spd 4, Acc , Dmg , Rate 2, Tag M

Charms

• Dodge
  • Absence
  • Duck Fate
• Craft
  • Mending Warped Designs
• Presence
  • Force Decision
• Performance
  • Perfection in Life
  • Defense of Shining Joy
• Investigation
  • Auspicious Prospects for Fate
• Larceny
  • 1st Larceny Excellency
  • Name-Pilfering Practice
  • Dream Confiscation Approach
• Integrity
  • Heroic Essence Replenishment
  • 3rd Integrity Excellency
• Resistance
  • Water and Fire Treaty
  • Someone Else's Destiny
• Melee
  • Impeding the Flow
  • Serenity in Blood

Martial Arts

Celestial

• Lunar Hero Style
  • Foot-Trapping Counter
  • Rabid Beast Attitude
  • Thousand Claw Infliction
  • Lunar Hero Form
  • Armor-Rending Claw Fist
  • Crouching Tiger Stance
  • Den Mother Method
  • Running Through The Herd
  • Terrible Wolverine Onslaught

Sidereal

• Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style
  • Deadly Starmetal Offense
  • Orichalcum Sheathing Stance
  • Charm Redirection Technique
  • Demesne Emulation Practice
  • Full Moon Lunar Ways

Personal Information

Appearance

A tall woman, lithe and graceful and athletic, with white-lashed amber eyes that are filled with minute yellow flecks of color like a starry night sky. Perhaps Adamant's most striking feature is her snowy white skin: utterly lacking in any pigmentation at all and marked at various points with moonsilver tattoos. Her platinum blonde hair is streaked with glittering silver in places, and aside from the tiny smattering of freckles over the bridge of her nose she almost seems to have no color at all. If not for her star-filled eyes and freckles, most would mistake her for an albino. Indeed, in the South she has been mistaken for a "civilized" Dune Person once or twice, and must use resistance charms to travel without layers of gauze to shield her skin from the sun.

Most often Adamant prefers simple wear and as little of it as possible, not caring to have her mobility diminished (and she also enjoys making the primary faction activists in Yu-Shan uncomfortable with her open display of advocacy for the Lunar Exalted). When she must dress formally she wears white or saffron-colored silks, along with the gossamer assumption artifact that she can shape into any article of clothing she desires - a gift from a defeated cataphract.

History

Very few people know about Adamant's history pre-Exaltation and she is just fine with that. She was once a shy, dutiful mortal Dynast named Ledaal Kebok Althenia, the fourth of five daughters and the only one of her sisters who failed to Exalt as one of the Dragon-Blooded. Her parents scorned her due to this and chose to wed her to a man a good forty years her senior. While Sesus Maraka was a kind man, he too was mortal, and died of a sudden heart attack a mere two months after their wedding. Instead of returning to her family home in Tuchara, Althenia chose to turn her back on it all and do what she'd always wanted to do: change herself. In an effort to do this, she cut her hair, changed her name, and joined the Vermilion Legion under General Tepet Tilis Mallon.

The Legion was overstaffed and ill-equipped, and full of rough people, but Althenia felt more at home with these ruffians than in all her life as a Dynast and so grew to enjoy military life. Unfortunately it didn't last terribly long; her scouting fang was ambushed by the cannibalistic Varajtul tribe during a reconnaissance mission in the far North. The fang was cut to pieces, with a badly wounded Althenia the only survivor. Summoning the last of her strength she attempted to find her way back to the outpost, but was unaware of the frequency of Wyld storms in the area. In a matter of moments, a bank of freezing fog came upon her unawares. Most of the time these phenomena kill. Althenia was fortunate: the fog merely translocated her, hundreds of miles east from her last location and right into a Bordermarch. It was only her Exaltation during the attempted return journey to the Legion that saved her life, and even then, the ferocity of the Wyld storm left her skin and hair permanently frost-white.

She was discovered by a hermit who lived in a small cabin just on the northern rim of Creation, a strange man who treated her wounds and allowed her to stay. The man, Jonas Featherfoot, turned out to be a casteless Lunar - while he interacted casually with the Silver Pact, he maintained his distance by remaining on his own as a fur trapper scraping a living from the land. However, the Wyld Hunt came for him eventually, and Althenia herself was attacked as well when she inadvertently revealed herself to be Anathema also. Jonas had caught wind of the ambush and sent for help... but while the retrieval pack was able to spirit Althenia back into the Wyld, Jonas was seemingly lost.

There was much debate over what was to actually be done with her, but then it came to light that Althenia was a ronin Sidereal: that she had never been contacted by the Bureau, that she knew nothing of the Fivescore Fellowship or the history of the Lunars, or even what she was. It was argued by several Winding Path and Crossroads Society Lunars that she could be potentially useful, if they could only educate her themselves. If she was trained to be sympathetic to the Lunars' cause, there was no way she'd end up betraying them. Grudgingly the Silver Pact came to an agreement, and Althenia was handed over to a Shogunate-era No Moon named Moonstone Ibis for mentoring and "re-education."

Althenia became a loyal (if only grudgingly tolerated in some quarters) warrior of the Pact, dedicating herself to fighting the Fair Folk at Creation's borders and undergoing the form-fixing ritual taken by all Pact members. While Sidereals had no shapechanging abilities for the Wyld to warp it was thought best to give her some lasting protection against its effects. During the ritual, she discarded the last of her old self and took the deed-name given her as her true name: Adamant Silver, named for her appearance, for her deep amber-gold eyes, and for her sheer stubborn endurance.

Trivia

Themes

• Love
• Personal
  • "The Tower," Vienna Teng
• Fightyporns!