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''[[Exalted: Mal|Back]]''

Resolute Orchid in Sparrow's Shadow was just a girl learning from her beloved sifu when they killed him. She doesn't know who or what or how - her memory of the event is a fractured blur of impossibilities, and the assailant's identity a blank in her mind. But she clearly remembers the aftermath - picking herself off the ground, finding his broken body, and running to the secret hiding place where he kept a book she had glimpsed but been forbidden to ever look at.

The book was incomprehensible, full of exercises that made no sense demanding senses she did not possess. But she persevered, through aching muscles and sleepless nights until an enlightenment settled upon her, and she knew she had been given the chance to avenge her master. She would not waste it.

Orchid is an athletic woman of average height, with black hair done in a ponytail. She is sensibly dressed in trousers, tunic and sandals.

==Basic Info==
'''Caste''': Dawn<br>
'''Motivation''': Avenge her Master<br>
'''Essence''': 3<br>
:'''Personal Pool''': 17 (10)<br>
:'''Peripheral Pool''': 41-8 committed<br>
'''Essence Recovery''': 4/8<br>
'''Willpower''': 8 (7)<br>
'''Health''': 0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/I<br>
'''Join Battle''': 12<br>

'''Mental Dodge DV''': 7<br>
'''Mental Parry DV''': 1<br>

===Combat===
'''Dodge DV''': 8<br>
'''Soak''': 1L/3B <br>
'''Hardness''': 0L/0B <br>

'''Punch''' - Speed 4; Acc +1; Dmg 3B; DV 6; Rate 3<br>
'''Kick''' - Speed 4; Acc 0; Dmg 6B; DV 4; Rate 2<br>
'''Clinch''' - Speed 5; Acc 0; Dmg 3B; DV 5; Rate 1<br>

'''Iron Punch''' - Speed 4; Acc +2; Dmg 5L; DV 6; Rate 3; 1m<br>
'''Iron Kick''' - Speed 4; Acc +1; Dmg 8L; DV 4; Rate 2; 1m<br>

==Virtues==
Compassion: ●●<br>
Conviction: ●●●●<br>
Temperance: ●●<br>
Valor: ●●●●<br>

'''Intimacies'''
*Her master's manual (obsessive protection and secrecy)
*Five Corners (slightly exasperated friendship)

==Attributes==
Strength: ●●●<br>
Dexterity: ●●●●●<br>
Stamina: ●●●<br>

Charisma: ●●<br>
Manipulation: ●<br>
Appearance: ●●●●<br>

Perception: ●●●<br>
Intelligence: ●●●<br>
Wits: ●●●<br>

==Abilities==
'''Martial Arts:''' ●●●●●<br>
'''Melee:''' ●<br>
'''Thrown:''' ●<br>

'''Integrity:''' ●●●<br>
'''Resistance:''' ●●●<br>

Investigation: ●<br>
Lore: ●●<br>

'''Athletics:''' ●●●<br>
'''Awareness:''' ●●●<br>
'''Dodge:''' ●●●●<br>

Linguistics: ● (Riverspeak, Old Realm)<br>

==Charms==
===Martial Arts===
*First Martial Arts Excellency
====Solar Hero Style====
*Fists of Iron Technique
*Sledgehammer Fist Punch

====Violet Bier of Sorrows Style====
''Secret Techniques''
*Secrets of Future Strife
*Flight of Mercury
*Blade of the Battle Maiden
*Joy in Adversity Stance
===Dodge===
*Reflex Sidestep Technique
*Shadow over Water
*Seven Shadow Evasion

==Backgrounds==
'''Artefact:''' ●●●<br>
'''Face:''' ●●<br>
'''Resources:''' ●<br>
'''Contacts:''' ●<br>
*An above-and-below board merchant in Nexus. They helped one another a great deal during the Nexus Incident and are on good terms.

===Artefacts & Treasures===
*Jade Hearthstone Bracers (●●)
:Looted from the corrupt former Immaculate she defeated during the Nexus Incident. 4 (8) motes commitment.
*Winterbreath Jar (●)
:Recieved from the inhabitants of a poor village formerly terrorised by bandits. Currently contains sake at Five's insistence.
*The Sword of the Violet Bier of Sorrows Vol. I: The Hilt
:Recovered from its secret hiding place after the death of her master. This book, written and bound in materials Orchid does not recognise, is filled with astrological tables, poetic koans about fate and cessation, and diagrams of the physical and metaphysical body and heavens.

===Merits and Flaws===
Nightmares: +1 BP<br>
Phobia: Spiders +3 BP<br>

==BP Expenditure==
*+3 virtues (9)
*+3 abilities (3)
*+1 essence (7)

==XP record==
*Session 1: +5 (5)