Xia Yu Lan
Xia Yu Lan Is a tall Chinese woman with short dark hair, who dresses nondescriptly, favouring a hoody or cap.
Born in the lower class areas of Shanghai, Xia was always a tomboy and a fighter. At sixteen, while she was walking home from school she witnessed one of her friends being assaulted by a some local gangsters, and attempted to intervene, which predictably resulted in them being beaten up in turn. She might have died if not for the intervention of a strange old woman named Yang, who put the gangsters to flight and began to train Xia Yu Lan in how to defend herself properly. She trained with her new Sifu every day for almost five years, until one day, Yang sent her on an errand and when she returned she found the old woman dead, and her dojo in ruins from the fierce battle that took place there. Xia has vowed to take vengeance on whoever had killed her master, and salvaged what of Yang's library that she could, hoping to continue her training.
Xia believes that enlightenment and ascension can only come through struggle and violence. Only by contesting against the overarching power of the system and violent revolution can true enlightenment be gained.
Birthday: February 6th 1989
Concept: Akashic Wuxia girl
Tradition: Akashic Brotherhood
Essence: Dynamic
Nature: Crusader (For The Revolution)
Demeanor: Bravo
Vital Statistics
Arete: 4
Quint: 4
Dox: 6
Damage:
Willpower: 6 (5) (1 BP)
Init: +9
Attributes
Physical
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5 (Perfect poise)
Stamina: 3 (8 XP)
Social
Charisma: 2
Manipulation: 2
Appearance: 4 (Intimidating) (10 BP)
Mental
Perception: 3
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 4 (In combat)
Abilities
Talents (9)
Alertness 1
Athletics 2
Awareness 2
Dodge 3
Streetwise 1
Subterfuge 1
Skills (13)
Do: 3
Drive: 1
Fire Arms: 1
Meditation: 2
Melee: 3
Stealth: 3
Knowledges (5)
Strategy: 2
Linguistics: 1 (English,Mandarin)
Occult: 1
Medicine:1
Backgrounds
Avatar: 4 (1 bp)
Legend: 4
Destiny: 2
Ally: 1 Han Yi Ling: The Lightning Sword
Spheres
Correspondence: 0
Entropy: 0
Forces: 2
Life: 0
Matter: 0
Mind: 3
Prime: 0
Spirit: 0
Time: 3
Merits and Flaws
Vengeance (for her Mentor) 2 points
Overconfident 1 point
Rogue 4 points
Equipment
The best sword she can get Difficult 5 (4) Str +4
Do Limbs
Dharmanmukti
Shastamaga
Sunyakaya
Tricanmarga
Do Maneuvers
Butterfly Palms
Weapon art
XP
64 (4 unspent)
Active Rotes
Ambush Detection 2 Move Reading 2
Rotes
Fish in the Water technique: mind 2
Yu Lan is invisible in Crowds, and unobtrusive elsewhere.
Surrounded by the world technique: time 2
Yu Lan can feel if she's about to be ambushed
Move reading: Mind 2
Yu Lan can read an enemies movements, for each success the enemy is a +1 difficulty to hit her and she's at -1 difficult to evade.
Move like lightning: time 3
Yu Lan focuses her chi so it moves faster through her body, gaining an extra action.
Sword Mirage: Mind 3
using they hypnotic pattern of her sword or martial arts, Yu Lan gets her opponent exactly where she wants to be.
Foci
- Time: Meditation, nerve strikes, Katas
- Mind: Meditation, hitting pressure points, reading muscles, adopting a specific stance (Matching her stance and movement to that of a crowd etc.), the weaving hypnotic point of her sword.
- Forces:Martial Arts, shouting really loud to focus Chi, adopting a specific stance/moving differently (tree jumping), close examination of her surroundings.
- Prime: Meditation.
- Spirit: Martial arts/meditation
- Entropy: Martial arts/meditation, The Force of History is With Us Comrades
- Correspondence: Martial arts/meditation, distance is an illusion
- Life:Martial arts/meditation, pressure points, acupuncture
- Matter:Martial arts/meditation
Contacts
Han Yi Ling - masquerading as Hanahari Hikaru, Master Yang's last student.
Lessons
- The masses can be very helpful when properly persuaded
- Technology is just another sword
- You can find help in unexpected places
- A good strategist prepares at the first sign of trouble