Lasting Phantasm
Lasting Phantasm is a native of Harborhead where she was a member of the clan in control of the Leopard Seat. Her real name is Silya. As a princess of peripheral importance, she grew up witnessing the depredations of the Realm against her country, the burden of its tributes levied and its effective enslavement of her people without being directly embroiled in the intrigues forced upon the Leopard's immediate family. Though never particularly good with words, numbers or script, she always understood that, beneath it all, something was never quite right with how things were run.
A natural at martial pursuits, her life plan consisted of joining the Brides of Ahlat until everything was rudely interrupted by Realm satrap Cathak Voper poisoning the Leopard and executing the entire clan. Despite extra men being deployed to the job, the troops sent to kill Lasting were found dead the next morning. Two years later, a coldly beautiful female gladiator began making her name known in distant Gem.
Lasting belongs to the Izhalvi people of Harborhead; she has relatively light skin, amber, almond-shaped eyes and very long hair like drying ink. Her demeanor is succinctly describeable as dark and cold, though her eyes burn much brighter than any possible Abyssal. The usual gladiatorial outfit she wears are a cloak and kilt of black edged with red since she is billed as a Bride of Ahlat. In fact, the assassination of her family occurred shortly before she was scheduled to enter (and presumeably pass) the preliminary contests to determine her eligibility. That said, she's certainly trained with the Brides before and knows their fighting styles and tactics inside out. Her preferred weapons are spears - particularly the two-handed short spear though she usually packs a shield inside the ring.
Vital Statistics
Name: Lasting Phantasm
Age: 18
Concept: Tall, Dark and Vengeful
Caste: Dawn
Motivation: Destroy the Realm.
Essence: ●● (personal: 0/16; peripheral: 30/36; overdrive: 0/10; committed: 0)
Essence Recover: (relaxed: +4; resting: +4)
Willpower: 8/10 [5BP]
Damage: 0L+0B (-0)
Health: 7/7 | -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -4, incap
Exp: 4/39
- Strength 3 (8xp)
- Presence 2 (1xp)
- Integrity 2 (1xp)
- Thrown 2 (1xp)
- Soul Fire Resurgence (8xp)
- Iron Whirlwind Attack (8xp)
- Willpower-Enhancing Spirit (8xp)
Virtues
Compassion: 1/1
Conviction: 4/4
Temperance: 2/2
Valor: 4/5 [3BP]
Intimacies (11)
Ahlat (Shaken Faith)
Unconquered Sun (Wary Respect)
Harborhead (Nationalist Pride)
Realm (Hatred)
Battle (Enjoyment)
AKB (Fascination)
Summer (Ire)
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Combat
Join Battle: Wits + Dex (10)
Punch: Spd 5, Acc 11, Dmg +3B, PDV 6, Rate 3
Kick: Spd 5, Acc 10, Dmg +6B, PDV 4, Rate 2
Clinch: Spd 6, Acc 10, Dmg +0B piercing, Rate 1
Dodge DV: 6
Javelin: Spd 5, Acc 11/14, Dmg +5L, PDV 6, Rate 2 (T, Th)
Fae Javelin: Acc 15
Spear: Spd 5, Acc 15/16, Dmg +5L/+10L, PDV 7, Rate 2 (R, Th)
Shield: Spd 6, Acc 12, Dmg +4B, PDV 9, Rate 1 (M, Sh2)
Backgrounds
Contacts: ●
The gladiatorial scene, including her Mysterious Promoter Buried Mesa.
Cult: ●
Dedicated fans.
Followers: ●
Any high level gladiator will have support staff.
- Abdi - ?
- Blank Page is a courier of Gem who was fired by his previous employer for having the audacity to be literate around his messages. Reemployed by Lasting for his speed and endurance. He is highly skilled at parkour, getting around in general and has a thorough knowledge of Gem's disposition.
- Blazeflower is an attractive and vocal fangirl who rose above the common fangirl to become an inseparable groupie and self-professed slave after a near-death experience. Has few actual skills (perhaps Craft: Lurid Image?) and keeps trying to score skinship but is incredibly super-duper fanatical. Lasting Phantasm has no problem using her whenever necessary but actually admires her Virtues. May be a masochist and is an actively bad cook unless one is also a masochist.
- Drift-of-Sand is either the daughter or little sister or something of Lasting's Mysterious Promoter and was assigned to her by the latter. She is a precocious teen, forward, and gets away with quite a bit, including disparaging remarks on Lasting's lack of bookery. She manages the money and gets arrangements sorted out when doing so requires words rather than a spear or muscle.
- Smoothed Pebble is a womand from a smithing family recently sold into slavery and won in one of Lasting's first title matches. Though very plain (especially beside Blaze and Lasting), she is good at mending all those simple things that need mending and particularly the stuff that her master tends to wreck with regularity.
Influence: ●●
Lasting Phantasm is a gladiator of rapidly growing status, having just reached the top levels of competition after a start in illegal private matches more interested in things besides fighting. She is billed as a Bride of Ahlat from distant Harborhead, though she isn't actually.
Resources: ●●●
Wealth isn't exactly her main interest, but she isn't badly off. Also looted richdude's house though she never got her promised talent of jade.
Attributes
Physical
Strength: ●●●
Dexterity: ●●●●●
Stamina: ●●●●
Social
Charisma: ●
Manipulation: ●
Appearance: ●●●●●
Mental
Perception: ●●●
Intelligence: ●
Wits: ●●●●●
Abilities
Dawn
Archery: -
Martial Arts: ●●●●● (+2 Shields)
Melee: ●●●●● (+3 Spears)
Thrown: ●● (+3 Spears)
War: ●●●●●
Zenith
Integrity: ●●
Performance: -
Presence: ●●
Resistance: ●●●●●
Survival: -
Twilight
Craft (Terrestrial): -
Investigation: -
Lore: ●
Medicine: -
Occult: -
Night
Athletics: ●●●
Awareness: -
Dodge: ●●●●
Larceny: -
Stealth: -
Eclipse
Bureaucracy: -
Linguistics: ●●
- (Flametongue, High Realm, Riverspeak)
Ride: ●
Sail: -
Socialize: -
Charms
First Melee Excellency (1m/dice)
Second War Excellency (2m/success)
Third Resistance Excellency (4m/reroll OR add 5 to static value)
One Weapon, Two Blows (3m)
Roll damage twice for a single Melee or Martial Arts attack.
Peony Blossom Attack (3m; Simple (Speed 5, DV -1); Obvious)
Full pool Melee that applies to all enemies within 3 yards. Defenses resolved separately.
Iron Whirlwind Attack (5m, 1wp; Extra Action; Obvious)
Attack Dexterity+1 times, ignoring Rate and extra action penalties and with DV penalty equal to the single highest amongst the attacks.
Essence-Gathering Temper (Permanent)
Regain overdrive motes for being hit or taking (non self-inflicted) damage.
- Struck but not damaged: 1m
- Bashing damage: 2m/point
- Lethal or aggravated damage: 3m/point
At Essence 3+, will also trigger if the Solar perceives allies (with positive intimacy) or Lunar mate being hit or damaged.
Willpower-Enhancing Spirit (4m)
Roll dice equal to damage taken and regain 1+successes in willpower.
Soul Fire Resurgence (Permanent)
Once per action, may pay 1 wp to roll Valor (or another virtue dramatically appropriate) and regain that many health levels and negate even the most grievous injuries.
Durability of Oak Meditation (2m; Reflexive (Step 7))
Adds (Essence + Resistance) bashing and lethal soak against a single attack.
Iron Kettle Body (6m)
Adds (Essence + Stamina + Resistance) bashing and lethal soak for the rest of the scene. Incompatible with armour.
Battle Fury Focus (5m; Simple (Speed 7); Scene)
Grants +1 to all combat-related pools and reduces all wound penalties by 1. Costs 1wp to cancel prematurely. Limited range of other actions. (pp. 208)
Bloodthirsty Sword-Dancer Spirit (10m, 1wp; Simple (Speed 7); Scene)
Grants +3 to all combat-related pools and removes all wound penalties. Costs 3wp and 1 limit to cancel prematurely or 1wp if restrained by a loved one. Character is berserk! (pp. 208)
Traits
Merits
Born to Rule (2) - There's just something about her.
Gains +1 on all social rolls against social inferiors.
Tactical Genius (3) - Offhand dismissal of higher learning belies someone who can dominate a Gateway board.
In mass combat, after observing for a single long tick, may roll Wits + War in a simple action. Each success goes into a pool of bonus dice that can be added at any time (no more than 3 dice at a time) to attacks by a unit in which character is a commander or special character. Pool can be restocked with a full Wits + War action after being depleted. Also works for rolls made in a game of strategy.
Flaws
Intolerance: Dynasts (-3)
Lasting nurses a deep hatred not only for Cathak Voper personally and the Cathak clan in particular, but for entire institution of the Realm.