Talk:Epitaph: A Gothic Fantasy Game

Tressa Wintergold

Concept: Lawyer Paladin of the Holy Church
Backstory:
The daughter of a minor noble, Tressa was orphaned a decade ago in the great war that raged in the imperial boarder provinces with the old kingdoms. She places the blame for this on the actions of the King of Sarnland, widely fated as a good king, who's war was committed in good cause. For this reason she believes that even a king must be bound by law. Tressa was adopted into the church and quickly became a paladin.

Appearance: Tressa is dark haired, sad eyed and with a hint of aristocratic paleness.

Properties: Paladin

Strength 4 (2 XP)

Dexterity 4 (2 XP)

Wits 4 (2 XP)

Integrity 4 (2 XP)

Charisma 5 (2 XP)

Perception 4(4 XP)

Tablet Fragment

tablet of Law

Esoteria: smite wrong doers

Escoterica: 4

Enhancement Dice: 1 Dexterity

Enhancement Dice 1 Wits

Esoteria: Forces Truthfulness

Endurance: 1

Resonance: 11

XP: 25 (3 unspent)

Camra Tielhard

Concept: The Iron Lady

Health: too old for this shit

Resonance: too much and/or not enough

Camra is a tall, heavily-built woman in her forties with grey eyes and greying hair. She is weathered like a mountain, body and soul.

Properties: -

Strength 7

Dexterity 4

Wits 4

Integrity 6

Charisma 2

Perception 3

Legendary Dreadnought 3

War 3

Fragment: The Black Steel Citadel

Tablet Artefact (plate mail)

Enhance Strength 2

Endurance 2

6 xp: +3 Legendary Dreadnought
6 xp: +3 War
2 xp: +1 Integrity
2 xp: +1 Strength
2 xp: +1 Wits
12 xp: +1 Strength/Dexterity/Wits/Integrity/Charisma/Perception Self-Actualisation Bonus

Fanchon Guillory

Concept: Abandoned Soldier of Forlorn Hope

Fanchon Guillory was born in a soldier's household in a fiefdom on the northern coast, the eldest daughter of an aging armsman who had no sons. When the local lord came for his tithe of swords, Fanchon's father reluctantly allowed her to go out on campaign in his stead. Things went well at first, until a spat with a senior man-at-arms in the lord's retinue led to her being placed in the first assault, sent to break the spears and pikes of the enemy. After her first battle, Fanchon found herself digging out of a mound of corpses, wandering across an open grave as far as the eye could see. Days had passed. She was alone.

She wandered to the center of the battlefield, seeing a sword like her own, adorned with a single stone of purple obsidian. Realizing she would be branded a deserter by her lord, she took the sword in hand, intending to claim her right to return home- even if it means walking alongside death itself.

Properties: N/A

Strength 5

Dexterity 3

Wits 5

Integrity 2

Charisma 2

Perception 4

Specialty - Kunst des Fechtens 3

Specialty - The Power of Suspicion 2

Fragment: Void Cutter - Violation of Space and Boundaries

Tablet Artifact (Zweihander)

Enhance: Perception 2

Esoteria: Targets within perception are cursed to be cut. d5

Esoteria: See the world beyond the illusions of the living.

Esoteria: The separation of distances is illusory. d4

Esoteria: The whole is not distinct from nor inseparable from its parts. d4

Equipment

Noncorporeality (Permanently Equipped)

Light Breastplate (Light Chain) 2

Demon Silk

Status

Damage 1

Resonance 16

Experience 27 (0 Unspent)

Attributes: +3 (6)

Esoteria: +8 (16)

Specialty: +5 (10)

Fiona Nyx

Concept: Spy/Information Broker/Assassin

Despite being relatively young (in her early 20's based on her appearance) Fiona has already gained a considerable reputation in the darkness of the underworld as a spy, information broker, thief, and at times assassin. A skilled combatant with her artifact short sword and a seemingly endless arsenal of various knives, throwing weapons, and other tools - few live past underestimating her yet many do. She has worked for many different employers, never settling down, but is currently in the employ of the Church. Is known to have grown up in an orphanage before finding her ways to the streets, apparently met her teacher when she tried to pickpocket him.

Properties: Enochian (2)

Strength 5

Dexterity 5

Wits 3

Integrity 2

Charisma 3

Perception 5

Specialties

Legendary Assassin 2

Stealthy Spy 2

Fragment: The Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death is a somewhat infamous tablet artifact, having passed from hired killer to hired killer over the centuries. The blade's bearers have worked for the church from time to time, but the church has never actually "owned" the artifact. Its nature or theme is that of silent, stealthy, death - the kind that, sometimes suddenly, creeps up seemingly out of nowhere. Church records on the artifact are rather vague but it appears to grant its masters power over death and shadows. More specifically the artifact is known to have granted various wielders abilities such as cloaking themselves in shadows, stealing other beings' life-energies, commanding and shaping the shadows themselves, "cheating death" itself, laying death curses, killing with the smallest injury, and assorted other abilities.

Tablet Artifact (Arming Sword)

Enhance: Perception

Enhance: Dexterity

Esoteria: Mystical Cloak/Stealth

Esoteria: Life Theft - upon being wounded by the blade

Esoteria: Shadow Bind - Hands/Chains/Tentacles made of shadows grab enemy and proceed to drain their life-force. (Ranged)

Esoteria: Fear of Death - causes those affected to flee or suffer dice penalties as the blade invokes the primeval/instinctual fear of death present in all living things.

Other Gear:

Rogue's Tools

Light Chain

Daggers/Knives, Throwing Weapons

Bow

XP

(4 spent on legendary assassin, 4 spent on stealthy spy, 4 on 2 Dex, 6 on 3 Str, 4 on 2 Per, 2 on Shadow Bind, 2 on Fear of Death)

Isadora Abendroth

Concept: The Noble Vampire

The sole heir to a noble house in decline, Isadora Abendroth's birth did little to give her family hope for the future of their bloodline. Although gifted with a keen intellect and insatiable appetite for learning, the young Isadora suffered from an exceedingly fragile constitution, which often left her bedridden for weeks or even months at a time. Despite the best efforts of her family's personal physicians, her condition failed to improve as she grew into womanhood, her bouts of illness growing longer and more severe with each passing year.

Fearing that their daughter would not survive long enough to wed - let alone produce an heir - Isadora's father, the Baron, decided to take drastic action. Opening a sealed vault within the bowels of the family castle, he removed a locked chest, within which lay a sacred relic, passed down through the Abendroth family for generations - an Enochian tablet fragment, kept hidden from the agents of the Church for hundreds of years. Though no larger than a coin, the fragment was rumored to possess formidable healing powers - powers that might finally cure his daughter of her affliction and grant her the strength to restore the Abendroth household to its former glory.

Carefully placing the tablet fragment upon their daughter's chest, just above her heart, the Baron and Baroness watched in stunned silence as the stone slowly fused with Isadora's pale flesh, the twisting, serpentine script etched into its surface pulsing softly with a dull, ruddy light. Isadora gasped, her body stiffening as the fragment's power coursed through her veins, bringing with it strength and a strange, terrible hunger. From that day forward, Isadora Abendroth would never again know the touch of sickness or infirmity, but her new found vitality came at a terrible price.

In the years since her transformation, Isadora has worked tirelessly to understand her condition and control her hunger. While another noble might have used their power and authority to indulge their appetites, Isadora's lifetime of illness has given her great empathy for the suffering of others, and she seeks to sustain herself without harming her family's subjects; feeding only when she must, and taking only what she needs to survive. Of course, the changes to Isadora's appearance and habits have not gone unnoticed by the common folk, and unsettling rumors have begun to circulate within the Abendroth barony - rumors of forbidden magics and the blessings of dark gods...

Isadora Abendroth is a pale, slender young woman in her early twenties. She is of average height, with deep green eyes and long, coppery hair, which she keeps bound up in a tight bun behind her head. Although quite pretty, Isadora prefers severe, conservative garments with long sleeves and high collars - which help to conceal the tablet fragment embedded in her chest. Her smile - when she chooses to show it - is quite dazzling, though keen observers may occasionally notice the unnatural sharpness of her canine teeth.

Attributes:

Strength: 2

Dexterity: 2

Wits: 4 (2 XP)

Integrity: 4 (2 XP)

Charisma: 6 (2 XP)

Perception: 3

Tablet Fragment: Sanguine Tear

Merit: Esoteric Connection (Flesh-fused)

Enhancement Dice: Charisma 3 (3 XP)

Esoteria: Vampiric Healing 2 - Isadora can heal and rejuvenate her body by feeding upon the blood of mortals.

Esoteria: Hypnotic Gaze 4 - Isadora can mesmerize anyone who gazes into her eyes, their resolve steadily weakening the longer they remain entranced. (+2 dice = 4 - 2 XP)

Esoteria: Soul Tasting 2 - Isadora can absorb knowledge and memories from those she feeds upon. (2 XP)

Esoteria: Crimson Haze 2 - Transforms Isadora's body into an ethereal red mist, allowing her to pass through objects or small openings. (2 XP)

Esoteria: Umbral Swarm 4 - Isadora's shadow becomes a swarm of demonic, blood-sucking bats that attack her foes, sharing the blood they steal with her when they return. (2 XP/+2 dice = 4 - 2 XP)

Esoteria: Crimson Pact 2 - Isadora can transfer the vitality she gains through feeding or using Umbral Swarm to her allies, instead of herself. (2XP)

Esoterica: Flesh of the Demon Emperor 2 - Isadora can transform her skin into flexible, living diamond, granting her increased durability and armor. (2XP)

Tablet Fragment: Crimson Hunger

Esoterica: Infusion 2 - Isadora imbues an ally with a portion of her shard's sanguine power, granting them a small buff, while gaining a small degree of control over them. (2 XP)

Esoterica: Blood Familiar 3 - Isadora can divide her essence to create constructs made out of blood. These familiars can be copies of herself, or of creatures and people she has consumed. (2 XP)

Gear:

Finely crafted dagger.

Armored leather jerkin.

Status

Damage: 2

Resonance: 17

XP: 2

Doctor Sable

Concept: The (not very) Good Doctor
Bio: A doctor, cursed in peculiar circumstances during a particularly severe plague, he nevertheless continues his work as a travelling doctor, healing people in his own specific manner as he goes. Strangely dedicated to his mission, regardless of the hardships that it has brought him. Owns a tablet fragment, though he seems somewhat evasive regarding the exact circumstances in which it has come into his possession.

Stats:

Properties: Enochian (2), Cursed (2)

Strength: 1

Dexterity: 1

Wits: 6 (4+1+1)

Integrity: 6 (4+1+1)

Charisma: 1

Perception: 1

The Plague Doctor: 3

Tablet Fragment: The Flow of Aeons

Esoteria: Inducement of Decay - can induce extremely rapid decay in objects - and memories.

Esoteria: Reversal of Decay - can reverse the effects of decay, restoring things weathered away by time.

Esoteria: Reconstruction of Self - can mend even the worst of wounds - physical and mental - according to the person's perception of self.

Esoteria: Penetrating Stare - allows Sable's vision to pierce through obstacles and see what is normally hidden - clothing and flesh to see the damage within the body, stone to see what is on the other side of the wall, and such.

Esoteria: Reawakening - can breathe life once again into corpses, though their intelligence and independence depends on the time that has passed since death.

XP: 27 (available: 0)

+1 Integrity

+1 Reconstruction of Self

+1 Wits

+1 Reawakening

+1 Reversal of Decay

+1 Plague Doctor

+1 Reconstruction of Self

+1 Integrity

+1 Wits

+1 Inducement of Decay

+1 Penetrating Stare