Minus the bird!
Name: Araleen ‘Alta’ Narcia
Age: 27
Sex: Female
Homeworld: Shrine World
Divination: “Do not ask why you serve. Only ask how” (+1 Fate Threshold)
Background: Adeptus Astra Telepathica
Speech Color:
#ff6600Role: Mystic
Elite Advances: Psyker, Astropath
WS: 27
BS: 28
S: 34
T: 33
Ag: 29
Int: 39
Per: 29
WP: 40*
Fel: 37*
Inf: 36
*Denotes purchased upgrade
Wounds (Critical): 11/11
(0)FP: 1/4
Movement: Half: 2. Full: 4. Charge: 6. Run: 12
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Insanity: 0/100
Corruption: 0/100
Mutations: -
Carry Capacity: 36kg
Lifting Off the Ground: 72kg
Pushing/Shoving Limit: 144kg
Skills (known skills in bold):
Acrobatics (Ag)
Athletics(S)
Awareness (Per)
Charm (Fel)
Command (Fel)
Commerce(Int)
Common Lore (Int)
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Adeptus Astra TelepathicaDeceive (Fel)
Dodge(Ag)
Forbidden Lore (Int)
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The WarpInquiry(Fel)
Interrogation (WP)
Intimidate (S)
Linguistics (Int)
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High GothicLogic(Int)
Medicae (Int)
Navigate (Int)
Operate (Ag)
Parry (WS)
Psyniscience (Per)
Scholastic Lore (Int)
Scrutiny (Per)
Security(Int)
Sleight of Hand (Ag)
Stealth (Ag)
Survival (Per)
Tech-Use(Int)
Trade (Int)
Talents:
- Weapon Training (Las, Low Tech)
- Resistance (Psychic Powers - +10 bonus when making tests to resist effects of this type. Gm has final say)
Traits:
- Sanctioned
- Soul Bound (Blind) (+1 Die on all Perils rolls. Replace either ones or tens dice with the extra one to determine the final result)
- Unnatural Senses (4) (Can perceive things through means other than sight within 4 meters)
Special Abilities:
- Faith in the Creed (Whenever a Shrine World character spends a Fate Point, she rolls 1d10. On a result of 1, the character's total number of Fate Points is not reduced.)
- The Constant Threat (When the character or an ally within 10 metres triggers a roll on Table 6-2: Psychic Phenomenon (Page 196 Core), the Adeptus Astra Telepathica character can increase or decrease the result by an amount equal to her Willpower bonus.)
- Tested on Terra (If the character takes the Psyker elite advance during character creation, she also gains the Sanctioned trait (page 138 Core))
- Stare into the Warp (A Mystic character starts the game with the Psyker elite advance (page 90))
Armor:
- Light Flak Cloak (Arms, Body, Legs. Ap 2) (4kg)
- Flak Cloak (Arms, Body, Legs. AP 3) (8kg) (Received via influence during Character Creation)
Weapons:
- Compact Laspistol (Range 15m. Damage 1d10+1 E. Pen 0. RoF S/2/-. Clip 15/15. Reload Half. Reliable.) (Compact weapon mod: -20 modifier to checks to find the weapon when it is concealed. (Received via influence during Character Creation))
- Lasgun (Range 100m. Damage 1d10+3E. Pen 0. RoF S/3/-. Clip 60/60. Reload Full. Reliable) (Received via influence during Character Creation)
- Staff (Melee. Damage 1d10I. Pen 0. Balanced, Primitive (7)
Gear:
- Psy Focus (+10 to Focus Power Tests) - Alta’s Psychic Focus is a pressed flower from her home world, encased in metal and hung from her neck as a pendant. (Received from the extra item we were allowed to take during Character Creation.)
- Micro bead
Cybernetics & Bionics:
Notes:
Alta doesn’t wear the Light Flak Cloak.
Psychic Powers - Psy Rating 2 - Class: Bound:
Telepathic Link
Action: Half Action
Focus Power: Difficult (-10) Opposed Willpower test
Range: 20 meters x psy rating
Sustained: No
Subtype: Concentration
Effect: The Psyker chooses a person in range and line of sight who opposes this power with a willpower test. If the target fails, the Psyker can either read the person's thoughts or send him a brief mental message.
- Thought reading: The Psyker reads the target's thoughts, with the GM determining the nature of the information gained. The more degrees of success scored on the Focus Power test, the more information is gained overall. The higher the PR of the power, the more secretive the information gained.
- Thought Sending: The Psyker causes a message to appear in the target's mind as if he has just heard it spoke aloud. The message can be no longer than 5 x PR seconds long.
If the target of this power is aware of what the Psyker is trying to do, he can voluntarily fail the opposed Willpower test, counting as having rolled a 100
Psychic Strength:
- Normal Strength (Psy Rating or Lower): If the Psyker rolls doubles during a Focus Power test, she must roll on Table 6-2 Psychic Phenomena (Page 196)
- Push (+2): Can add up to +2 to PR. If the Psyker rolls anything but doubles during Focus Power test, roll on Table 6-2 Psychic Phenomena (Page 196)
- Sustaining Powers: +10 to all rolls on Table 6-2 Psychic Phenomena. Decrease Psy rating by 1 per power.
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Aptitudes: Willpower, Psyker, Defence, Intelligence, Knowledge, Perception, Fellowship, Social
XP (available/spent): 0/1000
XP Expenditure:
Characteristic:
Willpower Simple (100 XP)
Fellowship Simple (100 XP)
Skills:
Charm (Known) (100 XP)
Inquiry (Known) (100 XP)
Psyniscience (Known) (100 XP)
Linguistics (High Gothic) (Known) (100 XP)
Talents:
Elite Advancements:
Astropath (300 XP)
Psychic Powers:
Telepathic Link (100 XP)
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Ordo/Faction/Allegiance:
Appearance:
Body Type: Perfectly Average
Height: 5' 6”
Weight: 130lbs
Skin: Tanned
Hair: None
Eyes: None
Notable Marks:
Beyond the empty, singed sockets where her eyes used to be and the blindfold she uses to cover that blemish, there is very little notable about Alta at first glance. However, should one somehow see her without the usual full covering of her green cloak they would discover a long history of punishment traced in the lines of scars and burns crisscrossing much of her chest and back. They vary in severity, ranging from simple burns that were not allowed to heal fully, all the way to purposeful scarring at the hands of knives or flames.
Outfit:
Alta is nearly always seen wearing a green imperial flack cloak that while obvious in its role as armor also closely resembles long flowing robes held to her waist with a belt bearing a golden Aquila. Stitched or stapled to various points in the cloak are parchments covered in written prayers to the God Emperor of Mankind, each unique in their meaning and inflection.
On her head she wears a thick piece of cloth folded over itself and tied over her eyes to prevent the world from seeing the hollow sockets that lay there.
Should a formal occasion come to pass, Alta is currently unprepared to dress appropriately. She does not own anything nearly formal enough for any such affairs, and would likely arrive in her usual outfit instead of making any effort to change.
Personality:
Alta is a woman who has gone through the fire and the flames and come out stronger on the other side. She survived the Soul Binding ritual, she survived her Psyker training and the abuses that happened during it, and each of these experiences built her into a woman that is confident to a fault.
Alta knows who she is, she knows what she is capable of, and she expects others to do the same. She uses this confidence in herself to negotiate, flirt, lie, and generally get what she wants from anyone she happens to need something from. Not to mention her growing ability to prod into peoples minds which she has no concerns about using for personal benefit if such a thing is necessary. Of course all things that benefit her benefit the God Emperor.
Alta does not handle incompetence or weakness from others well. She is nothing remarkable physically, and yet she endured more suffering than most humans can imagine. Anyone who complains about their lot in life, or the pain during battle or physical exertion will get no pity from Alta, almost verging on scorn.
However, both for those she wishes to get something from and for those she believes have proven themselves as competent, Alta is an outgoing and excitable woman that loves a good drink, a good lay, and a good joke. Most think this is at odds with her very conservative dress and all the other things she wears that mark her as slightly odd, and yet if anyone was able to pull such a thing off it would be Alta.
Flaws:
Judgmental – Inclined to make and form judgments, especially moral or personal ones, based on one's own opinions or impressions towards others/practices/groups/religions based on appearance, reputation, occupation, etc.Alta judges everyone she meets within moments of meeting them. Oftentimes this leads to false assumptions that can color her interactions with that person for quite a while to come, especially if they work together or see eachother often. She is usually able to manage this, or at least keep her judgements to herself, when she seeks to get something from someone but occasionally a slip-up will happen.
Overconfident– Excessively confident; presumptuous.Alta knows what she is capable of and just how skilled she is at what she does. Unfortunately, sometimes this is less of a realistic understanding of her own abilities and more of an overinflation of her own ego. This often leads to her butting heads with superiors or comrades and sometimes committing to a course of action that she simply isn't able to complete as well as she claimed she would.
- Background and NPC's:
Background:
A book, and a flower. A thick, leather bound book filled with blank pages stained by age and use. Only one flower was still nestled in those pages, the last flower Araleen was able to pick from the planters outside the church that was her home as a youth. She had no other possessions when she arrived on Holy Terra, each of them had been torn away from her during the long journey and replaced with scars both physical and mental that would never heal. But by then she didn't want them to.
When Araleen first stepped foot on the Holiest of planets in the Emperium it felt as though all the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her captors was nothing. A small, flickering candle in the vast ocean that was her sudden, intense faith to the God Emperor. Captors wasn't the right word anymore, she decided as she followed the procession of other Psykers into the halls that would be their home and school for however long it would take each of them to be worthy of binding their soul to the emperor. No, they were merely rungs on the ladder that Araleen had to climb to reach her destiny, and she was endlessly thankful to each of the people, and each of the scars, that resulted in her arrival that day.
A flower. The book had been taken, stolen from her and replaced with texts and priests and trained Psyker's all filling her head with knowledge and propaganda. The flower though, she managed to keep that hidden in her mouth when they took the books. Her tongue flaked off pieces of the increasingly ancient pressed flower, and when it came out it was as damaged as Araleen herself. But for the flower too this was simply a part of the journey, a trial that must be passed if it wanted to transcend its original purpose in life and become part of something greater.
Years of training flowed into each other, every moment spent was to Araleen a sign that she was destined for this, to become both a Psyker of the Imperium and an Astropath of the Emperor himself. She hadn't realized at first the gravity of the task ahead of her, nor did she realize the risks involved. To her, it was a simple matter of devotion born from abuse and indoctrination endured over decades. Her home planet slowly became a distant memory, something she scarcely believed she had even lived on as a child. Replacing it was the dark metal of the black ships and the resplendent gold of Holy Terra.
A flower and an amulet. Araleen Narcia was finally ready. The years of training had finally drawn to a close, culminating in the creation of a Psy Focus for her use in her new duties should she survive the ordeal ahead of her. And of course for Araleen there was nothing more valuable to her, nothing more spiritually important than the flower from a temple that she couldn't even remember the name of anymore. She scarcely remembered the book that had pressed the flower into the flat shape it now held, nor could she remember that it was her who had caused it to become so damaged. What she did know was that this flower had been the only consistent thing in her life that she could recall. At every step the flower was there.
So when the time came for the flower to fulfill its destiny, Araleen used it as a sign for the success that would meet her as well. The flower was bound in a dark metal amulet the same color as the black ship that was her childhood. A transparent hole sat in the center of the amulet, showing the flower held within - preserved forever as a necklace and the focus of Araleen's growing Psychic potential
It was with that amulet around her neck that Araleen would be blinded by the most pain she had ever felt in her life, singing every nerve and overwhelming all of her senses with the holy light of the Emperor. What Araleen was, what she had done, meant nothing in the face of that pain, and the woman that once inhabited the body that had held the flower in the book was wiped clean and replaced with an agent of the Emperor's will. A woman that could not be stopped, a woman that knew what she wanted and how to get it in service of her God.
A woman and an amulet. Alta as she now called herself when her previous name felt unfitting so thoroughly had it been seared by the light of the emperor, was bound for a new system aboard a ship that was not made from all black metal and filled with rungs to a ladder she had climbed a lifetime ago. She had received a summons from an inquisitor in the Sassan Nictor system. When Alta passed her final test, strings were extended out into the Imperium in order to find the freshly blessed Astropath a station in service of her Emperor, and it seemed that Inquisitor Yannick Amibari had been the one to tug back on the strings. What she could offer the inquisitor was without question, she was a Psyker and Astropath blessed by the Emperor himself and where she went his light would follow, and heresy would be burned away. An inquisitor was a natural fit.
NPC’s:
Click - Ally
Click was someone that Alta met aboard the ship to the Sassan Nictor system. An extremely short, stocky woman with skin so pale you could almost see the muscle underneath. She had grown up on a ship, learned her trade on a ship, and then started working on a ship. She had never even set foot on a planet as far as Alta knew.
But Click and Alta struck it off. Click was in charge of general maintenance, nothing fancy or requiring of a tech priest but good honest work that got her all over the ship and into positions to overhear all kinds of conversations. Alta's meditation chamber was not exactly the newest room on the ship, or the most used, so it was a frequent visit for Maintenance and - by coincidence of course - gossip about the goings on within the ship.
Having arrived in system, Click likely won't be sticking around for too much longer unless there is a space station willing to take her on. Otherwise, she's off into the void to return sometime in the future as her vessel returns with more supplies - or people - to deliver to the system.
Astropath Vix Ternol - Old Mentor
Vix was the person most responsible for teaching Alta during her time on Holy Terra. While he wasn't involved in her religious training, he was involved heavily in her indoctrination and her learning as a Psyker and then an Astropath. Since that time they haven't spoken much, and the relationship ended on cold terms when Alta chose to leave Terra instead of remaining there to serve as one of the hundreds of Astropaths needed to keep communication steady between Terra and other systems.
As he lives on Terra, Vix is not one that Alta has seen in a very long time given the length of her journey to Sassan Nictor. But they have spoken through intermediary Astropaths relaying messages across the stars, and each time it is a request - sometimes polite sometimes very much not - for her to reconsider her choice.
Sister Hospitaller Verity - Enemy
It is difficult to make a Sister Hospitaller truly despise you, and yet during her time on Terra Alta managed to do just that. On her more rebellious days during the early parts of her training Alta spent no small amount of time simply wasting Sister Verity's time and resources healing wounds that were either self inflicted or fake. She abused her powers on the Sister, prodding into her mind whenever they met just to see how the inner workings of someone equally as devoted to the emperor as she was, yet hateful of Psykers and their ilk worked.
And she was constantly dissapointed.
While their faith was shared, their view of Psykers in the Imperium was vastly different, and if one were to ask Sister Verity what should have become of Alta there is a high likelihood she would have responded that Alta did not deserve the light of the Emperor and should be died the day of her soul binding. How much of this opinion has managed to spread beyond Terra to other Sisters in the Imperium isn't something Alta likes to think about.
