Name: Diamond Mist<br/>Caste: Twilight<br/>Gender: Female<br/>Nature: Caregiver<br/><br/>Strength 2<br/>Dexterity 3<br/>Stamina 2<br/>Charisma 3<br/>Manipulation 2<br/>Appearance 4<br/>Perception 3<br/>Intelligence 5<br/>Wits 3<br/><br/>Abilities (* indicates Caste/Favored):<br/>*Athletics 2<br/>Awareness 1<br/>*Brawl 4<br/>*Craft (Cooking) 2<br/>*Craft (First Age) 1<br/>*Dodge 4<br/>Endurance 1<br/>*Linguistics 4 (Native: Riverspeak, Old Realm, High Realm, Low Realm, Flametongue)<br/>*Lore 4<br/>*Medicine 2<br/>*Occult 5<br/>*Performance 2<br/>Socialize 1<br/><br/>Charms:<br/>Ferocious Jab<br/>Ox-Body Technique<br/>Masterful Performance Exercise<br/>Flawless Handiwork Method<br/>Reed in the Wind<br/>Shadow Over Water<br/>Terrestrial Circle Sorcery<br/>Spirit-Detecting Glance<br/>All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight<br/><br/>Spells:<br/>Death of Obsidian Butterflies<br/>Emerald Countermagic<br/>Stormwind Rider<br/>Wood Dragon's Claw<br/><br/>Backgrounds:<br/>Artifact 2<br/>Contacts 1 (family/Perrin's Crossing)<br/>Resources 1<br/>Sorcery 3<br/><br/>Compassion 3<br/>Conviction 3<br/>Temperance 1<br/>Valor 2<br/>Limit: 0/10<br/>Virtue Flaw: Heart of Tears<br/><br/>Essence: 3<br/>Personal Motes: 15/15<br/>Peripheral Motes: 36/36<br/>Willpower: 6/6<br/><br/>Merits:<br/>Past Lives (2)<br/><br/>Flaws:<br/>Damaged Artifact (-1)<br/>Sterile (-1)<br/><br/>Equipment:<br/>Basic gear, cookpot, a few herbs and spices<br/>Orichalcum hearthstone bracers (mangled and not useful)<br/>White and Black Treatises, miscellaneous books stolen from Mnemon Isukai<br/><br/>Wounds<br/>1  -0  []<br/>3  -1  [][][]<br/>4  -2  [][][][]<br/>1  -4  []<br/>1  Inc []<br/><br/>BONUS SPENT<br/>07  Increase Essence to 3<br/>08  Add 8 points to Caste/Favored Abilities<br/>02  Add Merit: Past Lives<br/>+2  from Flaws<br/><br/>EXPERIENCE SPENT<br/>00  No experience acquired.<br/><br/>DESCRIPTION<br/>Perhaps three inches over five feet, Mist is a lovely young woman with a charming smile and a spring in her step.  Her hair is long and blond, worn straight and framing a pair of crystal blue eyes.  Her garb is simple yet flattering, a tunic and pants in green and brown, along with a pair of soft boots.  She carries no visible weapons, but wears a leather satchel at her side.<br/><br/>BACKGROUND<br/>Life was pretty good for Diamond Mist.  It wasn't interesting, of course, but it wasn't<em>bad</em>.  Her family owned a tavern, the Scarlet Serpent, in the town of Perrin's Crossing, east of Nexus; she was nervous about serving customers at first, but nothing really went too wrong -- almost everyone in town liked Mist, and although some customers would always be a bit too friendly, anyone who got too rough with her would have found himself trounced.<br/><br/>What Mist's parents couldn't understand was why she insisted on spending every free moment pestering the local scribes to teach her letters, or why she would do her best to chat with every customer in his own native tongue.  What they didn't notice was that she was actually doing very well with both.  The real problem, from Mist's perspective, wasn't really that she was stuck in Perrin's Crossing.  After all, enough travelers came through town that she could hear news from all over, if she'd only listen.  What she had trouble with was finding something to occupy her thoughts -- Mist was simply too smart for her lot in life, and becoming literate and multilingual was her only real way to stave off a nervous breakdown.<br/><br/>Things went all wrong, though, when a Dragon-Blooded sorcerer named Mnemon Isukai came through town.  Isukai had far too much wine that night, and nobody was willing to stand up to one of the Exalted on Mist's behalf.<br/><br/>Mist didn't understand what she was doing when she whirled and punched the Terrestrial in the face, nor when she scooped up the unconscious Isukai's satchel, nor when she glanced around once more at everyone's shocked faces before fleeing.  When she opened the satchel and found the books inside, though, things made a bit more sense.<br/><br/>The sight of the White Treatise triggered a flood of memories, and Mist dreamed of the First Age, of summoned demons and wonders beyond compare.  She saw herself healing the injured with a touch and hurling spells upon the battlefield, and when she woke up, she knew what to do.  Mostly.<br/><br/>Mist's wanderings have taken her far from home, as she struggles to understand the power she's been blessed with.  She's been reluctant so far to learn the summoning of demons, partly because she's afraid she'll screw it up but mostly because she finds the idea repugnant -- consorting with evil just doesn't sit well with her.  Her dreams have led her to a mostly-ransacked tomb, where she happened to find a wrecked set of orichalcum bracers buried under the rubble.  She has only the vaguest idea how to repair the artifact (and totally lacks the materials she'd need), but she studies it almost nightly, hoping to make sense of it.<br/><br/>Mist doesn't realize that she might actually be able to get away with returning home.  The drunken Isukai never knew what hit him, and when he woke up merely assumed that a thief had run away with his belongings in the night.  Many of the residents of Perrin's Crossing are afraid, but most have convinced themselves they probably didn't really see what they think they saw, and nobody really wants to call the Wyld Hunt on Mist.  Her parents still pray for her safety to any god who might listen.<br/><br/>Mist isn't much of a fighter and has a lot to learn about being one of the Exalted, but she's a brilliant scholar and a talented sorceress, and is slowly exploring the various uses her Essence can be put to, aided by the fragmentary memories in her dreams.  She would like to learn the healing arts, but hasn't had much chance to practice.<br/><br/>Random Information:  I like soup.<br/><br/>Plot Hooks:  Lost and/or forbidden lore, artifacts, and/or spells.  People who need help.<br/><br/>Character Goals:  Uncover the secrets of the past.  Help people wherever she can.  Fix the damn bracers.