<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/tOp7P.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Void Face Lover</strong></span></span><br/><em>Courtesan who Sings Silent Psalms</em><br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Player:</strong></td><td>Re Z L</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Type:</strong></td><td>Infernal</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Caste:</strong></td><td>Scourge</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Motivation:</strong></td><td>Discover and crystallize True Love into a physical form</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Urge:</strong></td><td>Remove the ability to sing of anyone who can sing better than herself</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Intimacies:</strong> <em>(Pos: 5/12  Neg: 3/Unlimited)</em></td><td><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Freedom (+Aspiration)</li><li>True Love (+Seeking)</li><li>Singing (+Enjoyment)</li><li>Death (+Amusement)</li><li>Mortals (+Pleasant Distractions)</li><li>Familiar - Pebble Chaser (+Motherly Love)</li><li>Coadjutor - Swims as Quicksilver in Moonlight (+Grudging Respect)</li><li>Past Life (-Annoyance)</li><li>Betrayal (-Contempt)</li><li>Love (-Hate)</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Anima:</strong></td><td>Under Construction</td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Age:</strong></td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Birthday:</strong></td><td>21st of Ascendant Water</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Height:</strong></td><td>6'00"</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Weight:</strong></td><td>100 lbs</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Skin:</strong></td><td>Soft, pale white</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Hair:</strong></td><td>Short black hair</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Eyes:</strong></td><td>Sky blue</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ATTRIBUTES</span></strong> <em>(112xp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Strength</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Charisma</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Perception</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Dexterity</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Manipulation</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Intelligence</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Stamina</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Appearance</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Wits</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ABILITIES/SPECIALTIES</span></strong> <em>(151xp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>SLAYER</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>MALEFACTOR</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>DEFILER</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Archery</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Integrity</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Craft</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Martial Arts</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Performance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Investigation</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Melee</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Presence</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Lore</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Thrown</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Resistance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Medicine</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] War</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Survival</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Occult</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr><tr><td><strong>SCOURGE</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>FIEND</strong></td><td></td><td><strong><em>Specialties</em></strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Athletics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Bureaucracy</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Presence - Nonverbal</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Awareness</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td>[•] Linguistics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Martial Arts - Unrestrained Violence</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Dodge</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Ride</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Performance - Singing</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Larceny</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td>[•] Sail</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Performance - Dance</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Stealth</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td>[•] Socialize</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Larceny - Disguise</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>Stealth - Hiding in Place</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>Resistance - Poison</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>Athletics - Swimming</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>Dodge - Underwater</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Languages:</strong> Rivertongue (Native), Old Realm, Seatongue, Low Realm<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">BACKGROUNDS</span></strong> <em>(51xp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td>Artifact (Skin Mount Amulet)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Artifact (Demon-Ink Tattoo)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Manse (Gem of Desire)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Demonic Familiar (Chalcothete)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Past Life</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Unwoven Coadjutor</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Virtues and Willpower</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">VIRTUES</span></strong> <em>(33xp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td>Compassion</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Conviction</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Temperance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Valor</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Limit</strong></td><td>[••••• •••••]</td></tr><tr><td>Virtue Flaw:</td><td>The Torment of Adorjan</td></tr><tr><td>Break Effect:</td><td>For one full day, the character completely loses all communicative abilities. She cannot speak, her writing appears to be gibberish and even her hand gestures are completely unintelligible to others. All communication attempts on the part of an affected individual automatically fail.<br/><br/>Worse, the effects of this muteness are extremely unnerving for those with whom the Prince even attempts to interact…preternaturally so. For the duration of the Torment, the Infernal also becomes a vector for<br/>a magical version of the hysteria disease (see Exalted, p. 352).  This magical disease follows all the normal rules for hysteria except that players of characters exposed to it (whether through direct contact with the Prince or through subsequent contact with an infected person) do not roll (Stamina + Resistance) against hysteria’s normal Virulence.  Instead, compare exposed characters’ Dodge MDVs to the (Essence + primary Virtue) of the Prince being punished. The precise nature of this contagious hysteria is for the Storyteller to decide—hysterical deafness and/or dumbness are both common, but other hysterical beliefs might also be appropriate.<br/><br/>Non-extras may resist the symptoms of this hysteria for one scene by spending one Willpower point or break the effect completely by spending Willpower equal to the Infernal’s Essence.</td></tr><tr><td>Partial Control:</td><td>N/A</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Willpower:</strong> <strong>••••• •••••</strong> <em>(36xp)</em><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Essence and Charms</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Essence:</strong> <strong>••••• •••••</strong> <em>(24xp)</em><br/><strong>Personal Pool:</strong> 20<br/><strong>Peripheral Pool:</strong> 45<br/><strong>Overdrive Pool:</strong> 0/10<br/><strong>Committed:</strong> <br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">CHARMS</span></strong> <em>(320xp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>ADORJAN</strong></td><td><ul class="bbc_list"><li>First Adorjan Excellency</li><li>Wind-Born Stride</li><li>Joy in Violence Approach</li><li>Self as Cyclone Stance</li><li>Threat-Monitoring Excitement</li><li>Splintered Gale Shintai (x2)</li><li>Sacred Kamilla's Inhalation</li><li>Freedom Lets Go</li><li>Tragic Love Amusement</li><li>Wind Carried Passion</li><li>Embracing Empty Passion</li><li>Broken Silence Laughter Defense</li><li>Who Strikes the Wind?</li><li>Kalmanka's Grace</li><li>Murder is Meat</li><li>Running to Forever</li><li>Hateful Wretched Noise</li><li>Eloquence in Unspoken Words</li><li>Voice-Drinking Kiss</li><li>Death-Dealing Journey</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>KIMBERY</strong></td><td><ul class="bbc_list"><li>First Kimbery Excellency</li><li>Mother Sea Mastery</li><li>Tidal Renewal Discipline</li><li>Sea Dissolves Herself</li><li>Spiteful Sea Tincture (x2)</li><li>Intolerable Burning Truths (Hate Springs Eternal)</li><li>Bitter Heart Unbleeding</li><li>Sea Within Veins Prana</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>MARTIAL ARTS</strong></td><td><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Retribution Will Follow</li><li>Raging Behemoth Charge</li><li>Infernal Monster Form</li><li>God-Smashing Blow</li><li>Leaping Smash Technique</li><li>Bounding Beast Advance</li><li>Fists of the Old Ones</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td><strong>MALFEAS</strong></td><td><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Hardened Devil Body</li><li>By Pain Reforged</li><li>Scar-Writ Saga Shield (x2)</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Merits, Flaws, Mutations</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong><span class="bbc_u">MERITS</span></strong> <em>(-0)</em><br/><br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">FLAWS</span></strong> <em>(+0)</em><br/><br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">MUTATIONS</span></strong> <em>(0xp)</em><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Expanded Backgrounds and Equipment</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Demonic Familiar 3 (Genesis 6)</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/mP25sMS.png)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Pebble Chaser</span><br/>Chalcothete of Swims as Quicksilver in Moonlight<br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ATTRIBUTES</span></strong> <em>(13mp)</em></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Strength</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Charisma</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Perception</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Dexterity</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Manipulation</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Intelligence</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Stamina</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Appearance</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Wits</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr></tbody></table><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>ABILITIES</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>SPECIALTIES</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>ADVANTAGES</strong> <em>(6mp)</em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Athletics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Compassion</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Awareness</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Conviction</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Craft (Earth)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Temperance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Dodge</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Valor</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Martial Arts</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Performance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Willpower</td><td><strong>••••• •••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Presence</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Resistance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Essence</td><td><strong>••••• •••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Stealth</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>MUTATIONS (11mp)</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>(-4mp) Creature of Darkness</li><li>(0mp) Native to Malfeas</li><li>(6mp) Enlightened Essence (17 motes)</li><li>(2mp) Natural Swimmer</li><li>(2mp) Superior Soak</li><li>(4mp) Natural Hardness</li><li>(-2mp) Small (small dog)</li><li>(-6mp) No Opposable Thumbs</li><li>(2mp) Water Breather</li><li>(1mp) Natural Tool (rock dissolving spit)</li><li>(1mp) Earth Metabolism</li><li>(1mp) Expanded Diet (Rock)</li><li>(-2mp) Large Appetite</li><li>(2mp) Burrower</li><li>(2mp) Rock Digger</li><li>(2mp) Tunneller</li></ul><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Unwoven Coadjutor 3</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/SbQI4xM.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Swims as Quicksilver in Moonlight</span><br/>Demjen, the Quickeners of Ores<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ATTRIBUTES</span></strong></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Strength</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Charisma</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Perception</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Dexterity</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Manipulation</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Intelligence</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Stamina</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Appearance</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Wits</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr></tbody></table><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>ABILITIES</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>SPECIALTIES</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>ADVANTAGES</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Athletics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Craft (Earth) - Mining</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td><td>Compassion</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Awareness</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Performance - Singing</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td><td>Conviction</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Bureaucracy</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>War - Chalcothetes</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td><td>Temperance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Craft (Earth)</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Dodge - Underwater</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td><td>Valor</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Dodge</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Resistance - Poison</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Integrity</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Willpower</td><td><strong>••••• •••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Linguistics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Lore</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td>Essence</td><td><strong>••••• •••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Martial Arts</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Occult</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Performance</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Presence</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Resistance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Sail</td><td><strong>••••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Socialize</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] War</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>CHARMS</strong><br/>Bread of Weak Spirit - Chalcothetes<br/>Call - Chalcothetes<br/>Endowment - Chalcothetes<br/>Eye of Inspiration - Chalcothetes<br/>Host of Spirits - Creates Chalcothetes from ore<br/>Landscape Travel - Swim at double speed<br/>Materialize - 55m<br/>Mind-Knife Sacrament - Chalcothetes<br/>Shatter - Its song fractures stone<br/>Words of Power - The lithic timbre of its voice inflicts damage on its enemies<br/>First Excellency - Craft, Performance, War, Occult<br/>Second Excellency - Craft, Performance, Sail<br/>Third Excellency - Craft, Performance<br/><br/>Grants (Essence) bonus specialty dots appropriate to its type.  Bonus specialty dots are reflected as blue dots in character stats.<br/><br/>Unwoven Coadjutor 3: You are intermingled enough with your coadjutor that its presence in your soul lulls the creatures of the Demon City, their suspicions dulled by your kindred nature. Your social attacks against natives of Malfeas always count as playing off an Intimacy of theirs, lowering their MDV as normal. However, your coadjutor also provides you with a single intimacy, which counts toward your normal (Willpower + Compassion) limit. This intimacy is always appropriate to the demon realm and the coadjutor; a marotte coadjutor might provide a positive intimacy toward demonic craft, greasy hair, bezoars, Malfean architecture, human babies, Gumela, Jacint or Adorjan, or a negative intimacy toward idleness. This intimacy can be eroded as normal, but you effectively spend a scene renewing it whenever you regain Willpower from sleeping or increase a trait with the help of your coadjutor. Should the coadjutor's nature undergo a significant shift, so can this intimacy, though it must remain appropriate.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Manse 3</div><div class="spoiler_body">Hegra (http://i.imgur.com/8HsrqmE.png) aspected manse within Malfeas which grows the Gem of Desire.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Past Life 4</div><div class="spoiler_body">Motivation:  Maintain law and order in the threshold by maintaining faith in the Solar Empire<br/><br/>Key points (to expand upon later):<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Responsible for maintaining "order" in areas removed from the Blessed Isle</li><li>Lunar Mate disappeared shortly after returning from the journey of the Black Nadir Concordant</li></ul></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Demon-Ink Tattoo Artifact 2</div><div class="spoiler_body">A black Gethin, the Harvester of Rarities, flecked with a scintillating green coiled around her torso and reaching outwards towards her Skin-Mount Amulet at the top of her sternum.<br/><br/>(Bonuses are reflected in the sheet as green dots)<br/><br/><strong>Specialties</strong><br/>Performance - Dance<br/>Larceny - Disguise<br/>Stealth - Hiding in Place<br/><br/><strong>Abilities</strong><br/>Stealth<br/>Larceny<br/>Awareness<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Skin-Mount Amulet Artifact 2</div><div class="spoiler_body">Placed at the top of her sternum, a short distance from her collarbones, and set with the red, heart-shaped Gem of Desire.<br/></div></div><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character History</div><div class="spoiler_body">Some of the details lost to the annals of time and obscurity, known only to the mute singer and her coadjutor.  Silent as the edge of the knife against a sheet of silk, and as brutal as a hailstorm, her reputation wasn't entirely unknown amongst the ranks of demons before the official dissolution of the Reclamation Project.  For those that knew of her the story of her origin went thus:<br/><br/>It begins with an insignificant mortal girl--as these things usually do--from the East.  Whether from one of the Hundred Kingdoms, or some smaller town along the Gray River, or from among the Marukan Alliance, it matters little.  Wherever she was from it wasn't enough to quench a heart full of dreams of greater things and so she went like so many others to the city of Nexus to find her fortune or her folly.  She worked for a handful of years in the city, small jobs to get herself by hoping that the next day might be the day that she finally found happiness--whatever that was.<br/><br/>When she'd met a young Guild member she was immediately swept up in the currents of love, or so she felt.  He charmed her, and she would do anything for him.  She'd severed all ties to her former life, gave herself to him completely, and that reliance was met by swift betrayal.<br/><br/>The gifts came and the praises and the rich life--or at least richer than her previous life.  It caught her up in a whirlwind of emotion and threw her decidedly off-balance.  It began by repaying debts that he owed for gifts he'd bought her, but then it was for simple debts that he owed other business partners, and then it was no longer concealed as anything other than what it was.  She was his whore, and ultimately just another source of income to him.  Her reliance upon him was already absolute, however, and she had no real way to escape.  By having sex with other people she knew she was helping him, making him proud of her, even if he beat her and called her names.<br/><br/>At least once this way of life was threatened when a client said he was going to report it, and try and help her.  Set over by a panic at the realization of the ending of her life, her whole world, she killed the man.  Pushed to the edge of what she could normally handle emotionally she felt a certain thrill with the act of the kill, though pushed it out of her mind as the reality of the emotional murder set in on her.  She didn't know what to do with the body, but she made due as best as she could, cutting it into very small pieces and carrying them out bit by bit to wash them away in different parts of the city.<br/><br/>Unbeknownst to her she wasn't the only victim of the merchant.<br/><br/>The murder was investigated, but she managed to hide herself well, and the victim hadn't made it well known that he was seeing a prostitute in the first place, so she avoided the minimal ire of Nexus' policing mercenaries.  The act still gnawed at her already damaged psyche, a tiny niggling thought that wouldn't go away.  She decided to tell her lover about it to help assuage her lingering doubts and fears several months after the fact.  When she came into his room unannounced she found him with another girl that send her mind on a spiral of recollection, reliving the moments of their first meeting, seeing her face in place of the other girl's.  She swelled within with some kind of rage, or power, or righteous indignation, she could have saved the girl but instead the already fractured mind finally broke.<br/><br/>After knocking him out with a nearby vase, she turned her attentions to the girl, and with a sharp shard of porcelain from the vase and a quiet string of giggles she dealt with the usurper in the most direct way she could.<br/><br/>The man woke up restrained on the bed with Void Face Lover singing a quiet lullaby.  She whispered reassuring words to him after he awoke and screamed, telling him that she'd always love him, and that they'd always be together.  The man's guards came in just in time to save him from whatever fate she had in mind for them both, beat her into unconsciousness and cleaned the room to hide the crimes committed within.<br/><br/>For fear of going forward to the courts--if you could call them such a thing--of Nexus, he instead had his guards deal with her, hurling her body out into the river, and letting the waters engulf her madness.<br/><br/>Consciousness was like a hazy dream as she slowly drifted down in her half-conscious state, but it was enough to catch sight of a Demjen swimming up to her followed by an excrutiating pain.  The chrysalis, like a bubble, carried her down the river until she finished her transformation and was finally dredged up by the Marukan.  Hidden agents among the Marukani, somehow alerted about her arrival, secreted her away to Malfeas where she eventually received more formal "training".<br/><br/>She would not return to Nexus for several years, until it came time to drown the city in the loving embrace of the rivers that surrounded it.  There was no way for her to know if her former lover was within the city at the time, or where he might have ended up.<br/><br/>When pushed to greatness some bend like the recurve of a bow, others snap and are never quite the same.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Inspirations</div><div class="spoiler_body">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZF5m-vmDzM<br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMfdpjnAHU<br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA<br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HYgidYaBl8<br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6iMDfOl9E<br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVb25gYKyY<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Pulp Summaries</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Escape from the West, featuring Mnemon Jubal</div><div class="spoiler_body">Caught between the agents of the Silver Prince and a Raksha family the Lover seeks to make her way to the South and eventually into the relative safety of Malfeas, beyond the reach of those chasing her.  When she happens upon a Dragonblood fighting Raksha of his own she decides to help, if only to strike yet another blow to one of her favorite enemies.  Indebted to her, Mnemon Jubal agrees to help secure her passage to An Teng as a member of his harem.  Of course, a harem including Void Face Lover could prove to be a very special experience.<br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Island Retreat, featuring Valiant Reign of Hope</div><div class="spoiler_body">Caught again between ocean, land, and Wyld Lover has found herself at odds with the local Raksha after stealing away their mistress's prized lover.  The fickle tides of love and hate quickly take Lover away from her adversaries and to an island paradise ruled by their Solar Queen, Valiant Reign of Hope.  When Raksha raids on the island increase Lover is confronted by the Queen and pulled into service defending the isle from those seeking her blood.  Unfortunately for them Void Face Lover's blood is poison, and her love is death.<br/></div></div></div></div>