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Prelude:
The little girl lay crying on the bed, tears streaming quietly down her cheeks. Anna was a very pretty young girl, two years Maria's elder, and it had always gotten her in a bit of trouble. Nothing like now, though, nothing like since Mother had wasted away last winter. Father had grown quite lonely, you see, and Anna was too weak to protest too loudly against his weekly visits. So she would just lay in here afterwards, crying herself to sleep.
It couldn't help but make Maria grin, the sight of the one who was her sister. Half-sister, in any event, she liked to muse.
"Maria?" Anna said, quieting her tears a bit, and pulling the covers closer up around herself. "What are you doing there? Go away!"
The voice was quiet, slightly angry and slightly frightened. The two girls had lived together their entire life; nobody knew Maria better than her older sister, nobody understood all her little...secrets...like Anna did.
Maria was barely more than 5 feet tall, dressed in pretty black night clothes, black hair down around her shoulders. She walked confidently into her sisters room, silently closing the door behind her. Anna said nothing; mayhaps afraid, mayhaps curious.
"I can help protect you," she offered, softly, voice a quiet whisper that creeped across the room much like Maria herself. "I can make him stop," she repeated as she reached the edge of the bed. Idly, a tiny hand reached out and stroked her sister's hair.
"What do you mean?" was the reply, after a long dark silence.
"You know what I mean," Maria said, grinning madly, eyes alight in the dark.
Anna sat there, watching her little sister with wide eyes. Maria could see the thoughts floating in her mind; the fear, both of her and of her father. The guilt, shame, and pure horror of the experience. The worries as to what would happen to her father.
"What do you want?" she asked, no fool. The Fae never give anything without asking for something in return.
"Very little, my dear sister, my most honored sibling. Very little indeed," Maria said, her hands growing icy cold and her skin pale white. Ice blue eyes, instead of brown, met Anna's frightened eyes. "You will tell no one what you know, what you have guessed or learned about what I am. No secret of mine will pass your lips."
Anna let out a breath, relieved that more had not been asked of her. She thought that this was a simple thing that she would do in any event, but Maria had seen the seed of resentment and anger festering inside.
"You will not hurt him?"
"Of course not."
Name: Maria Isia
Nature: Monster (Princess)
Concept: The Devil's Daughter
Agenda: Humanist
Origin: Changeling
Court: Winter
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Charisma 3, Manipulation 3, Appearance 2
Mental Attributes: Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 5 (Razor Sharp)
Talents: Alertness **, Brawl *, Dodge *, Intimidation ***, Keening **, Leadership *, Legdermain **, Subterfuge *** (Changing the Subject)
Skills: Etiquette *** (Hiding Behind Manners), Performance *, Ride *
Knowledges: Enigmas **, Gramarye *, Hearth Wisdom *, Investigation **, Linguistics * (Native; Fostering), Medicine *, Seneschal *
Willpower: 6
Mists: 3
Weaving: 4
Dominions: Night ** (Paranoia, Weariness, Dreamtongue, Night Terror), Dusk ** (Study Facade, Twilight Shadow's Reach, Unlock, Wind Armor)
Backgrounds: Allies *, Contacts **, Mentor *, Oaths *, Resources **
Backgrounds Detail:
Allies (A local lord, who you have been carefully woo'ing...)
Contacts (Your family, including major contacts of your mother and your little sister, as well as a number of family friends and extended relations.)
Mentor (Your ritemaster and courtly sponsor, who is overseeing your Saining. He's hardly of exceeding importance in the Court but he was willing to act as your advocate.)
Oaths (A small oath with your little sister.)
Resources (You've managed to attain most of your families wealth and take it as your own, such as that is...)
Lesser Features: Ice-Blue Eyes, Cold and Clammy Skin, Long Fingernails.
Greater Features: Monster's Mien (Bite): you have a grossly distended jaw and rows of sharp brutally hard teeth. You can bite through stone, and inflict Strength +2 aggravated damage with your bite.
Echoes: Stopping, closing ones eyes, and turning 360 degrees, and Touching Maria's skin with a cross.
Oaths: You've taken an oath that you will protect your older sister from your father, and she in return has promised to avoid telling anyone of your true nature and what you really are. Your oath is broken if your father should abuse her again, while she breaks her oath if she should tell anyone of your Fey-nature. If you fail this oath, you will give yourself to your mortal father for whatever punishment he see's fit. If she fails this oath, she will loose all ties of family.
Merits and Flaws: Fosterling (3pt flaw)
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