Campaign:Exalted MODERN/Astra

Stat Tracker

• Health Levels: Uninjured, -0, -1, -1, -1, -2, -2, -2, -4, -4, Incap.
• Personal Essence 18/18
• Peripheral Essence 40/40
• Willpower 10/10
• Limit Track - 0/10
• Virtue Channels Used - None

Sheet Start

Name: Shamira Zamir

Motivation: Organize a movement to start an organization that can actually effectively stop/handle wars.

Intimacies: Her immediate family, the Elemental Spiral, Understanding What She Now Is, Computer Games

Anima: Unknown.

History

Outlined because I'm sorry, I'm lazy.

• Israeli, born and raised in Tel Aviv, parents are Jewish. Atarah, the mother is from a very traditional family and basically doesn't talk about said family. Hell, she prays in thanks that she left them. Matthew, the father, is pretty modern and liberal. She has four younger siblings, ranging from 15 to 6. The oldest two, 15 and 13 are boys. The younger pair, age 9 and 6, are both girls, but they are rather tomboyish. (Mary, the younger, may be just emulating Ariel, her big sister.)
• Pretty mundane upbringing, loves strategy games and some measure of linguistics. She was expressing interest in becoming a diplomat when she got older.
• Soon before her 18th birthday, there was an incident involving a fire that left Shamira really badly burned, but awakened very strange powers in her. Her parents literally quickly moved the family to the US, as her father's family lives there. Said incident apparently involving her mother's family trying to get the children.
• After meeting two other people online that had weird elemental events happen to them, Shamira created the 'Elemental Spiral' to help connect people like her.
• Reuben, her 15-year-old brother, has recently come into his own as well after falling off a balcony and landing safely. Unlike Shamira, he is an Air Aspect. He is a lot more interested in the implications of all of the crazy things happening, looking into the whys and hows instead of handling the now like Shamira. Oddly, while it's GLARINGLY obvious that Shamira is strange, there's only faint clues to Reuben's nature. The tips of his hair fade from black to gray as it grows out, which has forced him to cut his hair shorter than he likes.
• At this point, she has realized there's more out there and has been talking to her parents about what has happened and how to handle things. No one in the family beyond her mother and father are aware that Shamira and Reuben are different. With Shamira's obvious physical changes, she gets a bit of flack but at least Mom and Dad get it. Sort of.
• Atarah is the brains of the family, and while she is often stuck in the mindset she grew up with, she is much quicker on the draw and can adapt much faster than most people. She has a bit of a temper as well, and as she is the cook of the family, people have learned not to upset her when she is working. She will throw things at them. She lives in fear of her family finding her again and normally stays at home doing housework and reading. If she leaves the apartment, it's with one of the boys or with Shamira. She helps her kids with their homework and is very well learned. Her view of her children's powers is that G-d gave them gifts in apology for those accidents.
• Matthew is a banker and takes his time with things, including his temper. Slow to action, slow to stop, he's basically a glacier. A big, easygoing glacier that is very forgiving. There is one time he will move in a fury, and that is when his family is threatened. With Atarah and his combined efforts, they got the family out of the country within days of Shamira's accident and back to his family in New York City. While he is normally very calm, he feels frazzled when it comes to his children, what with two of them being Exalted and his two youngest expressing issues about their bodies... It's as if the only 'normal' one is his middle son... and when he realized that, Matthew decided not to think about it. Surely G-d would jinx it if he ever said it out loud.

Appearance

Shamira isn't pretty or graceful. What stands out about her is that she is horrifically scarred from the fire that triggered her Exaltation. After her Exaltation, her hair has been growing out a rich, dark red, with black streaks coming through and her brown eyes have become a much lighter amber. Perhaps over time, she'll heal her scars, but for now she conceals her body as much as possible in loose, baggy shirts and cargo pants, with a Star of David on a bracelet around her wrist. She also consistently carries a bright red laptop with her, with a few tasteful stickers on it.

Attributes

Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 1, Stamina 4

Social: Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 1

Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 4

Abilities

Air: Linguistics 3, Lore 3*

Earth: Awareness 2, Integrity 2, Resistance 2*, War 2*

Fire: Athletics 2*, Dodge 5*, Melee 1*, Presence 4* Socialize 4*

Water: Bureaucracy 2, Investigation 3

Wood: Medicine 1

Linguistics: Semitic, Germanic, Romance, Altaic

Specialties: Lore (Stupid Details +1), Socialize (+1 Organizing Groups)

Backgrounds

• Influence 5 - The Elemental Spiral, a forum consisting of a good chunk of the 'connected' Dragonblooded. Tales from the Spiral
• Breeding 5 - Shamira's family on her mother's side are very inbred. However, this also marked her with insane breeding, enough to rival the best of the First Age. Her elemental markings haven't shown up yet because of the scarring.
• Artifact 2 - The Tablet of Etherflame Combat.. This fine laptop was created by an Earth Aspect in Japan in response to his admin's complaints about accidentally melting her keyboard one day. The cherry-colored plastic looks just for show, but is actually a red jade alloy that renders the computer unaffected by a Fire Aspect's anima flux. It also has a few other little tricks, including a battery that can be recharged by either electricity or 1 mote of essence and perfect internet access.

Charms

Lore

• Elemental Concentration Trance - 5m, 1wp; Simple; One day - If all research materials are at hand, Shamira can cram a week's worth of study/training in a non-magical ability into one day. She can only use this Charm two days in a row without suffering a level of unsoakable lethal. The Charm can also help speed up research. Charms can be sped up as well, but they must be of Shamira's Aspect.

Awareness

• Third Awareness Excellency - 3m; Reflexive (4 for Attack, 6 for Defend); Combo-Ok; Instant - Shamira can reroll an Awareness roll and take the better roll.
• All-Encompassing Earth Sense - 2m; Simple; Leader; One scene - While this Charm is in effect and her feet on the ground, Shamira can not be surprised. She can extend this benefit to three others, for two motes apiece.

Resistance

• First Resistance Excellency - 1m per 2 dice; Reflexive (1 for Attack, 2 for Defend); Combo-Ok; Instant - Shamira can add up to two dice to a Resistance roll.
• Strength of Stone - 2m per person; Simple; Combo-Ok, Touch; One Scene - Shamira can mediate on a small piece of Earth, then add one dot to her Strength and Stamina for the scene. She may give this boost to three others, who all must be holding hands with her, and holding some Earth as well. These dots count against Charm bonus dice limits.

Dodge

• Third Dodge Excellency - 3m; Reflexive (4 for Attack, 6 for Defend); Combo-Ok; Instant - Shamira can increase her DDV by 2.
• Safety Among Enemies - 3m, 1wp; Reflexive (5); Combo-Ok, Instant - If Shamira successfully dodges an attack due to Step 5 defenses, she can have it hit someone else within three yards of her. It counts solely as an attack.
• Elemental Defense Technique - 5m; Simple; Elemental, Leader 6, Obvious; One scene - Any Archery attacks on a personal scale are completely negated by the aura of fire around Shamira, and as a Fire Aspect, the aura makes an elemental hazard of Damage 2L/action, Trauma 3. She also gets 2L/2B stackable soak against weapons not made from a magical material.

Presence

• Glowing Coal Radiance - 2m; Reflexive (2); Combo-OK, Dynast, Emotion, Leader, Obvious, War; One action - Shamira creates a fear-based internal penalty of 4 to all physical and social attacks aimed solely at her by anyone within three yards with a MDV of 6. If you spend 2wp (4wp if descendant), you are immune for the scene.
• Passion Transmuting Nuance - 3m; Simple (Speed 5 in long ticks); Emotion, Social; One scene - This Charm can't be the first one used in Social combat, but when it is used, Shamira must roll (Manipulation + Presence + Essence) against the target's MDV minus one per dot of Essence Shamira is higher. If successful, the attacks that play off the new emotional state of the target provide the same benefits and drawbacks as a high-rated Virtue, and their Temperance is down to 1 (unless it's her primary virtue) for the scene. 1 wp frees the victim from the Charm

Socialize

• First Socialize Excellency - 1m per 2 dice; Reflexive (1 for Attack, 2 for Defend); Combo-Ok; Instant - Shamira can add up to four dice to a Socialize roll.
• Sweeten-the-Tap Method - 2m; Simple; Combo-OK, Emotion; One scene - Shamira's presence improves the quality, taste, and strength of liquor in a social event of Magnitude 4 or less. If someone drinks this booze, they suffer -1 to MDV. However, if someone botches a Socialize roll, they have to pay 1wp to not Join Battle agaisnt the attacker in their next attacker as an unnatural compulsion.

Merits, Flaws, and Temporary Backgrounds

Flaws

• Enemy 2 - Shamira's maternal grandparents are fanatical Orthodox Jews, and just a little inbred. The Shaltiels are the reason why Shamira is even scarred in the first place, and may be why she is even a Dragonblooded as well...

Tempers

Compassion 4, Conviction 2, Temperance 5, Valor 2

Willpower 10

Essence 3

Spending

BP - 12 (Virtues), 2 (Willpower), 8 (Backgrounds), 10 (Abilities and Specialties)
Starting XP - 50 (All into Charms)
Current XP: 5, Spent: 3
Lore 3