I was originally thinking that she would be some sort of
charisma-monkey rogue. Then I remembered that constitution was the core stat
for the kineticist from Occult Adventures. In looking through their archetypes I
found one for specifically for changelings out of the Blood of the Coven book called the Arakineticist.
Upon further delving I also found the Overwhelming Soul,
which replaced con as the core stat with charisma. The fact that they stacked
was just the providence I needed to make this character.
Mkpulunma Usweko
The Mana Wastes is a barren place, but life can be found
here and there amongst the mutants and monsters. In many instances, these small
towns and village fall along what few trade routes pass through these desolate
lands. In one of these towns is where Yafeu Usweko made his home after leaving
the jungles of Mwangi with his first wife and son.
Yafeu was a merchant among his people and used what money he
made to expand his business upon his arrival in the Wastes. Just as his career
grew, his family did as well. His late wife bore him one more child, although
she passed before her youngest son even turned ten.
It took a few years but the merchant eventually remarried.
The woman reminded him very much of his first wife. The married quickly and
within a year she produced a daughter. But on the night of their child’s birth,
the mother mysteriously disappeared leaving Yafeu to raise the child alone. The
coming of a daughter and the loss of a second wife was bittersweet.
Mkpulunma grew the youngest child with two overprotective
brothers. Even if she was only their half-sister they still loved her very
much. As she grew up, the young girl exhibited a certain unnatural beauty that
attracted many of the boys in their town. Nothing ever lasted and she often
used her brothers to help her break off a romance that she decided she was over
so as to protect her ego from the pain of being broken up with.
When she was spurned for another girl by a young man who she
took a fancy to she became exceedingly jealous. She used her position as the
daughter of one of the more prominent tradesmen to humiliate the young girl,
who she felt stole the affections of the boy she wanted. Again her pride would
not let her be hurt in this way.
Things began to change for her when Mkpulunma was sixteen.
Aspects of her true heritage began to show themselves. The curse of her
mother’s bloodline began to overwhelm her body with negative energy. The blood
of a hag almost tried to kill her and those around her as she began to lash out
with blasts of entropy and decay.
The young changeling began to hide from the world; her ego
could not allow for those around her to see her so vulnerable. In her quest to
remain unseen she turned to the lady of veils. She begged to be made invisible
to those who would seek to know her. She also took up the wearing of many veils
to cover the green hair and different color eyes that gave her away as the
daughter of a hag.
The Mana Wastes are full of chaos. Magic has gone awry when
it even works at all. Those who exhibit some of these wild talents do not go
unnoticed. Although Mkpulunma’s abilities were neither divine nor arcane in
nature they were still seen to some as a symptom of the anarchy of power in the
region. One such person to take notice was the hunter Heracrix.
Heracrix’s powers came from the discordant nature of the
land around them. His wild soul infused with the beasts of the land, but not so
much that he could manage true druidic magic. As a member of one of the few
druid groups in the region who looked to heal the land, he chooses to do so by
helping others with wild talent to find some sort of balance within themselves.
The Hunter took Mkpulunma under his wing as her mentor and
trainer. He found her strength in the force of personality she exhibited and
helped her to learn to use that to control the power of her curse. Although it
lessened what she was able to accomplish, it did keep her constant production
of negative energy from eating away at her physical being.
Through years of constant study, learning to force her mind
over her body, Mkpulunma eventually gained control of her curse. She still
wanted very little to do with others, lest her fragile pride be hurt. She
decided to leave all those who knew her in the past and make her way in the world
where the new her was the only her people would know. What that will bring she
is quite unsure of.
With that I give you a complete background but what class do
you think this character would have become? Who was her mentor? Why was she
jealous enough to humiliate someone? Where did her worship of Sivanah come
from?
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