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Backgrounds:

Legacy: •••

Eminence: ••

Paragon: •

Followers: ••

Resources: ••

Fame: •••

Influence (Civic): ••

Merits:

Bardic Gift: (2pts.)

Eidetic Memory: (2pts.)

Angelic Aura: (1pt.)

Lightning Calculator: (1pt.)

Fast Reader: (1pt.)

Concentration: (1pt.)

Flaws:

Elderly: (3pts.)

Foreigner: (2pts.)

Stubborn: (1pt.)

Cultural Snob: (1pt.)

Willpower: 6 / 6
Faith: 3 / 3
Torment: 3 / 3

Normal Abilities:
Eyes of Fate Casts no Reflection Enchanted Mental Acuity Cloak of Shadows

Torment Abilities:
Dread Mien Casts no Reflection Rend the Soul Sense the Hidden

Physical Description:
Maya: Maya is exceptionally beautiful despite her old age, and while she may be slowing down, she still moves with the elegance of a lotus flowing down the Ganges. Wearing long gowns before set and donning the attire of the character while on stage.

She typically wears white robes, loose at the breast, with a necklace of varying stones. On rare occasions, she wears a type of diadem for when she is trying to look her best.

Mara: Mara appears as a vague cloud of light with patterns forming inside him. Typically people see what they desire yet cannot attain or have yet to attain, however, Mara cannot see this.

Furthermore, Mara appears to be somewhat humanoid with dozens of arms behind him, although they do not seem to move.

Personality:
Maya: Maya is a prim and proper stage actress, being able to take the part of a character with the ease a plucked flower flows down the river. Having moved from Tibet to the US, Maya has changed to suit the surrounds, despite being brought up mainly in an Asian setting.

Maya can be seen as a strong person, serving an active role in her small community, with an attempt to feel a wholesomeness that sits out of reach, feeling out of touch with the changing world around her, her heart breaks a little more each time she does not gain completeness, not being able to build something that will last.

Maya uses her acting to connect with her Culture in a deeper fashion.

Mara: Mara was a devoted Angel, however after the Fall Maya had plenty of time to reflect on his previous conceptions about the world, and his conclusions became more and more radical and warped, leading to the conclusion that it was, in fact, the changes to reality that led to the flaws in the Fiend's foresight, an imperfection in the perfect machinery of reality.

Mara is now devoted to leading Humanity away from the broken Machine of reality and constructing an individual world for each human, but rather than destroy the Old, Mara will build their own world, a bubble in the wider void, and will bring people into the Dream voluntarily or with force, after all, he knows what's best, right?

Backstory:
Mara was one of the many taking a role in how light played with the rest of creation, the various forms of sight, the various colours which were split from the Black and white of reality, the stars and their orbit, dazzling galaxies in a perfect still order.

And the millions of years that passed in seconds, the completeness of Reality was never enough and what came along would change that forever. Humanity's creation, something which was the envy for all Angels, for they truly were loved and every Angel wanted to play a part.

No longer was the goal for Perfection, but to please humanity, already, however, feelings that the other Angels were getting in the way of this were felt. Mara had the enviable task, among other Angels, to create the Human vision and how light interplayed with Humanity and what they could see.

Clever Mara was amongst the Angels who would create Optical illusions as challenges for Humanity to overcome or would work with other Angels to create spectacles that Humanity could not yet understand.

As the visuals became more beautiful, the more humanity seemed to not care. The Sunsets and Sunrises, the refraction of light to create magnificent rainbows, all amounted to passing glances. This feeling of frustration, that only if humanity knew what was truly going on if only the Angels could teach them and tell them the wonderful world they had built, if only they could be guided by those that knew better, but it was never to be allowed, until…

The Morningstar, the Highest Angel of the Highest House went down in his multitudes and shattered the darkness which clouded Humanity's eyes and those like-minded too followed, and as the tree expanded on that Endless Night, so to did many Angels celebrate the triumph, among them Mara, who could not help but shine with the light of the collapsing Stars and how the marvels he could show them all, the dreams he could make real, if only for a time and how he could lead them to sleep without suffering, but only for that short Night.

And come that next day, The Highest's fury was known, and their creation turned against them and never had such fear and terror-stricken Mara, to see his Order rent as infinite touched finite.

And as an Age of Wonder was dawned, Mara placed himself with the Silver Legion with many of his Neberu brothers and sisters, travelling to the East. And while Mara felt delighted in appearing before mortals still feared the Wraith of the Almighty, and would shepherd his flock with the fantastic interplay of light, auroras or fantastical flying serpents who would lead them onwards.

In High mountaintops did Mara settle, where all could see the Marvels he and his House built, equally as fantastical as the interplay of light, but always out of reach.

And while there, in the Monasteries Mara told of the great Illusion, the Maya of the Almighty, how he tried to hide all this beauty and wonder from them. And with each of Mara's discoveries of Creation he helped set into motion, so did he inform his congregation, and soon had a taste for teaching.

As the Armies of the Hosts came to the Mountains, Mara would cast their Human allies into stupors and dreams, casting them into their own vivid dreams where they could be kings and rulers, where the frozen tundra and slashing wind of the Mountain faded into warm winds over grassy fields, and there Mara would return to his Monastery.

But that Age came to an end as if the Great gears of Creation shattered as threads shredded, a Darkest horror washed over the Fallen and the first Death of Mortal and Angel occurred and the world felt colder ever since.

This penultimate sin too had inflicted its stain on Mara, but he chose to slay God in his teachings.

During the Age of Horrors and until cast into the Abyss, Mara taught his congregation that there was nothing that was Eternal;

“All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. Conditions are impermanent and unstable; having come into being they disappear, having arisen they pass away. And yet everyone wants them to be permanent. This is foolishness.” and with these words, Mara gave into his thoughts and given himself equal footing with his beloved mortals, a confliction which would last aeons and would cause conflict within him as he spent those aeons within the infinite Abyss.

Mara spent many years on that Mountain until news of the defeat of the Fallen reached him, and on that day a man with Divine characteristics appeared, leading a procession behind him, all virtuous and the man so easily cast aside Mara's illusions, many who had spent months or years in their illusions were awoken and this man condemned Mara.

“I know you, Evil One. Don't assume, “He doesn't know me.” You are Mara, Evil One. And it's not sympathetic to welfare that you speak thus to me.” and with his Divine Authority burned Mara for the shallowness of his vision forcing Mara to flee the Temple, but the Man, cleverer than Mara cast him into the Abyss.

And yet as those cracks appeared and the Fallen left the empty Abyss, so too did Mara along with them and while walking among the new world of man saw and connected to a woman who too shared his turmoil, unfulfilled with life despite having what she wanted, this relation and connection, the unfulfillment with reality is what drew Mara closer and led to the ultimate bond being brokered.

Notes:
Religion: •
Research: ••

Specialization: Performance: Vocals Expression: Poetry

Virtues:

Conscience: •••

Conviction: •••

Courage: •

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Player: Maitreya

Maya: Maya is exceptionally beautiful despite her old age, and while she may be slowing down, she still moves with the elegance of a lotus flowing down the Ganges. Wearing long gowns before set and donning the attire of the character while on stage.

Mara: Mara appears as a vague cloud of light with patterns forming inside him. Typically people see what they desire yet cannot attain or have yet to attain, however, Mara cannot see this.

Furthermore, Mara appears to be somewhat humanoid with dozens of arms behind him, although they do not seem to move.

Maya: Maya is a prim and proper stage actress, being able to take the part of a character with the ease a plucked flower flows down the river. Having moved from Tibet to the US, Maya has changed to suit the surrounds, despite being brought up mainly in an Asian setting.

Maya can be seen as a strong person, serving an active role in her small community, with an attempt to feel a wholesomeness that sits out of reach, feeling out of touch with the changing world around her, her heart breaks a little more each time she does not gain completeness, not being able to build something that will last.

Maya uses her acting to connect with her Culture in a deeper fashion.

Mara: Mara was a devoted Angel, however after the Fall Maya had plenty of time to reflect on his previous conceptions about the world, and his conclusions became more and more radical and warped, leading to the conclusion that it was, in fact, the changes to reality that led to the flaws in the Fiend's foresight, an imperfection in the perfect machinery of reality.

Mara is now devoted to leading Humanity away from the broken Machine of reality and constructing an individual world for each human, but rather than destroy the Old, Mara will build their own world, a bubble in the wider void, and will bring people into the Dream voluntarily or with force, after all, he knows what's best, right?

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