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!!![[Vivian Ruby Cates Ab Nofret]]

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||'''Nature:''' Caregiver  ||   - | -   ||'''Demeanor:''' Guardian   ||
||'''Hamartia:''' No Self Love ||    - | -    || '''Concept:''' Artist and Farmer ||
||'''Inheritance:''' Master Potter of Pharohs Court(15th Dynasty) ||    - | -    ||'''Dynasty:''' Udja-sen ||
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!!Attributes

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||! '''Physical''' ||||! '''Social''' ||||! '''Mental''' ||||
||Strength || 3  ||Charisma || 3 ||Perception (Attentive) || 4 ||
||Dexterity || 3 ||Manipulation || 3 ||Intelligence || 3 ||
||Stamina(Unbreakable) || 4 ||Appearance || 3 ||Wits || 3 ||
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!!Abilities

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||! '''Talents''' ||||! '''Skills''' ||||! '''Knowledges''' ||||
||Alertness || 2 ||Animal Ken || 3 ||Academics || 3 ||
||Athletics || 3 ||Crafts || 4 ||Computers || 2 ||
||Awareness || 2 ||Drive || 1 ||Cosmology  || 2 ||
||Brawl || 2 ||Etiquette || 2 ||Finance || 2 ||
||Empathy || 2 ||Firearms || 2 ||Investigation || 2 ||
||Expression || 3 ||Melee(shovel)|| 4 ||Law || 0 ||
||Intimidation || 1 ||Performance || 2 ||Medicine (Dermatology) || 3 ||
||Leadership || 3 ||Stealth || 2 ||Occult || 3 ||
||Streetwise || 1 ||Survival || 3 ||Research || 2 ||
||Subterfuge || 2||Technology || 1 ||Science || 3 ||
||! '''Other Talents''' ||||! '''Other Skills''' ||||! '''Other Knowledges''' ||||
||Carousing || 0 ||Divination || 2 ||Enigmas || 2 ||
||Intuition || 2 ||Hypnosis || 0 ||History || 0 ||
||Seduction || 0||Meditation || 3 ||Poisons || 0 ||
||  || 0 ||Research || 0 ||Thanatology || 3 ||
||  || 0 ||Riding || 0 ||Bureaucracy || 2 ||
||  || 0 ||Martial Arts(Tai Chi Chun) || 3 ||Lore: Reborn  || 3 ||
||  || 0 ||Martial Arts(Silat) || 3 ||Lore:  || 0 ||
||  || 0 ||Traps || 0 ||Lore: Shapeshifter  || 2 ||
||  || 0 || || 0 ||Lore: Awakend  || 2 ||
||  || 0 || || 0 ||Rituals  || 2 ||  
||  || 0 || || 0 ||Herbalism  || 2 || 
||  || 0 || || 0 ||Lore: Gallian  || 1 || 

Crafts Specialty: Ceramics\\
Performance Specialty: Singing\\
Academics Specialty: Art History\\
Science Specialty: Chemistery\\   



                             

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!!Advantages

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||! '''Backgrounds''' ||||
||Allies || 1 ||
||Ba || 3 ||
||Companion || 2 ||
||Fame || 2 ||
||Ka || 4 ||
||Memory || 2 ||
||Resources || 5 ||
||Neteru || 2 ||
||Contacts|| 3 ||
||Status|| 4 ||
||Veil|| 3 ||
||Khibit||1||

|| '''Heaku''' ||||
||Alchemy || 2 ||
||Amulets  || 4 ||
||Celestial || 2 ||
||Effigy || 3 ||
||Necromancy || 3 ||
||Nomeclature || 3 ||
|| '''Other Paths''' ||||
||Alitu|| 1 ||

|| '''Misc''' ||||
||Balance || 5||
||Willpower || 8 ||
||Sekhem || 5||

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|| '''Merits''' ||||
||Osiris's Gift || 1 ||
||Nobel Bearing || 1 ||
||Eidetic Memory || 2 ||
||High Pain Tolerance || 4xp ||
||Charmed Exsistance || 5XP ||
|| '''Flaws''' ||||

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||! '''Health Levels''' ||||||
||Bruised || -0 || ||
||Hurt || -1 || ||
||Injured || -1 || ||
||Wounded || -2 || ||
||Mauled || -2 || ||
||Crippled || -5 || ||
||Incapacitated || - || ||
||Broken/Scorched || - || ||
||Crushed/Burned || - || ||
||Dismembered/Cremated || - || ||
||Pulverised/Cremated || - || ||
||Dust/Ash || - || ||
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!!HEKAU

!!!ALCHEMY (2)
(1) Analyze Material (S)\\
(1) Stasis (S)\\
(1) Simple Tonic (R) 12 doses\\ 
(1) Simple Elixir (Sweat of the Horus Bull)(strength)(R) 1 doses\\
(1)Simple Elixir Cobra's Sweat(wits)(R)  4 doses\\
(1)Simple Elixir  Blood of the Horse(stamina)(R) 4 doses\\
(1)Simpler Elixir Beloved of Ptah(Dexterity)(R) 5 dose\\
(1)Simpler Elixir Toth's Ink(Perception) 1 doses \\
(1)Simple Elixir  Priests Brew (Intelligence) 2 doses\\
(1)Simple Elixir  Potion of the Sun(Charisma) 2 doses\\
(1)Simple Elixir  Tears of the Cat(Manipulation) 1 dose\\
(1) Simple Elixir Courtisans Brew (appearance) 1 dose \\ 
(1)Simple Philter(R) Lion's Blood(Courage) 0 dose\\
(1)Simple Philter Backbone of Water(Fear) 0 dose\\
(1)Simple Philter Wine of Delight(Love) 0 dose\\
(1)Simple Philter Blood of Set(Hate) 0 dose\\
(1)Potion of Resiliance (R) 0 dose\\
(1)Mild Poison (R) 0 dose\\
(1) Drink of Seven Days Rest(R) 0 dose\\
(2) Lesser Quiddity(S)\\
(2) Reed of Hidden Currents(S)\\
(2) Spark of Ra(S)\\
(2) Ice of the Desert(S)\\
(2) Blood of the Snake(R)\\
(2) Lesser Tonic(R) (28) Doses\\


!!!AMULETS (2)

(1) Warding Signs(S)\\
(1) Simple Ward [Ab](R)\\
(1) Simple Ward [Udjat] (R)\\
(1) Ashen Shroud(S)\\
(1) Simple Ward [Ren](R)\\
(1) Eye of the Horizon (S)\\
(2) Prayer for the Aken (S)\\
(2) Lesser Ward[Ab](R)\\
(2) Lesser Ward[Udjat](R)\\
(2) Scarab of Life(R)\\
(3) Sign of Luck(S)\\
(3) Wrappings of Imhotep(S)\\
(3) Major Ward(Ab)(R)\\
(3) Major Ward(Udjat)(R)\\

!!!CELESTIAL (2)

(1) Hiding the Stars(R)\\
(1) Weather Sight(S)\\
(1)Becalm(S)\\
(1)Hanging the Stars(R)\\
(1)Simple Weather Magic(R)\\
(1)Grip the Water(R)\\
(2)Book of Toth(S)\\
(2)Sahu-RA(S)\\

!!!EFFIGY (3)

(1) Command Simple Implement(S)\\
(1) Simple Creature(R)\\
(1) Simple Servitor(R)\\
(1) Simple Inertion(S)\\
(1) Simple Wrest(s)\\
(2) Command Lesser Impliment(s)\\
(2) Lesser Chattel(R)\\
(2) False Door(S/R)\\
(2) Lesser Creature(R)\\
(2) Lesser Inertion(S)\\ 
(3) Comand Complex Impliment (S)\\

!!!NECROMANCY (2)

(1) Judge the Soul(S)\\
(1) Body Preservation(R)\\
(1) Separate Ka(S)\\
(1) Summon the Dead(R)\\
(1) Ghost Lantern(S)\\
(1) Storm Walk(S)\\
(1) Ritual of the Cleansing Shadow(R)\\
(2) Storm Shield(S)\\
(2) Bind the Dead(R)\\
(2) Bansih the Dead(S)\\
(2) Revisit Death(R)\\
(3) Separate Ba(S)\\
(3) Deaths Hand(S)\\

!!!NOMENCLATURE (2)

(1) Name the Secret(R)\\
(1) Asking the Trees(S)\\
(1) Forgetting the Stone(S)\\
(1) Forgetting the Tree(S)\\
(1) Name the Warning(S)\\
(2) Mend Flesh(S)\\
(2) Becoming the Stone (S)\\
(2) Becoming the Tree (S)\\
(2) Command Beast (S)\\
(2) Cloud the Name(S)\\
(3) Become the Animal(S)\\

'''Known True Names:'''
 Self, Paga: her Companion, Calcium, Carbon, Dog, Snake, Mosquito, Silver, Steel, Alligator, Leech, Copper, Salt, Crocodile, Phosphorus, \\


!!!ALITU (1)

(1) Follow the Smoke(S)\\
(1) Neutral Scent (S)\\
(1) Paint the Forest(R)\\
(1) Sarna Paste(R) (3) Doses, 2, 1, 1, 6, 3\\

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!!!Martial Arts
see her Martial Arts Page

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!!!DESCRIPTION:
Allies(1): Rep from artist supply warehouse, Wendell Davis\\
Companion(2): Ibis, 2dot version\\
Languages Known: Ancient Egyptian, English(N)\\
Contacts (3) (Ulysses of The Unbound Scroll)\\

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!!!EQUIPMENT:
Lesser Taismans of Dexterity+1\
Lesser Talisman of Stamina+1\
Lesser Ward Ab +2\
LEsser Ward Udjat +2\
Lesser Ward Ren +2\

All 3 as Simple Wards +1


Lesser Talisman of Stamina, Lesser Talisman of Dexterity, A Karambit and sheath, Flask -2 doeses of Complex Tonic. All of wich carry over with her if on her body when her souls pulled to Duat or on a Death Cycle

The Architect's Chisel

Phylactery Relic:
This relic is bound to a tool used for sculpture. It adds one die to all crafts checks made to create art, and prevents botches on such rolls. Additionally the chisel functions as a blessed dagger when used in combat, dealing agg damage with a base damage of Strength + 1.
And it can hold your balance * 5 Sekhem (Current Max: 25) Current Charge: 20)


Bound to a carefully picked high quality actual Chisel. It has it's own carry sheath and also the rest of the set it's part of sometimes carried as part of an artist tool kit to hide it

 
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!!!BIO:

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!!!HISTORY:

!!!THE FIRST LIFE:
She gained position by ability. Commoner maybe but she and her family did well.for them selves. Also known for her gardening and fine beer as a potter she helped in supplying everything from fine pottery and Amulets to everyday ware. She had 6 children and lived a long life, prospering enough to learn to read and write to help keep track of things. And writing down things like recipes, medicines. When she did pass away buried with not just her beloved cats but an Ibis for all the writing she did.
She was happy in the Dark Kingdom of Sand. In time their children joining her husband and herself. So thousands of years past their minor tomb just one of so many lost in the sands. Kas content that their charges were undisturbed..
That mattered little when the Dja-akh hit. Her Ka surviving...Unsire but maybe more of Herself is still out there...All that really mattered was Osiris's call for Nofrat's Ka. Seeking one She could compleat to serve Osiris in this new purpose.

!!!THE SECOND LIFE:
Vivian Cates came from a successful farming family. Specilized livestock and crops...So she grew up a bit the spoiled princess...But always feeling less for being the ugly duckling of the girls. She had and older and younger sister who were much prettier than her. Always held up to a standard she couldn't meet lead to self loathing. It inspired a real artistic talent in her. One good enough toget her into college with family support.
Still hatting herself deep down she just got good at hiding it. And she is good at creating. The pain turned to something beautiful. Or ugly depending. College...Where she discovered drugs and partying. And rivalry with another aspiring artists. Marcus Sevec. And as can happen with such it went from petty rivalry to him trying to sabatoge her work. His Ego could not take that he wasn't the next big talent. Even worse that its a plain woman who's below his social standing at least in his mind. He got caught on security cameras and was seen by other students...For wich he got expelled from the University.
More legal actions later because he will not let it go that her caeerer was taking off as a Ceramisist. Fine art galleries not craft fair level of attention. Jelwery, painitng. She dabbled in many media but ceramics are her calling...
High art society is a place that being self destructive can be...coddled. Even seem encouraged...And she started getting into drugs, partying too much. attracting the type of press that finally got her disowned by her family. That hurt...But not enough to pull her out the the self destructive spiral she was started on.
And that's when Marcus struck(Enemy, once he finds out she somehow survived)...It didn't matter that he went to another college and did alright...He STILL wasn't the Star the felt he should be so her success just kept fueling his hatred. He followed her om one of her wallowing in self pity jonts where she slipped away from her "friends" and minders..taking a old pick up she drove to the boundry of her families farm...Watching everything for hours she never noticed Marcus..Not till it was too late...He blew her left eye and part of her head away with a shotgun at close range. Running off before the body sat upscooping up as much of the fragments as she could before stumbling off to start the Hajj.
She lucked out after a couple weeks. An Ashuki truck driver looked for her after hearing stories of a weird figure hanging around a truck stop. So at least part of her journey wasn't difficult. She just tuned out waiting for Amenti or Neteru to come retrieve her from the cargo container she was in for weeks. Wisked away into a hidden ancient chapple that made Nofet happy to see...Vivian barely aware...
Khat washed and prepared..fragments too. She lay on the table and the chanting started...Both their perceptions changing to the Shadowlands and Anubis waiting for them. Everything frightening to Vivian...Norfets strong calloused hand reassuring...Even when they faced the Judges....And the scale wavered...Flawed..but not beyond redemption..Norfret hugged Vivian before She was lost tocovering the wound that still exsisted in her conjoined soul...MASSIVE gaps in her memories of her second life...
But she rose the first shuddering breaths and pounding of her heart a rush...even as the Cult of Isis fell back from her for the Amenti to greet her. Her Death Mark a huge pale mark.covering almost a third of her face and left eye..her left eye pale green, not dark brown with golden flcks like her right..a large section of her brown hair white. She might not be prettier persay but she is striking now. Something of how she holds herself is...More...
Only to find herself treated with distain , hostility or pity once her Dynasty became apparent. Lord Heru was an awe inspiring meeting to her. Struggling with so much enough of Norfets Faith was still there to make her Believe. Hadn't she spent uncounted years already in belief of Osiris? That she lived again just made her cling to that faith.
She buckled down learning what she could. Listening to the reps from Ashuki. The different Factions...Eset-A drawing her despit not being Kher-Minu. And her...Gift...Greener Acres and Renewable Lumber both have reason to want her but Grenner Acres drew her a bit more. And nothing says she can't help the Lumber company when they need a talent like hers. Greener acres offered her more space for a workshop...Kilns...A wood fire kiln for salt glazed stoneware is still a work in progress.. But a start her work in Efdu showing she HAS the talent and drive.
And while she has parents, 3 sisters and 3 brothers still living and more...From the tentative attempts to contact anyone shes still a paraiah in their view...maybe for the best..She can't really remember them or Marcus...Port Sinclair is...far from where she grew up in Oregon so...A compleat fresh start...She got a large tattoo of Osiris as Bennu on her back...carrying the Udja-sen canopic jar out of flames...working on her faith..Her Balance a goal.She has another chance. And one to make the world better.

!!!THE HAJJ


!!!THE THIRD LIFE:
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