Raksi

Description

Vanilla: Raksi appears as an unimaginably beautiful, red-haired girl of 16. Her grace and raw sexuality dominate any scene in which she is present. Whatever her form she rarely hides the moonsilver tattoos that spiral about her body. Setting her further apart from humanity are long fingers and toes tipped with sharp nails, and the sharp teeth that inspired her sobriquet. Sometimes, she becomes distant and fixated as she plays with her own joints, which bend any way that she wishes.

Raksi’s war form is more predictable. Her red half-ape form stands nearly 15 feet tall. In battle (which is rare, and pretty much only for fun), Raksi wears a full suit of moonsilver super-heavy plate and dips her dagger-like claws in demonic poison of her own design.

Gunstar: I see her as less sexual (not everything needs to be sexual, Exalted) and more determined. She's a scientist, and sees everything as knowledge waiting to be cracked open and understood.

Role

Main

• Raksi can still be mad, but not a gibbering monkey so much as a mad scientist in Yugash. She's probably helped create many new inventions and innovations, though probably mostly for selfish reasons, even if only to try to prove herself to her self-doubt. I imagine she's still got some issues, perhaps not as overt but still eating away at her inside, and she only pushes herself harder in response.
• However, she also probably cools her ambitions at some times, as there are probably rumors she's as mad as the Magnus - and even if she in actuality is, she doesn't see herself as worth keeping alive as he is. So she plays it safe, until she has a chance to really go all out. Like say a civil war. Even then, I imagine she tries for the best of the Deliberative, just in dangerous and illegal experiments. You know, to push the boundaries they've so foolishly left untouched.

Other Activities

• I imagine she's been heavily involved with devaic experiments in particular - creating and testing Deva-Blooded, devouring and manifesting as First Circle Devas (her war form in Gunstar is probably a chthonic combination of some), and meeting Titanics, bartering for information before she eventually outmaneuvers and devours them. (I'm hesitant to throw one of the first wave Titanics 'under the baboon,' but it could be cool to play one for a bit before it's eventually revealed to be Raksi)
• Lilith is domineering, Behemoth is ruthless, Raksi still yet pushes on cruel. But progress cannot be made without sacrifices.

Sheet

NOTE: This Raksi is hella crazy. Can probably tone it down. Also didn't know she was a baboon until now, I always she was a snake with the Queen of Fangs title. SHE IS NOW

Motivation: Make Creation a mirror for her own mad whims.

Caste: No Moon

Anima Banner: Gibbering, grimacing baboon

Spirit Shape: Red Baboon

Tell: Long, sharp nails and teeth; long, prehensile toes Attributes: Strength 6, Dexterity 8 (Inhuman Precision +3), Stamina 7; Charisma 7, Manipulation 8 (Terrifying +3), Appearance 7 (Sexual +2); Perception 8, Intelligence 8 (Creative New Approaches +3), Wits 8 (Italics means Caste or Favored Attributes)

Spirit Shape Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3, Appearance 2

Virtues: Compassion 1, Conviction 3, Temperance 4, Valor 2

Abilities: Archery 5 (Essence Weapons +2), Athletics 8, Awareness 8, Bureaucracy 3, Craft (Air) 6, Craft (Earth) 6, Craft (Fire) 6, Craft (Magitech) 6, Dodge 7, Integrity 4, Investigation 7, Larceny 1, Linguistics (Native: Old Realm; Others: Claw-Speak, Forest-Tongue, High Holy Speech, Riverspeak, Tribal Tongues) 5, Lore 8, Martial Arts 6 (Claw Punch +2), Medicine 2 (Torture +3), Melee 3, Occult 8 (Sorcery +2), Performance 4, Presence 6, Resistance 6, Ride 2, Stealth 6, Socialize 7, Survival 5, Thrown 3, War 2 (Italics means Favored Ability)

Backgrounds: Artifacts (many) 5, Backing (Crossroads Society) 1, Cult 2, Followers (apemen and barbarians) 5, Heart’s Blood 5, Manse (several) 5, Reputation 5, Resources 5

Charms: All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight, Burgeoning Wyld Infliction, Celestial Circle Sorcery, Claws of the Silver Moon, Clay-Wetting Practice, Cobra Hypnotic Method, Counting the Elephant’s Wrinkles, Devil-Restraining Grip, Eagle-Fish Transition Prophecy, East Mastery Technique, Eye of the Cat, Flawless Appearance Focus (Sexual), Flawless Dexterity Focus (Inhuman Precision), Flawless Intelligence Focus (Creative New Approaches), Flawless Manipulation Focus (Terrifying), Form-Fixing Method, God-Cutting Essence, Hard-Nosed Denial Style, Harmony with Reality Technique, Heightened Scent and Taste Method, Hide-Toughening Essence, Inevitable Genius Insight, Instinctive Appearance Unity, Instinctive Dexterity Unity, Instinctive Essence Prediction, Instinctive Intelligence Unity, Instinctive Stamina Unity, Keen Scent and Taste Technique, Lessons in the Blood, Lodestone Reckoning Manner, Lost Mirror Flight, Lunar Blade Configuration, Luna’s Blessed Hands, Might-Bolstering Blow, New Friend Aroma, Ox-Body Technique (x5), Perfect Fear Scent, Perfect Symmetry, Relentless Lunar Fury, Resisting the Lure of Madness, Righteous Lion Defense, Roused Bear Throw, Second Appearance Excellency, Second Charisma Excellency, Second Dexterity Excellency, Second Intelligence Excellency, Second Manipulation Excellency, Second Perception Excellency, Second Stamina Excellency, Second Strength Excellency, Second Wits Excellency, Secure Cat Stepping, Silver Lunar Resolution, South Mastery Technique, Spirit-Maiming Essence Attack, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery, Terrifying Lust Infliction, Third Intelligence Excellency, Wasp Sting Blur, Wyld Migration Formation, Wyld-Sensing Instincts

• Note: For the Storyteller’s convenience, these Charms are deliberately limited to those found in The Manual of Exalted Power—The Lunars. Raksi could very well know high-Essence Charms from Dreams of the First Age, miscellaneous Charms scattered through other supplements such as an Absorption Charm (see pp. 21-22 of The Books of Sorcery, Vol. II—The White Treatise) or—most likely of all—unique Charms that she invented herself.

Knacks: Deadly Beastman Transformation (Armored Hide, Brachiation x2—see p. 149, Cheetah’s Pace, Fangs, Enhanced Scent and Taste, Inexhaustible, Omnidexterity—see p. 149, Short Gestation, Talons), Devastating Ogre Enhancement, Green Sun Child, Hearth-and-Flame Shell, Humble Mouse Shape, Life of the Hummingbird, Luna’s Hidden Face, Prey’s Skin Disguise, Subtle Silver Declaration, Terrifying Beast-man Alteration, Towering Beast Form

Wyld Mutations: Afflictions: Impossible Joints; Debilities: Diet; Derangements: Cannibalism (Deformity), Hallucinations (Debility), Megalomania (Deficiency), Obsession (Debility), Obsession (Deficiency).

Spells:

• Terrestrial Circle Spells: Practically every Terrestrial Circle spell listed in the Exalted main rulebook and in The Books of Sorcery, Vol. II—The White Treatise. Raksi also knows dozens of Terrestrial Circle spells that cannot be found in any book.
• Celestial Circle Spells: Dozens of Celestial Circle spells, certainly including Demon of the Second Circle, Insidious Tendrils of Hate, Mercury’s Deliverance, Raise the Puissant Sanctum, Sapphire Banishment and Sapphire Countermagic.

Join Battle: 16

Attacks:

• Punch: Speed 4, Accuracy 15, Damage 6B, Parry DV 8, Rate 3
• Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 14, Damage 9B, Parry DV 6, Rate 2
• Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 14, Damage 6B piercing, Parry DV –, Rate 1
• War Form Silver Claw Punch*: Speed 4, Accuracy 25, Damage 16L/9, Parry DV 12, Rate 3 (Using Claws of the Silver Moon at maximum power.)
• War Form Silver Claw Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 22, Damage 19L/9, Parry DV 10, Rate 2 (Using Claws of the Silver Moon at maximum power.)
• War Form Silver Claw Clinch*: Speed 6, Accuracy 22, Damage 16L/9 piercing, Parry DV –, Rate 1 (Using Claws of the Silver Moon at maximum power.)

Soak:

• Human Form: 19L/22B (Silver skin, 15L/15B, Hardness: 10L/10B, +2 fatigue value)
• Red Ape Form: 1L/3B
• War Form: 20L/24B (Silver skin, 15B/+15L, Hardness: 10L/10B, +2 fatigue value)

Health Levels: -0/-1/-1/-1/-1/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-2/-4/Incap

Dodge DV: 13 (14 in war form)

Essence: 8

Willpower: 10

Personal Essence: 28

Peripheral Essence: 78

Other Notes: Raksi’s Righteous Lion Defense protects her ownership of The Book of Three Circles.

The Queen of Fangs’ Diet consists entirely of raw flesh. Her Obsession (Debility) is with cruelty and evil. Her Obsession (Deficiency) is with casting Solar Circle sorcery. Her Hallucinations (Debility) usually manifest as people and monkeys laughing at her. When she is alone, however, her father comes and beats her for being such a stupid child. Raksi can manufacture artifacts of virtually any power level, so she has plenty of weaker ones, and several extremely powerful ones. She also has full access to the remaining technology of Sperimin, including its manses and library.

Heart’s Blood:Raksi can take the form of every mundane animal in the Southeast. She also has access to hundreds of unique Wyld beasts and a number of slain demons, gods and elementals. At the Storyteller’s option, Raksi has special High-Essence Knacks (described in detail in Dreams of the First Age) that let her use the Essence powers of the demons, elementals and Wyld creatures whose forms she can assume.

Malfean Lacquer: Raksi created an oil of liquid brass, in which she dips her claws before battle. The oil hardens and lasts for a full scene. So coated, her claws deal aggravated damage to all Exalted, priests, gods and elementals. It also poisons such targets with effects identical to those of arrow frog venom. However, the oil renders Raksi unable to channel Willpower through any Virtue for that scene. The moonsilver container for this brew, and the 10 remaining doses, constitute a four-dot artifact.

When she uses the Malfean lacquer, Raksi wears a talisman that makes her immune to all demonic poisons. The chain of the talisman is moonsilver, and it cannot be removed by anyone besides the wearer. The talisman is a two-dot artifact.

Raksi invented the oil in the course of researching demonic Essence, in hopes that she might find a way to re-engineer her own Exaltation for Solar Circle Sorcery. She didn’t, but the demonic oil has the additional use that a mortal tattooed with it becomes Demon-Blooded (assuming she survives the toxic effects). For any creature that already has an enlightened Essence, the oil is merely poisonous.