Name: Deborah
Species: Undead/Dullahan
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Her face is forever frozen at the age of 26. Her head is often at her side, long since detached from her body – the neck sealed off from the world and cauterized shut on both parts. Often covered in custom-made Divine Metal full plate from head-to-toe.
Abilities:
Saint and Sinner: Deborah’s unique background makes her skilled with both light and dark elements of magic, often utilizing them to enhance her offensive capabilities or to seal certain creatures away. She cannot self-heal using her light magic, and must rely on the products of alchemy
Cleansing Scourge: Deborah’s special weapon, the Cleansing Scourge, is a runed arming sword that can also turn into a whip. This weapon has been infused with the spirit of her dead lover, a Captain in service of St. Yesaria. As such, this weapon has a mind of its own, and often works in tandem with Deborah, guiding her strikes with surprising accuracy. While she prefers to utilize it as a normal sword, it can extend itself and move about in ways that catch foes by surprise. It deals extra damage against any undead or demons, and senses their presence (one can hide their presence, but it takes a significant spell or enchantment to do so).
The Dawning Sun Hunting the Night: Deborah’s tools include a folding crossbow as well as specialized molotovs meant to combat masses of undead. In addition she often chooses to carry a kite shield into combat which she can also utilize as a weapon.
Steel Soul: Deborah’s willpower is tremendous, having been the method by which she came back to life after all. This tenacity has given her the ability to keep her body going. As such, given enough time, her body still may naturally stitch itself back together after wounds that would normally kill others. It should be noted that this ability has limits – she cannot be blown completely apart and reconstruct herself. However, having an arm hanging by a thread or a leg being blown off is now a healable wound given enough time and rest. This cannot be done in-combat, and requires rest, as it is extremely painful and energy-intensive. It also requires the body part to be still somewhat intact – if the wound involves total vaporization of an area, the healing ability is limited.
Weaknesses:
Sinful Vessel, Holy Spirit: Due to the ritual that killed her, Deborah’s body is forever tainted with unholy magic – and as such, using light-based magic harms her. However, due to her faith and devotion, she is also weak against dark-based magic. All magic she uses that is enhanced with light or dark elements will inflict some self-injury upon her.
Dullahan Diet: Deborah does not ‘eat’ in a traditional sense. Instead, she must absorb the necromantic energy that Apsinth is drenched in via a sleep-like state – if she should ever complete her mission and banish the darkness from Apsinth, she would actually condemn herself to starvation.
Background:
In the city of Apsinth, Deborah was the last descendent of St. Yesaria. Her lover, at the time, was the captain of the guard – both of them green. They were a celebrated couple – the descendent of a religious icon, and a dashing and daring young rookie captain.
Unfortunately, at some point, Deborah was captured. Upon a cursed altar, she was sacrificed and beheaded to bind a great revenant golem made of several smaller revenants into servitude. The golem then took his captain’s life.
However, this was just the beginning. At the time of him taking his life, the captain had just discovered the corpse of his lover. Upon seeing that her town endangered, and her lover having died to the abomination, she willed herself back into her corpse, placed her head upon her shoulders, and grabbed her lover’s weapon, “Cleansing Scourge” – a blade that could transform into a bladed whip. Empowered with the weapon, she drove back the vile beast that had been birthed from her defiled corpse.
Deborah is a troubled soul and has a penchant for working herself to death – or she would if she were not already so. Tireless toil has left her a humorless shell. Ironically, though she is technically immortal due to becoming a revenant Dullahan, she is constantly worrying about a different sort of death and has fears of allowing her lineage to die out completely.
Deborah also has fears of gossip within the Order, and has become something of a recluse ever since, refusing to open up to others, often working alone against the darkness within Apsinth.
Species: Undead/Dullahan
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Her face is forever frozen at the age of 26. Her head is often at her side, long since detached from her body – the neck sealed off from the world and cauterized shut on both parts. Often covered in custom-made Divine Metal full plate from head-to-toe.
Abilities:
Saint and Sinner: Deborah’s unique background makes her skilled with both light and dark elements of magic, often utilizing them to enhance her offensive capabilities or to seal certain creatures away. She cannot self-heal using her light magic, and must rely on the products of alchemy
Cleansing Scourge: Deborah’s special weapon, the Cleansing Scourge, is a runed arming sword that can also turn into a whip. This weapon has been infused with the spirit of her dead lover, a Captain in service of St. Yesaria. As such, this weapon has a mind of its own, and often works in tandem with Deborah, guiding her strikes with surprising accuracy. While she prefers to utilize it as a normal sword, it can extend itself and move about in ways that catch foes by surprise. It deals extra damage against any undead or demons, and senses their presence (one can hide their presence, but it takes a significant spell or enchantment to do so).
The Dawning Sun Hunting the Night: Deborah’s tools include a folding crossbow as well as specialized molotovs meant to combat masses of undead. In addition she often chooses to carry a kite shield into combat which she can also utilize as a weapon.
Steel Soul: Deborah’s willpower is tremendous, having been the method by which she came back to life after all. This tenacity has given her the ability to keep her body going. As such, given enough time, her body still may naturally stitch itself back together after wounds that would normally kill others. It should be noted that this ability has limits – she cannot be blown completely apart and reconstruct herself. However, having an arm hanging by a thread or a leg being blown off is now a healable wound given enough time and rest. This cannot be done in-combat, and requires rest, as it is extremely painful and energy-intensive. It also requires the body part to be still somewhat intact – if the wound involves total vaporization of an area, the healing ability is limited.
Weaknesses:
Sinful Vessel, Holy Spirit: Due to the ritual that killed her, Deborah’s body is forever tainted with unholy magic – and as such, using light-based magic harms her. However, due to her faith and devotion, she is also weak against dark-based magic. All magic she uses that is enhanced with light or dark elements will inflict some self-injury upon her.
Dullahan Diet: Deborah does not ‘eat’ in a traditional sense. Instead, she must absorb the necromantic energy that Apsinth is drenched in via a sleep-like state – if she should ever complete her mission and banish the darkness from Apsinth, she would actually condemn herself to starvation.
Background:
In the city of Apsinth, Deborah was the last descendent of St. Yesaria. Her lover, at the time, was the captain of the guard – both of them green. They were a celebrated couple – the descendent of a religious icon, and a dashing and daring young rookie captain.
Unfortunately, at some point, Deborah was captured. Upon a cursed altar, she was sacrificed and beheaded to bind a great revenant golem made of several smaller revenants into servitude. The golem then took his captain’s life.
However, this was just the beginning. At the time of him taking his life, the captain had just discovered the corpse of his lover. Upon seeing that her town endangered, and her lover having died to the abomination, she willed herself back into her corpse, placed her head upon her shoulders, and grabbed her lover’s weapon, “Cleansing Scourge” – a blade that could transform into a bladed whip. Empowered with the weapon, she drove back the vile beast that had been birthed from her defiled corpse.
Deborah is a troubled soul and has a penchant for working herself to death – or she would if she were not already so. Tireless toil has left her a humorless shell. Ironically, though she is technically immortal due to becoming a revenant Dullahan, she is constantly worrying about a different sort of death and has fears of allowing her lineage to die out completely.
Deborah also has fears of gossip within the Order, and has become something of a recluse ever since, refusing to open up to others, often working alone against the darkness within Apsinth.