Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 11 views

    Sample

    Uploaded by

    adam
    Ashana Ikatu is the ambitious and ruthless master of the ancient Coiled Viper Dojo. She took control of the dojo by defeating the previous master in combat and has trained students in martial arts and criminal schemes. Ikatu leads a band of thieves and assassins called the Night's Talons who target wealthy individuals but avoid antagonizing other local criminals. Though nearing 50, Ikatu maintains her youth and skill through discipline. She has grown restless with her position at the dojo and may be swayed to join daring schemes.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Sample

    Uploaded by

    adam
    11 views2 pages
    Ashana Ikatu is the ambitious and ruthless master of the ancient Coiled Viper Dojo. She took control of the dojo by defeating the previous master in combat and has trained students in martial arts and criminal schemes. Ikatu leads a band of thieves and assassins called the Night's Talons who target wealthy individuals but avoid antagonizing other local criminals. Though nearing 50, Ikatu maintains her youth and skill through discipline. She has grown restless with her position at the dojo and may be swayed to join daring schemes.

    Original Title

    238143-sample

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Ashana Ikatu is the ambitious and ruthless master of the ancient Coiled Viper Dojo. She took control of the dojo by defeating the previous master in combat and has trained students in martial arts and criminal schemes. Ikatu leads a band of thieves and assassins called the Night's Talons who target wealthy individuals but avoid antagonizing other local criminals. Though nearing 50, Ikatu maintains her youth and skill through discipline. She has grown restless with her position at the dojo and may be swayed to join daring schemes.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    11 views2 pages

    Sample

    Uploaded by

    adam
    Ashana Ikatu is the ambitious and ruthless master of the ancient Coiled Viper Dojo. She took control of the dojo by defeating the previous master in combat and has trained students in martial arts and criminal schemes. Ikatu leads a band of thieves and assassins called the Night's Talons who target wealthy individuals but avoid antagonizing other local criminals. Though nearing 50, Ikatu maintains her youth and skill through discipline. She has grown restless with her position at the dojo and may be swayed to join daring schemes.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    ADVERSARIES OF THE RIGHTEOUS

    Ashana Ikatu
    Master of the Coiled Viper Dojo,
    First of the Night’s Talons
    Background: Ashana Ikatu has gone by many names in her life. Her first, Tahari, came from peasant parents in a
    village on the Porcelain Coast. As a child, her parents gave her to an Immaculate monastery, where her postulant
    name was Sparrow and her monk name Daughter of Winds.

    Ambitious, unprincipled, and easily bored, she abandoned the Order in her twenties to seek her fortune. She wan-
    dered the Threshold as a charlatan and mountebank, claiming and discarding names as she pleased, thrilling in
    outwitting the clever and breaking the strong.

    Eventually she came to the Coiled Viper Dojo, an ancient and reputable school for
    the martial arts. There she challenged and defeated the old master, Ashana
    Ikatu, and took his name for her own — along with the sifu’s mystical bless-
    ing passed down from its serpent-god founder — in accordance with
    the dojo’s tradition. Now she’s sifu to a score of students, training
    them rigorously in martial techniques and her own brand of
    file
    chicanery.

    She only accepts students cunning and ruthless enough


    for her purposes, whether as leg-
    ple

    breakers and grifters garnering


    wealth and weeding out compet-
    m

    ing criminals, or stalking marks


    alongside her as the Night’s Talons,
    Sa

    a black-clad band of thieves and as-


    sassins. Like Ikatu, they crave challenge
    and victory as much as money. No other local
    rogues dare target Princes of the Earth — nor
    charge such astronomical fees.

    Image: Though nearly 50


    years old, Ikatu looks half
    that age, aided by healthy
    living and rigorous exercise.
    She’s frosty in her public
    persona as the dojo’s sifu,
    but quick to laugh or rage
    elsewhere.

    Intimacies: Defining: “What


    is life without challenge?”; The
    Coiled Viper Dojo (Possessiveness);
    Major: “I enjoy defeating the
    proud.”; “My ambitions are fulfilled,
    yet I crave something greater.”; The
    Night’s Talons (Pride); Minor: My
    Students (Satisfaction); The Exalted
    (Jealousy)
    A s h a n a I k at u

    Secrets: Ikatu keeps tabs on the wealthy and powerful Merits: Contacts (Local Criminals) 1, Fast Reflexes,
    nearby for future leverage. She caches away keepsakes Followers (Night’s Talons) 2, Influence 2, Language
    from thefts and schemes, some immensely valuable, (Native: Low Realm; High Realm, Flametongue) 2,
    waiting for the right time to use them as bait. A few past Martial Artist, Resources 2
    victims still seek her, to retrieve such treasures or exact Attack (Unarmed): 13 dice (Damage 10); Tags:
    revenge; she keeps their names close to her chest, not Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural
    wanting her students to get any ideas about betraying Attack (Knife): 13 dice (Damage 10 + poison: 2i/
    her for profit. round [L in crash], 3 rounds, −3 penalty); Tags: Lethal,
    Melee, Thrown (Short)
    Equipment: custom-tailored silk martial arts uniform,
    Attack (Grapple): 9 dice (8 to control)
    hidden knives, vial of snake venom, lockpicks, pouch of
    dinars Combat: Soak 5, Hardness 0; Parry 5 (Martial
    Arts); Evasion 5; Rush 8 dice; Disengage 8 dice
    Roleplaying Hints: Though Ikatu relishes her power Social: Resolve 4, Guile 4
    and secrets, she’s grown restless from years ensconced Students: Ikatu often travels with one or more stu-
    in the Coiled Viper Dojo. Characters can sway her to join dents. Ordinary students have monk traits; Night’s
    dangerous schemes that are sufficiently challenging or Talons have assassin traits (Exalted, p. 499). She
    stimulating. This isn’t a death wish, however; she flees can muster the Talons as a Size 1 battle group with
    if brought to her −2 health levels. Her students seek re- elite Drill, and the other students as a Size 2 battle
    venge on anyone who would dare slay her. group with average Drill.
    SPECIAL ABILITY: SERPENT’S SOUL
    Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 5; Cha-
    risma 2, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2; Perception An ethereal, serpentine presence dwells within Ikatu’s
    file
    3, Intelligence 3, Wits 4 soul. Spending one Willpower manifests it for a
    scene; while it’s active, her skin takes on a faint snake-
    Essence: 1 like pattern. She gains Hardness 5 and Initiative +2
    Willpower: 9 for determining turn order, and ignores one Defense
    ple

    Join Battle: 9 dice point if her target has a Major or Defining Tie of fear
    Health Levels: −0/−1x2/−2x2/−4/Incap. toward her. Once active, another Willpower extends
    this effect to an individual who knows Snake Style
    m

    Abilities: Athletics (Jumping) 4, Awareness 4, Brawl and has a positive Intimacy toward her. She may also
    1, Bureaucracy (Assess Value) 1, Dodge 4, Integri-
    Sa

    spend a Willpower to grant a battle group under her


    ty (Conceal Identity) 3, Investigation 2, Larceny 3, command Might 1. Only the Coiled Viper Dojo’s sifu
    Linguistics 2, Lore 2, Martial Arts (Ebon Shadow) 5, possesses this ability.
    Martial Arts (Snake) 5, Medicine (Self-Treatment) 1,
    Occult 1, Presence (Intimidation) 3, Resistance 3, So-
    cialize 3, Stealth 3, Thrown (Knives) 3

    You might also like