Friday, October 3, 2008

The Nephandi Cabal

Sings of Nothing - (proto)Dreamspeaker

Disturbing. Malfean symbols mark his flesh. He wears the flesh of a dead Garou as a cape with the head as a headdress. He carries archaic weapons: a spear, stone ax and club. He was one of the Nephandi bound by the Traditions and the Technocracy after the end of WWII. Freed by the other four on the orders of the Wyrm and destined to lead them. It took a combination to free him, just as it took one to chain him. Not even the others know the full extent of his powers.

He is very rarely seen in reality itself, because the level of his power is inimical to consensus. He is a Nephandic Oracle, brother to Walking Hawk, also known as Brother to the Sun, the legendary enemy of the Pure Tribes.

Bethany Morris - Celestial Chorus

Skewed Puritan. Traditional dress, but without a bonnet. Long wild red hair. It seems like the only thing keeping her spiritual excess from overflowing is the outfit, almost as if the implied propriety of it contains her. The madness of the excess she harbors shows in her eyes. A tempest chained, she walks on the hinge of explosion at all times. Her voice is her weapon.

Robert Sterns - Progenitor

The best experiment: yourself. Living black tendrils extend from his back. He has the whole lab coat and clipboard thing going on, but it does not fool a soul, because a tendril usually holds the clipboard. His eyes are totally black. Whatever he filled himself with, he put in too much. He never loses his cool and is the counterpoint to Bethany in most circumstances...and one of the few people who can haul her in when she breaks her self-imposed chains. Robert usually seems obsessed and lost in his experiments...which seem to include just about anything unpleasant that happens around him.

Strikes the Heart - Akashic Brotherhood

Looks the most normal of the bunch. It’s not true.

The Nameless Girl - Iteration X

A freakish rarity--an Iteration X barrabus--she looks 17. Native American. Wears a long trenchcoat and gloves. Kind of like Dante, she bears noticeable cybernetic face implants, but these are engraved with Malfean symbols. She leaks what looks like oil from the face implant, but it is Void-stuff. The computer was Mother...now He is Mother and Father. He lets her feel. He lets her feel everything...and it makes her want it all--all of it--to stop so she can have silence in her head. She hears it all, feels it all. And nothing is worthy of being saved.

Born Awakened, she and her twin sister are Croatan kinfolk. They escaped from the Technocracy at the age of eight, and are now chronologically around the age of 15. Her sister is now an Etherite (at least, she's chosen to be one, whether she told them or not) who serves the Incarna of Science.

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