Username: Altanis
Name of Ability?
Master Skills
Ability Effects:
Research Expert
Rituals/Arcana 8
Research/Investigation 8
Science: Engineering 8
Science: Biology 8
Technical (Reverse Engineering) 8
Altanis is possessed of a startlingly keen mind that is highly adept at researching and understanding things in many fields. She is able to quickly grasp, intuit and understand the basics of even foreign items to a degree of being able to easily utilize them, even without a full proper understanding of their inner workings, and with time be able to reproduce them and develop an understanding of her own.
Unflinching Command
Social (People Reading) 8
Social (Battlefield Leadership) 8
Social (Intimidation) 8
Multitasking 8
Critical Thinking 8
Altanis is concerned with one thing and one thing only, when it comes to those under her command: results. She will employ whatever methods needed to ensure loyalty and obedience. She will tell others what they need and want to hear, backed with enough tact and informed knowledge to make it seem utterly sound and sensible, and exert such an awe-inspiring and unnerving presence that she brokers few, if any, questions or backtalk. She has an almost uncanny and precise ability to nearly seamlessly juggle and handle multiple tasks at once. She likewise possesses a remarkable knack for clear and concise logic and reasoning, able to keep her cool and think clearly even under pressure.
Lead by Example
Combat (Tactics) 8
Knowledge (Battle Tactics) 8
Survival (Ambush) 8
Survival (Tracking) 8
Combat (Battle) 8
While she prefers a more hands-off leadership role, Altanis is no stranger to more...close-quarters and frantic command. She is quite capable of leading from the front, and providing an unflinching example to those alongside her, providing keen and quick insight as well sound strategic and tactical advice and orders while charging directly into the fray herself.
Interrogation
Subterfuge 8
Social (Manipulation) 8
Negotiation 8
Domination 8
Empathy 8
Altanis is accustomed to getting what she wants by any means necessary, and over countless years has become quite skilled at doing precisely that. She can lie and talk around things as good as any devil among the stars, or twist the truth into methods and language that suit her without actually lying outright. She can present things in ways that get her what she wants while seeming to mostly or even entirely benefit other parties. She spins words and situations to forcibly take control of and steer conversations and entire discussions seamlessly without an opportunity for anyone else to interject, making it seem like agreement is only natural and expected, reading emotional and situational cues to carefully and artfully spin situations into even making it seem like it was their idea to let her lead things.
Esoteric Crafts
Cartography 4
Navigation 4
Architecture 4
Fieldcraft 4
Infiltration 4
A startlingly diverse collection of skills and tactics Altanis has developed over her many years. Not as oft deployed as her other skills, she still possesses more than a working knowledge of them, to a degree she can recognize competence or lack thereof when they are employed, and ensure a base level of such competence among anyone under her banner.
The necessary skills and knowledge to both create and read accurate maps.
Navigating and maintaining proper direction, whether in familiar or unfamiliar territory, with or without a map or guide.
Knowledge of architecture and all that goes into it; from the simple skills required to draw up or read plans and blueprints, to understanding basic concepts of structure and planning, and even how best to exploit them to bring structures down once they're built.
Safely traveling through, living in, and surviving in the wild without other supplies or assistance, as well as the knowledge and skills to avoid obvious danger from errant weather, predators or other difficulties of the wild, as well as making records for things observed to report back to others.
A keen ability and understanding of the skills and methods needed to gain access to a location without being detected, as well as the obvious counters to such methods.
Descriptor: As noted above.
Essence Cost: 1800
STAFF EDIT: Approved!
2400) Essence
