Post by Lies in Wait on Oct 21, 2015 11:09:09 GMT
Name: Lies in Wait (Originally Guan Hui)
Age: 45.
Exaltation/Caste: Lunar, No Moon Caste
Affiliations: The Criminal organization known as the "Crimson Spider"
Bio:
Guan Hui was a manipulative, wicked woman with a genius for the criminal underworld. Her charm, intellect and rather careful investments led her to become a powerful criminal force in her native land of Sejuan, a small kingdom in the east. Unfortauntely, she was found guilty of a portion of her many crimes, and sentence to death by being thrown into a pit hundreds of feet deep.
Stubborn and refusing to die, Hui climbed up the sheer wall of the pit, using her own blood to help her stick to it's surface. After climbing for what seemed like at least two days, she flopped over the edge of the pit--and into a cushion placed by the Blessed Moon. Taking the form of a Sejuani Blood spider, the moon told her that she could now scale any wall, and maybe even climb creation--if she was audacious enough to find the edge. With entirely unhelpful bit of advice, Hui found herself wandering the woods, occasionally turning into a spider and ensnaring random birds for lunch.
Patience was what Hui was known for in her past life, and in her new one, she is not much different. Hui is wating for small openings and opportunities, castign a wide net to see what she will catch. A former subordinate? An enemy waiting to be destroyed? A
Now emboldened, Hui wanders about, looking for an opportunity to re-establish herself, patiently biding her time...
Appearance:
Although often inaccurately called the "Lesser Pattern Spider," the Sejuani blood spider has no mystical properties to speak of. However, its' venom can be refined into a fairly powerful hallucinogen, which Guan Hui trafficked in prior to her Exaltation. It stands at nearly four feet long from abdomen to mouth, and it often found in the canopies of large treetops near Sejuan. It feeds primarily on birds caught in its glittering web, but specimens grown in captivity and farmed for venom often live on fish.
In her full human form, Guan Hui appears as a woman in her early thirties (she was aging gracefully prior to her exaltation) with deep black hair and iridescent, pupiless, multi-colored eyes. She often wears multiple, garish colors, to signify her relationship to the spiders she has emulated. She often wears her hair in simple buns, a bit of messiness occurring as she performs any important work. She's a little shorter than msot men her age, but nothing significantly odd about that.
When she talks, it tends to be surprisingly blunt for a professional criminal. She is terse, sarcastic, and often jsut downright rude to people.
Hui has an odd habit of standing or sitting upside down sometimes to get started on a brainstorming session. She's done it since she was little, no real idea why.
Potential Plot Hooks:
- Hui's Solar mate is....yet to be revealed! DUN DUN DUN!!!
- Hui is debating whether or not it would be wiser to restart her former crime operations, or set up shop somewhere new. Either way, hiring lackeys is often on the agenda.
- Was the Moon's joke about "climbing the edge of creation" actually important? Or was she just screwing with her newest charge? Or was it a prophecy with a true meaning yet to be determined?
- Is the cynical, yet clever Guan Hui prepared to face the people who ordered her execution? And more importantly, just who ratted her out?
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