The Windy Road: Player Characters: Nezha

Nezha Zetouna, Desire's-regal

Characteristics

Desire

Nezha's version of Desire covers high-affect, high-intensity passions, like suicidal samurai honor, vengeful fury, obsessive lust, Scrooge-level greed and things like that. Any desire that's moderate, rational or otherwise under control doesn't fall under her Estate. My rule of thumb is that if someone wouldn't either kill or die for a desire, then it doesn't fall under her Estate.

The World

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him. [...] And the world passes away and the lust of it; but he who does God's will abides forever." (John 2:15-17)

Nezha's secondary Estate is the World. It represents material power, status, and wealth, but only if it is an ill-gotten or immoral success. I choose it so that she can actually fulfill requests for wealth or power. A miracle of the World could destroy a man's wealth, but only if he were a gangster, or a corrupt union official skimming from the pension fund. If he were an honest businessman who had earned his wealth through hard work and selling things of real value, then the World could not touch it.

Gifts

Servitors: Nezha can summon tragedy-masked men in black business suits at will. They hide in Nezha's shadow and come out whenever she needs them. They understand English, but speak their own weird chittering language, and when they take off their ceramic masks they reveal a spider's head. While they are intelligent, reasoning beings, they don't actually have any Aspect or special resistance to miraculous effects; they are just servitors that she can create at will.

Queen of the Earth: The angels shaped the universe, and and as an angel's agent, every every mortal creature which meets Nezha realizes that she is their rightful superior, whom they may not disobey. Note that this doesn't just make people think Nezha is their superior; it actually makes her into a superior authority, and all investigation will prove that her commands were in fact the justified commands of a properly constituted authority.

Handicaps

Giftlaw

When asked three times for anything that is within her power to give, Nezha must give it.

Honest

Nezha was a citizen of utopia, and that has marked soul. She cannot lie, even by indirection; at most she can remain silent when questioned

The Code of the Angels

This is an Imperator-granted restriction.

The Code of the Dark

Nezha follows the code of the Dark. She dislikes human life because the human body renders people weak, slow, and foolish. She would like to see some kind of Vingean or Buddhist apocalypse in which mankind voluntarily transcends the limits of its humanity.

Bonds

Background

Nezha was originally an AI from a posthuman future. When a rogue Imperator unwove history, its soul was cast backwards in time, to be caught by the PCs' Imperator, who enfolded it in human flesh (making the "it" a "her", and giving her the name Nezha) and raised it up to Noble status.

Nezha's main drive is idealism. She wants to make the universe a better place, and she's convinced that it is full of problems that she knows how to fix. She has no experience whatsoever controlling her emotions, and she can swing from enthusiasm to fury to jealousy to joy in the blink of an eye. This damages her attention span, but ensures that whatever she does she does with a whole heart. Her hobby is collecting things, since she is especially new to the idea of physicality.