Merra Perdito
Attribute
Score
Mod.
Str
11
0
Dex
14
+1
Con
12
0
Int
14
+1
Wis
7
-1
Cha
7
-1
Background: Clergy
Class: Psychic
Skills: Telepathy 0, Telekinesis 0
Effort: 1
Skills:
Notice 0
Survive 0
Talk 0
Connect 0
Hit Points: 3
Description: Merra is around 5'3 with a slim build. She has gray-brown eyes, and her hair is always hidden under a hood (it's shoulder-length brown). She wears the midnight-blue robes and slippers of an acolyte of the Chapel of Saint Eremin. Her last name, Perdito, means "lost" in one of the ancient languages of Earth, and is one of the default names assigned by law enforcement and social workers to orphaned ghetto kids when their family name is otherwise unknown.
Personality: Due to her early (lack of) upbringing in the slums, she tends to be sneaky and suspicious, almost paranoid. She doesn't trust anyone till they have proved trustworthy. Her training at the Chapel had mitigated a lot of it, but her recent experience on Hell has brought it back full force. She would rather not fight if she can possibly help it, but she's not beyond telekinetically dropping (sorta) heavy objects on someone's head if she has to.
Short Backstory: Merra was a street urchin living in the slums of Maiphus on the planet Soter, the 4th planet of the star Zeshan N57C. When, at the approximate age of 10, she started showing signs of MES, the local church took her in. It turned out the monks ran a hidden training center for psychics. Soter is a repressive theocracy. The people believe that psychics are possessed by demons. The madness and/or sudden death of MES is proof of that, and The Scream was God's vengeance against all who consort with demons. When Merra was around 25, The Inquisition found about the secret center, raided it, and condemned all the monks and student psychics to Hell. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your point of view, Hell is not a metaphor, it's the third planet of Zeshan, a hot desert world used by the Soterans as a prison planet. Merra found that her survival skills from the slum served her well on Hell, especially in keeping away from rape gangs. She has lived there for about 5 years so far.