| [Introduction: Sekhmet] |
[12 Apr 2012|09:37pm] |
Hiya guys! Rory again, with a hopefully quick introduction to someone you may have seen popping up in comments here and there. There is a reason for that: I was sleepy, and an intro post seemed like an unassailable mountain I didn't want to scale. But now I have a cup of tea and some crumpets, and it doesn't seem as terrifying. AS EVER, you can contact me on AIM @ deathknightdoris if you have any comments or questions, and all of you are welcome to drop in on me without so much as a moment's warning!
So, to the main event: this delightful woman is Professor Meredith Cadogan-Snow, chair of the Department of Anthropology and all-round massive nuisance. Formally, she is Lady Meredith, Marchioness of Lothian and Countess Cathcart, which makes her just enough of a noblewoman to really care about it and make sure everyone else cares about it too. She's an ancient old crow, as bitter and sharp as a lemon full of razorblades - unfortunately, she's ALSO the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess of vengeance, Sekhmet. She's very tall for a lady at 6'3", and likes to intimidate people: something incredibly easy due to the nature of her powers (which I'll come to in a second)
A bit of background on her: she's 82, an archaeologist who was very noteworthy in her time - she won a Nobel Prize about fifty years ago and most of the required readings on her archeology class were written by her. It's really easy to become a famous Egyptologist when you clearly remember the locations of all those lost temples, because you were there when they dedicated them to you. She wasn't always a dry old sow: if you remember the bit in Titanic at the end, where the camera pans over all those photos of things Kate Winslet did? That's basically Meredith's life: fading memories of ballooning over the Sahara, of kayaking one-woman up the Nile, of myriad nights in perfumed tents with nameless men... Anyway, that's a long time ago. These days she's a bitch, and pretty much the only people she doesn't hate with a passion are her grandchild (who, by the way, would be AWESOME to see in-game!) She's a product of the last days of the British Empire, and will staunchly defend it - just like she staunchly assumes anything she personally believes in is right.
So, powers: much like your typical old lady, her breath can kill you (no, really). She can shapeshift into a lioness, and does this frequently - usually to chase students she doesn't particularly like. Whilst, for the most part, she does this to students from her classes that she considers 'foolish' (i.e. most of them), do feel free having had your character chased by her at some point for some perceived slight or other. AND FINALLY (and most importantly for some of you) "Any reincarnation that could be described as ‘hostile’ (which naturally includes your demons, your adversaries, your underworld denizens and tricksters) is affected by an aura of palpable horror in Sekhmet’s presence. In Meredith’s presence, any reincarnation of an ‘evil’ being will be overcome with a niggling sense of fear, rising exponentially the longer they spend with her. Eventually the desire to flee will become overpowering." So yeah -- I imagine that won't make her many friends either. AURA OF TERROR, EVIL ONES.
So, in summary, Professor Sekhmet is here to poke her nose into your business, to make your day measurably worse and to make no friends whatsoever. Her profile is here and she is eager to make your acquaintance. Whether that eagerness is reciprocated is...unlikely.
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