Cassandra of Troy

Cursed by Apollo, taken captive by Agamemnon, she died by Aigisthos' sword in the bloodbath that killed the King of Men. Clairvoyant that she was, she knew too well what awaited her ~ the nightmare nonentity of Hades. She clung to her body and thereby was bound to her tomb. But at least she could linger in the light.
After a few years of hanging about, invisibly, it occurred to her to try to animate her body, now reduced to a skeleton. She succeeded, and also succeeded in covering it with a glamour of her old self, but the effort was exhausting. She "slept," and tore prana away from local dreamers ~ the remains of the Atreides, whom she had scant love for.
She haunted the island in the first peace she had known since Apollo, watching with satisfaction as the Heroic Age died. She kept her animation and her glamour going with dream-stolen prana. A banshee-like legend grew up about her. Centuries rolled, and she heard of the Israelites, folk who worshipped only a single primordial god and despised all other deities. Good for them; she approved.
Eventually, Olympus fell. Apollo died and his curse was undone. She continued haunting, staring into the future, now sometimes able to warn dreamers and be believed. The banshee-legend died as she spent less time at home, became more selective in the dreamers she milked, roamed deeper into the Dreamworld, exploring and feeding.
She also roamed the eastern Mediterranean. She became an observer, a sort of tourist. By fortune-telling it was easy to earn enough money to travel, when she needed no food or shelter, leaving only a track of nightmare behind her. She visited Israel a few times. She saw Rome and Alexandria and Babylon.
On the first Christmas, when Pan died, she was visited by an amazing series of visions. Before the Christ-child was presented at the Temple and hailed by Simeon and Anna, she had taken ship for Patmos, where she started making ready.
Cassandra is an undead, a walking skeleton. She is not a blood-drinker, but takes prana from dreamers, both on Earth and in the Dreamworld. Her powers include precognition, of course, the animation of her skeleton, and a great deal of first-order glamour (optical and acoustic telekinesis). She is also a powerful general clairvoyant and, by now, deeply learned in the nature of djinn, ka'u, ka-gods, ghosts, vampires, ghouls, and the Dreamworld.
She has no supernatural vulnerabilities but is frail and can only lift a few pounds. She cannot disguise her light weight, and a touch would reveal something very wrong. Unless she keeps her glamour at highest pitch, her shadow is dim, except for the bones showing through.
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