Meridiana

**Meridiana** is a historical/folklore figure as well as a transcendent of the Bridge Building Cabal.

## Appearance

Meridiana is an attractive succubus with two horns on her head. She has short hair with red on top and purple pink at the end.

She wear a black gothic dress with a big pink bowtie at her breast.

She has demonic wings and tail.

## Personality

Meridiana is a really old succubus who has lived since the Fall of Rome. Thus, her thoughts are quite old for the current generation.

She has the personality of a traditional woman during the Medieval Era who likes her husband and do all the chores as a good wife. She gived all of her support to the man.

Meridiana also has a strong sense of justice. She has made it her purpose to protect the reputation of the falsely accused and hates any such accusations, willing to risk her life to save victims of them, and fight even god over such matters.

## Background

Around 990s BC, Meridiana fell in love with a man and promised to make him the pope. Her life with the man was extremely happy in her memory. Despite the fact that the two cannot show off their relationship, the two loved each other dearly.

After the man died, he was accused of courting a succubus (herself) to become pope. This eventually forced Meridiana to move out of Western Europe. From there on, Meridiana vowed to make it her purpose to protect the reputation of the falsely accused and hates any such accusations, willing to risk her life to save victims of them.

She participated in the Witch Falls with a fellow member of the Bridge Building Cabal, Laplace's Demon as she saw the Three Ancestral Witches's action to end witch hunt is merely falsely accused others to do their own witch hunt. During the event, she fought Morrígan of the Three Ancestal Witches and sacrificed herself to destroy the witch.

## Abilities

As a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, Meridiana is said to be powerful enough to rival the regular magic side on her own. Outside of this, she is capable of flight using her wings and her tail is prehensile.

### Signora Fredda

Means Cold Mistress, Meridiana's signature spell which converts pleasure signals into pain. It has a large range, capable of covering the whole of area of Western Europe and possibly more, with both specific and general targetting.

During the Inquisition there were sinners who claimed to have slept with incubi or succubi, and the recorded confessions of the experience extracted from them through torture generally come in one of two kinds - either it provided great otherworldly pleasure, or it was painful, cold and disgusting. Accordingly, Signora Fredda can replace any and all pleasure signals with pain, up to intense and excrutiating levels.

It is said that the greater the happiness a target is feeling, the greater the hell the Succubus can condemn them to. These pleasure signals include the desires for food, sex and sleep, described as instructions meant to efficiently guide people towards survival and reproduction through attempts to fulfill their animal desires. Turning them on their head, Meridiana can kill people through starvation or sleep deprivation, or prevent reproduction. As demonstrated with Morrígan while she was trying to power through the agony born from the pleasure of an imminent victory, it can also be switched off suddenly to cause all of the affected signals and emotions to flood back, momentarily delaying the target.

By adjusting the spell's strength, Signora Fredda can be used to create a nagging irritation and subconscious source of unease, which attempts to soothe will only worsen, the irritation coming to dominate the mind. When faced with a large invisible factor that they have trouble understanding, humans have a tendency to look for someone to blame and direct their hatred towards a closer, more visible target, attempting to eliminate it to reclaim peace of mind and calm themselves. The witch hunts were cited as an example, with many accusations of virtuous citizens towards one another, not even attacking the real supernatural demons at the center of the issue. Exploiting this, with the right trigger, Meridiana can deliberately set off mass hysteria and an artificial 'witch hunt'.

While the spell is a potent one, it is not effective if the target is not seeking pleasure or comfort, and they can drown themselves in negative emotions such as hatred and regret in order to avoid it.