Kanda

## Description

whispers of the half-lich spread within the city of Babel. A monster, neither living or dead, that steals the vital essence of her enemies, and cannot be truly slain

Kanda is a rail thin girl with facial tattoos and a face mask covering her nose and mouth. She is has a cold demeanor and shows very little empathy or remorse. This combined with her negative energy affinity, and her ability to sustain nauseating injuries with little to no reaction, lead many to suspect she is an undead.

In truth her advanced healing abilities are a result of her ongoing efforts to keep herself alive and self treat her various ailments.

She suffers Asthma attacks and anemia, shes prone to disease and has a weak constitution, however these ailments have made her a proficient healer without any training.

she stands 5'1" and weighs in at 100 pounds.Rer eyes have a reddish glow that increases in intensity when shes excited. Her face features a skull pattern of tattoos over her eyes nose and lips. Other similar tattoos cover her body and coalesce in a large symbol of Urgathoa on her upper back.

She has several scars including a badly split lip, and a severe burn in the center of her chest

## History

A street urchin taken in to the church of urgathoa at an early age. Kanda underwent several years of mental and physical conditioning to prepare her to be a life long servant of the goddess of undeath. She was forced to take part in the churches supplications. Deeply disturbing acts of evil performed by the church in honor of their god, and as a way to draw in wealthy and influential members she was also expected to entertain guests at the churches orgies. To avoid being "chosen" in these events she, like many daughters of the churc, modified her appearance, taking on the disturbing religious tattoos that cover her entire body, she also took up guitar as players would often be left to perform.

in 42 IA At the age of 16 Kanda was subjected to a ritual that brought her to the brink of death. After regaining consciousness, and finding that shed been left for dead in the ritual chamber, Kanda fled the church. she spent 2 years hiding but following the war and the fall of the Verik empire shes decided to rejoin the world in hopes of leading a more fulfilling life.

## Role

Kanda is deceptively frail and sickly, however her ability to self heal and negate damage make her surprisingly durable. Shes has a deep reservoir of magical energy, and makes for a fairly reliable healer. Her blood magic is her most imposing source of damage and she carries a prepared diagram for it on her glove, however, when enemies are immune to this, she will fall back on support casting.

Kanda often has very little concern for her own safety, and a numbness to fear that makes her a solid defender, but her lack of armor makes tanking impractical. She will risk her own life without hesitation if she thinks it will help the group achieve its goals but her role is actually better served in the back line defending other casters.

Shes very charismatic, and might act as a face if the situation calls for it but her disturbing features make that difficult in most settings, she can use her startling appearance for intimidation if the situation calls for it.

## Alignment

Kanda can cohere with any alignment, and has no problem working with anyone, lawful good to chaotic evil, although her alignment and appearance makes most paladins and inquisitors distrustful of her at first.

Since her escape from the influence of the cult, Kandas actions have shifted away from true evil. Her main focus is on self preservation. However she remains unrepentant.

A combination of her past trauma and the same abilities that give her dampened responses to pain, make it hard for her to fully comprehend human emotions. she's expressed difficulty understanding empathy and a morbid fascination with suffering. she's more than willing to perform evil acts and shows little to no remorse. Kanda is acutely aware of this weakness and treats it as if it were one of her many aliments making efforts not to upset her teammates, avoiding actions the group deems evil

## Current events

### Tower of Death

Kanda's first major contribution to Babel came during the second emergence of the tower of death.

As Kandas corruption progessed she often found herself roaming aimlessly around the countryside. her Mind vaccant her boddy needing no rest, or food, she would walk for hours without any real destination in an almost trance like state.

 Kanda is not a naturally gifted caster and instead relies on magical diagrams to cast magical effects and draws magic from the world around her, burning the earth in the process. She often finds herself needing to heal her fragile body and as such has mastered the diagram of life. Due to her many health problems Kandas most honed magical focus is life magic to the point that she could carve these diagrams in seconds. Over the two years shes spent wandering the outskirts of babel shes drawn hundreds of such diagrams, many of which are permanently scored into the earth due to the nature of her casting. For the most part these diagrams are seen as unpleasant, even unlucky. Magic circles carved into the earth where no plants will grow, superstitious locals would avoid them and murmer under their breath that they were a sign of true evil. not an entirely false presumption, but some of the more insightful people of babel have found that the diagrams, particularly the diagram of life, can be profoundly useful. not only can the diagram be used to heal themselves but it can be used in casting radiant bursts of divine energy that burns and harms the wandering dead.

These mysterious circles can be found throughout the forest and wilderness surrounding babel and GreyHollow. the Area Kanda tends to roam. taking up a 5x5 area diagram casters can immediately recognize and use the circles to cast life magic saving themselves precious seconds carving their own circles. However the true effect this has had is in arming the townsfolk and natives in the area, who themselves are not naturally proficient casters. By studying the circles some locals have become proficient in life magic. a type of magic that is particularly useful against the undead. roughly 1 in 10 locals have started using the diagram to handle weaker undead creatures that roam to close to their homes and farms. many locals will carry prepared diagrams and use them to cast weaker cure spells. A typical commoner has a 1 in 10 chance of knowing the basics of life magic thanks to these bizarre but useful insignia. Kandas unknowing contribution to the battle, undoubtedly saved hundreds and prevented the spread of weaker undead from the tower. The land is now littered with easily recognizable life circles, and untrained commoners now have healing abilities to offer those in need and to better defend themselves. Kanda Did eventually become involved in the tower after having wandered to close to the tower and desturbed the undead there in. Though she is very nearly an undead in her own right the half-lich proved to be a formidable foe against the undead, using her healing spells not only as a weapon against the undead. But as a way of surviving palpable blows from them. As the number of undead in the land increased Kanda shifted the focus of her casting away from blood magic and into life spells to help fend off the hordes of undead.