Cerberus The Ashen

### Cerberus's appearance was thought of and modeled after I thought of a "Inquisitor" the first thing that came to mind is Neia Baraja from overlord. Her appearance is that of this image generally with tiefling characteristics, horns that round from the front to the back, human like skin pigmentation, more erratic hair, a tail, that of the typical tiefling. One day I will learn how to draw and draw a picture of her.

Cerberus born in the year 4702. Her parents are unknown, almost certainly dead. Shortly after her birth she was taken into the Church of Iomedae. Where she was raised there to follow their teachings and trained to be a warrior for the crusade. She remained in their care until she was 11, of en which the accounts of will be recorded here.

Age 5 the indoctrination was done, teaching began. From this point onward, she was to repeat the tenets everyday.

**"I will learn the weight of my sword. Without my heart to guide it, it is worthless-my strength is not in my sword, but in my heart. If I lose my sword, I have lost a tool. If I betray my heart, I have died."**
**"I will have faith in the Inheritor. I will channel her strength through my body. I will shine in her legion, and i will not tarnish her glory through base actions"**
**"I am the first into battle, and the last to leave it"**
**"I will not be taken prisoner by my free will"**
**"I will not surrender those under my command"**
"**I will never abandon a companion, though I will honor sacrifice freely given"**
"**I will guard the honor of my fellows, both thought and deed, and I will have faith in them"**
"**When in doubt, I may force my enemies to surrender, but I am responsible for their lives"**
"**I will never refuse a challenge from an equal"**
"**I will give honor to worthy enemies, and contempt to the rest"**
"**I will suffer death before dishonor"**
"**I will be temperate in my actions and moderate in my behavior"**
"**I will strive to emulate Iomedae's perfection"**
Age 6 is when the combat training and basics in magic began, this is when she had her first interaction, when she noticed she wasn't a human like the majority of them. And this is when she was taught who and what are the enemies.

**"Evil acts. Fiendish beings. Devils. All who violate our way of life must be rooted out at the core and eliminated."**

At this time she learned and met what were told to her to be companions. She rather enjoyed their interactions, on this day and every day after she repeated the tenets regarding companionship with more passion.

**"I will never abandon a companion."**

**"I will will guard the honor of my friends."**

**"I will not surrender out comrades"**

Age 7

"Sir! There was a monster! It was in the place with all the lights, I turned around and saw it, big black goopy thing!" "All right, let's go see this monster then."

"But it was here..."

"You shouldn't lie about such things! It will not be tolerated again, child."

He left, she watched, seeing his shadow as he walked. Looking down to see hers, gone. She was given a book of the faith, in hopes to inspire no such pranks again. For the first time in a while she started repeating the tenets word for word instead of from how she felt about it.

**"I will learn the weight of my sword. Without my heart to guide it, it is worthless-my strength is not in my sword, but in my heart. If I lose my sword, I have lost a tool. If I betray my heart, I have died."**
**"I will have faith in the Inheritor. I will channel her strength through my body. I will shine in her legion, and i will not tarnish her glory through base actions"**
**"I am the first into battle, and the last to leave it"**
**"I will not be taken prisoner by my free will"**
**"I will not surrender those under my command"**
"**I will never abandon a companion, though I will honor sacrifice freely given"**
"**I will guard the honor of my fellows, both thought and deed, and I will have faith in them"**
"**When in doubt, I may force my enemies to surrender, but I am responsible for their lives"**
"**I will never refuse a challenge from an equal"**
"**I will give honor to worthy enemies, and contempt to the rest"**
"**I will suffer death before dishonor"**
"**I will be temperate in my actions and moderate in my behavior"**
"**I will strive to emulate Iomedae's perfection"**
Age 9, she found a book. A book entailing Fiendish race. A section citing tieflings, explaining their evil descents and false idols. This was the last time she read a book.

Age 10, she discovered the monster, staring down at her shadow, a mass of tendrils and echos shaped within, when she moved it move. It would disappear, each time it returned. It was different. After this event she reflected heavily on what she is, as not a holy race. In her eyes, a shadow of a monster.

 **"I will be temperate in my actions and moderate in my behavior."**

**"I will strive to emulate Iomedae's Perfection"**

Age 11. She was at the shore, looking over the ocean, a text in her grasp, looking unto the water.

*"I will suffer death before dishonor.."*

She fell into the ocean. And was not seen by the Church again.

After this she washed ashore a island, after regaining consciousness, she found her way to a cave where she stayed within for the next 6 years. Then she was found by a cargo vessel, they took her aboard. And it sailed to deliver its cargo at Absalom.

## Personality

Most of the time in public face, Cerberus is a happy go lucky, loving girl. Generally oblivion to most social situations. She loves interacting with people with all her heart, it is her favorite thing to do. She has a disdain towards any race showing any physical characteristics that can be seen as fiendish or inhuman, though that alone will not provoke hostile intent. In social situations where there are a lot of people, Cerberus will usually just leave, if this is not a option, she will try to avoid contact with others until the number of people shorten. In privacy Cerberus acts more like a quiet loner, and despite wanting people to surround her will almost always do nothing in the way of accomplishing that herself and will just sit and wait for someone to talk to her instead. In her privacy she worships Selket over her previous deity. She does this to forget and ignore the trauma she inflicted on herself. In combat Cerberus is a calculative front line fighter, who's main priority is protecting whoever she is with, if she is alone she will still charge as the front line. Still invoking her old teachings to the heart. Unable to forget, for Cerberus's greatest fear is herself.