The Hidden Aspect Master - Occult Claire

**The Hidden Aspect - The Occult Claire**

When the allies first discovered a new wave in the seas of probability where a parallel version of reality, very similar to the image of Hell in several terrestrial mythologies, had begun to blend into their baseline world, they knew they would be in for the fight of their lives. They had no idea if a Claire would even be able to survive in a world where the demolishing of society caused a collapse of technological development and the influx of unholy energies, tempered in the fires of a world vastly harsher than our own, proved far superior to any of the magics their baseline casters could conjure up. Their question was, would the Claire of this world possess some otherworldly and Holy power counter to the demonic force, or would their Claire have succumbed to them.

They found their answer in Occultist Claire. Eschewing the mana of the elements and her Earth, lacking the safety and education to develop any worthwhile technologies, this Claires first weapons were her bare hands. Hands which were stained with years of demonic ichor, eventually growing into taloned claws incapable of handling all but the simplest of devices. Her innate connection to this parallel realm, later learned to be present behind the veil no matter what corner of the galaxy the allies traveled to, always gave this Claire an enormous and untapped source of energies. Being able to easily finish off the weak, her studies of the strongest God-level beings in her own plane made her critical of their smallest weaknesses, able to damage just about any living being with enough focus. Her greatest strength lies in her impenetrable defences, whereby feeding just a minute portion of her blood helps lubricate a small portal between the worlds, without the aid of technologies, enabling her to channel demonic forces into the air around herself and repelling all terrestrial foes for a number of attacks, no matter their power.

**Quests of Occult Claire - The Steps to Wickedness**

Embracing Darkness - Have the Occultist Aspect of Claire develop her channel to the void through constant channeling of dark elements. Accomplish everything with darkness, from routine trash and limb disposal, to blinding foes and eventually blocking out the very sun. She cannot be called a master until her abilities deal a total combined amount of 10,000 Darkness damage in winning battles.

Demon Supremacy - Have Claire, while an occultist, encounter 30 instances of the demonic race that she has studied for so long. In order to fully understand them, she must begin with the bodies, the brains, then examine whatever else is left, until she can finally call herself the Master Demonologist.

**Innate Skills - The Defiler Daemonicum**

**Rake -** The ferocity of her Daemonic influence both allows her, and limits her, to bare handed slashes aimed at the face, neck and groin of her foes. Her fierce demeanor lets her land 3 to 4 strikes for every one of other Claires. While additionally, her instinctive targeting of weak areas on a foe doubles the chance to land a critical blow (a 50% bonus).

**Dark Guest -** A lifetime of speaking with fell and unspeakable beings have allowed several of the most powerful entities to establish a connection with Claire periodically even when not actively trying to do so. Having such a close relationship with these beings allows her to manifest some of their power at a cost of a fraction of their recovering health. By losing 15% of her health she bolsters her external muscular structure to absorb several strikes. The ill intent of attacking foes acts like a lighting rod of sorts, drawing out the dark energies with just a bit of focus, to harm the vitality of most living beings. This has an added effect of siphoning away the energies of any buffs with every strike.

**Demonology** - Her practice of always drawing the attention of the strongest beings around with her summoning rituals, enabling her to rapidly detect both strength and weakness in creatures never before experienced, allows her to quickly spy any weak points when confronted with a powerful enemy. Her ferocious tenacity lends inhuman power to attacks, raising the likelihood they will penetrate harder and further into enemy flesh.

**Ritual -** Her promise of life energies to a deviil beyond the veil , in exchange for some temporarily healing of her team, is a contract penned in blood. Claire has learned that using a foe's blood, taken during a scuffle on the battlefield, can be used just as well, promising away her enemies lifeforce instead of her own. After several times greater healing, she then immediately breaks the forged contract, effectively causing the demonic contract-bearer to collect their due in one fell swoop, a swarm of tearing darkness, power enough to be able to kill weakened foes.

**Undeterred** - The harder foes try to take down the cultist, the more she is able to feed off of their hatred. Every dark whisper and curse provides healing vigor (10% of max hp), every crippling blow or painful toxin is channeled through their adaptive organs and tissues into raw might (+10% Attributes.). In fact, her body is eventually frozen in place in the parallel hell spawn reality, allowing her to fall back to her base statuses and functioning whenever an external force seeks to cause any drop in their bodily abilities (None of which fall bellow base levels).

**Learned Skills - Acquired Darkness for the Horde**

**Merciless** - Studying how one kicks those who are down, Claire replaces foolish notions of honor with an insatiable hunger to win. She exploits critical foes, occasionally taking full advantage to leave just a single HIt point. Her adaptive body can further exploit foes by reflexively tuning itself to the negative energies of most buffs, an adjustment which always leads to greater effects when striking. (+10% attack per debuff)

**Wail** - Hearing the haunting shriek of the Banshee, Claire felt a familiar chill she recognized as coming from the frozen peaks of the hellish plane of her birth. By mimicking the same winds which give these peaks their unearthly sharp ridges and subzero surfaces she can deal sonic damages which leaves defenses frozen solid. Not only do some of their resistances stop functioning completely, but a fraction of this effect persists for several turns after.

**Graves Call -** By focusing on the darkness just beneath the veil of our world, Claire can use a minimal amount of focus to shred foes with darkness (Up to 5.5x focus). A foes leaking life force lubricates this gate further, which stays open an additional 2 turns (dealing 2x Focus darkness during those turns). The conduit widens further with damage in a chain reaction, eventually absorbing a foes entire being upon taking enough strikes to lose consciousness.

**Manifestation** - When allies lose their life force their body still retains both its physical and spiritual defenses. At the moment of death Claires bond with her teammates allows her to absorb a fraction (1/3) of her crews attributes governing these defenses. Eventually learning to convert the remaining attributes into a fraction of their life energy for personal healing. With practice, her body can hold more and more of these fragments, given up upon death, with her releasing them once more upon the battles end.

**Read Omen -** By reading the flow of life forces around the battlefield, Claire can see which ally is the furthest from this flow, effectively "the least likely to be injured in any way". This greatly bolsters their confidence that whatever action they take will turn out well, allowing them an instant free turn. This ally can draw extra mana with careless abandon at this time, sharing any they recover with Claire, due to following her omen forging a temporary bond between the 2 units.