Dora

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
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### Dora: ~6023 BCE - ~6020 BCE

Dora was born in the Garden of Eden. just prior to the exile of her mother, Lilith. Part-Supernal and part-infernal, Dora was born with feathered ears that resembled angel wings and demonic hunger that could not easily be sated. As her inhuman appearance and infernal heritage threatened the Divine Experiment, she was taken from her father Adam when she was still young.

### Dora: ~6020 BCE - 2007 BCE

Unable to live in Heaven due to its occupants' severe distrust of infernals, especially after Lilith's machinations; and many archangels' hesitancy to condemn an innocent child to Hell, Dora was taken to the Dreaming. However, as Morpheus was not certain how to raise a child (having never been one himself), he left Dora's care to his various employees. Yet, as the employees had not been told of Dora's heritage they could not answer her questions about why she was different than the arcana and other beings that came to dwell in the Dreaming.

When she was much older, but still an adolescent due to a slow development being raised in the Dreaming where time's grasp means little, Dora began to regularly hound Morpheus for the answers to the questions she had about herself. Rather than break the news to her that her mother was the "Mother of Monsters" and the tragic story of her father and half-brothers, Morpheus told her to seek the answers for herself in the Dreaming.

This cryptic instruction was taken quite literally by Dora who would go into the wilds of the Dreaming and ask the landscape itself for answers. When informed of this, Morpheus began to take junk from his custodian' workshop and leave these "gifts" for Dora to find. They were often toys with missing parts, books which were missing final or crucial chapters, partial props from the sets of abandoned dreams, keys to lost lockboxes, instructions to devices never created, and so on. Though these things meant little to anyone else, Dora saw value in them. She kept each and every gift, cherishing all of them.

Hoping to keep her from constantly searching for clues to her past in the Dreaming, Morpheus gave Dora a job. Appointed as the Herald of the Dreaming, Dora would travel to other realms on the orders of Dream or his steward to give messages, deliver gifts,or facilitate general correspondance. She found that she enjoyed travel and began to do this in her free time, and began taking souvenirs of her many travels as a reminder of where she had been.

As time went on, she dug out more space in her burrowed home to accomodate each and every gift she had collected, in addition to the souvenirs she would taken on her journeys. Soon the field surrounding her home become a junkyard, cluttered with the excess for her hollowed-out home would collapse on her.

When Morpheus disappered suddenly, Dora's cryptic gifts ceased to be found. She suspected that Morpheus had been behind it all along and confronted Lucien, who confirmed her suspicions. Futhermore, Lucien made a passing remark that hinted he knew more about Dora's past than he let on. Soon, Dora returned to Ghost Castle and pressed for more answers. When he evaded her questioning, Dora gor angry. Her monstrous side came out with Dora threatening to devour him. Luckily for Lucien, Dora came to her senses in time. However, she still felt ashamed for what she had done and fled. For two decades, she lived as a cosmic vagabond — drifting from one realm to another without purpose or plan.

### Dora: 2007 BCE - Present

Upon the return of Morpheus from his imprisonment, Dora returned to the Dreaming to confront the Endless. Before she unleashed her anger upon him, Morpheus asked if she enjoyed her gifts. Dora confessed that to others they were discarded junk, but she always thought they were special. Morpheus then told her she was ready to hear the truth of where she came from, reminding her at the end that while others thought she was something to be rid of, he always thought she was special. Tearfully, Dora embraced Morpheus and asked to have her job back.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Supernal Primordial Physiology:** Dora is the child of constructed parents of opposing polarity.
	+ ***Clairsentience:*** Dora gains insight into the personal lives of people by visiting their dreams. When in the dream of a sleeping person, Dora absorbs random details about the person — in addition to their emotions. She can also use this ability to travel (via teleportation) to their sleeping body's physical location to her.
	+ ***Enhanced Digestion:*** Dora can eat just about anything. Though she prefers to eat food and drink tasty beverages, she can eat rocks and drinks poison with no ill effect, with her body extracting whatever can be use and quickly processing the remainder through her digestive system as it would anything else. She can swallow a bomb and even if it explodes inside her, she would be unharmed. Her mouth, teeth, throat, and the reminder of her anatomy will instantly shift to accomodate the eating, swallowing, digestion, and disposal of anything.
	+ ***Flight:*** Though Dora's ear/wings are too small and weak for to use them for flight in reality, she can use them to fly through the Dreaming and other ephemeral realms (such as the Void and Perfection). In reality, she can slow her descent to survive falls from almost any height, briefly levitate, or assit leaps.
	+ ***Gift of Tongues:*** Dora has the ability to speak, write and understand each and every language spoken by sentient lifeforms. This makes her an ideal messenger.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Supposedly Dora was never meant to be immortal — as both of her parents were designed to be mortal. However, that clearly did not work and Dora has inherited a similarly broken mortality. Dora does not age or suffer the rigors of most disease or illness. Further, she seems to have ceased her development at a premature state compared to other immortals, becoming something of an eternal teenager in both physicality and maturity, retaining the mood swings of your average teenage female.
	+ ***Teleportation:*** Dora can open portals to cross through realms with no effort. Others can join her in these travels by stepping through the portals with her. To go anywhere specific, she must be familiar with the location. If she has heard of a place, she can travel to its native realm but would have little control over where in that realm she travels until she did some exploring.
	+ ***Transformation:*** When excessively hungry, angry, or afraid, Dora will transform into a monstrous form with a large mouth, sinister eyes, and amplified strength. Returning to her previous state is usually only possible once her emotional state has improved (requiring vast amounts of food, gratification, or the threat to leave). Dora has, at times, pulled herself back from the extreme fatigue and pain. In this form she has broken the bones of angels and killed demons with a simple punch.
* **Oneiromancy:** Dora knows how to manipulate dreams, create dream sets and props, change the features of an arcana, and a variety of other oneiromantic spells and rituals. She can cast an arcana out of dreams, seal others in a dream, or prevent others from entering a dream she had sealed. She can also scry into the physical reality around a sleeping individual currently in the Dreaming.

### Weaknesses

* **Ancient Laws:** Dora is bound by ancient laws.
* **Past:** Dora has a deep curiousity about still unanswered questions about her origin and her parents. She strives to learn these answers but also fears them.
* **Tell:** Dora has ears which look and function like small feathered wings. These are not easily hidden. If she is magically transformed by some means, her ears will remain locked in this form and will be equally noticeable.
* **Vice — Gluttony:** Dora has an insatiable hunger. Though she is always hungry and never full, Dora can maintain a level of satisfication by regular feedings that will keep her "nasty side" from gorging upon whatever (and whover) it can grap.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weapons:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Ranged:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
	+ **TOTAL:** 105
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Dora is a character from *The Sandman Universe*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Dora

1. ↑ Network Files: Dora