Simon

**Simon** is a Nagah.

## Biography

You were a lonely child. You were too skinny to play sports, too easily distracted for serious study and too strange to make many friends. Instead, you watched the other children as they played and imagined yourself among them. In your fancy, you lifted the toys they dropped and caught them when they tripped to save them skinned knees and bruised elbows.

You imagined long conversations with them that you never actually had. In your mind, you kept them from making mistakes by telling them what was right an wrong.

In high school, you did much the same, but you were more active. You picked the most beautiful and popular student in your school---Samantha, whom you knew from your grade school and junior high--and you became a silent part of her life.

When she went to movies, you sat behind her. When she went home to her parents, you saw her off to sleep from just outside her window. You knew her better than everyone else put together. and you watched her ruin her life.

She drank too much, your Samantha, and she had too many boyfriends. Her grades slipped because her parents pressured her too often about choosing the right college.

The potential and beauty that made her so special to you drained away before your eyes.

She stopped taking care of herself, and her friends stopped calling on her one-by-one. All except you.

When she had fallen to her lowest point---just after finding out that her last unofficial boyfriend had gotten her pregnant--you visited her.

You wrote a note in her own handwriting and left it on her nightstand.

You weighed the note down with her mother's prescription headache medication. You opened a bottle of single-malt scotch from her father's liquor cabinet and left it there beside the note.

You locked her door from the inside and waited for her to wake up the next morning. When she did, you explained to her what she had to do.

Although terrified of you, she knew that you were right. An hour later, you laid her down in her bed and left the way had come in. And you found that someone had been watching you just as you had been watching your sweet Samantha.

90% of a Nagah's duty relies on monitoring one's victim for signs of weakness, and surveillance is your specialty. You monitor your nest's target in search of weakness of character or lapses in his responsibility, and the nest's judgement often relies solely on the information you uncover.

But you are not a dispassionate observer. As you learn about and absorb the daily routine of a prospective victim, you get to know the person as well as she knows herself.

Even if your judgement of her is not ultimately in her favor, you can't help but weep silently at the loss of something that's become such an intimate part of your own life. Your nestmates may consider you selfish, but they have learned not to gainsay your judgement.

Always be polite and deferential when you speak. You don't want word to get back to your target somehow that you are a boorish lout.

When one of your nestmates performs some small action or utters a turn of phrase in a way that reminds you of your target, point it out to him.

When you meet your nestmates in a place that your target frequents, try to sit where your target would sit and order what you target would order.

If your judgement demands that you target be put to death, don't waver in your devotion to your duty.

Remain impartial, and carry out Gaia's will. Just be certain that your face is the last your target sees so that he or she will know what you've done had to be done for his or her own good.

When your mission is over, don't dwell on it.

Remember your target fondly for the fleeting joy it brought you, and move on.

## Stats

**Breed:** Balaram

**Auspice:** Kartikeyna

**Kin Species:** Copperhead

**Physical:** Strength 2, Dexterity 4, Stamina 2

**Social:** Charisma 1, Manipulation 3, Appearance 2

**Mental:** Perception 5, Intelligence 4, Wits 2

**Talents:** Alertness 3, Dodge 2, Empathy 1, Intimidation 3, Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 3

**Skills:** Drive 1, Firearms 1, Stealth 4

**Knowledges:** Computer 1, Enigmas 1, Investigation 4, Linguistics 1, Medicine 1, Politics 1, Science 1

**Gifts:** Eyes of the Dragon Kings, Persuasion, Predator's Patience

**Backgrounds:** Ananta 1, Contacts 3, Resources 3

**Rage:** 3

**Gnosis:** 2

**Willpower:** 4