Nemesis Amalgam

* Portrait
* Unclothed
* Cult Regalia
* Hook

> "This? Oh, it's motor oil,"
>
> Nemesis, Chargen Hangout

**Nemesis Amalgam** is a member of the Cult of the Dream Beyond Death, and The Syndicate as a whole. She is a construct made of bodyparts assembled by Lenia Kinclaith, a former member of the Precursor Cult.

## Appearance

Nemesis appears as a tall, broad-shouldered and muscular woman. Many of her parts are obviously of different origin, though, having various different skintones, complexions, and tattoos. The many disparate parts are stitched together with a skilled hand, but their violent origin can still be deduced from the jagged and scarred edges of many of the parts. Perhaps they were removed violently, while the previous owner was still alive, or perhaps the brutality was an intentional part of the ritual. Given Lenia's fate, it is impossible to tell.

Though a mess of many parts, she is not unattractive; aesthetics seem to have been one of her creator's priorities. One of her eyes is like a cephalopod's, the other bloodshot and green. Her nose is incomplete, supplemented by a sculpted piece of bronze. She has full lips and a wide smile, freckles on one half of her face, and a mess of curls that is black, red, or blonde in different places. Her body is large and quite muscular, and plates of worked metal are worked into some parts.

She tends to wear practical, loose workman's clothing, sometimes poorly patched. Out on a job, Nemesis wears a large pot-lid helmet, with a strange vapor constantly emerging from the eyeholes, and an old ornate cloak. Both are decorated with imagery of otherworldly cuttlefish and seemingly old, the metal rusted and the cloak faded.

## Personality

Nemesis is cheerful and friendly, and full of joy at life and existence. She is also somewhat naïve and extremely down to fight, wreck, and perhaps kill. She is curious about the history of her disparate parts, and sometimes deliberate seeks out memories or elements of their lives.

## Playbook

Nemesis has incredible strength and fighting skill, wielding a sledgehammer and large, rusted chain with a hook at the end as well as a number of long knives in battle. She is also easily deployed as a wrecking ball of sorts.

She has a degree of skill in the forging of metal and the creation of gadgets, but her body has poor precise motor control - a side-effect of her nature, presumably - and she has trouble with fine manipulation, so her creations tend to be rough or large in scale.

A more positive side-effect of her faulty nerves is her reduced ability to feel pain, allowing her to continue operating with injuries far beyond those a normal human could endure.

The hammer is an elegant tool, a steel head on a long, solid hardwood handle wrapped in fine leather. One end is rounded and intended for wrecking and bludgeoning, and the other ends in a pick-like point for the creation and exploitation of cracks.

Her chain is old, heavy, and rusted, having originally been used to tie down parts of her body during the process of her creation.

## Background

### Before joining the gang

Nemesis was created by Lenia Kinclaith, a disgraced sparkcraft professor and member of the Precursor Cult, for unknown purposes. Before the disappearance of the Precursor Cult, she acquired the parts of Nemesis through unknown means and assembled her using a series of rituals, finally using her own heart as the final ingredient.

Nemesis then spent an unknown period of time dormant in the abandoned sanctum, before she and her creator's corpse were discovered and she joined the new cult.

### After joining the cult

Nemesis spent an evening drinking at the pub with several other members of the Syndicate. She was trying to drink motor oil out of curiosity, claiming that to her it made just as much sense as drinking alcohol. She decided she did not like it, however.

## Relationships

### Family

**Lenia Kinclaith**

Lenia Kinclaith was her creator, and the previous owner of her heart - and thus part of her soul, as well. Nemesis doesn't know what to think of her creator, as she was left no explanation or guidance, and she does not know why she was made or how. She feels gratitude, however, as she enjoys existing.

**Emeline One-hand**

Emeline One-hand is the captain of a Leviathan Hunter ship, and, unbeknownst to Nemesis, the former owner of her right hand, and part of her soul. She wants both back.

### Friends

**Lord Scurlock**

Nemesis considers herself a friend of Scurlock's, having met after the latter sought her out out of curiosity. They have tea now and then.