Sesha

**Sesha** is a Nagah.

## Biography

The first sensations you remember specifically are those of the stench of human sweat, the warmth of human flesh and the sad, graceless gyrations of a pitiful human woman. You clung to her shoulders and hung from her neck; lights and smoke blinded you, and you were forced to endure her careless, loveless manhandling as she draped you across her knobby limbs and jerk-weaved around in soulless paroxysms. No matter how fervently you tried to crawl away or escape, she held you close, smearing your skin with her sweat.

When you finally discovered the nature of your torture, you were too horrified to remain complacent any longer. For the first time in the life you remember, you looked around for some respite in the world beyond the human woman’s ungentle ministrations. You prayed for release, but you saw only the eyes of human men capering behind the many veils of smoke all around you. They slavered over you and the woman who held you. They drank impure water and pressed as close as they dared to the stage on which the human woman stood. Some fought with each other over who would come closest to the both of you. Every move the woman made (and forced you to make across her sweat-slick body) filled the men’s eyes with an unholy fire.

But as you watched them, something coiled on the floor. A serpent greater then yourself twisted over and among them, sometimes sliding right through them, touching them as you were forced to touch the woman. The men did not see it or feel its touch, but you could see it --- its path followed the woman’s hateful, hollow eyes, infecting everyone it touched. Its tumescent, writhing eggs in their hearts. The men did not cry out in pain when this happened ---they yowled for joy and pressed ever closer to the woman who held you. You could *hear* them—it was the sound that brought you out of your First Skin. Feeling Rage for the first time, you turned on your “handler.” Panic reigned supreme as the lusting, thronging men beheld your terrible wrath, but their panic and flight trampled the spirit serpent into dust and oily smoke.

Yeats have passed, and you have found your nest, but you remember every move and motion of the woman who had enslaved you. You remember how she lured and teased. You remember the effect it had. Sometimes, you can still smell her stench.

You understand the effect that the anticipation and promise of sex has on the members of other species. You understand how it makes them weak and robs them of their will. Be it in sinuous dance, subtle conversation or magnetic eye contact across a crowded room, your every move pulses with a heat that melts your victims’ better judgement and leaves no question in their minds about what you want from them. Whether you seduce your victims merely to gain information or you set out to lure them to your waiting nestmates, you know how to tease and tantalize and promise just enough to turn a victim into a biddable, willing salve.

The more often you do your duty --- as your nestmates call it---the more revolted you become by the thought of having sex in your Balaram skin. You can see the lust in the way others’ pupils dilate and crawl over every contour of your body. You can tell it in the way they try to touch you as they speak to you. You try to act cold and unwelcoming when you are not specifically doing your job, but so many people see that subtle resistance as a challenge to overcome. Only your nestmates respect you when you need your distance, and you love them more than any pathetic victim of yours has ever claimed to love you.

## Stats

**Breed:** Vasuki

**Auspice:** Kali

**Kin Species:** Cobra

**Physical:** Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3

**Social:** Charisma 2, Manipulation 4, Appearance 4

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

**Talents:** Alertness 2, Athletics 1, Brawl 1, Dodge 1, Expression 3, Intimidation 3, Primal Urge 1, Subterfuge 2

**Skills:** Animal Ken 2, Performance 3, Stealth 3, Survival 1

**Knowledges:** Enigmas 1, Investigation 2, Linguistics 1, Rituals 2

**Gifts:** Sting of Sleep, Sense Vibration, Iron Coils

**Backgrounds:** Ananta 2, Contacts 2, Pure Breed 2, Rites 2

**Rage:** 4

**Gnosis:** 5

**Willpower:** 4