Independent Desdemona

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Desdemona

AGE
► 34
SPECIES
► Dathomirian
HEIGHT
► 6'3"
EYE COLOR
► Red
HAIR COLOR
► Platnium Blonde
HOMEWORLD
► Dathomir
GENDER
► Female
FACTION
► Independent
RANK
► N/A
FORCE SENSITIVITY
► Yes, trained

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Dathomir, a member of the Omendrinker Coven, Desdemona was exiled from the planet by her clan after commiting a great atrocity. Her involuntary exile took her to Coruscant where she was dumped into the nearest slum, hopefully to die.

She did not. Instead, after several weeks of living on the streets, she found a place to stay. She stalked a man back to his rather luxurious home and disposed of both him and his partner. She now lives in his apartment and uses it as her base of operations while she resumes her persuit of forbidden knowledge, forgotten powers and ancient relics while she stalks the slums in search of victims and test subjects for her ritualistic experiments.

Spoiler: Long History, WIP

Desdemona grew up on Dathomir as a member of the Omendrinker clan, a coven of Witches who considered the persuit of knowledge a sacred duty. A duty that Desdemona perhaps took a little too seriously. Her fervor for knowledge served her well in the beginning, allowing her to quickly advance both in rank and skill. However, once it became apparently to her that the clans leader, Omenmother Ka, had been keeping some knowledge a secret from the clan, and from her, Desdemona confronted her. Ka claimed that such knowledge was beyond her and her sisters and was better served being kept away from the world.

They fought, and Omenmother Ka easily defeated her. After their battle, Ka went to help Desdemona from the ground however, she was taken off guard as Desdemona slashed her throat with a blade. Desdemona cradled Ka, watching the blood pour from her neck and mourned. But it was not Ka she was mourning, it was the secrets she had kept, which were currently flowing from her body into the dirt. In a mixture of Adrenaline and Insanity, Desdemona took her blade and began to carve Ka apart before she tried to absorb her knowledge in the only way she could think of.

She was caught during this moment by her sisters, who quickly imprisoned her - blood still smeared around her lips. Some of her sisters wished her dead, while others claimed that doing so would only result in them all becoming animals. In the end they decided to Exile her to 'continue her sacred duty' on a different planet. They bound her and put her on the first ship that would take her, going to the first destination they could.

Personality

Desdemona, the witch of Coruscant, is a fanatical persuer of knowledge and is willing to go to almost any length to secure it. This thirst for knowledge goes hand in hand with a maddening need for power, no matter how much she gets it is never enough. This unending hunger has driven her into depraved depths and she has committed many atrocities in attempts to satiate herself. But the quest for knowledge is never ending and nothing is off limits. No knowledge or ritual is too taboo. Some people may die in her persuit of forbidden knowledge, but that is a sacrifice she is willing to make.

Desdemona's mind has almost completely shattered after her exile. She frequently experiences visual and audio hallucinations of her former sisters, which she refers to as her Coven, and often appears to be having a conversation with another person that nobody else can hear or exploding into maniacal cackling. She is not so far gone as to be unable to interact with people who actually exist but those who are in extended conversation with her will quickly realise that she's a few newts short of a cauldron. Some of her innate force powers, such as force sense, manifest as her 'sisters' giving her advice.

The height of her depravity was her belief that power is stored in the flesh and in her active cannibalism of people she believed to be more powerful than her, notably, the leader of her Coven, whom she betrayed. Ever since then she has housed an additional thirst, beyond knowledge or power. She thirsts for flesh.

Desdemona is no stranger to violence but she would prefer to outsmart or ambush her prey than try to take them in a fair fight. She often needs 'volunteers' for her rituals and is willing to lie, deceive or outright attack people to acquire them. But she isn't completely feral... yet. She is aware that she needs money to survive in the world she has landed on and often offers to help people with a magick spell or ritual - for a price.

Skills

Shadow Magick - Desdemona is an experienced practitioner of Shadow Magick, having been raised in a Coven of witches on Dathomir and is capable of a casting various spells and employing a variety of techniques. She is always experimenting with her magick and studying new techniques, hoping to increase her knowledge and push it to extremes that other witches have never even considered.

Sith Alchemy - Desdemona is fascinated by the art of Sith Alchemy and it is the latest focus of her academic efforts. Tracking down old texts and any information she can on it, she has only just began to scratch the surface and is capable of minor alchemic rituals. She is eager to explore the possibilities of combining Sith Alchemy with Dathomirian Shadow Magick, but wants to expand her knowledge of both subjects first. What fascinates her most is the creation of Sith Abominations and while Shadow Magick is capable of metamorphosis - it pales in comparison to the twisted creatures Alchemists can create.

Feral Ferocity - While she would rather rely on words, trickery or bargains to deal with conflict that doesn't mean she is completely defenseless. She is, after all, Dathomirian. When she must fight she fights like a feral animal - with teeth, claws and rapid unpredictable movements - which when combined with her Shadow Magick make her more than a little dangerous.

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