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[h3]Character Description[/h3]
Name:Vitiafa of Endiohon
Species: Kiellar
Sex: Female
Age: 160-ish
Role/Job: Priestess 
Appearance: 
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[h3]Strengths and Weaknesses[/h3]
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Skills: Vitiafa’s soldiering skills may be incredibly rusty, but she’s a very old hat at handling blasters and blades and can be deceptively good at fighting, at least from a fixed position or for a short time.

Vitiafa is understandably well-read, and brings an understanding of Makerism and several human strains of religion in addition to her kiellari polytheism.

Her extremely rural background and sometimes semi-itinerary lifestyle has taught Vitiafa the ever valuable skill of cooking well.


Weaknesses: Completely blind in one eye and stricken with an often noticeable limp in her gait, the older kiel suffers from her old wounds. Running, though far from impossible for someone still as physically active as she is, proves to be quite painful.

Her pride makes for a volatile mix when combined with her injuries, and unprompted aid is likely to earn scorn rather than gratitude.
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[h3]Background:[/h3]
[list]Backstory: Vitiafa’s life began on one of Eden’s older colony worlds, Euphrates, being one of the middle children to a family of farmers providing foodstuffs for the Edenites. Her childhood was marked by long days in the field and home, dutifully toiling with her family to earn what the gods would bless them with. A proper kiellar upbringing involves scouting youth groups and preparation for at least a small stint in the military, and Vitiafa was no exception to this and took the craft well enough. 

She served briefly in one of Euphrates’ local militias, which mostly consisted of eventless patrols and glorified pest control duties against the wildlife. It is an honorable service, to be sure, but it was nothing exciting to the young Kiel, who had done pretty much the same thing prior to joining up. Instead, Vitiafa turned to the central military for the adventure she silently craved in the infantry.

To say Vitiafa received what she wanted would be an understatement. During a raid on a pirate base, she had taken point into one of their labs and received a splash of acid to the face for her troubles. Her immediate reaction was a piercing screaming before adrenaline surged forth. With gritted teeth as her flesh boiled and bubbled, she brought her carbine on the target rushing her with a knife and yanked the trigger. Almost instantly, she dropped her rifle, reached for her canteen and doused the side of her face. The cool relief lasted for merely a moment as the acid was diluted, before the coolness of the water and the very air burned her as equally as intensely.

Vitiafa was about to find her way to triage when a grenade smashed through one of the windows.The resulting blast left several pieces of shrapnel in her right leg and severely damaged her right foot, which essentially ended her time in the infantry. Her devout upbringing led to a hard pivot into religious studies. She spent the rest of her time in the military as a chaplain, where her curious nature led to private research into other faiths among those of Eden.

She returned home following her discharge, and rejoined her as one of the priestesses at her local temple and the local militia. As she grew older, and more experienced, her time was spent increasingly away from home. First, in larger communities on Euphrates, then even on trips to Eden’s cities. The cosmopolitan nature of the military and her service as a chaplain served her well in the diverse urban settings, though part of her longed for the simple life of home while she was away.

It was during one of these visits to Eden when the metacer threat reemerged and blitzed their way to the world. Her first thought was to rejoin the front, bolster the morale of those fighting the hard fight, and perhaps die facing the foe. An extremely heated debate with her superiors, however, convinced her to acquiesce to the idea of evacuating. 


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