Skin: kira
Artist: Erik "Dragon" Kennedy
Email: ekdragon@earthlink.net
Skin base: Domino, Kiera, Reflect
Filename: kira.zip
Directions: Place all files into base/player/female
To use skin in co-op, server must be set allowillegalskins 1
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Character Info-
Name: Kira Wu
Race: Human
Age: 27
DoB: 11/13/1971
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
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Character Statistics-
(Note, the following section will only be understandable to players
of Mage: the Ascension, by White Wolf. Great RPG, I totally recommend
it. Other readers can skip this section.)
Tradition: Akashic Brotherhood
Essence: Pattern
Nature/Demeanor: Caregiver/Bon Vivant
Arete: 5
Avatar-3, Arcane-4
Sphere Knowledge: Life 4, Mind 4, Forces 3, Prime 2, Correspondence 1
(If you want to use her as an NPC in a game, contact me for statistics)
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History:
Kira was the natural daughter of rich American parents, on extended
stay in Japan. Born blind, deaf and mute, as well as having albinism,
she was abandoned in a back alley and left for dead. Fortunately,
Musurate Wu, a wealthy Japanese business man, was in the area. Being
gifted with an awakened Avatar (ie, being a mage) he sensed the child,
and excused himself from dinner to investigate. He quickly discovered
that the baby had an innately strong Avatar herself, and decided to
adopt the child and teach her the ways of magick.
Though the world of sight and sound was lost to her, Kira was
nevertheless a quick learner, with Musurate's telepathic magicks
letting him communicate with her almost easier than speech. She learned
the ways of magick and of Do, the mystical martial art, and was
accepted into the Akashic Brotherhood of Mages at a young age, and
trained as an assassin for the War of Ascension.
When her adoptive father was killed by technocratic mages (in what was
made to look like a drug-related murder), Kira left Japan for the
United States, where she had a few international contacts which had
been established by her father. In the states, she hooked up with an
unlikely group of mages, and stumbled onto the trail of a 250 year old
nephandic mage (read: very evil). During the two years it took to track
him down, she became the lover of one of the other mages, and mastered
her magicks to the degree where she was able to heal her eyesight,
hearing, and vocal cords.
She and her lover eventually confronted the Nephandus in a neutral
place of power, where both sides struggled to gain control of the node.
Sensing he was losing, the Nephandus attempted to physically co-locate
both the neutral source and his own personal node of power, to draw
enough energy to destroy his opponents. The magick failed. The ensuing
backlash created a massive paradox storm and tore open a dimensional
rift, into which all of the mages were pulled and left stranded, forced
to wander various realms of existance to find their ways home.

And that is how a 20th century earthborn mage could have ended up in
Parthoris. ;)
  