Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character is another example in the a set of completed characters I’m posting for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. I made them for my players, or my players made them.
I’ll refer to them later on if I post recaps, and I thought that other GMs might want them–you should be able to just offer them to new players as a menu of pre-made character options that will work well together.
I didn’t do my own templates for this campaign, so these characters are worked up from templates in the list of published templates I posted a little while ago. The character designs I’ll post were also designed in response to my required character creation prompt for this campaign, and they usually take into account my campaign advice for character creation.
To refresh your memory, the prompt is: “Your character is on a boring backwater planet and has a good reason to want to become a space pirate.”
Saiph Orionis
Saiph is a talented mechanic but some rather serious mental problems have prevented her from achieving all that she could in life. Or at least, they MIGHT be mental problems.
The back rooms of the grittiest space stations were her schoolhouse, and she knows how to fight. She grew up a space pirate, but she was born into this gang. If she were given a choice, she always thought that she would want to be good instead! But acting on that desire has been complicated:
For her entire adulthood she’s been troubled by reports that she’s done bad things–mean things! Things that she would never condone!–yet she has no memory of doing them. She’s explained this to herself with the idea that she has an evil twin. But maybe she has mental problems? Could she be doing these things while sleepwalking? She’s never been much for a good night’s sleep.
Nonetheless, she always manages to scrape through somehow. She’s lucky. She always seems to have the right part. If it’s broken, she can probably fix it. She can probably rebuild it. She can probably even design it!
If this were a fair universe, or even just one where she got the mental help she probably needs, she would be a highly paid engineer, richly rewarded for her substantial talents. But where she grew up, you didn’t go to the headshrinker. So she just pushes the worries down, avoids the topic, and moves on to the next gravatic isolator rebuild.
Character Sheet
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Requires Concentrate 