IOTHA

On the world where Iotha was born,

the forests were tall and old, and within them walked the elves, her people.
Being elves, they knew that there were
doorways between the worlds, and they
taught her how to know those doorways and their uses. Although she
never learned to open the doors of
shadow and shift, she learned to spot
the gateways and trackpaths left by
those who did. On her 400th birthday,
then, she packed up a good longbow of
yew, and a lyre, and one or two secret
things of her own, and set out upon her
Time of Wandering.
For the first few decades, she merely found doors and roads to other
worlds much like her own, with their
own elves and orcs and dwarves and

giants. Elves she greeted, orcs she

hunted, dwarves she bargained with,
and giants she slew. As she journeyed
farther though, she found more and
more of the worlds contained men, of
whom she had heard stories but had
never seen. They were as fascinating as
the songs her mother sang her as a girl,
every one of them a Tamlin or a
Thomas the Rhymer to her eager eyes.
Although among the elves she was
counted plain, the men seemed to
delight in her as much as she did them,
and once or twice she put off her travels to dally with one for the traditional
year and a day.
Even among her own folk, Iotha
had been a master archer. In the worlds
of men she was matchless at butt or
target, on hunt or in battle; she gained a reputation on any world
where she stayed for
long. Legends, and a
religion or two, grew
up around the tall
maid who never
seemed to age and
whose arrows never
missed their mark.
But always Iotha
moved on, giving
each world a verse in
the song she would
someday sing to her
own people.
In a world of concrete, glass, and
steel, she came to
live in a city split by
a great wall. On one
side was freedom,
and music, and passion. On the other
was none of these

POINTS SUMMARY
Attributes/Secondary Characteristics
Advantages/Perks/TL/Languages/
Cultural Familiarity
Disadvantages/Quirks
Skills/Techniques
Other

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things, only a gray cloud that made

freedom lies, and music discordant,
and passion furtive. The huntsmen and
warriors of this world had as they felt
moved beyond the bow to mechanisms of subtle device that, once
understood, had their own deadly
beauty. So she learned the rifle, and the
laser sight, and the ways of the hunt in
the City of the Wall. She hunted the
gray men from the other side of the
wall, and gained a reputation in her
new world as a deadly assassin. The
greatest sniper from the other side of
the wall marked her as his own, and
they tracked each other through the
cities and across the barbed wire borders and into fields and frozen forests.
Finally, in the Black Forest, she killed
him and took his weapon as her trophy,
for it was made on the Moon by the
gray men, and weighed even less than
her bow.
It was much later, in a world of
steaming jungle and glittering plains,
when Iotha found her destiny. For a
decade and a half she had been
journeying among the human clans,
helping them defeat the winged terrors
that preyed on their children. At first
Iotha stood them off in desperate
defenses . . . then she defeated them in
pitched battles . . . and finally she took
the battle to their fetid eyries and slew
the last of them with her gleaming
shafts.
And at the festival of celebration, a
woman who looked like any other clanmother drew her aside and said That
was very well done. There are others
who need your help now. Would you
like to hear more?

Elf
70 points
Attribute Modifiers: ST -1 [-10]; HT
+1 [10].
Secondary Characteristic Modifiers:
Per +1 [5].
Advantages: Appearance (Attractive)
[4]; Language Talent [10]; Magery
0 [5]; Perfect Balance [15];
Telescopic Vision 1 [5]; Unaging
[15]; Voice [10].
Racially Learned Skills: Connoisseur
(Natural Environments) (A) IQ-1
[1].

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Name ___________________________________
Player ____________________ Point Total __________
Iotha
Ht _________
Wt __________
Age ____________
61
125 lbs.Size Modifier _________
0
453 Unspent Pts __________
Appearance _______________________________________________________________________________
Tall, slender, and attractive, with ash-blonde hair with green highlights

CHARACTER SHEET

ST

[0 ]

DX

13

IQ

12

HT

11

Languages

CURRENT

[0]

[60 ] WILL

12

[0]

[40] PER

14

[5]

[0

11

HP

FP

CURRENT

[0

MOVE

16
None (0) = BL
_____
32
Light (1) = 2 BL
_____
48
Medium (2) = 3 BL _____
96
Heavy (3) = 6 BL
_____
160
X-Heavy (4) = 10 BL _____

8
BM 1 _____
6
BM 0.8 _____
4
BM 0.6 _____
3
BM 0.4 _____
1
BM 0.2 _____

DODGE
9
Dodge _____
8
Dodge -1 _____
7
Dodge -2 _____
6
Dodge -3 _____
5
Dodge -4 _____

Acute Vision 3

[ 6 ]

Detect (Extradimensional Phenomena)

[ 10 ]

Elf

[ 70 ]

Legal Enforcement Powers

[ 15 ]

Talent (Outdoorsman) 1

[ 10 ]

Weapon Master (Bow)

[ 20 ]

DISADVANTAGES AND QUIRKS

Duty (To ISWAT; 15 or less;
[ -20 ]

Extremely Hazardous)

[ -10 ]

Jealousy
Supernatural Feature (Hair turns dark green

[ -5 ]

in strong sunlight)
Vow (Always keeps her word, once given)

[ -10 ]

Dislikes hawthorn

[ -1 ]

Dislikes iron

[ -1 ]

Intolerant of orcs and dwarves

[ -1 ]

Practices faerie etiquette (Minor Code of Honor) [ -1 ]

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TL: _______________________________________
[ 0]
Cultural Familiarities
___________________________________________
[ 0]
Elvish
___________________________________________
[ 1]
Homeline
___________________________________________ [ ]

PARRY

Reaction Modifiers

Appearance ___________________________________
+1 for Attractive appearance
Status _________________________________________
+2 from those who can hear her
________________________________________________
voice (Voice), +1 from explorers and
________________________________________________
nature lovers (Outdoorsman)
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________

DR

ADVANTAGES AND PERKS

Written

_________________________________________________________
[ 0]
Elvish (Native)
_________________________________________________________
[4*]
English (Native)
_________________________________________________________
[4*]
Russian (Native)
_________________________________________________________ [ ]
_________________________________________________________ [ ]

BASIC LIFT (ST ST)/5 ______

DAMAGE Thr ________
16
1d-2 Sw ________
1d-1
6
8
BASIC SPEED __________
[ 0 ] BASIC MOVE ___________
[ 10 ]
ENCUMBRANCE

Spoken

BLOCK

SKILLS
Name
Level Relative Level
Bow
21
DX+8
Camouflage
15
IQ+3
Climbing
13
DX+0
Crossbow
13
DX+0
Fast-Draw (Arrow)
16
DX+3
Guns/TL8 (Rifle)
16
DX+3
Hiking
13
HT+2
Meditation
12
Will+0
Musical Instrument (Lyre)
13
IQ+1
Naturalist
14
IQ+2
Poetry
11
IQ-1
Riding (Horse)
13
DX+0
Running
14
HT+3
Shadowing
11
IQ-1
Singing
13
HT+2
Stealth
15
DX+2
Survival (Woodlands)
14
Per+0
Throwing
13
DX+0
Tracking
14
Per+0
Zen Archery
12
IQ+0
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Cost reduced by Language Talent (see Elf template)

Includes +1 from Outdoorsman
Includes +2 from Voice (see Elf template)
Includes +1 from Perfect Balance (see Elf template)

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