Lira
Lira is a Obrimos Seer of the Throne from Chicago, Illinois.
Overview
Quote: "I just have a few questions to ask you. Don't worry, I won't take a lot of your time. Let's talk over drinks."
Lira was raised in Chicago's Italian American community. From her earliest memories, she knew she was "special." Her father was an important "businessman" in Chicago, with his main office in the Loop and smaller branches in other parts of the city. Lura lived with her mother and brothers in a spacious townhouse on Lake Shore Drive, overlooking Lake Michigan. She had her own personal driver who took her to and from school, a private girl's school only a few blocks from her home, and a pair of her father's bodyguards accompanied her everywhere she went.
At first, Lira thought that her life was normal, that everyone who was at all affluent lived as she did. The bricks through the windows of her home, the threatening phone calls in the middle of the night and the drive-by shooting of three of her father's most trusted lieutenants brought home to her the fact that her life was not normal. Her father moved Lira and her mother to a fortified apartment building in the heart of the Loop. Lira had tutors to continue her schooling because her father didn't think it was safe to send her to school outside her home.
When Lira complained about her confinement to the apartment and her lack of friends, finally screaming, "Why can't I be like everyone else?" at her father through tears that expressed all her teenage anger, her father spalled her face for the first and only time in his life. "You can't be like everyone else," he thundered, "because you're better than everyone else, And don't you forget it!"
Lira retreated into a world of her own, focusing on her computer and the rich universe of knowledge concealed in the Internet, her doorway to cyberspace. She spent hours each day surfing the web, looking for sites to keep her occupied. She signed up for online courses, funded through a credit card her father thought her mother was using. Soon she had a string of "credentials" allowing her to be everything from a paralegal secretary to a veterinarian's assistant to a medical transcriber. She took courses in locksmithing, photography, graphic design and cryptography, and discovered she had a flair for puzzle-solving.
She also discovered strange websites devoted to "the ultimate puzzle," and her first introduction to magic came through contact with a group of online mages. From them, she acquired a difficult "brain teaser," a complex puzzle that took all her ingenuity and knowledge to solve.
In the process of solving the puzzle, her mind entered a state of consciousness she had never before experienced. She seemed to wander in a strange, eldritch landscape for days, learning more and more about the answer - and more and more about herself. When at last the puzzle's solution became obvious, Lira's mind returned to normal reality -as an Awakened being and a Seer of the Throne.
Lira was contacted by an elegant Hispanic businesswomen, an associate in one of her father's legitimate business partnerships. The woman who called herself Lucretiana brought Lira to meet some of her friends, the other members of Executive Suite. Eventually, the cabal initiated Lira as a full Seer and arranged for her to acquire a position as system administrator for one of her father's hotels along Chicago's Magnificent Mile. While her job allows her to monitor traffic along the information superhighway, it also belays her father's worries about his daughter's safety, since, after all, she is under the watchful eye of the hotel's security staff (whose orders Lira controls since she has access to the hotel's central computer and knows almost all of the passwords to access any of its files).
Description
Lira is an Italian American beauty, with a rich olive complexion, a sweetheart face and deep, soulful, dark gray eyes. Her hair, normally a lustrous brown, is professionally styled and colored with red and blonde highlights, giving her a "glamour-girl" appearance. She has carefully maintained her body to function at its most efficient, making full use of the hotel's spa and gym facilities to tone her muscles. While she is far from the anemic thinness that has become the national ideal, she cuts a striking figure in any group and has attracted the eye of more than one potential suitor.
Her Nimbus is a glowing band of pinkish-gold light that shines around her bathing her in an aura of health. Vulgar magic makes the Nimbus glow sickly green.
Stats
Dedicated Magical Tool: Heavy. copper, decorative hairpin
Real Name: Angelina Teresa Zircotti
Path: Obrimos
Order: Seers of the Throne
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 3
Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 4, Composure 4
Mental Skills: Academics 3, Computer (Programming) 5, *Investigation (Dirty Secrets) 3, Politics (Chicago) 3, Science 1
Physical Skills: Athletics (Aerobics) 2, Brawl (Defense) 1, Drive 2, Firearms 1, Stealth 2
Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Empathy (Putting People at Ease) 3, Expression (Memos) 2, Socialize 2, Subterfuge 1
Merits: Hallow 3, High Speech, Library (History of the Exarchy, Metaphysics, Necromancy, Pythagorean Harmonics) 4, Resources 4, Sanctum: Size (Shared) 2
Willpower: 7
Wisdom: 7
Virtue: Charity
Vice: Sloth
Initiative: 7
Defense: 3
Speed: 10
Health: 8
Gnosis: 2
Arcana: Death 1, Forces 2, Prime 2, Space 1
Rotes: Death - Forensic Gaze; Forces - Read Matrices, Unseen Shield; Prime - Discern Phantasm, Unseen Spy; Space - Correspondence
Manna/per turn: 11/2
Armor: 2 ("Unseen Shield," Forces **)
Magic Shield: 2 (Prime **)
References
- CofD: World of Darkness: Chicago, p. 382-384