Elizabeth Bharati is a Euthanatos mage of the Political Triage International Cabal.
Biography[]
The daughter of a British merchant and an Indian hotelier, Elizabeth Bharati grew up in Calcutta, unaware that she lived in the shadow of the Euthanatos' greatest stronghold. In fact, it was her misfortune to be hit by a car right in front of the Ancestral Marabout. While the man who'd hit her interrogated her about her caste, she Awakened on the cusp of death. Thanatoic mages took her in and trained her.
She was a Shravaka on the day Arthur Effiong came with his ghosts. The experience moved her so greatly that she became a Knight of Radamanthys and strode out to fulfil the dead mage's wishes.
It wasn't easy. Poverty, Jhor, and poor morale followed the cabal on haphazard missions. A brief tour of Cambodia in the 70s nearly drove her to Quiet, but Sekaye Leblanc helped her through it. When she decided to go to the Golden Chalice, he followed. They eventually fell deeply in love. They returned to the cabal together.
During her stint in the Chalice, she specialized in small arms tactics and hostage retrieval. She ingratiated herself into mercenary culture to enhance her skills and used the experience to reform her old cabal. With the help of modern networking skills and military training, she rebuilt its structure from the ground up. Her connections also allowed her to recruit skilled Sleepers for PTI's paramilitary.
The callousness she picked up in Cambodia, though tempered by Leblanc, manifested itself in an uncompromising position regarding the cabal's strategies. Despite the positive results, she wishes that the group could be more or less autonomous from the interests of donors. She'd prefer to drop the deception that keeps the money coming in because it restricts what she can do with the formidable military force at her disposal.
As she loses patience with these strictures, the cabal's operations look less defensive and more like self-righteous ambushes. Her ability to think of the larger picture is limited by her mental state and militant obsessions, but that focus also makers her a highly effective leader.
Appearance[]
Bharati is a physically fit, fifty-year-old woman with dark skin and cropped brown hair, usually held back by a dark bandanna. Her face has a few tiny scares from years of crawling through shrapnel-filled terrain. She wears military fatigues in colors appropriate to the situation, with colonel's insignia and a patch with the PTI logo: a dove flying in a red triangle. She usually keeps a combat knife and a light submachine gun with her on the field, referring accuracy over sheer firepower. She has a powerful, articulate voice and emphasizes her words by snapping her fingers.
Stats[]
Faction: Golden Chalice
Essence: Questing
Nature: Judge
Demeanor: Director
Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3, Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2, Perception 3, Intelligence 4, Wits 4
Abilities: Alertness 4, Athletics 3, Awareness 2, Brawl 4 (Striking Eyes), Dodge 4 (Gunfire), Intimidation 4 (Understated), Leadership 5 (Inspire Confidence), Streetwise 3, Drive 3, Firearms 4 (SMGs), Melee 4 (Knives), Stealth 4 (Jungle), Survival 4 (Jungle), Technology 3, Academics (Politics)3, Investigation 3, Linguistics 3 (English, French, Bantu, Chinese, Thai, Spanish, German), Medicine 3, Occult 3, Science (Chemistry) 3
Backgrounds: Avatar 3, Destiny 4, Resources 4
Arete: 4
Spheres: Entropy 4, Life 2, Matter 3, Forces 3, Time 1
Willpower: 8
Quintessence: 9
Paradox: 2
Resonance: (Entropic) Corroding, (Entropic) Consuming, (Entropic) Liquifying, (Entropic) Suffocating, (Dynamic) Energetic
References[]
MTAs: Tradition Book: Euthanatos, p. 80-81