Mors Ignis

[Taknophet]

Mors Ignis OVERVIEW » NAME: Leisha » ALIAS: Black Knight » AGE: 27 » GENDER: Female » AFFILIATION: Freeblade Knight » OCCUPATION: Knight for Hire » FACE CLAIM:  » PLAYED BY: Taknophet PROFILE THEIR ASPECT Leisha is seldom seen outside her knight, even then always clad in platemale type coverings. Her knight-like helm hides her face, leaving no exposed flesh when she's fully suited up in her black armor, even outside the larger knight machine. When outside her knight she wears a pitch black polished suit of medieval armor The knight's paint job has seen better days, mostly consisting of worn colors once bright. But where the paint seems to lack care, the mechanics underneath are spotless and the oil pan is pristine. It is obvious to anyone versed in machine spirits that the machine is lovingly cared for by its owner. In fact it is so well taken care of that not a single spot is squeaky or misaligned. Counterbalances are properly aligned, reactor regularly serviced, and promethium tank kept topped off. What seems to strike most people though, are the subtle modifications spread throughout the machine. T heating element here, a radioactive ammunition shell there, they seem to be passably integrated into the system at large, but are obviously not stock. Noteworthy Features » Shining black armor (personal) » Weathered but cared for knight » Harpoon arm on right side » Conflageration cannon on left » Barely visible crest marks. Painted over time and time again. THEIR PERSONA Leisha is the type to remain almost silent at all times, letting her actions speak louder than words. This has sometimes lead to misunderstandings, and as such she has taken to employing a "Translator" to help get her messages across. In actuality this translator handles most things for Leisha, as she actually has a severe case of social anxiety. While Leisha is terribly afraid of people in general, she opens up quite a bit more over the vox channel in the knight. Sadly, it seem the vox link is the only part of the knight that doesn't receive regular care, as it is extremely difficult to tell anything about Leisha from her transmissions. (She has a voice changer type system installed, as she's afraid of people hearing her voice.) While Leisha isn't the ones to start rumors about herself, she's also not one to stop them spreading. This has lead to her becoming known as a mad man by many who have worked with her before. It doesn't help that when she freezes in fear of confrontation, she looks like she's glowering within her custom armor set. » POSITIVE TRAITS ✔ Sweetheart ✔ Knows her machine inside and out ✔ Knows blacksmithing and knight repair ✔ Excellent cook » NEGATIVE TRAITS ✘ Enjoys using flames and other weaponry that spreads ✘ Socially anxious ✘ Despite wanting to learn to dance, she's too afraid of the instructors to get any progress done. ✘ Usually goes with the flow and has no real direction in her life. » LIKES ✔ Big Buddy ✔ Watching heretics burn ✔ Fighting big foes ✔ Mechanical puzzles » DISLIKES ✘ Chaos, Nurgle in particular ✘ Meetings ✘ Being idle ✘ Mechanical puzzles (she can't solve) THEIR CONNECTIONS Allies » Neggy Ardroit An admech skitarii obstesibly around to help service the knight, but in reality the relationship with Leisha goes all the way back to childhood where they met on a forge world. Neggy takes care of most of the negotiations as she has gotten pretty good at reading Leisha's panic in social situations. » Yegis Harromun Leisha's contact within house Mora. They usually communicate by data tablet. The relationship is usually that Leisha gets sent a suggested objective and she usually says yes. Mostly in return for fuel and promethium. » Brother Yendis The Spacemarine who found her when she was young and rescued her. She still remembers his vox code from when she overheard it all those years ago. She occasionally still tunes into that channel hoping to hear that voice again. Enemies » Jorgis A rival Knight who mistook her anxiety for aloofness, and now seeks to challenger her. To win Leisha's heart perhaps, or to show her that he's better, who knows. Leisha avoids him whenever she can.  » Gorvax Putrifier Leisha still has nightmares about this plague marine, how he was laughing as her parents were rotting from the inside out. She hopes to never see this man again. » Stepmother Logis A political rival that seeks nothing more than to remove Leisha's knight from her. Leisha is very confused by the efforts, as she doesn't really understand the politics of house Mora. THEIR APTITUDES Leisha is a quick learner when it comes to mechanics, as proven in her stay with the mechanicus cult back during her early childhood. This has lead to her constant tinkering. If you were to leave Leisha alone in a room with an interesting mechanical do-dad, it's a 50% chance you'd come back an hour later to it being disassembled or to find it augmented in some strange out of the box way. This has often lead to Leisha modifying her knights weaponry to be a little more destructive than usual. In addition to her mechanical engineering, Leisha has taken an interest in cooking. It's gotten to the point where many suspect that she has a secret chef in her employ, but that is not the case. She often uses the Knight's harpoon with its modified heating elements to bake with, leading to a unique that she makes taste heavenly. She often packs the knight with frozen dough in preparation for victory. » STRENGTHS ✔ Tinkering ✔ Baking ✔ Lucky ✔ Problem solving » WEAKNESSES ✘ Gets a little carried away in enthusiasm in burning foes. ✘ Often looses track of her surroundings when pulling an all nighter repair sesh ✘ Politics ✘ She's a little to anxious to actually speak her mind.  ACCOUTREMENTS THEIR WEAPONS » Conflagration Cannon The Conflagration Cannon is a massive Flamer that is one of the primary armaments of the Dominus-class Knight Valiant. The Conflagration Cannon is a magnificently unsubtle weapon, comprising three enormous, Knight-grade Flamers linked together and fed from armoured promethium reservoirs. When triggered, the Conflagration Cannon spews forth an inescapable firestorm that washes over everything in range and reduces all to blackened ash. So does the Knight Valiant burn the Emperor's enemies as the worthless Heretics they are. » Thundercoil Harpoon The Thundercoil Harpoon is one of the primary armaments of the Dominus-class Knight Valiant, which is a super-heavy Imperial Knight specialised for close combat. The Thundercoil Harpoon is a rather unusual weapon: it is a huge spear of adamantium fitted with pneumatic grapnels and attached by thick chains to an electrothaumic generator, allowing it to be fired then reeled back in time and again. Not only does its impaling mass gouge massive wounds in larger targets while crushing smaller victims outright, but once the harpoon has hit home, the Noble pilot can trigger their generator and send a massive electrical charge through the chain. Arcing electrogheists leap from the harpoon, cooking monstrous beasts from the inside out and overloading the circuitry and power supplies of enemy war engines. Leisha has modified hers with embedded heating elements to transform the electrical output to be a heat based ordeal. » 2 Twin-linked Siegebreaker Cannons A Siegebreaker Cannon is a type of Imperial ballistic weapon employed atop the carapace of the Dominus-class Knight Castellan. Siegebreaker Cannons are unsubtle gun turrets, fired by Servitor-brain sub-arrays slaved to the pilot's targeting systems. They are capable of laying down a pounding bombardment of heavy ordnance to entirely carpet an area in flame and shrapnel and serve as effective area-denial wepaons for the super-heavy Knight Castellan. Leisha has modified it so that the shrapnel is usually at the time of impact, nothing more than molten metal, spraying everywhere. » 2 Twin-linked Meltaguns The Meltagun, also called a "Fusion Gun," "Melter," or "Cooker," is a powerful, short-ranged anti-armour weapon that produces an intense, energetic beam of heat in the tens of thousands of degrees Centigrade. A Meltagun works by inducing a minute, sub-molecular reaction within a highly-pressurised pyrum-petrol fuel mix located within an ammunition canister, and then projecting the resulting plasma through the canister and from the weapon's barrel as a blast of incredible heat. Melta Weapon usage is always accompanied by a distinctive hissing sound as the Melta beam boils away the water in the air, then a roaring blast as the beam reduces the target to charred scraps or molten slag. Meltaguns are the premier Imperial anti-armour weapons, and few if any vehicles can withstand their power. Functionally, the Meltagun has more in common with a Plasma Gun than a Flamer. While the Flamer is used to incinerate large numbers of foes at short range, the Meltagun is used to attack point targets, destroying heavily armoured vehicles at short range by literally heating the vehicle's armour into slag and melting through to vulnerable internal components. Meltaguns work by firing a blast of pure fusion-based heat energy that can vaporise most organic troops, and even melt Adamantium. Melta Weapons are often carried by tank-hunting squads and are used as a special weapon by other squads. » 2 Shieldbreaker Missiles A Shieldbreaker Missile is a munition fired by a carapace-mounted Missile Launcher on the Dominus-class Knight Castellan. Shieldbreaker Missiles are an ancient variant of the redoubtable Hunter-Killer Missile. These warheads incorporate Raptoris Machine Spirits (artificial intelligences) and empyric cascade micro-generators that allow them to disrupt and pass through enemy shields by skipping like hurled stones across the skin of reality, dipping minutely in and out of the Warp in micro-second flickers. Leisha has modified these to be dirty bombs, to add insult to injury. THEIR ARMOR Armor Name Leisha's plate mail is a relic from an age past, or so she'll lead people to believe. in fact it was a recent creation she has been working on in her spare time. She takes a bit of enjoyment in augmenting and forging her own mini suit so that she looks just like a knight out of a fairytale. She thinks it only fit that a knight also have shining armor wherever they might go. THEIR EQUIPMENT » Big Buddy You won't catch Leisha saying this name in front of anybody, but when she's alone within her knight, this is the name she calls it. As the only remnant of her late father she cherishes it a great deal. Sometimes she swears she can feel her father besides her still guiding her towards victory. » Ion Shield An Ion Shield is a potent defensive energy field generator carried by the Imperial Knights. These devices use ancient technology to project an energy field across a narrow arc, and by moving the position of the shield so that it intercepts enemy attacks a Knight is able to survive even the heaviest of fire while still being able to return fire from its own weapons. The settings and positioning of the Ion Shield is essential, as the shield is only designed to deflect and slow shots rather than absorb them in the manner of the more powerful Void Shields used by Titans and Imperial starships. There exist rarer patterns of the standard Ion Shield that provide a greater area of protection, at the expense of efficiency and greater cost in power. BIOGRAPHY HEADER Age 6: Nurgle plague on homeworld by deathguard. Rescued by Salamanders. Orphaned. Age 8: Was eventually cloistered in a forge world, where she learned with the mechanicus several of their rituals. (she may have augmented herself, but it's hard to tell as she rarely removes her metal plating.) Age 17: Returned home to recover house knight. Age 20: Started venturing out in the cosmos, looking for a home Age 25: arrived at Corinthe System and started working for local house Mora Age 27: Now