Aya Naida Overview Overview A Setite to the core, Aya is a new addition to the city, having come to seek shelter from her most recent failed blood cult in New Orleans. She is well-travelled and resourceful, but trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes.It's not her fault, though... Basics Basics Name Aya Naida Player Genesis Chronicle Baltimore After Dark Nature Eye of the Storm Demeanor Gallant Concept Troublemaker Clan Setite - Cult of Taweret Generation 11th Sire Atiq Farad Attributes Attributes Physical p Strength 10000 Dexterity 11100 Stamina 11100 Social s Charisma Seductive 11110 Manipulation Persuasive 11100 Appearance Exotic Looks 11110 Mental t Perception 11100 Intelligence 11000 Wits Getting the Jump on Others 11110 Abilities Abilities Talents p Alertness Eeavesdropping, Fine Details 11100 Athletics 00000 Awareness 11100 Brawl 11000 Empathy 11100 Expression 11000 Intimidation 00000 Leadership 11000 Streetwise 11000 Subterfuge 11000 00000 Skills s Animal Ken Snake Charmer 11100 Crafts Sewing 11000 Drive 11000 Etiquette 00000 Firearms 10000 Larceny 10000 Melee 11000 Performance Poetry 11100 Stealth 11000 Survival 10000 00000 Knowledge t Academics 10000 Computers 00000 Finance 00000 Investigation 00000 Law 00000 Medicine 11000 Occult Egyptian Lore, 11111 Politics 00000 Science 00000 Technology 00000 00000 Advantages Advantages Disciplines Presence 10000 Serpentis 11110 Obfuscate 10000 Auspex 11000 Animalism 10000 Setite Sorcery Akhu 11000 Backgrounds Generation 11000 Resources 11000 Allies 10000 Retainer Ghoul, Black Desert Cobra 11000 Blasphemous Shrine 11000 00000 Virtues Conscience 11100 Self-Control 11110 Courage 11100 Humanity/Path 11111 11000 Path Path of Ecstasy Bearing Rapture Willpower 11110 00000 11110 00000 Blood Pool 11111 11111 11000 00000 Blood/Turn Merits & Flaws Merits & Flaws Merit Type Cost Blush of Health Physical 2pt Open Road Social 1pt Natural Leader Social 1pt Flaw Type Bonus Infertile Vitae Physical 5pt Thirst for Innocence Mental 2pt Rituals & Paths Rituals & Paths Ritual Level Milk of Set 1 Opening the Mouth 2 Path Immanence of Set 11000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 Experience & Derangements Experience Total Freebies: 18, XP: 99 Spent Freebies: 18, XP: 98 Current 9 Notes Freebies: 15 + 3 from FlawsAuspex - 14Alertness - 2Survival - 2Total Spent: 18XP: 75Specialties: 12Abilities: 33Disciplines: 7 - Animalism, 21 - Setite SorceryTotal Spent: 73XP Spend After Creation:Streetwise 2 - 5Medicine 2 - 2Serpentis 4 - 15 Blasphemous Shrine - 5 Derangements Expanded Backgrounds Expanded Backgrounds Allies Contacts Fame Herd Influence Mentor Resources Savings from the tithes of her previous cult. She has just over $100,000 in the bank, which is under her ghoul's name. Retainers 1. Tyrone - her ghoul that protects her on the road, helps drive the hearse, and keeps her assets under his name, since she doesn't officially exist.2. Kau - a black desert cobra that she keeps in her sarcophagus when she sleeps. Should any mortal attempt to open it, they will get bit. Status Other Rights & Possessions Rights & Possessions Gear (Carried) Dagger (hidden somewhere on her body, or in her hair if clothes won't conceal it), Pocket Pistol (if she has enough clothes to cover it up, or a small bag) Feeding Grounds Havens Equipment (Owned) An ornate coffin modeled to look like a sarcophagus. To open it from the outside, there is a trick with the design that only her ghoul knows. If opened without it, it opens a false panel that will contain Kau, her venomous ghoul snake that will attack whoever is trying to get in. Vehicles A carved-panel, black hearse. The back of it has been sun-proofed with the thick panels that have snake, Set, and Anubis imagery carved on them. This transports her coffin, as well as her most prized possessions. Other Blood Bonds/Vinculi Blood Bonds/Vinculi Bound To Rating Bound To Rating Description Description Age 123 Apparent Age 21 D.O.B. February 19, 1866 R.I.P. February, 1887 Hair Black Eyes Dark Brown Race Mixed Nationality Mixed Height 5'7" Build Slender Gender Cis-Female Face Claim Zoe Kravitz A light-skinned black woman, her hair is usually worn in Bohemian box braids that fall down to her mid back. She has tattoos and piercings littered across her body, all of them given post-embrace through the blood magic of Setite tattooists. History History 1866 - 1887Aya was born Anette Delaceur on a plantation outside New Orleans. Her mother had been a slave on the plantation and her father was a lecherous French-American owner of that plantation. There's was not a cruel existence, however, and her mother chose not to leave their life when slavery was ended and the Confederacy lost the war. Besides that, she had been having a secret affair with the plantation owner for years and had enjoyed a luxurious position within the household, much to the chagrin of the owner's ailing wife, who had never provided him with children. Anette was her third child with the former slave owner. Her life was good, for the most part. She was secretly taught to read and write, learned to speak French because half the household spoke it, and trained in the ways of keeping a house. Everything changed when the owner's wife finally passed away. He became morose, sometimes unkind, and then he became enamored with Anette. She'd like to say it was for protection that her mother banished her from the house, but really, it was out of jealousy.  Thrown out onto the unkind streets of the post-Civil War south at just sixteen, she turned to prostitution, where she quickly became one of the leaders of a brothel. She caught the eye of a Setite, Atiq Farad.After renting her services and getting her interested in the history of Egypt, he eventually revealed himself to her. He ghouled her and she became a servant in the local temple. She spent three years as his ghoul, showing much promise, and was embraced on her 21st birthday. She renamed herself Aya Naida at that time, cutting out all connection with her previous, mortal life. 1887 - 1923Not long after being embraced, the temple in New Orleans was targeted by hunters and she and Atiq were forced to flee. They went to Chicago. The temple in that city was small, not as stepped in history as the New Orleans one had been, but it was home while they were there. When the Columbian World Fair came in 1893, she performed at night in the Streets of Cairo exhibit. A year later, the same hunters that targeted them in New Orleans routed the temple in Chicago, which prompted them to flee to Alexandria, Egypt. Atiq had become enamored with the idea of returning to the country after the fair, anyway. In Alexandria, she learned to read hieroglyphics and really delved into the history of the Followers of Set, and the mythology they were a part of. She gained her affinity for snakes there, using snake charming acts to lure unwitting tourists.At some point, she pissed off the elder that ran the temple in Alexandria, and while she survived the conflict, her and Atiq were sent away, and the destination they chose was Haiti.1923 - 1971The Setites had one of the Haitian islands to themselves, and the temple on it was truly something to behold. In some ways, she felt closer to Set there than she ever had in Egypt. That said, it was a tumultuous existence because the Serpents of the Light also had a foothold in Haiti and the two sects were in constant conflict. There was time in between to begin developing, beginning to choose a different path, one that she felt was complimentary to her duty to prepare for Set's return. This caused conflict with her sire, who had imagined a different path for her, and she and he began to grow apart.In the late 1960s, there was a culmination of conflict with the Serpents of the Light. Aya had forged a friendship, unknowingly, with a vampire that was secretly one of their ranks. She had been a pawn in their scheme to infiltrate the Setite temple. It turned into all-out war, and the Masquerade was broken. The Camarilla was pissed, the Sabbat were pleased, and the Followers of Set were hellbent on purging the Serpents. Aya was almost forced into torpor for her part. The temple was abandoned, and Aya almost left Atiq then. Instead, she went with him to Montreal and watched him get enamored with Simon.When Atiq embraced Simon, Aya decided it was time for her to go out on her own.1971 - 1995She went back to Chicago, but the temple was still dead there. She traveled along the West coast, picking up a ghoul in San Francisco along the way. A young, smart woman named Sydney. They lived in LA for a time, but when she went to embrace Sydney, she learned she had infertile vitae, and her ghoul perished in the attempt. Sadness ensued, and she took off into the American southwest, attempting to set up her own cults along the way. The Salton Sea, Phoenix, Tuscon, Santa Fe, El Paso...a trail of blood and failure, abandoned temples either due to hunters, Sabbat, or the Camarilla not wanting her present. In one particular case, it was her own followers that turned against her and drove her out, though she was fairly certain they were influenced by someone.1995 - 2022She made her way across Texas and back into Louisiana where it all began. Over 100 years after they had been forced to leave the New Orleans temple, it was mostly abandoned. The Camarilla had control of the city. Her presence was controversial, but she eventually got into good graces with the Prince there and was allowed domain to get the temple up and running again. She began with ghouls, and then attracted young Setites, building a cult of neonates, and then began spreading the token corruption of the clan into the city. Instead of rocking the boat, she let it be a slow burn this time.At the end, she and another Setite came into conflict, and due to her history with the Serpents of the Light, she was convinced that they had infiltrated her cult. She lost the ensuing fight, and the rest of the cult sided with the other vampire. Rather than be torpored, she fled the city with her last loyal ghoul, and headed for the last known location of her sire's other childe, Simon. Maybe he could use some help with his own cult? After all, what are big sisters for if not to support their younger siblings?