Here comes the beast. I got carried away. This is why you don't include Appearance in char sheets, people. Spoiler: Echidna Name: Atax Echidna Class: Dark Mechanicus Gender: F Warband/Legion/Other Association: Slaanesh, Dark Mechanicus Regular Equipment: - Main Weapon: None - Secondary Weapon: 2 Mechadendrites (Combat blade, 'Mancatcher' telescopic spear) - Accessory: Mark of Slaanesh below her navel - Armor: Flak Armour - Helm: None - Special Item: A Servitor named Minotaur. A Kanakian guardsman in life, now a mindless automaton armed with dual shock mauls and clad in Carapace Armour. Mutations/Gifts: - Mark of Slaanesh: (see above) - Face of Slaanesh: While certainly not androgynous, Echidna had the questionable honour of recieving a supernaturally beautiful visage. So beautiful it seems inhuman, the former Tech Priest is quite aware that it can be both unsettling and alluring at once. - Wings: A very recent addition to her suite of gifts, and besides her beauty the only one that remained. Large, feathered wings as white as the rest of her, they are genuine and quite powerful limbs but due to physics (and admittedly, Echidna's weight), she can glide at most. History & Appearance: Once, Echidna had it all. Power. Beauty. A reputation. Raving masses of servants and a cult of her own personality. And all she'd had to give up was morality, mortality, and her loyalty to some rotten corpse? The tech priest had never hesitated, not even once, to disgrace or sacrifice others in order to exalt herself. She had come to the top, the blood of thousands had been on her hands, but who cared about others? Personal gain. Sensations. New things to experience. Chaos Lords had hired her services. After all, she was one of the lucky few to know the secrets to Daemon Engine crafting. Nobody had ever tried to trick her out of her payment, too - not after the first one who made the mistake of doing so while her loved metal child was still around. After Lorias... her luck had changed. She lost cultists, servants. Her acolytes betrayed her, and over time, the daemon engines had ceased obeying her. Echidna was nearly crushed by her personal pet, Maneater, only saved by a willingness to debase herself for once, escaping its rage. Away from a cult turned traitor and the remainder of a century of hard work, the servant of Slaanesh felt her power wane, and eventually, fade. What the Chaos Gods give, they can take away. And Slaanesh did. Now left to her own devices, it seemed like she would have to find another way back into the graces of the Dark Prince. --- Despite her utterly rotten soul long since devalued and pawned away to Slaanesh, Echidna stands out as a radiant beacon of beauty. A face with a decidedly feminine shapeliness to it, a tall and curvy body, luxurious long hair waving with a soft breeze, bright eyes, and a voice too smooth and melodious to be anything but angelic, she looks as if she'd just stepped out many a lonely Guardsman's dream. While her chaotic corruption is indubitably given away by her wings and utter colourlessness - Echidna's skin, eyes and hair are all perfectly stark white - the enchantment upon her appearance tends to make them ignore the telltale signs of a baiting predator. To those resistant to her supernatural allure, however, she looks simply too perfect. Her feline grace, the white soulless eyes, the perfect teeth being pointed, the wings simply existing, all about her is just so utterly beautiful it appears almost repulsive, disturbing, if not outright disgusting. Once, Echidna wore only the most radiant and beautiful raiments, made from silk of the most exotic creatures, but in her current impoverished state, she still attempts to remain somewhat fashionable. Certainly not one to wear armour if she can get away with it, the Dark Mechanicus priestess tends to eschew the drab red robes of her faith and clads herself in revealing clothes and 'robes', having practically stopped trying to hide her wings. The deadly dual mechadendrites are set at her lower back and she has more than once tricked a too gullible sap into believing the mechanical appendages were simply a very elaborate fashion ornament. Cheap jewelry, usually golden with an amethyst theme, is added to complete a look more right on a very daring or very stupid noble girl than a mistress of monstrous machina. Minotaur himself is easily six feet tall and almost as broad, a servitor left as human as possible. Unearthly pale, and with tubes and wires running haphazardly across his body, Echidna did actually somewhat succeed in leaving his face and most of his body and impressive physique intact. Wearing heavy armour with a silver finish, she usually hides his exact appearance under a faded brown cloak and hood, making him appear more like a techpriest than she does at times.
