[b]Name:[/b] Rhaka One-eye

[b]Race:[/b] Gnoll

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 Standing at 6'10", she cuts a broad, imposing figure. The signs of past violence are readily apparent on her, with a large scar running over one eye which has been replaced with a crudely painted fake. The scar crosses most of the left side of her face, the fur not having grown over it cleanly. Her shaggy, unwashed mane is usually kept roughly brushed back, and a few dirty trinkets and bits of string seem to be tied in at various points.

Her clothing typically displays a lack of maintenance in keeping with the rest of her appearance. It appears to be a composite of various pieces of clothing and light armor in various states of decomposition, crudely layered over each other. Often there are assorted tools tucked in to the layers, primarily wrenches of varying sizes.
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[hider=History]
Rhaka was a member of a smaller clan that had been having good success in using trimmed-down necrocycles as a core part of their raids. Rhaka, being practiced in the dark spiritual traditions of her people, had been one of the ones who worked on and maintained the clan's necrocycles. It was all going well until they got sloppy and started moving in a more predictable pattern. They got caught in an ambush and all but wiped out with a combination of rifle fire and land mines. Rhaka lost her eye and a lot of blood, and was left for dead with the rest. When she came to, night had fallen and birds had descended. She managed to get one of the least destroyed cycles running, and retreated off on her own.

Since then, she's mostly operated as a lone agent. She built a new necrocycle to replace her destroyed one, and she has largely abandoned the ultralight design that her clan had used, partially blaming its lack of armor and mass for her clan getting wiped out so easily. She favors mercenary work when available, though she also has found employment putting her necromantic powers to work. Her combination of brute force, black magic and bloodthirsty morals tend to put her in some fairly shady circles, but that's where she thrives.
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[hider=Equipment]
Rhaka doesn't carry any actual melee weapons, relying primarily on her strength and size to beat and rip her foes apart with her hands. When she does require a weapon, she usually has a large, club-ready wrench available, and is more than willing to use anything in arm's reach as an improvised weapon. She is prone to violently flinging these things, though her missing eye and poor depth perception hinders her accuracy.

Her false eye is worth mentioning, as under the flaking blue paint decorating its surface, the grooves of a roughly cut rune run along it in lieu of a pupil. Some of her magic causes the rune, and as a result seemingly her eye, to glow a piercing shade of ice blue. 

Her main other belonging of note is her necrocycle, a bone, wood and leather machine with the structure of a chopper with an oversized rear wheel. The engine is a sputtering thing marked with blocky glyphs and grease stains, and when opened up reveals a glowing internal cavity from which unwholesome sounds escape. The necrocycle is fueled by stuffing meat, preferably still twitching or alive, into the searing heat of the engine's core.

Other than that, her other belongings include a windchime-like bone fetish and various small odds and ends.
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[hider=Powers]
Rhaka's powers are all necromantic in nature. If she concentrates, she is able to see souls up to a few minutes after they've left a dead body. Furthermore, she can interact with these spirits as though they were tangible, allowing her to attack them relatively normally or interact with them in other ways. Notably, she can overpower weak souls and use them in the process of creating magic items, a process which shackles the spirit to the object. She can also partially absorb/consume an overpowered spirit to temporarily increase her physical prowess, providing a short-term boost to her strength. Absorbing power this way is not without side effects, and sometimes results in her taking on behavioral ticks of the recently deceased while the power lasts.

She is not practiced in the spiritual traditions enough to be capable of more than that.
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