Name: Sarah Good
Title(s): First of Salem's Accused
Class: Avenger
Gender: Female
Birth and Death Dates: July 21, 1653-July 29, 1692
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Catalyst: A noose
Personality: Sarah is ruthless, to put it simply. If she sees someone as unjust or as an enemy, she will fight to destroy them by any means at her disposal. She is not one to toy with her opponent, so she tends to be brutal with her hexes and attacks to end it quickly. Despite being rather hearty given her life as a beggar, she does not opt for wars of attrition. The hatred of unjust action drives her to pursue and root out the unjust any time she can find them.
Outside of combat, she will open up some if an ally is nearby. She is capable of being rather kind and almost nurturing to her friends and allies. She will focus upon healing her companions and then likely cook a meal for anyone that needs food. She will make jokes, though it often consists of dark, almost creepy, humor. This owes mostly to her status as an Avenger and the constant hatred she endures. The hatred spawned by her death and summoning does cause her to occasionally be irritable, thus often leading to her warning companions to leave her alone for a time.
Barring any needs for healing or food, Sarah passes her time by practicing her witchcraft or humming or singing quietly. While not a solitary person, she is introverted. She does not seek out interaction but will accept it if offered.
Sarah dislikes being treated as just a tool or as a killing machine. She will often comment upon being treated as such, forgoing politeness or social convention. She also does not tolerate mistreatment of companions or innocents.
Bio: Good was of a lower economic status, reduced to poverty due to the debt of her first husband, Daniel Poole. Accusers at the trials, especially in the trial of Sarah Good, often cited jealousy and envy as explanations for witches' discontent and anger. Her dependency on neighbors and others perpetuated suspicions of Good, and other dependent women like Good, that they were practicing witchcraft. Another theory behind the accusations was explained by her relationship with her husband and her neighbors. William Good claimed he feared that his wife was a witch due to "her bad carriage to him". She was accused by her neighbors because she challenged Puritan values. She was accused of possessing two women; the afflictions were often sporadic and inexplicable.
On March 25, 1692, Good was tried for witchcraft. She was accused of rejecting the puritanical expectations of self-control and discipline when she chose to torment and "scorn [children] instead of leading them towards the path of salvation". When she was brought in, the accusers immediately began to rock back and forth and moan, seemingly in response to Good's presence. Later in the trial, one of the accusers fell into a fit. When it had stopped, she claimed Good had attacked her with a knife; she even produced a portion of it, stating the weapon had been broken during the alleged assault. However, upon hearing this statement, a young townsman stood and told the court the piece had broken off his own knife the day before, and that the girl had witnessed it. He then revealed the other half, proving his story. After hearing this, Judge William Staughton simply scolded the girl for exaggerating what he believed to be the truth.
Although both Good and Sarah Osborne denied the allegations against them, Tituba admitted to being the "Devil's servant". She stated that a tall man dressed all in black came to them, demanding they sign their names in a great book. Although initially refusing, Tituba said, she eventually wrote her name, after Good and Osborne forced her to. There were six other names in the book as well but were not visible to her. She also said that Good had ordered her cat to attack Elizabeth Hubbard, causing the scratches and bite marks on the girl's body. She spoke of seeing Good with black and yellow birds surrounding her, and that Good had also sent these animals to harm the girls. When the girls began to have another fit, Tituba claimed she could see a yellow bird in Good's right hand. The young accusers agreed.
When Good was allowed the chance to defend herself in front of the twelve jurors in the Salem Village meeting house, she argued her innocence, proclaiming Tituba and Osborne as the real witches. In the end, however, Good was convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death. On July 29, 1692, Sarah Good was hanged along with four other women convicted of witchcraft. While the other four quietly awaited execution, Good firmly proclaimed her innocence. The Rev. Nicholas Noyes was persistent, but unsuccessful, in his attempts to force Good to confess. When she was found guilty by the judges, including Noyes, she yelled to him: "I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink". 25 years later, Noyes died from choking on his own blood.
Good was pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave birth to an infant in her cell in the jail in Ipswich. The infant died before her mother was hanged.
Weapon: Sarah has two lanterns that she uses as focii. The white lantern is used for her divination and healing. The black lantern provides focus for her hexes and curses as well as her basic attacks. Both are used in conjunction when casting her Noble Phantasm. Her primary means of attack consists of releasing targeted black miasma to eat away at her foe, causing necrosis of the flesh upon contact. At point blank range, she will breathe it out of her mouth. This miasma, while functionally the same, is the stronger of the two types of miasma and eats away faster. At longer range, she summons clouds of less concentrated miasma. This miasma also degrades non-living material as if it were rotting, corroding, or crumbling.
Her second weapon is actually her hair. It can grow or retract as needed, up to ten meters, and is strong as metal. It can grapple, hold and use objects, and stab foes. She has full control over it and can control up to 10 tendrils at the same time, with each tendril's hairs being moveable to simulate fingers as needed. To properly do minute manipulation, she must be watching the tendril in question. These tendrils can parry as any weapon of their strength. They can be cut and broken by sufficient strength.
Parameters:
Strength: D
Endurance: A
Agility: C
Mana: A
Luck: D
Class Skills:
Mana Replenishment E
Her burning hatred for the unjust sentence she received and the anger of being hanged results in her mana stores restoring, albeit relatively slowly compared to even other Avengers.
Memory Correction B
Her eternal hatred of the unjust combines with her willingness to do harm in any way necessary to allow her to strike harder and deadlier when dealing with other Americans, especially Abigail Williams.
Avenger C
Her hatred of the unjust yet lack of desire to cause innocent harm causes her Avenger skill to be lower than most other avengers. It still allows her to generate mana as normal, especially when harmed.
Personal Skills:
Witchcraft A: Despite not being a witch in life, her summoning as an Avenger granted her high levels of mastery over witchcraft of her time. She can perform divination, hexing/cursing, and healing. Her divinations focus upon scrying and the summoning of the dead to provide information, thus giving her more perspective, though often not highly specific or unbiased. Her hexes and curses function mostly to cripple opponents by temporarily reducing their attributes or sealing their skills temporarily. Her healing spells require more time than can be offered in battle, but she can mend anything up to mortal wounds. If a person would die from their wounds anyway, she cannot stop them from doing so. Her miasma attacks are part of her witchcraft.
Heretical Mind C: Her questioning of Puritan values partially led to her accusation and summary execution as a witch. Thus, this questioning offers her heightened resistance to mental attacks and enhanced damage against those that are highly religious.
Independent Manifestation B-: She can appear anywhere corruption of a Grail War or the murdering of innocents appear. She gains some resistance to instant death effects but not the resistance to time manipulation.
Noble Phantasm: "You will Drink Blood"
Rank: C
NP Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1-10
Maximum Number of Targets: 1
Description: Upon her hanging, Sarah cursed one of the men by saying they would be given blood to drink. 25 years later, they died by drowning in their own blood. This Noble Phantasm takes that death hex and makes it far faster as well as far more effective on unjust targets. It will inflict a curse upon the target that causes them to cough and retch blood for the duration, their life force draining away within the expelled blood. Those that are unjust will suffer even more damage. The unjust are defined as any Servant, Master, or human that harms innocents and/or causes corruption to begin or spread. (Upfront moderate damage followed by a curse effect that deals damage over time as well as enhanced curse damage and initial damage on her hated targets)
