Vulture
A skilled mage and necromancer, Vulture is a Zenzekan, or magical construct given life via arcane methods and rituals. She is a Zenzekan, crafted of finely made and magically imbued ceramics with a skeleton of stone and steel, though many of her kind feature more mundane and simplistic designs and materials. Initially created as an arcane assistant, she eventually embarked on her own to pursue the avenues denied to her kind: decay, pestilence, and death. Once known simply as assistant, she took her new name from the title given to her by those witnessing her traversing ancient graveyards, fresh battlefields, and the mass burials of plague victims: Vulture.
Appearance
Vulture is tall and thin with pale, porcelain skin adorned with blue designs that frequently shift depending on her mood. Normally garbed in a hooded robe, she views the world through empty, yet finely crafted eye sockets that seem to see everything, yet nothing, all at once.
Skills and Abilities
A skilled mage and necromancer, Vulture is a patient practitioner of the arcane arts. She continually experiments and innovates discovering new and unique death magic and variants of undead. She is particularly adept at plagues, however, and seems to take quiet delight in concocting new epidemics and diseases at a whim, the more debilitating and lethal the better. Aside from her magical ability, she possesses no real skill in melee outside the great strength and inhuman durability inherent of her kind.
Personality
Vulture is aloof, quiet, and, at times, condescending. She is slow to trust, if ever, and generally prefers her own company. If forced to mingle with others, she is polite and formal, though cold and distant. To her creations, she is detached, often discarding her finished works to their own devices in order to move on to a newer "model" or more efficient variant. The only time her personality seems to change is in her pursuit of pestilence where she seems mildly cheerful, slightly more talkative, and the blue upon her porcelain "flesh" forms patterns reminiscent of flowers and petals.
Biography & Lore
Little is known of her creator or history upon Thiria, only that she is from the legendary city and left at some point in the past. Like all Zenzekan she does not age, selected her gender and form over time, and requires neither food nor sleep to function. Her history coalesces over the previous few decades as sightings become more and more frequent. Those who see her and survive speak of a tall, gangly yet elegant creature wandering this way and that, sometimes alone though occasionally followed by a macabre train of undead obeying her every command as she browses the pickings of battlefields or cemetaries. She has been called the White Lady, the Eyeless One, Chooser of the Slain, though most frequently she is simply referred to as the Vulture; a name she has quietly and ultimately taken as her own.