Status
-- Status description
-- Years In Profession

Suzerain - highly adept political force, high-value holdings with high-value people, focused on specific locations to safely work or protect / 17
Peridian 6th Degree - able to select, examine, manipulate, and wholly own creations based purely on genetics; Barbakane focuses on making people who are able to tolerate physical extremes, and have powers equally adapted to that purpose / 8
Dragonmaster - added after the Ball, with a grant of land and effectively infinite boost to income limits / New

Tana / Imaa / Lendau

B5 multiple generations / Icarus Treated * indicates boosts/changes

Bred by Maalysah, for the Vahh clan

Nash Marad / 10603 / Arkane Maradash

Body Type: 65, well rounded, imposing

Land - 833 / *1088 including Dragon Land

Bayaran Total - 20

Lendau - 4 Bar, 1 Apt manager, 3 Apt upkeep, 2 Estate upkeep
Latihan - 2 Estate upkeep, 5 Land upkeep
Zifan - 3 Site upkeep (part of Vahh group only)

Budak Total - 21

Lendau - 4 Lab work, 2 Lab upkeep
Latihan - 2 Clinic work, 2 Lab upkeep, 5 Land upkeep
Zifan - 3 Lab work
Ski'nahket - 2 Lab upkeep

Kaumburuh - hires around 20 at assorted non-Vahh locations, 10 on-Vahh sites for maintenance, basic lab work, paperwork, upkeep
Tuantana - hires 5 at non-Vahh locations for various functions, 3 on-Vahh sites

Earnings - 70kc/year from Peridian work, ~35kc/year from Testing/Training
Savings - ~600kc after paying others

Powers

Tech Affinity - senses and comprehends powered technology inherently, has a small boost to use of everyday technology such as data pads and comms, stronger boost to breeding tech

Electrical Sense and Immunity - is effectively always aware of the electrical currents of both technology and living things; when powered items are in use sometimes they will react to her innately, she cannot control this - they may turn on or off if she's casually thinking about it, so she tries to contain her feelings or needs until she's in the right room; takes no damage from any form of electric energy, whether that's from a power or from tech or natural sources

Strong Psionic Suite - all act with bonuses to skills requiring interaction of any of these, such as intimidation or events organization

Invasive Telepathy - At close range can read deep thoughts, at medium to long range only surface thoughts of those PR 3+, PR2- may resist
Empathy - At medium range or nearer, can detect overall mood and general intentions of both groups and individuals, if known to her this effect can be at greater range or with stronger granularity of understanding moods
Command Mind - At close range can nudge or even shove the thoughts of someone PR 3+ to believe things that aren't necessarily true, or to spontaneously do things they aren't inclined to do (yet, or ever); PR 2- may resist, PR 0 strongly resists
Memory Shift - At close range or with touch (+ ability) can sort through a subject's memories and selectively alter, change, remove, or subdue them; this is used often to remove or treat traumatic events, but alternately she might use this against someone to keep them in line reminding them of 'that time they hurt themselves badly' and 'associating this event with her'; She can also utilize electronically stored memories, such as found in Icarus Download sites, with Vahh's approval - she had been working with this process before becoming Peridian in fact, helping load new subjects with existing skills from other people
DeadSwap - a sought-after and extremely rare power to not just attract or detect 'ghosts' of high-powered psionic individuals, but to insert their personality, existing or remaining memories, skills, and even sometimes their powers (provided they are exclusively mental or emotional and not elemental or physical ones) into a newly created shell body. This is in use but also carefully monitored at Vahh sites only

*AU Dragon Tuned - Because her mother is literally the child of dragon riders and a good bit of her father's side the same, Barbakane has always been gifted with a sense of how both on-world and off-world dragons 'work'. She is not particularly a 'rider' so much as an 'attendant', but as she's been chosen to attend the Checkerboard Ball by Vahh, it's absolutely no surprise that it's not because she is just another pretty dance partner. She is able to apply the basics of her abilities to understand DNA to dragons, but not actually alter any of them; mainly she can communicate and understand dragons' minds and emotions without any difficulty, and they seem to seek her out if needed

Auto-Reacting Prophesy / Out of Body Sensing - She seems pretty twitchy sometimes, and that's because she cannot control this ability in any way; if one of her attendants notices her starting to get a little wobbly they will need to attend to her body should there be any danger to herself or the equipment in use; Technically speaking 'the Ghosts' are doing this - they roam far and wide, and sometimes 'visit' in the form of dragging her psyche out for a stroll and showing off what they've discovered. Sometimes this is helpful, such as that time they found a stray in the Le'ret desert in need of aid; sometimes it's just 'I am so fucking bored it sucks being dead come look at the weird animal life out here please'. They do seem to drift into the 'future events' pretty often, however, so she always makes notes after these incidents to make sure that either something does come about, or doesn't, depending on what it might affect

Genetic Suite - her physical manipulation of DNA developed more strongly after Icarus treatment, and not coincidentally when a couple ghosts showed up with plans for her... These abilities all come with very strong boosts to her natural skill set, in addition to anything downloaded from the existing Vahh storage

Gene Sense - Gifted with close range (touch +) sensing, Barbakane can determine the functions and flaws of a person's genetic code; she has chosen to concentrate on specific use combinations such as physical adaptations that also work with external elemental controls, or defensive psionics, and knows those genes from anything else surrounding them in the fluff of the Zekiran system
Gene Alteration - Extremely adept with changing those genes, requires being isolated and cannot do this to living flesh unless she's used her further Creation power first; if a gene is 'close but not quite' she can nudge it easily, the farther away from an intended effect, the more difficult the shift is, but she uses concentration and a very well versed knowlege of the subject to aid her in creating functional powers and mutations out of even 'normal' genes
Create DNA - a modification of her alteration, she can literally just take raw proteins and make Zekirans out of them. Generally using sample tissues, she can 'grow' what equates to 'generic baseline DNA' with which to then spin into more elegant or useful things to insert into existing people for gene therapy or outright alteration; this power does take a lot out of her but she has worked on improving her durability with it, and tends to drink a lot of zpara to stay up with a sample until she deems it 'done'
Flesh Shape / Advanced - when the DNA isn't quite enough to make a statement, she can add a physical change to an existing subject, even as much as creating new bone and sinew or internal structures, muscle, blood vessels, skin and armor tissues, horns and feathers, or whatever else is appropriate. This is incredibly painful for a waking subject so she will generally not do this to sentient or waking people - this is made-to-order, the 'blanks' that she create don't have minds yet, and will not remember this work; someone else can come along later and 'make permanent' these alterations, when she's done, as normally Flesh Shaping is temporary. Notably however, if she has worked on this start to finish, and attracts a 'ghost' into this new body, these changes are very permanent though they will not breed true as they are not part of the full DNA (unless altered by others)

Self-Enhancement - most of these changes listed above can also be applied to herself, if she really wants to; sometimes it's just sprucing up her own skin and nails, but she has been known to soak up raw DNA tissues and use them to create (non-functional, pretty) wings, tail, etc - she likes playing DNA DressUp...

Minor: Pointed Ears - these are part of the Technology and Electrical suite that tend to run in bodies/powers, and in her case they are connected to both; she does like the fact that she can put in way more earrings than her friends...

Minor: Short Claws - normal Zekiran nails are neither this long nor this strong, and she keeps them honed and pointed, sharp enough to use as weapons (1 point cutting or even impale damage per nail); do require fancier upkeep equipment since they are not typical for the society

Major: *Icarus Treatments - this has affected her most in psionics rather than physically, however she does have a greatly enhanced lifespan; Genetically speaking, at birth, her expected lifespan was in fact 270 years, but with Icarus treatments this could be tenfold... Icarus also boosts both Charisma and Social Skill - she's an imposing person and holds herself in ways that will get the best results. Also notably, the Icarus treatment comes with the skill downloads * as shown

Major: Vampiric - her ancestor Dahash is actually an 'emotional' vampire, who may subsist on psionics or emotion of those around him. His brother is the actual blood-vampire, with the fangs and all, so this certainly has an effect on her physical presence, lifespan, and preferences for moods or styles. She is dangerous, and has an aura about her that screams it. This will cause people to pause and either run screaming or stand in terror for a moment or two (considered a Sanity check, on meeting 2x); there's nothing visibly about her appearance that is in any way shocking or unexpected, she's quite beautiful; but it's her demeanor, posture, aura, and psionic potential that affects people very strongly

Special: Attracts The Dead - Barbakane's weird magnetism applies to social oddities such as the entire Vahh clan, but also strongly to the existing Zekiran dead; any psionic presence (alive or dead) of PR 2- will spot her easily and be drawn to her; those who are dead in particular will be amenable to working 'with' or 'for' her, but she can also simply twist them and command that residual psionic energy to her whim anyway; they very rarely disagree or argue, though she has had to be careful in selecting those who will work on particular Vahh projects, since they might actually be spies... sent by Etan, Engel, or Arregon - none of them trusted enough to see the projects in question lest they get back to those people to either warn or give away trade secrets

Skills

*note that Icarus skill downloads have been inserted and cost no Edu points
#powers boost by 5 ^powers boost by 10

Literacy 8 - quite well read, can understand very advanced subject matter though tends to apply only to her field of genetics and power use
Mathematics 6 - there are quite a few numbers and formulae that are required for her purposes
Personal Upkeep 8 - she treats herself like a majestic creation, that's because she is a majestic creation
Land/Area Knowledge 5 - not that she goes out into the dirt and snow, but it's there, and she knows where it is, and a bit of each Hold's history as well

*Debt Assessment 5 - since she deals in Bayaran for normal situations as well as unusual ones, she does have the legal right and brain space to deal with the numbers

*Contract Writing 5 - and keep those rights straight, on paper, strictly

*Command 15 - her natural poise and scary aura does half of this, but she also is well trained in how to get people to do work with a few words of encouragement or nudging with a nod and wave; note that typically this is for Bayaran and Budak, but she absolutely uses this on anyone else too

*Law / Hold 5 - what she owns, she keeps, and knows how to keep it legally
*Law / Hard Stock 10 - she does deal in people, after all, but she definitely treats her Budak and Bayaran with care, since Vahh demands secrecy they are all chosen or placed with that in mind
*Law / Peridian 10 - since she isn't actually breeding people so much as creating their structures in a controlled manner, she doesn't generally need to worry about breaking laws about such things

*Politics / Local-Active 15 - as a highly ranked Vahh attendant, Barbakane attends voting meets and Zone-based council meetings alike, though she isn't intending to run for any office she will certainly bring on board those who will, if needed, based on her findings at those meets

Office Work 5 - generally keeping the files straight and the lights on, knows her way around an office but hardly ever actually works in one
#Computer / Comms Use 5 - they just come to life for her anyway, she knows there's more to it than this but hasn't ever needed to look into code or read the manual...

#Barter 10 - if she wants to buy it, she'll be getting a discount; if she needs to sell it, she'll have buyers lined up easily

^Advanced Biology 20 - A broad category of living things all do about the same stuff, breathing, digesting, reproducing; she specializes in mutated persons so there may be added bits that are covered below
^Advanced Anatomy 20 - Where should those organs be? Why aren't they in the right place? She'll be able to recognize them as well as suggest courses of correction
^Advanced Genetics 30 - A consummate professional who knows those genes inside and out, there are very few Peridian who can claim her level of work, she learned from some of the best after all

Tool Use / Natal 5 - she doesn't really implant embryos unless there's a need, which she can do, it's just not her real specialty
Tool Use / Breeding Assembly 10 - this is more her speed, though she usually sticks with her own powers to do this, she's fully capable of working with the mechanical tools needed to fix DNA or rearrange it, sort through strands, and the like
Tool Use / Vat 15 - her full strength is put into the development and maturation of (cloned) people, and they are not left on their own to grow up unless Vahh wants them to; for this reason, most of the life forms she creates rest in long rows in the facility's storage area, where she monitors their measured growth and scans each of them for any aberations or changes
Tool Use / Restraints 5 - at the training facility sometimes it's necessary to prevent injuries either to the user or to those around them, while elemental or other powers are being thrown around; she is carefully able to net, bind, or immobilize those people, though there are many other ways to do it, and she's not the one that is typically doing this

^Breeder's Eye / Powers 15 - just at a glance, Barbakane is sure to pick out the right person for a project, just by watching them use their powers
^Breeder's Eye / Mutation 15 - similarly, she knows how those powers interact with, are affected by, or are caused in tandem with their physical mutations, and can discern ways to prise them apart in the lab to boot
^Breeder's Eye / Suitable 20 - given a task that needs to be performed or a role to be filled, and the money and legal wrangling to allow her to approach damn near anyone on the planet, Barbakane has a checklist and just rolls with it - almost always producing remarkable results, and often leaving the donor or subject quite happy and rich, or even part of the Vahh clan itself, if they're that good

#Condition Recognition / Confused 10 - at the training facility this comes in handy since a lot of newer kids or newly made subjects don't understand how to do what needs to be done with their powers
#Condition Recognition / Scared 15 - and sometimes, those powers are really, really dangerous, which everyone including herself knows is a downright scary thing
#Condition Recognition / Angry 10 - there are a few cases where these subjects don't appreciate being a subject
#Condition Recognition / Manipulated 15 - and there are some rarer cases, where those subjects have somehow made it through either the processing or the selection on the street that are not who or what they appear, and she will root them out, you better believe it

#Bedside Manner / Calm 5 - there's not a lot needing to be done with a patient who isn't all stressed out, and she likes keeping them that way; even if she's an intimidating woman, she does have a presence that can instill confidence or security when you know she's on your side
#Bedside Manner / Struggling 10 - and then there's the ones who aren't happy to be here, who need to be reminded that it's for the best that they cooperate; she takes a firm hand, but rarely resorts to openly trying to harm anyone to get them to behave, a lot of Pemilik could stand a lesson in this...

#Events Organization / Powered 20 - specializing in how to get people's powers working well on their own as well as in conjunction with others, and toward specific goals, she is quite good at making sure that there is good 'party balance' (range, protection, effects, recovery)
#Events Organization / Party 15 - her mom helps her family run their nightclub, it's in her blood! She does tend to organize some ... strange parties, but still, no one has a bad time at them, at least not and remembers enough to give bad reviews
#Events Organization / Clean-Up 10 - after those big boozy romps or large flashy training exercises, she can also make sure that people whose job it is to pick up the pieces, do so without hesitation and without worry of injury. If there's a bunch of psi-created glass shards, make sure that someone with damage resistance is on it.

#Style / Fashion 15 - there is no doubt that this woman is built to look good, and she knows just how to accentuate her looks with the right patterns, materials, and postures when she wants to be seen; if she doesn't want to be seen, you won't even notice her, and not because she's blotting herself out of your vision or memories

#Social Manipulation / Lie 10 - darling you don't want to know what she really does for a living, but for any given person in a room she'll have told them a different thing
#Social Manipulation / Sway 15 - her hips sway, her hair sways, even her voice sways, and so will you once you get into her sights; if you have something she wants, needs, or will do for her, you will - give it, freely, of your own will, right?
#Social Manipulation / Provoke 5 - there are times when someone is on her nerves, and there's someone else in the room that will certainly come to her aid; pitting one against the other is simple, all she needs to do is raise her voice a bit...

Genetic Sense+Engineering / Accuracy 15 - when you're dealing with minute changes to billions of potential connections, you need to be as accurate as possible
Genetic Sense+Engineering / Duration 10 - it does take some time, effort, and long term use, so in order not to make mistakes, she trains for durability
Genetic Sense+Engineering / Endurance Recovery 10 - while these powers are active, they do still drain her, slowly but surely, and she's made herself a virtual storehouse of power

Memory Alteration / Accuracy 15 - she can keep track of tiny details that she implants or removes, just in case there's a cascade effect later on relying on one that has been changed
Memory Alteration / Area of Effect 5 - when really needed, she can block out, wipe away, or otherwise impact a small group at a time; this is used frequently when a child has an injury or accident that may traumatize both themselves and others
Memory Alteration / Range 5 - on a single person, can aim and target them at medium range rather than close up; this also boosts power use with touch significantly

Dead Sense+Manipulation / Range 5 - she'll spot them just shortly before they spot her, in that space that is not living...
Dead Sense+Manipulation / Area of Effect 5 - and she knows that they gather, so why not lump them up so they can be of use that way?
Dead Sense+Manipulation / Identify Powers 10 - the psionic remnants generally called ghosts on Zekira are literally packets of former power potential with memories attached; she can filter through the memories, and learn which powers that specific ghost had, to place them in the right body once more, or mix them with one that's compatible ** Note that she has used this power on Vahh himself, and nearly went into a coma in doing. What ghosts linger in his psyche are his own business, he doesn't hold this against her, she was just not prepared for the sheer volume of it

Name: Pyrdakayu nye'nnay (peer dah KYE you NIE un nay; a complicated name for a complicated dragon line. Since they are supermutt with Legend Drak bloodlines they have a given name, a clutch moniker (in this case nye standing for New Year's Eve/nt for several different pairs), an ' elide, and a parent-determined last portion (in this case females get nnay, males get aynn). If they breed with further Drak like lines, or those which have naming conventions of some sort, this should carry logically, though the complexity of the Legend Drak naming has been simplified a bit for this clutch)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium 9'6" s / 43' l / 57' and 33'4" wingspans
Colors: body shiny soft white with brighter and darker speckling catching the light; wingsails matte high black, buttwingsails matte mist white; mane, leg, and tail floof platinum and high black; ear floof high white; horns and claws graphite and pale grey; eyes green
Features: Drak-like supermutt, four legs with heavy claws, fluff on back legs; four wings two main and two butt-wings, with claws on the fore and Shatternak-styled wing barbs on hind; head has two horns, ear floof, a silky mane, multicolored sclera with pupil; tail has floof and a sharp (poison?) spine; they are furry but they are also egg-layers
Stats: Strength 2, Speed 4, Endurance 3, Agility 4, Health 3, Intelligence 4
Powers: Winged Flight (2) though gifted with large wings, Pyrda rarely takes flight unless she's needed elsewhere; she can certainly carry her rider and then some, but prefers to keep low and slow, to avoid any incidents; that said she can get where she's going rapidly if she doesn't have to carry anyone or be super careful about it
Teleports - Nexus (6) this dragon is quite adept at showing up in unusual places, including 'not' dragonmasters Zekira, the Rookery, Carramba, and other spots far distant; she does always seem to know just where she's needed or where there is something of use, so she won't hesitate to tell Barbakane and they'll go jaunting; Known Location Portal (6) as those spots accrue she will keep each of them in mind, and visit them regularly just to make sure she's not drifting into other realms instead, and this does include to each of Barbakane's homes or labs; Local (4) on site she can pop from outside to an indoor area, or across the testing range, up to 6 times without tiring, but can push either the distance or quantity of rapid succession ports, at the cost of needing to rest fully later on; her nexus and other portal creation effectively takes no exhaustion level, so while she will want to get her bearings and tuck away any info before leaving, she can move across five different dimensions, visit three more homes, and be back in time for lunch without breaking a sweat
Verbal Speech (5), Telepathy (4); quite good with understanding both English and Zekiran, but also Vortal speech since she can connect mentally with any other telepathic mind nearby. Uses big words, techincal speech, and can read (though not write) those languages that she's exposed to; her telepathy is minty-fresh, though if she's angry or in a bad mood that 'flavor' turns into black licorice which is certainly an acquired taste
Gene Alteration / Self only (5) given the right partner or information about what she's needed for, Pyrda can change her ova or existing fertilized eggs to select for specific things - hardy endurance, strong musculature, intelligence or powers, frilly pretty externals, all easily done; also this makes her remarkably good and flexible for actually using in Zekiran dna splices, she just needs to donate those ova (usually with the help of a Pelatih, since her anatomy is radically different than a Zekiran humanoid's and Barbakane is decidedly not going to squish around where she isn't confident)
Color Shifting (4) another very desirable trait that can be of use in splicing, her entire coloration scheme - all the fur, wingsails, feather floof, hair, and even the horns and claw material, can seem to shimmer into slightly different values. Mostly this comes as sparkling body that dances with super white stars against a dim grey background, or her wingsails gently undulating through dark and light to produce hypnotic patterns; this ability does require concentration, and sometimes she can be startled and suddenly become all white or all dark
Acid Spit (1) and Poison Stinger (2) these are largely unused, but in times of danger or stress, she can produce a sticky and mildly acidic spit that is ... modestly accurate (who practices spitting!? not her!), this spit dissolves quickly but definitely can cause irritation if it's on skin, and brief blindness if it gets in eyes; her tail stinger is definitely both more accurate (at close quarters) and quite a bit more painful, though still not deadly, she has a poison that comes out through pores in the stinger (not an injected venom though it certainly would get into a puncture wound it is not itself injected) that can be extremely irritating and causes mild caustic burns on contact, and incredible pain and burning sensation if it gets into the blood; it tends to linger a little longer but can be wiped off easily, and goes inert within a few minutes though its effects remain particularly on sensitive skin and eye tissue - notably, both of these are used (after samples are taken) to help test armor and adaptations in subjects and trainees at the Latihan facility
Parentage: Merajanay and Bales apa Larsis'Iann
Mate/Offspring: Spliced with Tsecut+Ori'kul / Carries the triplets after Ori' cannot any more
Origin: Checkerboard Ball 2021/2
Other Info: (above)