Name: Ella Zoe Seren
Age: 22
Occupation: Astropath
Family:
+ Family status unknown, presumed dead following exterminatus of Sancta Heroica 2 years ago. Ella remains blissfully unaware of her homeworld's fate.
Physical Description: Ella is of average height, and has an honest, heart-shaped face with a narrow chin and nose. Her face is framed by white-blonde hair, cut short so as not to interfere with the neural plugs in the back of her neck. Like most astropaths she is blind, so the way her hazel eyes don't dilate or focus when she looks at someone can take a bit of getting used to. Her skin is naturally pale, exacerbated by twelve years in the cloistered Scholastica Psykana halls on Terra.
Personality: Ella might be quite reserved, spending a lot of time consulting her cards, but by astropath standards she is positively upbeat. She gets on well with Marc (her handler) and Jansen. She is incredibly dedicated, sometimes pushing herself beyond her own limits for the good of the mission. Following repeated exposures to front-line combat she is gradually hardening herself to them, allowing her to keep her focus and perhaps use her abilities even in the stress of a combat situation. In her now-infrequent down time she enjoys playing regicide, and is quite good at it.
Weapons: Hazy warp-sight with an effective range of about ten metres is not exactly conductive to marksmanship, but she has handled a las weapon on one occasion and would do so again if the situation were dire enough.
Equipment: Most relevant among her sundry personal items are a pack of Imperial Tarot cards, which she reads frequently, and a badge of office marking her as a member of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica.
Psyker Index: Ella is an iota-level telepath. She is capable of astro-telepathy, but her ability to send and receive when not "plugged in" to a telepathic array is somewhat reduced (maybe half a million km maximum range). She can read the Imperial Tarot well enough, and is becoming quite adept at auto-séancing.
Background: Born on the hive world of Sancta Heroica into a family of manufactorum workers, Ella was picked up during one of the standard psyker screenings (read: witch hunts) prior to a scheduled visit by the inquisition’s black ships. She was considered malleable enough to be useful and so was spared the sacrifice of the golden throne, but she lacked the strength necessary to resist the perils of the warp alone. Not fulfilling the criteria for a primaris psyker, she was instead trained as an astropath, her studies culminating in the ritual of soul-binding that steeled her mind against possession, but cost her her sight.
Now a full astropath, Ella was originally assigned to the shrine world of Aurelias Prime. However the ship transporting her there, the Greed’s Reward, suffered a Gellar field malfunction part way into the journey and had to make an emergency transition in the middle of deep space. Shortly after, the ship came under attack from pirates. Ella’s handler, a commissar named Schenke, set to rallying the defenders with the help of several others, commissioning Ella to try and predict the pirates’ plans. In addition, mostly on her own initiative, Ella attempted to divine the reason behind the suspiciously well-timed pirate attack, pushing her already strained psychic powers to the limit. Through repeated Tarot readings she eventually learned that the ship’s captain, together with the leading tech magos, had arranged the attack as cover for them to abscond with Imperial property (a xenos artefact) from the cargo hold, leaving the rest of the ship for their pirate allies to plunder.
Armed with this information, and with the help of an inquisitor lord Derivas who had been working under cover to try and discover the same, they were able to foil the magos’ plan and escape the ship’s destruction. Ella’s dedication to duty under extreme pressure earned her a recommendation from both her commissar handler and the attention of Lord Derivas. Six months later, she found herself seconded to inquisition service. Her first mission, a recovery op on captured research station Epsilon 27, was a disaster; the inquisitor leading her team was killed, and the rescue of a broken Sororitas palatine their only consolation. Ella and the rest of her team were recalled by inquisitor lord Sidonis, with Ella herself being assigned to the care of agent Marcus Black. Both took part in Walt Brenner's unsanctioned mission to rescue Dr Taymor, and it was Ella who uncovered some vital clues about their opposition through various psychic readings. When the team was captured by interrogator Van Der Mir, her warnings about the “taloned shadow” she had seen went unheeded (unknown to her, the “shadow” was Van Der Mir himself, and the capture all part of a plan that he could not reveal until later) although she correctly deduced their need to come quietly, and her advice would have worked if it hadn't been for the unexpected intervention of hot-headed stormtrooper Kylara Mainwering. Ella and the others survived however, and are now working with Van Der Mir to try and foil the plans of the daemon Malfallax. Ella hopes that her ability to read the Tarot will offset the fateweaving of Malfallax, though her more immediate use will be in dealing with the other Telepathica representatives who control Saros Station.
Originally Posted by Azazeal849
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