Sagacious Mantis

Basic Information

Name: Sagacious Mantis
Age: 18
Type: Heroic Mortal
Player: NPC
Concept: Ninja & Assassin (Associate)
Motivation: Prove herself to often her neglectful mother by surpassing her in her own craft.
Political Affiliation: The Hallowed Order of The Grass Spiders (Associate)
Likes: Wood Working, String Instruments, Bare-Knuckle Boxing, Rain, Insects, Citrus Fruits.
Dislikes: Meditation, Public Speaking, Bright Lights, Bitter Food & Drink, Schools & Children.

Background

Sagacious Mantis is the young daughter of Valen, born and raised in The Grass Spider's associate village. She is undeniably young, beautiful, talented, and angry at the world. She is a skilled ninja and assassin, and at only 18 years old she still has the possibility of exalting, some consider it to be a forgone conclusion. Those destined to be exalted are almost always exceptional from birth, without a doubt Mantis is an exceptional individual. However her mother was a lost egg with no exalted ancestors and Mantis herself shows almost no elemental affinity, leading some to speculate otherwise. With some support from The Grass Spider's resident astrologer, Naru, many within the organization have started to believe that she may be destined for a Celestial exaltation rather than for a terrestrial one. No one within the organization is entirely sure how The Order would handle the situation if she did become a celestial exalt, but almost no one speaks of the complications of it, especially around Valen or Mantis.

Mantis cares very little about whether she exalts or not, nor if it would result in a terrestrial or celestial exaltation, she only cares that she prove her own worth to her very inattentive mother. In some respects she recognizes that an exaltation should only help her accomplish her goals, after all it could allow her to officially become a made member of the organization or even surpass it as a celestial. Deep down she has resolved that even is she were to become a Dragon-Blood she would not join The Order, she is driven by an admittedly shallow hatred for her own mother and does not wish to become apart of the organization and follow in her mother's footsteps.

In the meantime of figuring out what to do with her life, in the best effort to impress or at least gain the attention of her mother she has become apart of the only thing she has ever known. Whether she admits it or not she has become a part of The Grass Spiders, even if she is not a made member of the organization. She is a highly trained and talented assassin with a high level of skill in almost all aspects of assassination as well as thievery. Given her talents it is sometimes joked that The Circle with No Name could learn a great deal from Mantis, and should devote themselves more to the art of assassination rather than to drugs, sex, and parties. Mantis is heavily involved in The Grass Spiders and she works on a number of missions each year, she took part of her first mission when she was only 12 years old. She was only a decoy in her first mission, but over the years she has become increasingly involved within the organization and now assists Grass Spiders and even occasionally works on her own. In her 6 years working on missions with The Grass Spiders she has personally accumulated 11 kills, and has obviously been a part of many more. Mantis works primarily with The Red Hoods, and is involved in some capacity with at least half of all their operations. She also occasionally works with members outside of The Red Hoods, but never with her mother. Neither of them expresses a desire to work with the other.