Kiera Portman
Sandman
Torn Programme
Description
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 130 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Green/blue
Hair: Long simple blonde
Clothing: White or black archaic
Comportment/Cadence: Welcoming
Distinctions: A drop-dead, dreamy, gorgeous woman with a secretive and enticing smile, Kiera is most often found in gossamer and lace more akin to 19th-century stage costumes
Supernatural Qualities: Monochrome striations flutter across her ethereal form, glittering particles of sand waft from her cape, elaborate markings and sigils etch her hands and forearms, and while her natural eye color is blue, her left eye gleams an unsettling emerald-green; furthermore, all in the Underworld recognize Kiera or know her name, a purveyor of fantasy...and nightmare
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry, pouch of sand
Traits: Appearance 5 (seductive); Style 5 (classic); Notoriety 5
“Your fear and desire are as delicious as intertwined licorice.”
History
Date of Birth: October 22nd, 1795
Home: Horsham, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Family: John and Winifred Portman (parents), Bernard (older brother), Hugh (younger brother)
Death: Personal Tragedy (Kiera was born in a gentry family in England and was expected to simply find a husband, but she self-educated herself like Mary Shelley and became an author, her novels dealing with dark fiction and horror, but unlike her contemporary her writing career never broke through in any sense; a love life half-foisted on her by her parents also began to fall apart after dragged it along for a decade, in large part because she realized she primarily leaned lesbian; shattered, she committed suicide by drowning herself in the river), 1838
Mentor: Henry Styles
The Test: Trial by Influence (a local troupe of Sandmen Reaped her, drawn to her talent and dark imagination, eager to have her put it to use for the guild; in fact, she had a suspicion her mentor, the dream lord Henry Styles, manipulated her mortal mind and drove her to suicide in the first place)
Comrades: Gemma Calabrian, Tess Smith, Sienna Elliott, Tybalt Peverell, Seymour Wightman, Kiera Portman, Aileen Gray, Kynley Gray
Key Event #1: Treachery (she quietly studied and mastered the Arts associated with the guild but she suspected trickery and foul play)
Key Event #2: Treachery (so Kiera began sussing out other Sandmen's ulterior motives and ambitions through their dreams and succubus-like "pillow talk")
Key Event #3: Treachery (when she realized what Styles and the other troupe leaders conspired to do to her, she began to deliberately sabotage their Pageantry, settling or unsettling the dreams of key mortals in their plans, wrecking the guild's schemes in the area)
Key Event #4: Personal Tragedy (to avoid the dream lords' wrath, she fled to France and sought the protection of a far more renowned and powerful dream lord, Gemma Calabrian; they even became lovers)
Key Event #5: Personal Tragedy (they decided to voyage to the New World together and on the way across the Sunless Sea, the 4th Great Maelstrom struck; Kiera was blown overboard into the Tempest and was forced to manipulate her way past dangerous spectres)
Key Event #6: Awe & Wonder (she escaped the Harrowings they inflicted and made her way to the original destination, rejoining with Gemma in New Orleans and the new Sandman troupe they formed together)
Key Event #7: Awe & Wonder (when the Fifth Great Maelstrom began to blow, she had Gemma and their Haunts to hunker down and shelter in, a contrarily blissful era that triggered her own schemes to begin formulating a Nightmare Pageant)
Transition: Shift in Purpose (together, she and Gemma conspired and hatched a plot to formulate a dark Dream, and they began to rope in other supernatural denizens of the world)
The Shadow
Appearance: Kiera sees her dark side as a selfish and immature version of herself; she frequently tells herself to "come down from that cross, we need the wood".
Trigger: Whenever she makes any sort of sacrifice and it goes unrecognized or unrewarded.
Gentry's Bedchamber (Haunt)
Location: Touro, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Structure: House
Stock: She may haunt the entire small mansion-sized antebellum home, but she prefers the former matron's bedchamber, complete with boudoir and canopy bed
Traits: Haunt 3
Artifacts & Relics
Lesser Sandman's Cape (Artifact)
Appearance: A pale, slender garment woven from Dreamstuff itself, giving it a fleeting gossamer look and feel
Origin: Gift
Effects: Enables flight (like Argos) anywhere in both dreams and the Underworld and also serves as mark of her guild rank as one of the high crafters of the Pageant
Activation: She need only wear it
Refined Sand (Relic)
Appearance: Dream sand so fine that it looks like it would vanish if released from its leather pouch
Origin: Creation
Significant Others
Names: Gemma Calabrian, 1880; Tess Smith, 2012
Nature: Erotic
Gemma
Tess Smith
Weakness
Succubus
Kiera delights in being like the succubus: stealing into dreams, stealing breath and life itself, or infecting the Quick with the terror of damnation. She could find herself on the wrong side of a ghost hunter or worse, making undesirable friends in low places.
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
She's managed so far against her Shadow but her truck with nightmares generates a lot of Angst, for herself and others.
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