Pasht

"...Infected by the skin I’m that's starving with desire..." --dc Talk, "So Help Me God"

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Pasht is paragon of virtue -- if sucking the life out of people were a virtue. She is an all-too-powerful vampire of Terran origin, specifially ancient Egyptian. Her author claims she is hypersexual, but Pasht never actually does anything libidinous. Huh. She has powerful magic, but is unable to remember spells with any consistency.

Usual appearance

Hispanic female, 5'5" (1.65m), 115 lbs? (53 kilos), aged 15-22 years. Cornrowed long black hair, brown eyes. Last seen wearing a black bikini top and red patterned sarong. Violent psychoses; consult Glenview Psychiatric Hospital staff immediately if spotted. Thought to be armed with some kind of knife.

Known aliases

"Lady" Kara de Maubin, Pura Scott, Maatka al-Mundi, Pamela Li

History

Pasht's life-after-death reads like an extended misinformation campaign. To understand her is to have discarded much non-information and outright untruth. Even her true ethnicity eludes most. Jaina Jade, a lone hunter devoted to capturing Pasht, might have some answers -- but she's not telling (unless you make nice by buying her a vodka shot, and telling her she has sexy eyes).

Claims and Rumors

Pasht loves to make outlandish claims. Among them: that she was a goddess in Egypt, a respected courtesan in Rome, a dark-skinned and pagan survivor of the Spanish Inquisition, an Italian nun during the Renaissance, a socialite in Victorian England, and scourge of entire clans of vampire hunters throughout history. Strange rumors, apparently not propagated by Pasht herself, suggest that she was once a hunter of vampires! While it's common knowledge among vampires that hunters can be "brought into the night", equally well known is that a hunter's surviving partners will slay their fallen kin and consider it a favour to the slain.

Ethnicity

Few facts populate any writing about Pasht, but some exist. She is known to have a fondness for relics of ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, and modern Mexico City (although Tijuana ranks on the list as well). Her Spanish is flowing and expressive, if slightly antiquated, and her English occasionally carries a Castilian accent. (Castile is a region of Spain, and Castilian, both the dialect of that region and the official form of the Spanish language.) She generally indentifies herself as a Latina, when pressed, but her coloring isn't quite right for that ethnicity. She generally wears her hair in African-American style cornrows, but she seems far too pale to be of that descent; yet she's of a smokier hue than a Caucasian. It's possible that she is of mixed Moorish and Spanish stock, probably with some nobility in the latter, to judge by her aristocratic posturing.

In reality, she is Kemetic (ancient Egyptian), neither black nor white as understood in the modern age.

She speaks with a slight lisp, which is actually a Castilian accent she adopted while in Spain. A native Castilian would recognise that something else colours her speech as well: the Kemetic language, her birth tongue.

Mental

By the time Pasht had begun to make a name for herself among vampires, her kind had already discovered her most frightening trait. Pasht's mood can change without the slightest outward sign or cause. She may give someone a kiss, seducing them into being her breakfast, only to abruptly snap their neck and walk off, never having drawn any blood. She loves to dress seductively, or even trashily, just to garner attention. Worst of all, she doesn't mind baring her fangs (or anything else) in front of mortals, hunters, werewolves, or anyone else.

Magic

She possesses a stunning, if erratic, range of magics, which makes angering her even more dangerous. She rarely repeats spells, however, possibly because of some use of artifacts rather than innate magic. She has been known to change her own appearance and that of others (by transformation or illusion is unknown), stop direct sunlight from burning her, fly short distances, translocate, mesmerize, regenerate wounds, and transform into animal form and to mist. A favored trick is walking out a door, not to its other side, but across town or further. This appears to be a modified portal or teleportation spell.

Sexuality

For all her revealing apparel and luscious flirtation, Pasht doesn't actually enjoy sex. It's something to do with lack of bloodflow. She'll use sex to gain her ends, but her only lust is bloodlust, and the only intercourse she desires involves fangs. With this understanding in mind, Pasht could be called bisexual, or (better yet) pansexual. If someone has savoury blood, she'll take that person, male, female, or something else entirely.