I wanted
to finally give Dun Beltain his princess, but I wanted her to be very
important, without being
fundamentally very physical. Let Kendra be our empowered
warrior-woman. Novina is our priestess.
She’s also a great chance to explore how powerful a starting
Mystic can be. The results are surprisingly pleasing. She’s
extraordinarily powerful with Communion, able to call up miracles
with astonishing regularity, especially with her Destiny. I was also
able to give her a fairly deep mastery of ESP, including the
flavorful Oracle style. She’s no psi-knight of course, and is
deeply lacking when it comes to combat skills, but if I had wanted
her to be a primary combatant, I would have built her as a
Space Knight. This creates an interesting contrast: She is more
bene-gesserit than jedi. To compensate for this, our all-important
princess, of course, is protected by a cadre of elite guardians,
which sounds like a great time to pull out ceremonial guards.
Novina
also features an entirely new background lens, originally suggested
by Kalzazz: Sequestered, representing someone who spent a lifetime
training in some isolated dojo or temple, stripped of human contact.
Novina was raised from birth to be the final hope of the Alexian
dynasty, the last heir of that sacred bloodline. Thus, she was never
allowed to meet anyone and her deep connection with Dun Beltain, the
outsider who rescued her, is cause for alarm within the cult of
guardians.
