Dehlyth Silvershine

Full Name: Dehlyth Silvershine
Age: 37
Race: Kaleshi
Birthplace: Ghurid IV
Status: Active
IRL Years of Existence: 0

Talents

Dehlyth is a brilliant biomechanical engineer. Where some cultures would scoff and revulse at the idea of creating and altering life as if it was a machine, this young Kaleshi has inherited the fascination her once great race had with genetic authoring, bioelectrical interfaces, and psychic interlocks. While her primary focus hasn't been on creating bio-weapons, she understands how to cause living things to produce venom, how to make a mind harm its own body, and how to make the muscles of an ally far more potent than they should naturally be. She is also rarely seen without her miniature army of armored arachnids, which was one of her first creations.

Techniques

Arachnosprites

Miniature, spider-like drone minions.

Webbing

Creates a fine string of extremely durable material, which adheres to any solid surface and structurally bonds with other string of the same type it touches. The first individual string has 200% of its creator's PhysPL in durability, and each following string has durability equal to the charge placed in it. Webbing string that touches other webbing strings, including from other drones, instantly joins together and becomes a single body with combined durabilities. A single string can be created consecutively for multiple posts, gaining the natural charge placed into it from each post in durability. Strings will bond to anything solid they touch for strength equal to their remaining durability. Arachnosprites and Dehlyth are specifically immune from becoming bonded to the strings, and the former can also selectively free bonded objects and segment strings without needing to overcome their durability.

Mutation - Ocular neurosomnosis matrix

Dehlyth's particular genetic strain has resulted in her left eye developing a unique micro-organ inside the iris, which allows her to amplify the powerful psychohypnotic powers inherent to her bloodline through it to affect stronger-willed targets. The result is a gimme action Rules:Stun attack that works for 3 posts against targets of 100% PsiPL or less (and respects cooldowns per that technique), which can piggyback on any TK-based attack, but degrades eyesight by 50% of PsiPL for the following three posts. During a post this mutation is used, as well as the debuff period, Dehlyth cannot use her blood power.

Hemospectrum: Indigo

TK Hone IV
Spatial Reach IV

Biography

Hatched with a surrogate guardian on a trading outpost in the Ghurid system, Dehlyth was primed to have a fairly "normal" Kaleshi lifestyle, or as normal as a Kaleshi life can get. She learned the basics of what she was and how to control her curse while she was still quite young. On a trip to take his adopted brood to a hospital ship for a routine check-up, the guardian came under attack by bandits. They boarded the unarmed vessel and murdered Dehlyth's guardian after a brief firefight. Dehlyth and her fellow Kaleshi were identified as a rare and unusual species, and they were seized and then sold to a shady research conglomerate.

The laboratory seemed like an inescapable house of hell. They performed all kinds of terrible experiments upon her and her former cohabitants, testing pain thresholds and limits of capability, and analyzing the depth of their need to serve. Her left arm was surgically removed, to see if she could regenerate it, as another of her brood could. Rather than reattach it when she could not regenerate it, however, they tried to graft it onto one of the other Kaleshi, resulting in the death of the limb and nearly of its recipient. It was replaced by a cheap cybernetic prosthetic, instead. After a certain amount of subjection to horrifying conditions, Dehlyth decided she needed to improve her lot in this place, if she wanted to retain her sanity. Already, the more weak-willed of her fellows were beginning to go mad.

So, rather than simply being a victim of their research, Dehlyth took advantage of the fact that she had developed a certain morbid fascination with the work that they did. She found that she was almost as interested to discover the results of their experiments as they were, though she had never before allowed her to express her interest. When she realized that she could relieve so much of her mental burden by becoming a part of the research team, she started asking questions and conversing with the researchers, even as they filled her veins with agonizing chemicals and made her watch strange holomovies with subliminal messages embedded in them. One of the team took a liking to her, and began teaching her the science behind their processes. One of her peers cruelly suggested that Dehlyth be made to help her cut up her former friends, but when her mentor was about to decline, Dehlyth jumped at the chance. Before long, she was a regular laboratory assistant, spared from most of her former experimentation and allowed limited freedom to move about the facility. Her research began in earnest.

As the years came and went, and fresh Kaleshi faces were shipped in, Dehlyth began to develop her own ambitions in bioengineering, which she had come to master. She articulated ideas the other researchers hadn't yet guessed at, even as they looked down her nose at her. Though she was never granted her full freedom or made a complete member of the team, that was what she had essentially become, anyway. She ran her own experiments, and made strides that rejuvenated funding in the project -- something that inspired both joy and self-loathing in the woman. As nobody would allow themselves to be subservient to what was supposed to be a laboratory rat, she had to construct her own living spider assistants, which followed her psychic will like remote control flesh robots. She had nearly acclimatized to her new position to the point where she could see living this way for the rest of her days, when she found a damning folder on her desk one morning.

The folder, which had been erroneously delivered directly to her instead of the scientist that was supposed to be in charge of her, contained orders and details of an experiment that involved an elaborate surgical procedure that would unquestionably result in her demise. She could hardly believe what she had read. She hadn't been garnering the respect of those she served at all, only doing a dance to their piper's call, and now that they'd learned how well a scientifically educated Kaleshi would work and obey, they were done with her. Any sense of self-worth she gained was flushed away. She decided then that she could no longer stay at this facility, and would use what little of her intellect she could collect from her unbound mind to escape this horrible place, where talented Kaleshi lives were wasted like livestock.

In the few days she had before the missing file would be noticed, Dehlyth did nothing but prepare. She studied starmaps, guard patrols, and security measures. She calculated odds of success for a half dozen different escape plans, weighing the risks of each against their advantages. She intuited her way into the base's computer mainframe, and implanted a rudimentary virus that caused havoc in their systems, using a skillset that seemed nearly implanted in her mind from birth. When the final day came, she and a group of Kaleshi captives she had carefully chosen slipped from their prisons and cells, and after an exciting and dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, found their way onto a shuttle Dehlyth had prepared days ahead. With it, they escaped to a world unknown to most of the galaxy -- the planet Earth. There, they would find a better world to serve than those they had left behind.

Other Iterations

• Dehlyth was formerly a dark-skinned woman who had a tech skinsuit that gave her stealth and special melee charging powers.
• Her following reincarnation saw her become a Shen'ihr businesswoman who tried to harness power wielder energy to power the world.