Susheela Pantaleone Fabian
🌿 Susheela Pantaleone Fabian – The Militant Witch
Tradition: Verbena
Cabal: Sisters’ Coven
Faction: Traditionalists
Arete: 5
Essence: Pattern
Nature/Demeanor: Idealist / Idealist
Apparent Age: 38
Actual Age: 6 (Born 1979 via ritual)
Tags: Enforcer of Gaia’s Wrath, Anti-Technocracy Crusader, Capitol Node Defender
🧬 History
🌕 1979 – Born of Ritual, Not Blood
Susheela was not born—she was summoned in a sacred grove at Picnic Point, Madison. Three Verbena witches, sensing the rising power of the Nameless and the failure of Tradition diplomacy, enacted an ancient rite to birth a child infused with raw Gaia magick.
- Fully Awakened at birth
- Raised in secret in a Horizon realm of endless forest
- Trained in Life, Prime, and Spirit by the Sisters’ CovenCharacters Draft
Her existence was kept secret from even the Council of Nine. The witches claimed she was their natural-born daughter until 1985, when she emerged fully trained and ready for war.
🔥 1980–1984 – Hidden Weapon of the Wild
Susheela studied spirit ecology, Wyrm corruption, and node rituals in solitude, but as cracks spread through the Capitol Node, she was forced into the open. By 1983, she had begun sabotaging Technocracy infrastructure, targeting Void Engineer probes, and leading clandestine Caern defenses.
She sees the truce between the Traditions and the Technocracy as a betrayal of Gaia—and is ready to break it by any means.
🕯️ 1985 – A Sword Aimed at the Heart of Compromise
As the Nameless stirs and the Council fractures, Susheela steps forward as Gaia’s chosen wrath, openly calling for the Council to end the truce and confront the Technocracy and Nephandi directly.
“You don’t ask permission from cancer. You burn it out.” — Susheela, at the first 1985 Council Assembly
But a secret haunts her: the spell that created her may have used components tainted by the Nameless. She was meant to fight entropy—but she may be a fragment of itCharacters Draft.
🌱 Paradigm: Bring Back the Golden Age!
Susheela believes the world once pulsed with balance, wildness, and life unchained by human systems. Then the Technocracy, Nephandi, and Wyrm broke the Cycle.
Magick is the language of Gaia.
Susheela speaks it through blood, ash, bone, breath, and birth.
🔮 Practice: Witchcraft
Her craft is visceral and rooted in sacrifice, soil, and the cycles of death and life.
Ritual Tools:
- Blood and ash sigils (applied to skin, stone, and air)
- Carved bone fetishes linked to spirits
- Natural implements (stones, roots, antlers, leaves)
- Primal dances at moonrise and solstice
- Herbcraft and cauldron rites
🧠 Spheres
- Life 5 – Mastery of body, healing, transformation, and natural mutation
- Prime 4 – Quintessence channeling and shielding of Nodes
- Spirit 4 – Communication with and binding of Umbral entities
- Forces 2 – Stormcalling, fireblessing, and elemental bindings
🌕 Attributes & Traits
- Physical: Strength 3, Dex 3, Stamina 4
- Social: Charisma 4, Manipulation 3, Appearance 4
- Mental: Perception 5, Intelligence 3, Wits 5
Abilities:
- Medicine 5, Survival 4, Occult 5, Rituals 5, Alertness 4, Leadership 3, Expression 5, Intimidation 3
Backgrounds:
- Node 3, Allies (Verbena & Garou) 4, Sanctum (Picnic Point) 3
🧩 Secrets
- Nameless Seed: The spell that birthed her was whispered into her mothers’ dreams by a Nameless-touched spirit. If discovered, the Council may deem her a weapon of entropy.
- Dark Tower Dreams: She dreams of a black spire in the Deep Umbra—where her true purpose awaits.
- Technocracy’s Prison: She knows that MECCA, the local Technocracy site, houses imprisoned mages. She plans to liberate them, regardless of the fallout.
🗝️ Role in the Chronicle
- Calls for a Council vote to dissolve the truce with the Technocracy
- Protects the Capitol Node directly, leading Ward rituals at Picnic Point and Olbrich
- Challenges Jay Dee on his neutrality and the failure of New Avalon’s protections
- Begins to sense her own entropy resonance increasing, especially when casting high-Paradox rituals