The Devil's In the Details

Art by guttertongue, color reference.

Maratris Belloth
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Canon: Original
Species: Tiefling
Age: 26
Height: 6'0"/182cm
Weight: 180lb/81kg

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Appearance:
Quite tall and built athletic, Mara would be a somewhat imposing figure on her own even without the devil features. Her body type is apple-shaped, with shoulders slightly broader than her hips. Her skin is scaled, heavily on her back and sides, and tapering off to softer scales as one gets to her inner areas, much like a lizard. Her outer scales are a dark red, and the inner are yellow. Her elbows, knees, and collarbone area have bony, grey protrusions. Generally, she keeps the collarbone areas broken off and filed down to avoid clothing issues. Curled horns protrde from above her forehead, looping around behind her ears, and her eyes are a red-orange, and her sclera are black. Her hair is silvery in color, though she lacks the age for that to be a natural occurrence. Its texture is curly and thick, and is often styled in dreadlocks. Her tail is heavy and tapering like a lizard's with a spade at the end, and is quite prehensile, useful for fetching items off her person or being used to fight with.

Background:
A tiefling, raised as part of cult to a high-ranking archdevil to raise powerful soldiers for the purpose of forwarding the cause of said devil. Her time growing up was filled with grooming and combat training. She was among a few who were not quite as easily indoctrinated, however, and were eventually freed of the cult in her teenage years. These days, Maratris lends her skills to a guild who specialize in dealing with dispatching dangerous magical threats and working with law enforcement as necessary with capturing criminals who utilize powerful magical capabilities. Her role in this team is a combatant, using the skills she was raised to have for the sake of protecting those in the line of fire.

Personality:
For the most part, Maratris is stoic and blunt, and doesn't think before she speaks sometimes - or even doesn't realize the implications of some things she says. Metaphors often fly over her head, and humor isn't her strong suit. This generally applies to when it comes to work or interacting with most strangers. Those who get closer, however, will find her very curious and affectionate, even if she's a little socially stunted due to her upbringing. Those whom she trusts will find her fiercely loyal and protective. Mara is eager to experience things in the world, and is likely to try most anything once if it's new to her. She's rather reserved around total newcomers because she never knows how anyone will react to her appearance, and thus has some body image issues. She's getting better at that, however.

So as a tiefling, Maratris has an ability called Soul Seer that can be used at-will to determine the physical state of someone's soul, which is just using the Pathfinder spell Deathwatch - Using the powers of necromancy, you can determine the condition of creatures near death within the spell's range. You instantly know whether each creature within the area is dead, fragile (alive and wounded, with 3 or fewer hit points left), fighting off death (alive with 4 or more hit points), healthy, undead, or neither alive nor dead (such as a construct). Deathwatch sees through any spell or ability that allows creatures to feign death.

If you'd rather her not peek at your character's soul for whatever reason, let me know - she's gonna scope everyone out otherwise because she's nosy.