Thursday, February 25, 2010

Sister Mary Katherine

My wife's character for that aforementioned one-shot was a Catholic nun, which I think is a great character concept for a Call of Cthulhu game. Since that game was set in the modern day and the one-shot (or campaign!) I'm directing is set in 1931, I've even suggested she could play another nun, an ancestor of Sister Katherine. Anyway, without further ado:

SISTER MARY KATHERINE

Background: An army brat who moved around frequently with her family, she always had trouble fitting in. Part of the reason was that they never settled anywhere for long and part of the reason was that she would occasionally know or see things that she shouldn't. She had difficulty making friends and may have headed down a "troubled" path, but her destiny changed course the day she started a new school--where a kindly nun was her seventh grade teacher. Sister Francine became a mentor to the young girl and convinced her that her "strangeness" was really the voice of God speaking to her and calling her to his service. When she graduated high school she immediately joined the convent and has devoted herself to meditation and study ever since. Her particular passion has always been the long ago histories and records of the early church, documenting the events of the past. It thrills her to occasionally encounter stories of those like herself who were "touched" by something strange. To that end, she occasionally journeys to various parishes throughout North America to study their records and add them to her research.


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