Nacht Panzermensch
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Nacht Panermensch | |
| Player: @Saice | |
| Origin: | Technolofy |
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| Archetype: | Tanker |
| Security Level: | 31 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Margaret Nachtdieb |
| Known Aliases: | ' |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 28 |
| Height: | 5'10" |
| Weight: | ' |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Blond |
| Biographical Data | |
| Citizenship: | Germany |
| Occupation: | Engineer |
| Place of Birth: | Germany |
| Current Residence: | Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | ' |
| Known Relatives: | ' |
| Known Powers | |
| Dark/Dark | |
| Known Abilities | |
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| Equipment | |
| Nacht Panermensch suit | |
| Footnotes | |
| ' | |
Contents |
Early Life
Margaret Nachtdieb started out like any other young girl. She was following the foot steps of a vary loving family. Working always towards being a great engineer. She had a good upbringing and a wonderful life. Collage and moving to Paragon in her twentieths one could look at her life and say it was perfect. In fact if it was not for her great grandfathers inheritance she most likely would just have gone on to be a normal engineer. But that was not so. Shortly after collage when her great grandfather passed away she got a large trunk in the mail from his estate. While she knew he had worked for the Nazis and even the 5th column before he was jailed and later released under the watchful eyes of Hero Crops she never really knew what he did. But there is was. The Nacht Panzermensch a suit of armor that worked on a radical system. Something that drained the life force of the user and the target.
That was until she found her great grandfathers notes. Tucked in with the books and data drives was a note. It simply said. “Dear Margaret I know you are the only one that this will not corrupt. Please use it to undo my deeds.” Looking down at that note she knew what he wanted. For years she had lied to herself about her family's wealth. It was blood money every penny of it and here this poor old soul wanted to change it for the better. She looked over the plans and yes by all rights the suit should kill her the first time she powered it up. But trusting in her great grandfather she put in on and powered it up. While it was dizzyingly painful at first she lived and in fact drew a sort of strength from it. Then she knew she would do what she could to undo the work of the column and its replacement the Council.
The Birth of a Hero?
At first being a hero was thrilling for Margaret gaining a little fame and having a chance to stick it to the Council. But after a while things started to get weird for her. Her first oddity was the suit would not come off. She tried everything to unlock the suit and get out of it but it just seemed to have a mind of it's own re locking it self as fast as she could unlock it. She did not tell DATA about these issue fearing they would revoke her status. She worked around the issue but after a few weeks so learn other odd things had been happening. She would wake up somewhere other then her bed and there was reports of her completing missions for Hero Corps that she had no idea she had done. The final shocker was waking up in the middle of a fight with some members of the freak show the suit it seemed really did have a mind of its own. Once the cat was out of the bag the suit stated actively fighting her for control. The suit aside from powering it self off her life force has siphoned off parts of her personality and had made a dark Id that was living in the suit.
Battle for an Artificial soul
Over the next month Margaret and the suit battled for control running through the city in constant war with themselves. Margaret came to the only idea she could think of she had to damage the suit enough that it would power down. She struggled to get to Kings Row when she heard the radio alert that the clockworks where up to something. That meant one thing that a Paladin was about to start causing problems. It took all she had to bring the suit in line with the walking junk pile that was this clockwork monster. The suit did all it could to get away but in the end they ended up beaten broken and woke up in medical days later. For awhile Margaret just went back to being an engineer the suit sat in her work shop broken. It was be two months before she even looked at it again. She started dreaming of a dark version of herself calling to her. She would wake up with a longing like she lost someone close. It was the armor it was calling to her she knew it. She contacted her great grandfathers estate and had them ship her all his papers. She spent the next year studying everything she could about the suit and its systems. What she learned in the end was shocking. It was alive and the technology was so crazy it made no sense to her. But she knew that something in her was dieing and it was in that armor. She starting fix it part by the notes, part by her skill, and part from something she just did not know. It was a sort of healing she did and when it was done the armor stood there in her workshop quietly and waited.
Arcanengineering
When she showed some of the circuitry to DATA for some help they told her it was nonsense. She tried researching but everything confirmed most of the systems on her suit just did not follow any sort of real science. It was by random chance sitting at home watching random tv that she saw something that matched one of her circuit patterns. It was a special on magic and scared geometry. He great grandfather was working with magic? She took the suit to MAGI to seek there advice. They confirmed it was magic diagram but it was not really magic. It was some odd fusion not totally magic not totally science. She threw her self back into the papers with new insight. It made sense to her know even if others did not understand it. She cool feel it deep inside her this new field of science she dubbed Arcanengineering. It was a quick study for her and she found the problems with her suit in short order it was basically a from of homunculus that was just not attuned right. Both DATA and MAGI could not make heads or tails of her work but soon they both agreed it worked they just did not fully understand why or how. Even some people that tried to copy her findings but few could repeat all but the most basic of builds. But those few that could get the basics were hooked on Arcanengineering almost like it was a drug. Crafters describe it like an art from almost half technique half skill.
Recently
Lately she has become a bit disillusioned with hero work and as started a side business salvaging from tech villains for a small side profit. In this vain she ran into the crew of The Tortuga an airship from another world. Having a real chance at something out of the normal grind of hero work she signed up.
While assisting The Tortuga the crew got it self neck deep in trouble with the Circle of Thorns. After a long battle deep in one of there many caves Margaret found the suit had absorbed demonic energies and this was having an effect on it. Good or bad it was to soon to tell.
Personality
Shes vary much a tom boy at heart never afraid to get dirty or play rough.
Distinguishing Features
Blond hair Blue eyes vary much the model of German eugenics.
Relations
Curtently signed up for The Tortuga as an engineer.
Roleplay Notes
- NO I'M NOT PART OF THE 5th COLUMN OR ANY OF THE SGS BASED ON THEM
- While listed as a Tech origin she is really more a Tech/Magic origin.
- Can not actually do real magic only Arcanengineering and a limited number of related feats.
- The suit does register to people that can sense magic as being a magic item.
- Does not follow normal laws of physics.
