Kyra Dreamfire
Gestalt Archivist-Divine Exorcist/Radiant Servant
NG Unique Outsider (Redeemed ex-Succubus) (Extraplanar, Good, Spirit)
Kyra has a naturally white-hot fiery personality. She takes great exception to being insulted or attacked and is not above attacking someone who first attacks her, even in public. While not any match for a true warrior, she's still a competent combatant and has nearly every divine spell ever created at her beck and call in her enchanted prayerbook. The latter fact is what attracted the attention of the OSA; few spellcasters were as powerful. But even after she signed on they learned the price they had to pay. "Firebrand" is a woeful understatement.
Over a century of shedding her tainted origins has instilled an undying and zealous desire to promote the tenets of Good through actions. Though her magic doesn't automatically call for a powers check, it does attract the full attention of anything in the service of the Red Death due to the dearth of magic users and even magical energy itself (until the Ritual was disrupted as described in the Gothic Journals). Kyra walks a fine line in her pursuit of righteousness, knowing one misstep could draw the Red Death's attentions at any time.
Around Alex, she undergoes a remarkable transformation into a calmer and less impulsive person. This isn't a repression of desire; this is a true change in personality. Just as Alex becomes more energetic, driven, and less prone to melancholy around her. The two figuratively and spiritually complete each other.
Kyra is also shameless when it comes to sexuality, a holdover from her succubus origins. The American attitude towards sex in the 1980's and 90's continually frustrates her to no end, though she knows when to draw the line to avoid trouble. This attitude has not won her many allies among less liberal people and her circle of friends has always remained fairly small. In New York, where she was stationed for nearly twenty years by the OSA, this wasn't too much of a problem among the cosmopolitan population. In fact it helped her to win friends as far away as the Netherlands and Denmark, countries known for more open-minded attitudes towards sex. At the same time it's also alienated her from many British MI-7 agents and the German
Der Wachters agency.
Background
If the Abyss is truly alive as some scholars say, than even it makes mistakes. Kyra was "born" directly of the plane of chaos and evil, yet from the start it was clear she was a "mistake." She was only half as strong as her sisters and had no real taste for evil. Even her chaotic tendencies felt muted. Yet she possessed a keen mind and strong will, as well as a knack for the workings of the divine. Elisime, the Succubus Goddess, was not one to let a potentially useful servant go. Instead she put Kyra into a tiny office as her official "archivist," head of records the goddess kept. Given the chaotic nature of the goddess though, this turned into a form of exile and Kyra was largely left to her own devices.
Then a special prisoner appeared. Kyra had heard about the komanie, how the incubi/succubi were their most hated foes, but upon seeing one in person she didn't feel loathing or repulsion. Instead she felt pity that he had the bad luck to be captured by Elisime. Her incessant questions about him led to her being assigned to be his caretaker when he wasn't being used and abused by the goddess. She healed his body with her magic and his soul with her words. When he returned this simple respect it awoke a part of her that had never been before. More and more she began to study the tenets of good and talk with Alex about his own beliefs and ideals in an attempt to understand these new feelings that were so taboo to Elisime's own teachings. Things like respect, fondness, friendship, and love.
In the time she took care of him she underwent a redemption of the soul and a revelation of the heart. She had grown to love him and he began to return her affections. If Elisime found out, she would be destroyed. Thus it was serendipity that Tyriana, the same woman he'd pursued into the Abyss had a change of heart. She allowed them both to escape and Kyra never looked back.
Yet despite her honest to gods conversion, the powers of Good didn't trust Kyra in the least. Except for brief, supervised visits they refused to let the two stay together while Alex was in Celestia. That was unless she found a way to strip all traces of the Abyssal taint from her soul. To that end she began to scour the planes, seeking out places of power that would literally remake her into a being of Good. Her powers as a succubus were traded in as payment each time and her journeys left her stronger and wiser. but by the time she had completed her work, Alex had already departed for the Realms of Dread in pursuit of the stolen artifact from the Celestial Armory. Though convinced of her honest desire to pursue good, the archons of Celestia were bound by Law not to say where Alex had gone. Not to be beaten, Kyra merely renewed her resolve and began an all new campaign to learn where her beloved was.
76 years of searching, adventuring, and learning finally led to the day when, using an epic spell, she found Alex on a Material Plane world sealed on the inside. Without hesitation she
gated there and began to look for Alex. Only her magic drew the attention of other, more malevolent and dire entities. Her activities had also attracted the attention of the Office of Supernatural Affairs. Though the creatures were no threat to someone of her experience, she took the OSA on its offer in the hopes they would help her find Alex. And to their credit they tried. But he had gone too deep for them to trace. Indeed, it was largely due to a fluke of Fate that she was at last reunited with the only other being she's ever loved.
Current Sketch
Marriage has not cooled Kyra's spirit. If anything it has stoked the fires and made her more daring. She's not a jealous wife (indeed, if she can join or watch in she's
very willing to share Alex with other women) but doesn't take insults to him any better than she does to herself. In some ways she is even more sensitive of derogatory remarks made about him. Alex regularly has to keep her from going after someone--literally holding her back as she yells obscenities at her target and struggles to get at them. The few times he couldn't hold her back--or she managed to slip free--have resulted in several police records for assault and battery.
When not fighting, Kyra enjoys drinking. Where Alex has developed an allergy to alcohol, she can still imbibe and does so in great quantities. Kyra tends towards being a "happy drunk" while around Alex, who must then take responsibility for her actions much to his chagrin. Then he has to tend to her once the inevitable hangover sets in. While not an alcoholic--yet--she is treading a fine line. Unlike her husband she doesn't drink to escape so much as to just get drunk and enjoy the disinhibited state. As a result of her consumption she's had to master drunken fighting as well as any monk. Not that she
wants to fight while hammered, but her often abrasive and brutally honest side comes out and rubs people the wrong way.
Combat
Well aware of the hazards of magic on Gothic Earth, she has changed much of her combat style to purely mundane attacks and uses magic only in dire circumstances. Her other supernatural abilities attract less attention but remain a possible weakness even as they cull away evil. Where once she let an aura of positive energy emanate at all times--driving away all but the most powerful of undead and destroying even more potent forms of lesser undead--now she suppresses this aura most of the time. Secrecy remains both her and Alex's best defenses against the very creatures they hunt.
She prefers her
rod of epic might over other weapons, but has been trained in the use of firearms all the same. The form her rod takes varies on what the situation calls for. She tends to favor the
flaming blast longsword form over others, if only because it's proven to be most effective against creatures not resistant or immune to fire. For ranged combat she deigns to use a gun but finds it distasteful. She can't stand the smell of cordite or the feeling of the weapon as fires.
Sun Domain: By sacrificing her bonus Scribe Scroll feat at first level and subsequent bonus feats as an archivist, plus her Still Mind class feature, Kyra has been granted access to the Sun domain and its granted power; spells from the Sun domain were automatically added whenever she learned to cast a new level of spells. This counts towards the abilities of her radiant servant PrC. This unique feature is a substitution level available to archivists only at first level.