Slice

First introduced in Quoth the Raven Issue 28 as a character in the Chibiloft comics. Slice is human woman from Gothic Earth who currently resides in the Demiplane of Dread, and actually finds it preferable to her home world.

Origins

Slice has revealed that she was born on Gothic Earth in the early 21st century, in the state of Massachusetts in New England. As Gothic Earth is firmly in the grip of the Red Death, it is a minor miracle that she has managed to grow as powerful as she has in both arcane magic and quarterstaff-based combat as she has without falling to Evil.

Slice has not revealed to her teammates how and why she came to be transported into the Demiplane of Dread by the Mists, mentioning only that at least in the Demiplane one can kill monsters when they appear, without needing to fear reprisals.

Secret

Slice has not told her teammates that she was plagued by grotesque visions throughout her formative years; echoes of the influence of the Red Death on Gothic Earth's Weave of magic. The worst of these were attempts to either intimidate or tempt her into obedience.

The nature of the visions changed when Slice first entered the workforce, running errands for the campaign team of an up-and-coming politician; they became images of said politician committing heinous crimes. When Slice tried to repress these as she had so many other visions, the Red Death 'spoke' to her directly for the first time, revealing the politician to be a Renegade - a surprisingly successful one, close to gaining political clout by means of dark rituals and live sacrifices of children. Slice did not trust the Red Death, but conducted an investigation of her own - one that proved that this one time, the voice that had tormented her all her life had spoken the truth.

Slice was locked up in the Maine Correctional Institute for Women after she 'dealt' with her employer, and tried in absentia without ever having a chance to speak in her own defense. The Red Death whispered sweet offers to her - freedom and exoneration for obedience - but Slice refused these offers up to the day that she was to be executed for murder. While a huge media circus raged outside the prison, Slice was taken from her cell to the room where she was to be executed with cyanide gas. As cameras flashed, vapour rose around Slice where she sat strapped to the chair... and thickened... and changed. To Slice's stunned surprise, the chair and her bonds fell away from her and she could breathe normally. The Mists had come for her, and soon she would find herself in Barovia.

Statistics

Lawful Good female human Magus