Idira Tlass | Rogue Trader Wiki

Operative:

• Analyse Enemies

COMMON AND ORIGIN TALENTS:

• Forewarning
• Psychic Shriek
• Survival Instinct

FLAGSHIP POST ABILITIES:

• Exact Prediction
• High Tide

From Beyond the Door

The life of a psyker is, on the surface, enviable by those who would wish for the power to conjure forth anything you could imagine. Wielding such a gift would make for untold fantasies become realistic probabilities. But it is wise to temper such glorification of the psyker with the grim reality they face as social outcasts, dangerous liabilities and immaterial beacons to horrors from beyond the ken of man. And if you are an unsanctioned one, the dangers are all that much more prevalent and real.

Idara Tlass is an unsanctioned psyker.

She grew up an orphan among her fellows, learning to make use of her powers while fulfilling the role of advisor to those warlords who dominated her planet. One blighted by a spiritual degeneration as they drifted further and further from the Emperor’s light. Managing to achieve some manner of stability through sheer force of will, as well as a timely intervention of augments provided to her by the same warlords she served. Even if every day brought with it a new host of uncertainties and confusion that drifted in from the door left cracked ajar in her head.

Before her arrogance and bravado crumbled away, however, she met and took up the opportunity presented to her by a chance encounter with then-Lord Captain Theodora von Valancius. After a violent farewell, she took up the mantle of diviner for her new Rogue Trader and has since then served the Lord Captain as a vaunted psychic advisor. Both on immaterial matters and what the future, past and possibilities that lie between might hold.

A Jaded Sort

Having lived as hard a life as she has, enduring the endless whispers from beyond the cracked door looming in her head, seeing the endless weave of eternity spread out afore her, there is little room left in Idiria’s heart for dalliances or trifles beyond camaraderie and genial companionship.

Idira Tlass will not respond to any romantic advances.

Unorthodox Mindset

Living on a violent planet where those gifted with psychic ability were but assets to be employed by whatever warlord happened to commandeer them, Idiria received a form of education and augmentation meant to help control her powers. But she never received the formal education, training and spiritual trials that the Astra Telepathica subjects its would-be students to help them rein in their powers. Add to this a rather unorthodox and less than pleasant set of interactions over her life with her fellow man and the institutions of the Imperium, and you arrive at an unorthodox worldview that others may disagree with.

This unsanctioned psyker would be an Adherent to the Heretical school of thought.

Overcoming Loss

Loss has always been the constant companion of psykers, whether it be within their personal life or beyond. But those who seek to buck their fate often find it a more intimate companion than the rest. Even more so if they believe themselves above that which others would push them towards, the black ships and the sanctification rituals of blessed Terra. And for the majority of her life, all of these things matched well with Idira’s person.

But there has been no greater loss to date than that which she felt when Theodora, her Lord Captain, passed.

She was the one who Theodora relied upon to find all the unseen paths, to foresee all possibilities that may benefit or threaten her. From the smallest to the largest things imaginable. But for once, she was unable to discern that which might come at the cost of her life. Now she must live with knowing that whatever fate befell Theodora, she both never saw it coming and was powerless to do anything about it.

Now, grappling with the ever-increasing clamor of the voices in her head, Idira must navigate through the mire of uncertainty that the new Lord Captain brings with their every step. Is she good enough to see through the veil? Can she do what she failed to before? Would Theodora ever forgive her for having the gall to contemplate moving on? All these questions and so few answers.

What answers she may be looking for must come from the new Rogue Trader, someone who might be able to see through the bluster and jaded edges that others among the retinue turn their nose up at and call apocryphal, heretical even. But can the ghosts of her past and the shadows of her future be overcome?

Only fate knows for certain.

Unbound and Unchained

With her Origin as an Unsanctioned Psyker, Idira has access to a greater portion of psychic ability than most sanctioned can boast, albeit at the cost of worse stability than you might hope for in a battle psyker. This plus her beginning discipline of divination grants her a series of unique abilities that play well with her specialization. Said abilities are the Forewarning action and the Unsanctioned Psyker ability.

Forewarning: The psyker increases the target's dodge and parry by +(3 + psyker’s PER bonus + 3 × psy rating)% until the end of combat.

Unsanctioned Psyker: This character is an unsanctioned psyker, dangerous and uncontrolled.
All psychic powers used by this character have 5% chance to trigger perils of the warp and are resolved as if the psyker's psy rating was +1 level higher.

Her discipline specialization is that of an Operative, a propensity to analyze and identify chief weaknesses in an enemy before capitalizing on them to best bring death and crippling effects to them. With this analytical method of combat, she has learned to make use of Analyse Enemies and Exploit abilities.

Analyse Enemies: The Operative targets one enemy within 10 cells from the Operative. That target immediately gains +(1 + INT bonus / 2) exploits.