Dehlyth Silvershine

Full Name: Dehlyth Silvershine
Age: 37
Race: Kelashi
Birthplace: Ghurid IV
Status: Playtesting
IRL Years of Existence: 0
(Not yet approved)

Talents

Dehlyth is a brilliant biomechanical engineer. Where some cultures would scoff and revulse at the idea of creating and altering life as if it was a machine, this young Kaleshi has inherited the fascination her once great race had with genetic authoring, bioelectrical interfaces, and psychic interlocks. While her primary focus hasn't been on creating bio-weapons, she understands how to cause living things to produce venom, how to make a mind harm its own body, and how to make the muscles of an ally far more potent than they should naturally be. She is also rarely seen without her miniature army of armored arachnids, which was one of her first creations.

Biography

Hatched with a surrogate guardian on a trading outpost in the Ghurid system, Dehlyth was primed to have a fairly "normal" Kaleshi lifestyle, or as normal as a Kaleshi life can get. She learned the basics of what she was and how to control her curse while she was still quite young. On a trip to take his adopted brood to a hospital ship for a routine check-up, the guardian came under attack by bandits. They boarded the unarmed vessel and murdered Dehlyth's guardian after a brief firefight. Dehlyth and her fellow Kaleshi were identified as a rare and unusual species, and they were siezed and then sold to a shady research conglomerate.

The laboratory seemed like an inescapable house of hell. They performed all kinds of terrible experiments upon her and her former cohabitants, testing pain thresholds and limits of capability, and analyzing the depth of their need to serve. Her left arm was surgically removed, to see if she could regenerate it, as another of her brood could. Rather than reattach it when she could not regenerate it, however, they tried to graft it onto one of the other Kaleshi, resulting in the death of the limb and nearly of its recipient. It was replaced by a cheap cybernetic prosthetic, instead. After a certain amount of subjection to horrifying conditions, Dehlyth decided she needed to improve her lot in this place, if she wanted to retain her sanity. Already, the more weak-willed of her fellows were beginning to go mad.

So, rather than simply being a victim of their research, Dehlyth took advantage of the fact that she had developed a certain morbid fascination with the work that they did. She found that she was almost as interested to discover the results of their experiments as they were, though she had never before allowed her to express her interest. When she realized that she could relieve so much of her mental burden by becoming a part of the research team, she started asking questions and conversing with the researchers, even as they filled her veins with agonizing chemicals and made her watch strange holomovies with subliminal messages embedded in them. One of the team took a liking to her, and began teaching her the science behind their processes. One of her peers cruelly suggested that Dehlyth be made to help her cut up her former friends, but when her mentor was about to decline, Dehlyth jumped at the chance. Before long, she was a regularly laboratory assistant, spared from most of her former experimentation and allowed limited freedom to move about the facility. Her research began in earnest.

As the years came and went, and fresh Kaleshi faces were shipped in, Dehlyth began to develop her own ambitions in bioengineering, which she had come to master. She articulated ideas the other researchers hadn't yet guessed at, even as they looked down her nose at her. Though she was never granted her full freedom or made a complete member of the team, that was what she had essentially become, anyway. She ran her own experiments, and made strides that rejuvenated funding in the project -- something that inspired both joy and self-loathing in the woman. As nobody would allow themselves to be subservient to what was supposed to be a laboratory rat, she had to construct her own living spider assistants, which followed her psychic will like remote control flesh robots. She had nearly acclimatized to her new position to the point where she could see living this way for the rest of her days, when she found a damning folder on her desk one morning.

The folder, which had been erroneously delivered directly to her instead of the scientist that was supposed to be in charge of her, contained orders and details of an experiment that involved the removal of her left eye, which possessed the psychic power to put people into an anesthetic slumber. Dehlyth finally realized she hadn't been rising in status at all, only dancing about as the puppet they desired, until they no longer had any need for a puppet like her. It would be a few days before it was realized that the folder had been misplaced,

Other Iterations

• Dehlyth was formerly a dark-skinned woman who had a tech skinsuit that gave her stealth and special melee charging powers.
• Her following reincarnation saw her become a Shen'Ihr businesswoman who tried to harness power wielder energy to power the world.