Santa Muerte
Copyright Barry Reese (2025)

Prowess 3
Coordination 4
Strength 3
Intellect 3
Awareness 4
Willpower 5

Stamina 8

Powers
*Immortality 1
*Life Support 10
*Servant 5 (Santa Muerte can raise the dead, which function as shambling warriors at her control)
*Postcognition – Speak with the Dead 6 (Muerte can revive the recently deceased – they are compelled to answer her questions until the time limit (generally around 5 minutes) expires, after which they cannot be revived. While Calavera does this in a way that the revived spirits converse with her freely, Muerte’s methods are much more severe and are extremely painful to the revived spirits.)
*Necromantic Control 7 (Extras: Blast, Energy Drain, Stunning; These effects generally are associated with glowing sugar skulls that she is able to generate — she implants necromantic energy into these skulls, which then explode upon contact with her enemies)

Specialties
Linguistics, Occult, Psychiatry – Manipulation

Qualities
*Commander of the Dead
*Creepy but sexy
*Speaks Spanish when angry or amused

Background:

Cyrus Vale, the director of a black ops government agency called Project: Umbra, managed to collect DNA from several members of the Dark Society – and using a mixture of technology and the occult, Vale grew twisted copies of the heroes. That process produced Voidstar and Wight — but Santa Muerte’s origins were slightly different.

She had been a woman once, a folk healer and death-priestess whose village cursed her as a witch and burned her alive beneath a sky thick with omens. But Death, it is said, fell in love with her. He carried her soul across the veil and tucked it into the folds of eternity — only for her to be drawn back centuries later, pulled into the world once more when Calavera’s magic ruptured the walls of Deadworld. She was meant to return only long enough to deliver a final message… but something refused to let her go. Now she walks again, draped in lace and bone, a revenant unclaimed by Heaven or Hell.

Within the Obsidian Circle, Santa Muerte has seduced the Apostate, becoming his lover in a bid to rule from out of sight. She frequently teases Voidstar, making fun of his inability to plan or speak eloquently. When she met Calavera, the two formed an unlikely friendship, though neither truly trusted the other. In fact, Santa Muerte taught Calavera how to more fully utilize her necromantic abilities.