Isabel - The Redeemer

Backstory
While it may be the seat of the Vaticine Church, the center of learning and progress and led - nominally - by Good King Sandoval, Castille is a nation like all the others. And all nations need those to do things in their name in the dark.

Isabel was one of those people.

In the name of Castille, for who could lay such shameful acts at the feet of the mother Church or the Good King, she killed. When the Montaigne came over the border, business picked up. But when the fighting ended, the veneer of patriotism was wearing thin. Too many friends and allies lost, too many close calls with each having carried the possibility of being her last, too many faces haunting her dreams.

Amicably - such as things can be done - cutting ties with her old life, Isabel slipped into a new one as a wandering minister and healer and works to make amends for her past sins. But memories are long in Castille and the men and women who once employed Isabel's skills are still in places of influence back home. Thus, following her ordination and the conclusion of her studies, she crossed the border to Montaigne to do what she could in that sinful land.


What makes your character a hero?
Every day Isabel tries to end having made the world, somehow, a better place. Be it healing the sick or giving comfort to the weary, she tries to bring some of the Church's light to those who need it the most. She does this because she is all too familiar with the darkness in people, having committed quite a few sins herself.

She walks a penitent's path, difficult as it is, to try to win a redemption for herself in the kind she tries to bring to others.


Who or what will oppose your character?
Isabel's primary struggle is man vs. self. Her internal drama aside, her past history before joining the Church would have a nasty habit of cropping up: her life of self-imposed retirement is not sacrosanct and it wouldn't be out of the question for allies and enemies who remembered an entirely different Isabel de la Vega to come looking for her to call in old debts or settle old scores.


How will your character die?
When Isabel dies, it will be because he life will be the last thing she has left to give. The method of her death could take many forms, the hand on the blade or on the trigger or behind the poison could be many people's, but in so dying it will be be to give her life for another's.

That's the quirk as provided in the hard copy book I received from the Kickstarter?

As for the heroic death - hmm.

Well, how's about this? When Isabel dies, it will be violently. She'll go down fighting. In the end, she wouldn't have been able to escape the life she had made for herself and the history of violence that went with it: but the cause for which she'd die in the end is what sets it apart from all the other times her life could have ended.

I'm leaning on the cause having something of a patriotic bent. She may have been a product of the darker parts of Castillian politics, but in the end she would give it all to make the country and the ideal of it pure.

Whoops, wrong version of the rulebook on my part! Move along! #>_<#

The castillian situation however is not that the country = the church, however close that might be. I'd be interested to know what would happen if patriotism would not equal piety in your case. But that's more me just being curious, because I originally got a religious vibe instead of a patriotic!

In any case, you can consider this approved!