Toirudhe

A time traveler from sometime around the 350th century, Toirudhe's space/time vehicle crashed in the Orkney islands region of Scotland and, unable to fly, took the shape of a medieval castle in the northern segment of the main island. The earliest known written reference to Toirudhe comes from the Lay of Sir Ronceval (late 12th cent). Toirudhe may seem like a supernatural character, however, she's actually a time traveler that was mistaken for a supernatural due to her… unusual qualities.

• Born in the year 349,999,991 AD in the Tau-Gamma spiral. She is the last human born in the history of ever.
• Immigrates to the Epsilon-Kolosoi station with the last 300 humans in existence.
• Educated in the station school, she remains on the station with the last members of her race.
• The aliens who built the Epsilon-Kolosoi station withdraw from it, leaving it to humans.
• Humans take up all major positions. Toirudhe begins field training in medicine.
• A comet threatens the station and the humans use the last warp fuel on the station to dodge the bullet and avoid the comet.
• Toirudhe begins to show signs of her dying species rampant chromosomal damage, bleeding from the nose and mouth and experiencing destabilization of her cells. She is given a Stabilizer ring and a Regenerator circlet, the two technical devices helping her body stay healthy and intact.
• The Epsilon-Kolosoi station reaches Delta Rana, the site of the encyclopedic Computer of All Knowledge. The station runs out of fuel altogether and humans abandon it in a decaying orbit.
• Humans are able to prolong the life of Delta Rana's star twice successfully. Toirudhe begins to wonder if there is not more to life than ruling one's own end.
• Food replicators run out of nuclear fuel and half of them have to be shut down. Several humans chose death rather than allow their comrades to die of starvation.
• Trapped in a barren existence of sterility and ennui, Toirudhe decides to kill herself spectacularly. She builds a space/time vehicle from scavenged parts over the course of several years with the intention to either go to another time or destroy herself in a solar collision.
• Toirudhe announces that she will try to break the time barrier by using a solar gravity mass to sling herself at super-light speeds in a curling path along the axis of radiation energy.
• The last 130 humans in existence watch as Toirudhe climbs into her ship and takes off, expecting her to die. They are proven wrong when the ship not only works, it sends her to 12th century earth. The ship however crashes and will never fly again. A defense response causes the ship to transform into a medieval castle.
• Awakening from her stabilizer chamber for six months every 84 years, she menaces several travelers and knights and others in the middle ages as the 'White Haired lady', or the 'Widow in White'. Since the area is known for misty weather and had an occult background, she is assumed to be some sort of supernatural. She must have an RNA chemical to keep her stabilizer chamber running.
• The Lay of Roncevil is composed. In it, the Knight engages in a battle of wits with the White Haired Lady of the Mist, but St. Paul appears in a vision and helps the Knight drive the White Haired Lady of the Mist back into her 'magical' castle.
• She is seen standing on the top of a tower in her 'magical' castle, mentioned briefly in the Journey of St. Uthric. St. Uthric only sees her, he doesn't interact with her.
• The White Haired Lady of the Mist seduces a knight named Ingus for 100 days to keep him from ever finding his lady fair, wiping his mind at the end of every night so she can do it again, according to the Book of the Sidhe.
• Characters of Scot background may well know several stories of the White Haired Lady / White Witch / White Haired Lady of the Mist, who dwells in a magical castle surrounded by mist, and steals the blood of travelers with a magic needle in said myths.
• Stories of encounters continue and the area of the magical castle is nicknamed 'the dread heath'. The magical castle itself is normally cloaked but appears sometimes as mirage by this time, since the machinery is running down.
• In the 1690s the poet Edmund Godfrey writes the 'White Witch of the Barrens', a long poem relating an encounter between himself and the White Lady of the Mist. Edmund Godfrey dies of unknown causes and is found in an inn only 14 miles from the headlands where the White Lady of the Mists is said to stay.
• Toirudhe is awakened to find that she is on trial for Temporal crimes and for moral turpitude. She is found guilty and sentenced to be sent in perpetuity to the asteroid prison Tartarus, which exists outside of time. During the flight, a warp elipse error causes the ship to crash land in the Endless city.

Bi-Polar - Her early existence in the sterile, dying future has made her bi-polar.

Loves children - Children are a delight of Toruidhe, because in her home time period there aren't any. At all.

Intellectual - Toirudhe has an intellectual bent which makes her prone to ponderous flights of excessive reasoning.

Simplicity - Toirudhe loves green things that grow and being in nature is a godsend for her. In her own time, most planets are either dead night worlds or semi-habitable ice worlds.

Beauty lover - Toirudhe loves art and literature and music.

Existentialist - Her crash landing in the Endless city has given her a new lease on life mentally, and when she isn't horribly depressed, she joyously affirms each day as the only day she has.

Naive - Toirudhe is a bit naive when it comes to men. With the end of the universe so close at hand, in her own time there was no impetus for sex or dating.

Gregarious - Want to hear Toirudhe talk alot? Ask her something about something she knows about.

No superpowers to speak of, Toirudhe may LOOK like she has super powers, but it is gadgetry.

Future Medicine - The equivalent of a general practice doctor, this also covers the use of a wide variety of high tech medical tools. Toirudhe would know how to use the medical bay of a star ship meeting, near, or exceeding the 25th century period.

Riddle game - Without much to keep her mind stimulated throughout the long ages on Earth, Toirudhe learned the old medieval sport of Riddling.

Stealth - Trying to get a blood transfusion from primitives who have no idea what you're doing and think you're a supernatural ain't easy. Toirudhe learned to sneak around pretty well.

Multiskill: Space pilot - This covers the use and construction of space/time vehicles, though of note; no time travel vehicle she could build would work within the city. This does not cover inter-dimensional ships.

Jerry rig - Not a trained professional, but a skilled amateur, if she can find the right pieces and has enough time, Toirudhe can build a great variety of technical devices.

Regeneration Circlet - Imitates the power 'healing factor' healing damage at a visible to the eye speed. The Regeneration Circlet will regenerate Toirudhe from virtually anything, regenerating her back to existence from a splash of blood touching it, though such extreme regenerations take a long time. [so long that if you went that far she'd be out of the game for several days/weeks]. The Circlet runs on Background Radiation.

Stabilizer Ring - Functions as a supplement to Toirudhe's immune system and greatly increases resistance to toxins, germs, and chemicals. The Ring runs on background radiation.

Note - The Ring and Circlet together grant Toirudhe effective immortality. However, at some time a point will be reached where the Ring and Circlet will take entirely over for her body, and at that time, she literally cannot live longer than a few minutes without them. It is expected that she will reach this point either late this year or sometime early next year.

Energy backwash - The energies constantly circulating through Toirudhe's body have left energy imprints on the molecular structure of her body. So much so that even without the Circlet and Ring she will live quite some time, albeit in excruciating pain. And by 'quite some time' I mean up to 1 month. This is a temporary perk, when the change comes and she becomes fully dependent on the Ring and Circlet, this perk goes away.

Utility belt - Tool which imitates powered invisibility, Tool which allows levitation of self or target, Tool which sends hypnotic illusions, Weapon which discharges an electrical arc, and tool which imitates X-ray vision.

Chromosomal damage - The DNA matter making up Toirudhe's body has been processed and cloned so many times that it has experienced severe degeneration. Any attempt to transform her, clone her, or physically power up her body is likely to damage it instead.

Ennui - Its hard for Toirudhe to really get truly excited about very much of anything. She's seen the end of the universe already.

Tech Dependent - Toirudhe's body will progressively degenerate without the Circlet and Ring. This will start gradually but before very long it will be visible to the naked eye. Symptoms of this degeneration include; discoloration, hemophilia like syndrome, passing fits of dizziness, physical weakness, fatigue, welts and rashes, and delirium.

Mistaken Identity - Occultists and people or British Isles extraction may mistake her for the supernatural/mythical character who she was the inspiration for. People who are occultically 'in the know' might make this mistake as well.

• Live a meaningful life.
• Make friends with present-day humans.
• Find a way to repair her damaged body.
• Pursue SCIENCE!
• Learn more about the city.
• Learn more about her own distant past (our present).
• Find the Phlebotinum!

Toirudhe isn't her actual name, just what she's become known as.