emerald court emissary

Emerald court emissary

ally, can only be recruited by a nagaraja

Cost: 3 pools

strength 1 bleed 1 life 1

kuei-jin. (Dhampyr ?)
The emissary can play cards requiring basic vicissitude, basic necromancy and basic celerity. Any cost for these cards are paid with his life. Any card giving him blood gives him life instead. The emissary can gain a life as a hunt action. This hunt action does not get the usual +1 stealth.

source: nagaraja after the fall of the black hand took refuge among the kuei jin of the emerald courts. These kuei jin were famous to use a power similar to vicissitude... about one half of the kuei jin had a power similar to celerity and one fifth had a knack relating to the deads.

Waaaaay overcosted. Makes thematic sense but it's reall weak card.

My trouble is as it is non unique, a cost of 2 pools for a bleeder ally even if small and without dominate seemed to be allowing too much swarm ...

New try:
Emerald court emissary

ally, can only be recruited by a nagaraja

Cost: 3 pools

strength 1 bleed 1 life 3

Dhampyr
The emissary can maneuver once per combat. Prevent any damages done to him by cards  using vicissitude. He can play cards requiring basic necromancy as a vampife. Any cost for these cards are paid with his life. Any card giving him blood gives him life instead. The emissary can gain a life as a hunt action. This hunt action does not get the usual +1 stealth if the emissary has more than 2 lifes.

So i avoided the celerity issue as giving him another maneuver but i wonder if a dodge + additionnal would not be more appropriate.

, i have read again the (blood ? Flesh ? ) shintai which is widely spread in emerald court: it makes the kuei jin more capable with his own flesh but not the one of others so i turned it into a kind of immunity to vicissitude.

i added a life to allow him to survive a little more and i corrected the hunt/gain life action to allow him to "heal" when low or to take more risk to get bigger...

I turned him totally into a dhampyr (so an offsprinf of a kuei jin) in avoid trouble which would arises if a kuei jin extension would arise... kuei jin followed some rules of the vampire but not all of them: the elders could feed from the air, some could expose themselves to sunshine with far less damages than vampires, some could have children, some could not be staked,... and if i remember corretly they had no torpor: when one was dead blown, he was dead blown...

*sharp intake of breath*

maaaaaybe we should just leave the kuei jin alone. we don't want another nights of reckoning.