Tessera

Pic ain't mine, it's just a reference. A lovely one.

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If I'm LFRP, that means approach me, but I may not be able to go much further than talking about what could happen to you. If I'm Pred, that means approach me at your peril, because the god-zebra is a hungry deity right now.

This is a little WIP-ish. Anyway, Tessera is a deitic zebrataur who will do just about anything to anyone for her own pleasure, preferably against their consent.

The Iyrandi were a race of centaurs from long, long, long ago. History spoke of their beauty and strength, their culture and sciences. But they vanished. No-one knows exactly why. The few who have managed to ask this beautiful zebracentaur about the fate of her species get a smiling answer. "I happened."

Tessera is a centaur, her upper half that of of a dark-skinned, beautiful human woman with dark eyes and hair of ebony cascading down her back. No human would be this large, however. Tessera would be at least eight feet tall if she was fully human. Instead, rather than legs she has the body of an enormous zebra, powerful and sleek, and she stands a full ten feet tall, weighing in at nearly two tonnes of voluptuous taur.

Tessera was once a noble Strider, a warrior and guardian of her race. She volunteered for an attempt by the Council of Sciences to attune a sentient mind directly with the pulse of the universe, which would in theory allow her to comprehend the entire world instantaneously. The experiment was painful and complex, requiring her entire body to be "tuned" with particle realignment down to the last electron. Finally, she was stripped naked, placed at the exactly electromagnetic centre of the planet in a capsule, and activated.

It worked. Too well. Tessera did not just become a receiver for the universe, but a resonator. So perfectly was she in tune with the world that she could affect it, rather than the other way around. Simply by thinking she was able to warp reality to her own ends.

In that one instant, she devoured and absorbed the souls of every living thing for fifteen million light years. This was instinctive, as Tessera's mind would not have survived the mental strain of perfect universal alignment without gorging itself on the psychic energy of others. The rush of power beyond her imagining, however, meant that Tessera's response to having ended the lives of trillions just for her own benefit was a a slow, shuddering groan of ecstasy. In that instant the noble warrior was corrupted and the lusting goddess was born.

Since then Tessera has done much. Her powers are pretty much unlimited, as she affects the universe simply by the act of wanting to change it. Her power is a complicated yet simple one: reality and Tessera's mind are perfectly in sync with each other, and so whatever she thinks to happen... will happen.