Kria 'The Huntress' Kytoro is a House Escher death-maiden[Notes] bounty hunter who earned the right to become a maiden after her gang exploits while leading the Bittersweet Blades unknowingly drew the attention of her house's alchymyst fleshteks.[1]
After Kria finally met her end in a mutual kill with her rival Gorgon, boss of the Goliath Irontree Lords gang, her body was later collected by the fleshteks and placed within an amniotic tank. From there, the process to bring her back to life began, and when Kria re-emerged as a death-maiden, her blood was now toxic[Notes] and her mind had been stripped of whatever shreds of humanity she once had. Despite this, the mantle of death-maiden rests well upon Kria's shoulders, and dying and coming back from the beyond has done little to diminish her skills as a tracker and hunter. Her toxic blood, meanwhile, has made Kria even more deadly, and the death-maiden has been known to use it to poison her weapons, along with savouring the look in her prey's eyes as she draws a knife across her own flesh[1]. Kria now serves as a bounty hunter for House Escher and has become the top enforcer for the house's matriarch council. At their sole discretion, she will fight alongside other Escher gangs (though a suitably generous bribe will certainly aid any request for her intervention as a bounty hunter).[2]
Notes
Curiously, Kria's blood does not actually appear to be toxic[1b], unlike with every other death-maiden[3]. In addition, she wields a long-las[1b], a weapon death-maidens ordinarily cannot be trained to wield[3]. Neither of these facts have been explained.
Sources
- 1: Necromunda: Gangs of the Underhive, pg. 74 — Hired Guns
- 1b: Necromunda: Gangs of the Underhive, pg. 75 — Hired Guns
- 2: Coming Soon to Forge World
- 3: Necromunda: House of Blades, pg. 36 - Escher Death-Maiden (Champion)