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I am happy we are just here for healing, not for funeral rites. The seargent spoke as the wounded filed in into Pharasmas chapel.
6 wounded, no deaths, the Orcs fared much worse. She continued, clearly relieved.
Of course, I dont really know what "Veronica" is, and I would like for her to get healed, and assessed. The seargent made her request.

You wish me to assess her? Morana gives the seargent a look.
Well, she got wounded, and I do want to know what she actually is.
The seargent answers
Did you try asking them? Morana asks, generally believing that the least complicated solutions are underappreciated.

He said "its complicated" she explained, with a complicated diagramm that later on looked like an insane doodle, that she is Adrans repressed desire to become something called a Ballet Dancer. I dont buy her whimsical act, she is completely focused on killing enemies effectively if combat is joined.
The seargent answered rolling her eyes.

She did take that wound for one of my soldiers, so if she is not an undead and or demonic monstrosity, please do heal her.

As the unlikely savior sauntered in, leaking a degree of ectoplasm from an Orc made Greataxe lodged in he soldier.

Qlippoths beneath bugger my lovelife The Phantom swore
I would shake your hand, but my right arm got an axe in its shoulder and my left arm is busy pressing my shoulder to the rest of my body. Stupid Orc was too dumb to be affected by the shield spell... Hi I am Veronika. Positive energy heals me, or tending to my ectoplasmic form.

So, I initially only want to commit one dip and a feat into it.
Here is the maximum I can manage, I think, with only my own resources, at level 3 (when I take the dip)

Veronika, hatred phantom.

Weapon finesse (free)
Piranha strike
Weapon focus (Slams)

Level 3:
3 HD
AC= 10+2(base)+2(armor improval)+2(dex) +4 (mage armor) +4 (shield spell, I can cast it on her because share spell class ability)=22
Offense: 3(bab)+2(dex)+2(hated target)+1(weapon focus slams) -1(piranha strike) +1 (enchancement from spell warrior song)=+8/+6 without hated target, damage=d6+1(hated target) +1(enchancement) +2 (piranha strike) =d6+4/+3 wihout hated target

In an unusual development, the once ferocious Midnight Lions have "mellowed".
Before the fall, they were reknowned and feared for fighting harsh, with no regard for honor, in brutal guerilla and ambush campaigns against the often superior Caerni warmachine, the Lions fighting tactics included biological warfare against Caerni crops, mass sacrifices of prisoners to the Abyss and other extremely vile deeds.
It is unclear who first warcrimed whom, but fighting was absolutely vicious with no quarter granted or given.

After the fall, they were no longer threatened with extinction, and in some ways adopted a milder and more relaxed take on her.
Throughout relatively peaceful centuries, they have expanded, multiplied and build the strength, with a yet unheard of focus on artifice and travel, also becoming highly acceptant of Caerni exiles driven from their own lands, as long as these exiles brought skills or abilities that were in demand. Each and every adult Midnight Lion is supposed to credibly master one artistic skill, this frequently being dance, or singing, or string instrutments (the latter being the most common instrument, in part because the strings of the Lyres favored by the Midnight Lions can be used in assassiantions or abductions), with crafting being looked upon quite favorably as well.
There exists a curious balance, as the tribe knows that its fierce reputation as demonlord worshippers and brutally skilled assassins is in part what enables the focus on artistic expression of their less military inclined clan members.
On other planes, the Lady in Shadows and the Redeemer queen are seen as 2 distinct entities, for the Lions, it is a single deity with 2 aspects.

The extent to which this is due to the great difficulty of summoning Abyssal entities post fall is open to debate.