What I meant by asking about what powers you're thinking of for this character is that there are so many directions you could take it that it is a little hard to give you good input on aspects without knowing what the character will be doing.
For instance by taking "I Know the Dead", and adding the subtitle "and they won't shut up" I am getting a very strong Medium/Ghost/Sixth Sense type of vibe, so that is a guy who is being forced by Anubis to deal with ghosts and spirits of the dead and their problems.
That's very different character from say a Zombie Killing Undertaker charged by Anubis to make sure that the dead stay in the ground, battling Necromancers and putting down zombie uprisings with a Boomstick, a Sharpened Spade, and some ancient Egyptian funerary rites.
An idea for the character that popped into my head after a quick wikipedia search on Anubis would be to make a character who is an Spiritual Counselor, essentially a guy who is an attorney for the dead, gathering evidence, arguing their case, and lifting their earthly burdens so that their hearts can be light as Maat's ostrich feather and they can then get into the afterlife.
This is a great example of why I didn't want to post my character ideas. He is still a concept, and the spinning off of ideas is golden. Those concepts are quite good. And, he won't actually be fully statted up until the group meets for character generation. Yet, here is the basic idea, so far.
I wanted to be a werewolf type, but not a "stock" werewolf. I ended up pondering Anubis. (After lots of twists and turns). Long story short - he is were, but turns into something resembling a giant jackal. Or to most modern americans, a funny looking Doberman Pinscher. His "job" from Anubis, is to find spirits, or defilers of corpses, and return them to true death, or stop them.
So - tentative
echoes of the beast
Ghost Speaker (or whatever that see ghost power is)
Alt form human, affecting
Claws
Shadow Walker
"Claws of the dead" - a 1 (?) point power which adds 2 points stress damage to attacks against incorporeal spirits. +1 stress against defilers of the dead, or corporeal undead (like ghouls, or grave robbers), and removes the "must acknowledge" clause. Maybe a two point power? (added, because it stacks with regular claws).
And, possibly the ability to step into the Never Never when in an area of interest to Anubis (Graveyards, Funeral homes, morgues, in the presence of a corpse, or to get to a ghost).
Marked by power
"Hound of Anubis"
And "Hounded by Ghosts" both spring to mind as concept tags.
He doesn't judge - thats the sphere of Anubis himself. He just returns the undead to where they can be judged. Which might pose interesting complications when dealing with a good undead.
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Also, he is a very small man - about five feet tall. Not physically impressive, but fairly stocky for his height. Asian Indian. Didn't know a darn thing about Anubis until he killed a zombie (Corpse was an Egyptian man) in his mortuary. He almost died - indeed, maybe he did die. He remembers talking to something while laying there in his large pool of blood. When he awoke, he had the full slate of powers. Though discovering the giant jackal form took a while.
He ended up in a sanitarium, for a couple of years. By "Coincidence" there was a very, very old man incarcerated there, who recognized him, and taught him a gazillion tons of lore. Mostly about dead things. Eventually he got out. Later of course, when he returns, no record of the old man exists.
He is a family man. First wife is Ingrid, a statuesque Norwegian (6 foot 2). They are still reasonably friendly. She is a Valkyrie, just to make things odd. They have a son. He is almost 16.
Present Wife is a stereotypical Irish Catholic woman. Freckled, pale, with fiery red hair and a temper to match. She too is tall (he has a weakness for tall women). She stands 5 ft 11. They have 4 children. Twin girls, who are 13, and are hellions. He worries about them. Another girl, who is 8, and finally, a 5 year old boy.
He has money problems, and is pretty constantly running short of time. Lots of events to attend (basketball games, etc).
Family man will be one of his aspects.
