okay my apologies, on reading your requests for clarification I realize I was a bit too vague...
Ideally this character will be an adept, or possibly a mystic adept.
As for what I mean by threats, Paracritters, Infected, any kind of malevolent spirits, any kind of malevolent mages...
if any of you are familliar with Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock novels, that is where I got the idea, but with out this character being any kind of shape shifter.