Vivid Ink

Born as "Vinty" into slavery to a small household of scribes, she secretly learned how to read and write and became free by Right of Clergy – an obscure law of her hometown wherein someone who is literate cannot be held a slave. Thereafter, she left for the Verdant Solarium for protection and to further her schooling. She studied and matured under Hieroglyph-of-Oasis' tutelage, being impressed with her philosophies before forming her own views. After her 20th birthday, she adopted the courtesy name Vivid Ink, left the Solarium and struck out on her own. Over the past year, she bought land in the city-state of Bexaue and founded her own atelier from which she now works.

Vivid Ink considers her foremost art to be the written word for its own sake but her prolific letter writing has gained her renown across the Southern Direction as a commentator of virtually any topic. In Bexaue however, she is best known as a painter and calligrapher.

Birth Name: Vinty
Courtesy Name: Vivid Ink – Her usual formal name and pen name as a scholar.
Art Name: Sumi of Bexaue – The usual attribution for her paintings and calligraphies.

Traits

Caste: Eclipse
Limit Trigger:
Essence: ●

Personal: 13/13 (3e+10)

Peripheral: 33/33 (7e+26)

Health: 0/1/1/2/2/4/i

Willpower: 5/5
Join Battle: 5d + 3

Attack (Sword): +2
Parry: 5
Evasion: 3
Resolve: 4
Guile: 4

Physical

Strength: ●
Dexterity: ●●●●
Stamina: ●●

Social

Charisma: ●●●●
Manipulation: ●●
Appearance: ●●●

Mental

Perception: ●●
Intelligence: ●●●●
Wits: ●●●●●

Abilities [15]

Athletics: -
Awareness: -
Bureaucracy: ●●●
Craft - Artifice: -
Craft - Architecture: ●●●●
Craft - Painting: ●●●●●
Craft - Mechanics: ●●●●●
Dodge: ●
Integrity: ●●
Investigation: -
Linguistics: ●●●●●
Lore – Solarium Scholar: ●●●●● (Geography, History, Philosophy)
Melee: ●● (Swords)
Occult: ●●●
Performance: ●
Presence: ●●
Socialize: ●●●●●
War: -

Merits

Contacts (Intelligentsia): ●●●●●

A prolific letter writer, Vivid sits at the center of a massive network of literati. Her personal apartments above her atelier is stuffed with a growing mound of letters as she corresponds with a bewildering array of personages all across the region and beyond, linked across borders and over countless miles by the miracle of written language. In this way, she stays highly informed of goings on across the South.

Followers: ●●

A small halo of followers gathered around her atelier, composed of learners and admirers alike. Most are there for either painting or calligraphy for which Vivid is best known but at least a few are hopeful suitors. They are mostly middle class or upper middle class city dwellers and thus generally well educated by Creation standards and have either connections or trade skills.

Influence: ●●

Vivid Ink is already well known in the city-state of Bexaue, as a learned scholar and prominent artist. She is usually in demand for commentary on any number of subjects and it is said the the Prince of the city himself has commissioned a painting.

Languages: ●●●●

Dragontongue

Flametongue

High Realm

Old Realm

Riverspeak

Resources: ●●●
Retainer: ●●●●

Galewalks is an Exigent. It is not immediately clear who she was chosen by but it may be a god who foresees Vivid's work as indispensible and ultimately dangerous enough to put the young Solar herself in danger. Usually redfaced and utterly without guile, Galewalks is a watchful spear-and-shield bodyguard in which role her peculiar, hand-wringing paranoia is an asset.