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The Cerulean Magus was orphaned at birth due to her parents being taken by the Raksha, and was subsequently taken in by her rich uncle, who operated a paper mill on the Yanaze. Put to work in the crawlspaces due to her smaller size and nimble hands as a child, Magus very quickly learned the meaning of hard work and labor. Her only living relative was distant and cold, but rewarded her efforts with good tutors and an otherwise comfortable living. She quickly developed into her own as an artistic and mechanical prodigy, and earned the respect of her uncle's employees. Unfortunately, he took ill while she was in her late teens and passed on before either really managed to become comfortable with one another, but had the kindness to leave her with a stipend and eventual inheritance of the mill.

A longtime employee contested the inheritance, although support was always overwhelmingly on the side of the young heiress and scholar. When a local magistrate overturned his bid, he set fire to the mill in a furor.

The Magus would have died had she not found an unbound Aalu eating away at the rare books of her uncle's library as the flames had begun to spread to the owner's central homestead. When she approached, it neither fled nor attempted to murder her and instead spoke in a harmony of voices completely alien to the world. It offered her power and the right to live, and she accepted without question. A figure in cerulean robes emerged days later from the ashes of her childhood, bursting from an insectoid chrysalis and marching off into the unknown.

Vital Statistics

Name: Cerulean Magus
Caste: Defiler (favors Adorjan)
Concept: Hypertech Infernal Bibliophile
Motivation: Master the principles of craft and sorcery.
Urge: (Adorjani) Develop and spread an infernal version of the Salinian working.
Anima Banner: An elegant mandala made of hundreds of green glass spheres filled with flickering blue flames, connected by a tangle of calligraphy paper and crystal filaments.
Intimacies
- She Who Lives in Her Name (Respect)
- Magitech (Covetous)
- Sorcery (Covetous)
- Luminous Cutting Grimoire (Affection)
- Swordsmanship (Pride)
- Books (Refined Ardor)

Basic Info

Essence: 3
- Personal: 19
- Peripheral: 40 (13 Comitted)
  - Mind-Hand Manipulation: 10m
  - Starmetal Grand Beamklave: 3m
- Essence Recovery: 1m/5m/9m (Normal/Resting/Sleeping)
Willpower: 10
- Compassion: 1
- Conviction: 3 (Flawed)
- Temperance: 3
- Valor: 2
Limit Break: Torment of Adorjan - Contagious Glossolalia
- Limit: 0/10
Health: -0 x1/-1 x2/-2 x2/-4 x1/Incapacitated x1/Dying x3

Combat

Join Battle/War: 4/4
- Dodge DV: 4
- Parry DV: 6/12/15 (Beamklaive/Mind-Hand/Force Barrier)
Join Debate 4
- Dodge MDV: 7
- Parry MDV: 3

Soak:
- Natural Soak: 3B/1L/0A
- Armored Soak: 3B/1L/0A
Hardness: 0L/0B/0A

Attributes

Physical
- Strength 3
- Dexterity 3
- Stamina 3
Social
- Charisma 2
- Manipulation 2
- Appearance 3
Mental
- Perception 3
- Intelligence 4
- Wits 4

Abilities

Slayer
- Martial Arts 3
- Melee 5
Malefactor
- Integrity 2
- Resistance 2
Defiler
- Craft (Terrestrial) 5
- Craft (Magitech) 3
- Craft (Vitriol) 3
- Investigation 1
- Lore 3
- Medicine 1
- Occult 5
Scourge
- Dodge 2
Fiend
- Bureaucracy 2
- Linguistics 3

Specialties

(Occult) Mind-Hand Manipulation +3
(Melee) Defense +1

Languages

Riverspeak
Flametongue
Low Realm
Old Realm

Magic

Charms

General Charms

1st SWLIHN Excellency
Sorcerous Enlightenment of SWLIHN (Emerald)

SWILHN Charms

Factual Determination Analysis
Essence-Dissecting Stare
Mind-Hand Manipulation
Counter-Conceptual Imposition
Unseen Force Application
Force-Suppression Barrier
Principle-Invoking Onslaught
Crystal-Fire Barrier Technique
Tool-Transcending Constructs
Experimental Acceleration Mastery

Adorjan Charms

Ebon Dragon

Loom-Snarling Deception
Eldritch Secrets Mastery

Sorcery

Emerald Circle

Slave Spawn Summons (SWLIHN)

Advantages

Backgrounds

Cult 1 (Patron: SWLIHN): A basic mote stipend for honorably serving the Yozi She Who Lives in Her Name.
Backing 1 (Patron: SWLIHN): The support of a Yozi, which can be invested in stuff.
Influence 1 (Patron: SWILHN): The respect of those cultists of SWLIHN, as well as her subsidiary souls.
Artifact 5 + Sentience 3 (Luminous Cutting Grimoire): A Starmetal Beamklave imbued with the essence of one of the Aalu, locust-like demons who feed on literature. The sword is notable for being able to shift into a mobile lectern when not in use by its wielder, and causes the air to smell of old books when activated.
Resources 3 (Merchant Trade): Money from operating a caravan that trades in demon reagents and exotic materials for crafting, as well as a business in blacksmithing and esoteric crafts.

Equipment

Artifacts

Luminous Cutting Grimoire (Artifact 5, Sentience 3)
- Urge: Gather knowledge that is useful to the Reclamation.
- Tainted Starmetal Grand Beamklaive: Speed 5, Accuracy +3, Damage +15/4L, Rate 2, Minimum Str 3, Attune 3, Cost 4, Tags 2, O, P, R
- Benefaction - Benefits actions which create valuable new information, or seize it from others.
- (Element) Dragon's Embrace - Wood; As with normal Aalu, the Grimoire grants the power to absorb information by eating documents. Documents are eaten by destroying them with the beam edge or by placing them on the lectern and burning them.
- Hurry Home - Returns to an attuned user if somehow separated.
- Paper Tiger Arrangement - Creates tactile illusory copies of any book it has devoured, or a similar a writing surface for the user. Ink soaks into phantom pages, but vanishes once the illusion is dispersed.
- Shapechange - Become a portable lectern or a book the weapon has eaten.
- Spice of Custodial Delectation - Reclaiming and/or storing new information.

Equipment

Noble Clothes (Homemade)

Merits and Flaws

Diet (Paper): Like the species her Coadjutor came from, Cerulean Magus eats paper for nourishment, although most of her sustenance is actually derived from respired essence. She can eat things other than paper, but they provide no nourishment. [1]
Twisted Sense (Taste): Due to the influences of her Aalu coadjutor, Cerulean Magus 'tastes' the words on texts she eats. [1]
Vice (Bibliophile): The synaesthetic experience of tasting words is thrilling and addictive, although harmless. Magus is also quite in love with reading actual books instead of chewing them, and has little self-control in either situation. [3]
Dark Secret (Spy): Infernal Exalts who willingly act against the interests of the Yozis are rare, and Magus is not one of them. When you spent a short lifetime weak and ignorant of the world, why would you act against the beings who raised you above that? [2]

Cerulean Magus

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