Vigilant Obsidian

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Caste: Zenith
Motivation: Bring the Great Maker back to Creation
Description: Vigilant Obsidian is as dark as his namesake, and wears his jet hair short

Basic Info

Essence: 2
Personal: 13 Peripheral: 30

1 motes attuned
29 Available

Essence Recovery:
Willpower: 7
Health:0/1/1/2/2/4/incap


Combat

Soak: 1L/2B (Perfect Lamellar Armor +7L/9B/7A) total 8L/11B/7A
Hardness: 0L/0B

Hidden Sun - Acc 12; Dmg 8L; DV 6; Rate 2


Important Dicepools

Craft: Fire - 10D +1 successes (5 more with excellency)
Awareness Roll - 5D

Virtues

Compassion: ●●
Conviction: ●●●
Temperance: ●●
Valor: ●●

Intimacies

  • The Unconquered Sun (Inspired Devotion)
  • Autochthon (Inspired Devotion)
  • The Beckoners (Camaraderie)
  • The Mountain Folk (Respectful Friendship)

Attributes

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

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

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

Abilities

Archery ●
Martial Arts:
Melee: ●●●●●
War:
Throw:

Athletics: ●●
Awareness: ●●
Dodge:
Larceny:
Stealth:

Integrity: ●●●●
Presence: ●●
Performance: ●●
Resistance: ●●
Survival: ●●

Craft: ●●●●●

Magitech ●
Fire ●●●●●
Water ●

Investigation: ●
Lore: ●●●●
Medicine: ●
Occult: ●●●●●

Ride:
Bureaucracy: ●●●
Linguistics: ●●●

Riverspeak
Flametongue
Old Realm
Rocktongue

Sail:
Socialize ●

Charms

Melee

Second Excellency
Dipping Swallow Defence
Bulwark Stance
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Heavenly Guardian Defense

Athletics

Graceful Crane Stance

Awareness

Second Excellency

Craft

Second Excellency
Paragon of Fire

Medicine

Occult

Integrity

Second Excellency

Presence

Resistance

Ox-Body Technique

Backgrounds

  • Artifact 3 - Essence Scrying Visor & Blade of the Hidden Sun
  • Resources 3 - The forge of the Steel Flame has broad much money to both the Beckoners and Obsidian himself
  • Backing 3 - The Beckoners are the only family he has left, and they respect him as a leader alongside .
  • Mentor 3 - Devoted Amethyst has a keen interest in the Exalt she helped train

Notable Gear

Essence-Scrying Visor - A gift from Devoted Amethyst to him on his Exaltation
The Blade of the Hidden Sun - A sword of perfect craftsmanship and balance, formed from shards and dust of Chiaroscuro glass, the blade is iridescent black glass with highlights done in Orichalcum. It is always treated as a Holy weapon, and gains the magical material bonus for Orichalcum.

Backstory

Several generations ago, an ambitious Mountain Folk Artisan named Relentless Malachite wanted influence over the surface world without aggravating the Great Geas, and decided to found a cult dedicated to Autochthon. Her close friend Devoted Amethyst took over the effort, being an actual devout worshiper of the Great Maker, and several of their children with mortals created the first families of the Beckoners of the Maker. This venture naturally met with some resistance from the Immaculate Order, including a number of executions.

The secret cult met with a surprise success when a talented apprentice to one of their agents took over the Steel Flame, a blacksmith shop in Chiaroscuro that had become rather popular. The apprentice was an easy convert, especially after the retired agent died at the hands of an immaculate monk. Now called Vigilant Obsidian, he brought the Steel Flame to the level doing business with the Tri-Khan and his court. His skill even brought him to the attention of Devoted Amethyst, who taught the young mortal to excel in craft for the Maker's glory.

Obsidian took that to heart, and crafted masterworks as praise to the Maker and worthy gods. The Court of Orderly Flame holds the red jade crown he forged for the return of Swan Dragon, and a number of Realm dignitaries would be stunned to realize there were heretical prayers crafted into the heart of their daiklaves. It was in attempting to rediscover the secret of creating Chiaroscuro glass for the Sun's glory that he took the Second Breath.