Rojak Denax

Rojak Denax

Campaign: City in the Sky

Caste: Twilight

Calling: Lord of the Three Circles

Visual description Rojak appears as a tall, lithe man. He wears a pair of simple, durable pants, and a reinforced orichalcum breastplate over his bare chest. A tattered red cape emblazoned with the mark of the Unconquered Sun is swung over his shoulders, and his red hair is spiked out to keep it out of his eyes.

Motivation: To ressurrect his dead Dragonblood girlfreind. Not bring her back as some sort of undead monstrosity, but bring her back to her living, breathing self.

Intimacies

• His quest to ressurrect his girlfreind.
• His now-deceased girlfreind.
• The Circle.
• His followers.

Anima: A number of glowing golden lines and arcane symbols arranged in concentric circles.

Attributes

• Physical: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3
• Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 5, Wits 4
• Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance 3

Abilities

• Bold are favored
• Italics are calling
• Caste abilities are double-bulleted

• Melee 3
• Bureaucracy 2
• Linguistics 3
• Dodge 3 (Armored +1)
  • Craft (air) 5 (clockwork +3)
  • Craft (fire) 2
  • Craft (water) 1
  • Craft (magitech) 3
  • Medicine 3 (Poultices +1)
  • Lore 5 (The First Age +1, Law +1, Government +1)
  • Investigation 3 (Research +1)
  • Occult 5 (Spirits +3)
• Integrity 3 (Charms of Dragonblooded +1)
• Presence 2
• Resistance 3 (Resist Pain +1)

Backgrounds

• Artifact 3 (Reinforced Orichalcum Breastplate, Orichalcum Reaver Daiklave, Orichalcum *Hearthstone Amulet)
• Resources 4 (Loot from 1st Age stashes, various business interests)
• Manse 4 (Ketheres Elyion; Hearthstones: Memory Stone, Dream Stone, Key of Mastery)
• Followers 3 (Mortal magicians and magitech engineers who have decided to follow him; most are *busy maintaining KE)
• Influence 3 (GIANT FLYING CITY)
• Backing 1 (Member of Technomagical Engineers Association, or some similar professional body)

Charms

• First Melee Excellency
• First Dodge Excellency
• First Craft Excellency
• Crack Mending Technique
• Craftsman Needs No Tools
• Craft Essence Flow
• Spirit Detecting Glance
• All Encompassing Sorceror's Sight
• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
• Celestial Circle Sorcery
• Solar Circle Sorcery
• Integrity Protecting Prana

Spells

• Adamant Countermagic
• Death of Obsidian Butterflies
• Demon of the Second Circle
• Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
• Stormwind Rider
• Travel Without Distance

Essence

• Essence 5
• Personal Essence Pool 22
• Peripheral Essence Pool 53
• Committed 10

Willpower

OOOOOOO This looks pretty good as far as both showing Willpower and marking how much has been used. O is unused and X is used.

Virtues

• Compassion 2
• Temperance 4
• Conviction 3
• Valor 2
• Limit Break 1
• Virtue Flaw: Overindulgence

Combat Info

• Armor: Reinforced Orichalcum Breastplate
• Soak Totals: Lethal 13, Bash 14, Aggravated 12
• Mobility -1, Fatigue 1, Hardness 3
• Dodge DV +6
• Parry DV
  • Melee +4
  • Martial Arts +1
• Base Dodge MDV +7
• Base Parry MDV +3

Weapon: Orichalcum Reaper Daiklave

• Speed 1, Acc. +10, Damage +11L, PDV +4

History

Rojak Denax was a student at the Imperial College of Magitech Engineers, slogging his way though his degree, until, one day, he came across some thuggish Dragonbloods about to gangrape a girl. He tried to stop them, but got the crap beaten out of him. He got back up despite that, though, and tried again. He got the crap beaten out of him. He stood back up, got the crap beaten out of him yet again, Exalted as a Chosen of the Sun, and used his newfound powers to turn the tide of the fight. He lent the girl his jacket to cover herself with, and the two of them limped back to his house to recuperate. The end result is best described as "love at first sight", and the two started going out, despite his status as an Anathema and hers as a Dragonblood (if a very weak one). She figured that he obviously wasn't evil, given how he had so selflessly attempted to rescue her, and agreed to keep it a secret.

However, despite their pact, the Wyld Hunt nevertheless found out his status as an Anathema, and, during the ensuing battle, she was killed. During a lull in the battle, Rojak found this out and swore to resurrect her. Not just use dark necromancy to create an undead mockery of her former self, but well and truly bring her back to life; a feat that was known to be impossible even in the First Age. He escaped the Wyld Hunt that day by the skin of his teeth, and eventually wound up meeting the other members of the Circle. He was the one to initially propose their expedition to Ketheres Elyion, in the hopes that the First Age libraries there would contain lore that would assist his quest.

Apotheosis

You may want to roll some of this into the above sections, but include all of this for now, because I'm stil trying to compile all the NPCs...

• One incident in which their Limit Break caused problems for another PC:You know how their flying city nearly crashed into the Imperial City? That wasn't entirely the fault of the accumalated damage over the years it spent in the Wyld. He was supposed to have fixed all of that. Problem is, he was a wee bit drunk/high at the time, on a stash of First Age narcotics he found. He only had a little gulp... he didn't expect that big of an effect. Then again, it did spend 1400 years aging. But don't worry, he fixed all the damage he did right back up. Just in the nick of time, too...

• One ally of the Circle.

• One enemy defeated by the PC: The mad magitech AI that dwelled in the bowels of the city, and its many mechanical minions, in a climactic battle involving it, its minions, and a number of fey that were swarming through the air vents. While the other members of the Circle were holding them off, he got busy deactivating it. Which, of course, ended in it singing a children's song as he pulled memory modules out of it.

• One living enemy of the Circle.

• An NPC who owes the PC a debt: Floating Silver Blossom, a Changing Moon Lunar who had been his wife in the 1st age. While he was fleeing from the Wyld Hunt following his discovery, he ran into her, and her keen senses saved him from many of their traps. Upon finding out about his quest to ressurrect his now deceased Dragonblooded girlfriend, she was incensed that he was showing much more faithfulness to this new girl than he had ever shown her in their previous lives, and left in a funk. He's yet to repay her for saving his life, but he does want to do so, and hopes that he can reconcile for his previous incarnation's discretions.

• An NPC whom the PC owes a debt: Jecs Torvald, a noble of Lookshy whose manor lies atop what had been a long-deactivated 1st Age demense. More specifically, a demense whose prime purpose was the manufacture of artifacts. In exchange for a night under his roof, my character fixed it all up, giving said noble access to some potent weapons, and vastly improving his status in Lookshy society.

• A major change to the setting.

• A minor change to the setting.