Editing Sucks-Down-Teeth (section)

=Backstory=

Sucks-Down-Teeth is still more widely known, by those familiar with their mask, as 'Snow-White-Page'. They're seen as little more than a layabout lacking the creative spark that defines the aelfir. For a long time, that's what they were. Another masked face at the parties and torture-operas. Too weak for war, too dull for poetry, too listless even for joy. They were such a disgrace that their mother, Claws-Through-Music, thought to send them away. By airship they left Spire to oversee a distant holding. That would have been the end of it. Snow-White-Page with her uninspired blank white mask would spend her life working accounts and overseeing bureaucracy till she died and was laid to quiet rest in a family mausoleum.

But that isn't what happened.
An act of sabotage brought down the airship Snow-White-Page left on. Those responsible were never caught. It doesn't matter.
The ship crashed into a barren Northern landscape, amongst snow and ice, far from Spire. It was assumed that Snow-White-Page was dead, and the minimum acceptable mourning was observed.

When Snow-White-Page returned, they wore their cracked and broken true mask upon their face, and another mask on their hip. This new mask was a crude affair of mishappen bones poorly entwined with old rope, but the returned wallflower treated it as precious as a true mask, even as they showed no regard to their new mask.
Snow-White-Page was excepted with as minimal a ceremony as her mourning had been, and quietly put aside. It was no longer simply that Snow-White-Page was boring... she had become... unsettling...

The other aelfir could not see beneath the mask, of course. Could not see that Snow-White-Page's flesh had turned gray and strong. They could not see how her stomach distended, or that their teeth were gone and replaced with crude metal. To family they began to refer to themself as Sucks-Down-Teeth, a name that was never openly acknowledged. Nor did the family share how Sucks-Down-Teeth had survived after the crash. How they had feasted on the bodies that had been aboard the airship... some of which were not dead when the first bite was taken. The drow doctor the family employed knew of the changes, of course, but the family would not hear it. Nor would they hear stories of how Sucks-Down-Teeth would rip out their fingernails to eat, or tear out their hair. How they would swallow teeth and tongues over any other food.

Sucks-Down-Teeth had not returned to Spire for family, however. They came to see King Teeth, and worship at his altar. To beg a miracle. But, it was not a miracle the bloated King could perform, so Sucks-Down-Teeth went beyond him, past Grist and into the Heart...
Sucks-Down-Teeth is not a fool, for all their obsession. They know they need resources and help if they are to find what they wish. To this end, they have turned to family once again. To their uncle, who has interest in some trinket of the Heart, a crown. If seeking this trinket is what it takes to have support for their own purposes, Sucks-Down-Teeth will take it.


== Calling: Enlightenment ==

What "impossible" thing are you attempting to achieve in the City Beneath?
I seek the secrets to true autophagy, to utterly and completely consume myself, body and soul.

What's the first step on your journey?
The consumption of King Teeth, to take his demi-god status.

Choose another player character. They've been invaluable in your journey so far. What have you learned from them?
Greyson is invaluable. I came to him hoping to learn the limits of flesh and how to surpass them... instead I learnt the value of an ally and companion..

Choose another player character. You know they're hiding secrets from you - why do you suspect they're doing this?
Kish knows things about the Heart that would be useful to me. I think they're hiding because the Deep Apiarists fear the Heart, and what I might become. I think she genuinely thinks she's protecting me.