Editing Character:Cael (section)

==Backgrounds==

===Cult 1===
Since his Exaltation, Cael has done no small amount of "robin hood" style vigilantism, protecting the weak and innocent from the strong and thuggish in the streets of Nexus. While he's only one little boy in a vast, vast city, some sectors of the poorest parts of Nexus whisper with rumors of the Bronze Beast which tolerates no bullies, and some have begun to privately pray for his protection when they must venture through the most dangerous parts of the city.

===Followers 2 (1 bonus point)===
Cael was a part of a small (roughly seven or so) gang of kids before he took his second breath. Shortly before his exaltation, the gang lost its leader. Cael has taken on that role since becoming a Steward, and, under his protection, it has grown to nearly twenty members.

===Contacts 3: Nexus Underworld (3 bonus points)===
This could use more elaboration, but in short, he's a street urchin with a number of his fellows who count on him. Of ''course'' he knows a lot of people who know people.

===Manse 1: Memorial Iron (1 bonus point)===
One of six Manses built (actually, ''grown'') into the sewers of Nexus, this is probably the least. It is the one he has found on his own, however, and he's quite pleased with it. Mechanically, it lets him recover one extra point of Willpower every time he sleeps.

===Manse 3: Freedom Stone (3 bonus points)===
Under the streets of Nexus, grown into its sewer system via arcane roots and carefully-laid weaving that mysteriously survive the harsh fluids that flow through them, is a network of six manses. Cael was led to this one's hearthstone room by Luna herself as he received his Exaltation. He found another within the last few months, and he knows roughly where the other four are, though he is nervous about hunting them down, for fear of ''other'' things he might discover (though he won't admit this). He is disconcerted enough by the knowledge that he just ''has'' with no memory of learning it; he isn't sure he wants to bring more of it to the surface on purpose.

===Ally 3: Berengiere (3 bonus points)===
The Weaver of Voices was a dear, dear friend to his predecessor, and this friendship has carried over, even though Cael is only now discovering it.

===Ally 3: Unknown (3 bonus points)===

===Ally 3: Unknown (3 bonus points)===
Every now and again, he has a hint of nostalgia or a recollection that "an old friend" could help him with precisely some situation in which he finds himself. Moments later, as he instinctively tries to think of who it might be, other emotions associated with them that make him nervous cause him to shy away, and think of other things to drown out this knowledge.

===Ally 2: Unspeakable Rite of the Lady of Words (6 exp)===
He and she swore an oath of friendship. What this will mean for him and his new friend in the future remains to be seen.

===Artifact 4:  "Shattering Whispering Sighs"===
(12 exp spent; originally stolen from Dusk Caste Ever-Dying Lord's Sacrifice of Silence)
* Gloves of Martial Readiness, of Soulsteel Construction
* Speed 5, Accuracy +3, Damage +8L, Defense +4, Rate 4
* Clinch Enhancer, Martial Arts Weapon, Piercing
* Invisible Essence Shield (4 motes) (Scene Length) (Reflexive Action) (+3 DV)
* Attunement:  10 motes

===Artifact 2:  "Discrete Essence Armor"===
(6 exp spent; originally stolen from Dusk Caste Ever-Dying Lord's Sacrifice of Silence)
* of Soulsteel Construction
* Attunement:  5 motes

===Artifact 3: Ultimately Useful Tube===
The second item he found belonging to him as heir to his Exaltation, this lay beside his sick and dying friend, Emari, when he returned to her immediately after taking his Second Breath. He is unsure where it came from, and somewhat fearful to examine his strange knowledge to see if he knows, but he knows it's his; it was a gift. It is actually two artifacts; the orichalcum spell capturing cord (below) is affixed to it and an inextricable part of it. Three of its seven flute-holes double as hearthstone sockets, and a further three contain yellow crystals. (One hole remains open even with all three hearthstone sockets filled; what goes there, if anything, is a mystery.)

===Artifact 5: Orichalcum Spell Capturing Cord===
Affixed to his ultimately useful tube, this greater portion of the combined artifact usually bears a single knot. He has never yet been targeted by hostile sorcery, but he typically keeps a casting of Invulnerable Skin of Bronze knotted into it, so he can call it up at a moment's notice (and without flaring his anima).

===Artifact 2: Yasal Crystal (2 bonus points)===
Fitted into one of the non-Hearthstone socket holes in his flute, this crystal contains a Need Fire (RoGD I p. 121-2) that he conjured for the purpose. He is on his fourth or fifth one, as he periodically releases them if they express desire to be released.

===Artifact 1: Yasal Crystal (1 bonus point)===
This lower quality crystal is only capable of holding a spirit of up to Essence 2, but is also fitted into one of the flute-holes for convenience. A trio of Naneke (CoCD: Malfeas p. 347-9) rotate in and out of it, spending their free time skulking about the libraries of Nexus.

===Artifact 1: Yasal Crystal (1 bonus point)===
Another low-quality crystal, filling the penultimate of the four non-Hearthstone Socket flute-holes, this crystal can also hold Essence 2 spirits. Cael rotates what gets stored in it; a favorite trick is to coax a Least God of some trinket he owns to let him use its Hurry Home ability.<br>

===Solar Bond 5: [[Character:Starcc_Antonee,_the_Adamant_Man|Starcc Antonee]] (free)===

===Whispers 2 (6 exp)===
(A residue of his tapping of the Profane Abjuration's and Evocation of the Twelve Angry Beasts's memories)