Editing Maric Buries-Bones (section)

=Backgrounds=
==Symbiotic Elemental Passenger (Artifact 3)==
The spirit of a bound brine-cur, whose pack Maric rescued from a group of Immaculate monks and with whom he's been observed to have several similarities, bonded to his skin and infusing him with its agility and prowess. The elemental submitted itself to the binding as tribute to the Exalt's might and also the purity of his purpose.
==Subtle Silver Skin (Artifact 5)==
A prize reclaimed from his First Age tomb, Maric's suit of moonsilver powered armour is usually unobtrusive, duplicating the appearance of everyday clothes and attire appropriate to the context. When he sheds the facade of relaxed vulnerability, though, the moonsilver erupts in a fury of activity, sheathing him in layers of imperishable magical material that endured Primordial battles. Its powers enhance his attempts to escape detection as well as grant him the ability to interact with dematerialised entities.
==The Turtle King's Palace (Manse 4 and 3)==
A Gem of Adamant Skin and a Freedom Stone. The Turtle King's Palace is an odd manse, rediscovered by Maric while pearl-diving during a period while his ship was becalmed for an extended period of time. The undersea palace-complex, located at the bottom of a deep-sea trench, is actually a compound manse, capping two demesnes of Earth and of Water. Murals on the wall suggest that the palace was once the abode of a Lunar akuma of the Ebon Dragon, who was obsessed with the kidnapping of princesses.
==Shrine of the Ocean-Dredging Dog (Cult 1)==
Maric, in his canine spirit-shape, is known to some small villages along the Coral Archipelago as Dredges-the-Oceans, for the time he once single-handedly rescued a fishing fleet wrecked at sea during a storm, swimming them to shore in the form of an enormous dog. They still remember him in their prayers as a benevolent ocean-spirit, and he has a small cult that prays to him that he will be vigilant of storms at sea and merciful to those wrecked sailors he encounters.
==Warden of the Rising Sun (Backing 1)==
With the Sun King Seneschals, who have absolutely no idea what happened to his previous Solar mate.
==Elegant Purple Lotus (Sifu 1)==
Gold-Faction Sidereal Sifu, who occasionally enters Maric's dreams to impart martial secrets. She usually wears the shape of Maric's youthful mentor, Ishmael Barrel-Broacher, but has recently been debating appearing in her true form, having developed something of a fondness for the earnest young Lunar.