Editing Character:Larana Sirai (section)

== Backgrounds ==

===Artifact 5: Ring of Being (Attune 15)===
Larana discovered this ring, amazingly, lost in the Wyld during her travels to the deepest East.  It sat untouched and perfect within the Bordermarches, and no creature of the Wyld would approach it.  By all accounts it had been lost with its previous owner, and it has served Larana well during her occasional treks to Wyld zones to gather rare and exotic materials.  It is by far her greatest wonder, but she hopes, someday, to find a way to duplicate it…

===Artifact 2: Reaper Daiklaive (The Thrice-Broken Blade of Gareth Sirai, attune 5)===
This blade was last wielded by Larana’s previous Exaltation, and in fact was buried with him when he was killed.  It was his signature blade, despite being very simple in design, and it served him well, slaying over a hundred demons in his time.  Despite the name, Larana knows of only two prior occasions where the blade was broken and reforged—she suspects that it is destined to shatter once more, someday… and that fulfilling this destiny was part of a grand plan of Gareth’s to strengthen and empower the blade further.  Only time will tell.

===Artifact 2: Audient Brush (no attunement, Larana’s Recorder)===
The Recorder is one of the earliest Artifacts Larana ever forged for herself, and she is rather proud of it.  A simple thing, it was based on vague memories of similar devices from half-remembered inspirations from previous Exaltations, but she is fond of it nonetheless.  When provided with paper, and activated with the expenditure of three motes, the Recorder takes down dictation from anyone who speaks within earshot of it.  Larana can order it to ignore certain speakers, or strike out certain conversations, if she so chooses.  The Recorder uses different colors and shades to represent different people (though it cannot defeat attempts to disguise oneself), and its calligraphy designs itself to represent the speaker’s mood and intent.  When reading over the writings later, a reader can roll Perception+Linguistics at a difficulty of half the speaker’s Manipulation+Socialize (minimum 2) to discern these things.  The Recorder can acquire more paper for itself, so long as the paper is made available to it, and Larana tends to make certain when it is used that it will have sufficient materials for the task.  As a final bonus, the Recorder can create its own ink, handy when it needs to represent large conversations between ten or twelve people.

===Artfiact 2: Dragon Tear Tiara (attune 2, Stone of Resilient Bamboo Inset)===
Forged shortly after discovering the Dragon’s Garden, the Dragon Tear Tiara is modeled on a design Larana discovered in a tomb.  It contains a Hearthstone setting, and as long as it is worn and attuned, it provides +1 to all Perception rolls.  This bonus goes up to +3 when user attempts to perform geomancy, use astrology, detect spirits, or otherwise perform tasks requiring occult sensitivity.  This does not include Sorcery.

===Artfiact 1: Solar Seal===
Found in one of the earliest days after Larana’s Exaltation, this seal can make certain her missives are read by the right person… or no one at all.  If a person not intended to read the message attempts to break the seal, the paper is wiped clean automatically as long as Larana spends two motes when sealing the letter.

===Manse 3 (Dragon’s Garden of Simple Pleasures, Rating 3 Wood Manse)===
The Dragon’s Garden of Simple Pleasures would not necessarily be what one would expect of a Manse.  It is, in fact, a massive bamboo grove with shoots growing so close as to form thick walls and even sculpted into roofs for rooms.  Who, precisely, created such a Manse is a mystery, but the presence of what seem to be an extended family of over a hundred black and white bear-men suggests some sort of Lunar involvement.  These creatures further seem to be immortal, so it is also possible the creator was some sort of sorcerer or First-Age creator of life, but it is impossible to tell for certain.  These creatures’ only job seems to be defending and maintaining the Manse, and they are led by one enormous specimen of their get that was powerful enough to drive Larana off during her first several attempts to study the Manse.  The manse itself seems to grow an odd assortment of edibles, though these are hard to recognize as such, and it always seems to grow enough to feed everyone inside.  One odd quirk of the manse is the way the bearmen seem to have little or no trouble moving throughout the Manse’s architecture with remarkable efficiency despite rarely being seen if they chose not to be, and it was some time before Larana discovered the hidden passages that explained this.  Larana leaves the Manse in their capable hands, though on occasion she does return to check up on things.  The Manse generates a Stone of Resilient Bamboo.

===Resources 3===
Larana has made quite the fortune in black-market Artifacts… a few of which she had forged herself for the very purpose.  She’s even built and traded a few jade weapons to select Dragon-blooded warriors (though trustworthy intermediaries, naturally!), which are designed with a couple of flaws inherent to the design that may well spell their wielder’s deaths if they challenge a Solar Exalt in combat…  She considers it unlikely anyone who uses such a defective weapon will survive to complain.