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[[File:Arjenta.png|400px|thumb|The conquering savior.]]
[[File:CloudDragon.png|400px|thumb|Her 'mighty' coadjutor.]]
[[File:CowardWyrm.jpg|400px|thumb|Her coadjutor's real form.]]

== Arjenta of the Stolen Plain ==

*'''Level:''' 1
*'''Goal:''' Be worshipped as a savior													
*'''Urge:''' Transform Chiaroscuro into a mirrored reflection of Szoreny's glory													
*'''Sub-Type:''' Malefactor (Autocrat)
*'''Sub-Type Bonus:''' Tongue of ruling: once per scene, they can give a command to any single lesser foe and have it obeyed instantly, provided it is not utterly contrary to the subject's nature and can be completed within the scene. This power may instead be used to compel a Mob or crowd of lesser foes, albeit the Autocrat can only command them to do something not greatly objectionable to them.
*'''Patron Yozi:''' Cecylene
*'''Secondary Yozis:''' Szoreny

== Facts ==
*Origin: Hunter/gatherer surviving in the harsh Linowan steppes
*Past Career: Leader of a Linowan warband	
*Relationship: A slave-trader with contacts in the Guild
*Others:

== Attributes ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Strength
! Dexterity
! Constitution
! Intelligence
! Wisdom
! Charisma
|-
| '''Score'''
| 13
| 14
| 18
| 13
| 10
| 16
|-
| '''Modifier'''
| +1
| +1
| +3
| +1
| +0
| +2
|-
| '''Check'''
| 8
| 7
| 3
| 8
| 11
| 5
|}

== Resources ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Total
! Free
! 
|-
| '''Essence'''
| 2
| 
| 
|-
| '''Influence'''
| 2
| 2
| '''Earned per Month'''
|-
| '''Dominion'''
| 0
| 0
| 0
|-
| '''Wealth''' 
| 0
|}

== Saving Throws ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 
! Base 
! Mod 
! Armor Penalty 
! Final Save 
|-
| '''Hardiness'''
| 15
| -3
| None
| 12
|-
| '''Evasion'''
| 15
| -1
| None
| 14
|-
| '''Spirit'''
| 15
| -2
| None
| 13
|}

== Hit Points ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! Current 11
! Maximum 11
|-
| 
| 
|}

== Armor ==
*AC: 2
*Type: Unarmoured
*Shield: None
*Description: Arjenta's raiments often resemble light or medium armors but are made of light materials
*Saving Throw Penalty: 
**Hardiness None
**Evasion None
**Spirit None

== Attacks ==
*Base Attack Bonus: +1
*Fray Die: 1d8

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description
! Attribute
! Attack Bonus
! Damage
|-
| Spear or Staff
| Strength
| +2
| 1d10+1
|-
| Hunting bow
| Dexterity
| +2
| 1d8+1
|-
| Stormsword
| Constitution
| +4
| 1d10+3
|}

== Words and Divine Gifts ==
*'''Words'''
** Endurance: No need to eat, sleep, drink, or breathe.  Con improves to 16, 18 if it was already 16.
** Fertility: Perfect control over own reproduction.  Invincible defense against wooden weapons or objects, vegetal monsters, and plant-based toxins. Con improves to 16, 18 if it was already 16.
** Sky: Never harmed by falling, need not breathe, and have an invincible defense against electricity, cold and injurious sounds.

*Divine Gifts
** Body of Iron Will/Constant: Your natural armor class is 3. You are impervious to any natural environmental damage, such as that caused by extreme heat, cold, pressure, radiation, or vacuum. Such forces used as a weapon or hazard against you function normally. Armor or shields don't benefit this base AC.
** A Second Spring/Action: All allies in sight are refreshed, regaining vigor as if well-fed and rested and healing 1d6 hit points of damage plus the Godbound's level. Unlike most healing effects, recipients need not commit Effort to benefit from this blessing.
** Unending Abundance (Spawning Pit Sanctification)/On Turn: Commit Effort for the day. The land you designate within a ten mile radius becomes impossibly fertile, crops erupting in mere hours. These crops feed a never-depleting swarm of demonic locusts that arise from the soil, whose carcasses can feed any number of people within that area.  If applied as a gift and not used as a one-off miracle, the persistent fertility counts as a beneficial Feature to any faction that controls the land, though it cannot be sacrificed in the case of a lost Conflict it was involved in.  Over time, branching spires of sand-fused glass arise to give the locusts convenient perches and reflect the glory of Arjenta's true patron.
**Stormsword/On Turn: Commit Effort. Wield electricity as a ranged weapon out to 200 feet, or sheath your weapon in lightning. Damage done is a minimum of 1d10 and counts as a magical weapon. Attacks against wet or metal-armored foes always do at least 1 point of damage, even on a miss.
**The Clouds Below/On Turn: Commit Effort. Fill the air around you with mist, up a 300 foot radius. You and your allies can see through it, but others with normal senses can see no further than five feet around them. The clouds can douse any mundane fire and allow every ally within it to ignore the first 5 points of fire damage they take each round.

== XP Log ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Incident
! XP Gained
! Dominion Gained
|-
| Assault on Paragon
| 3
| 2
|}

== Influence Log ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Influence Committed
! Type of Change
! Effect
! Specific Notes
|-
|
| 
| 
| 
|}

== Dominion Log ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Dominion Spent
! Type of Change
! Fact Generated
! Specific notes
! Word(s) Used
|-
| 2
| Implausible, Village-Sized
| Paragon Remembers Who Feeds Them
| Attaches an effect to the locusts from her version of Unending Abundance, reminding them of the source of their food
| Fertility
|}

==Backstory==
Arjenta was born among the hunter-gatherer Linowan tribes, right on the fronteir of their ever-simmering conflict with the tree-dewlling Haltans.  Like everyone else, she learned to live off the land at a young age, and was particularly talented at the hunt.  Her parents were taken by goblins just before her coming-of-age ceremony, which turned her focus inward from providing for her people to outward at their enemies.  Within years, the angry firebrand was leading her tribe's warband; while not the mightiest warrior, she had the boldest vision and perservered through any setback.

Arjenta's warband earned a fierce and bloody reputation while it lasted.  She took Haltans as slaves to sell them to the Guild in revenge for their tacit collusion with the Fair Folk.  Eventually one of the local Haltan leaders worked out a brief alliance with the Fair Folk to wipe her tribe out and plant a new forest there.  Instead of leading her people into the probably-doomed battle and face the Fair Folk, however, her courage broke as she remembered how easily her family had fallen before the monsters.  She fled, taking her slave-bought coin and running off to a departing Guild caravan.  The Illucilian carrying her Exaltation found her there.  Szoreny made her see the beauty of ever-encroaching 'forests', and commanded her to carve the City of Glass into its image.  But bro Isidoros needed some help first, and by Yozi reckoning of distance, Paragon is practically on top of Chiaroscuro anyway.


==Illucilian, The Cloud-Dragon or the Coward-Wyrm, Progeny of the Crack in the Mirror==

Called cloud-dragons by the less educated and coward-wyrms by those who know the truth of them, these creatures occasionally crawl through the cracks in Kagami that Cisson is constantly mending.  They spin gossamer draconic forms around themselves with stolen reflections and possibilities, and once 'fully-grown' they wield prismatic bolts of Essence to intimidate and bully other demons into following their will. In truth, they are tiny, weak, rainbow-scaled serpents hiding within the gossamer form, a secret they have gone to great length to keep in the Demon City; they will shy away from any physical confrontation that might damage their armor and reveal themselves.

Kagami's mirroring of the City of Brass is never perfect, for only a being as vast and mighty as Malfeas himself could keep up with all the changes wrought hourly upon his great interior.  Though it is hateful to her, the mirroring must often break. Through each of those tiny fractures can be glimpsed the dimensionless sanctuary of Cisson, the Crack in the Mirror, Indulgent soul of The City of Mirrors.  Usually, Cisson is content to remain within that infinite nothing, peeking out through the cracks onto Everything as he salves his mistress's wounds with silvered vitriol.  When forced to appear through summoning, he appears as a humanoid distortion of sight-lines, visible only as a living edge.  Kagami is particularly incensed and discomforted by his departure; she places strange and exorbitant boundaries on those known to have summoned him, and for his safe return.