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Peleps Taric Korel is a player character in Dynasty & Decadence played by (Axelius)

Peleps Taric Korel

• Aspect: Fire
• Concept: Magitech Mechanic and Warstrider Adventurer
• Motivation: Restore the glory of the Shogunate by attaining a Factory Cathedral and restoring it to full productivity
• Anima: A giant of fire
• Anima Power: Spend five motes to be surrounded by flames dealing 4L to any unarmed or grappling attacks and increases such attacks made by him by +4L. Is immune to fire during duration.

Description

A young man with an almost perpetual smile on his face. Dresses exotically yet well, but is almost always followed by the smell of some exotic oil or other ingredient from his work. Despite his aspect of fire he often dresses in black and yellow instead of red, rumors say he explained this with the near heretical words that "the sun is the hottest fire I know of, and he's yellow" although it has not been confirmed.

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Attributes

• Str 2, Dex 5, Sta, 3
• Cha 3, Man 2, App, 3
• Per 2, Int 5, Wit, 3

Abilities

Caste

• Athletics 3
• Dodge 4
• Melee 5 (Warstrider combat +1)
• Presence 4
• Socialize 3

Favored

• Craft 5 (Magitech 5, Fire 4, Air 3, Water 2, Earth 1)
• Lore 5 (First Age Artifacts +1)
• Occult 5 (Art of Enchantment lvl 3)

Other

• Archery 3
• Awareness 2
• Bureaucracy 2
• Integrity 1
• Linguistics 3 (Rivertounge, High+Low Realm, Skytounge)
• Martial Arts 2
• Performance 2
• Resistance 2
• Ride 2
• Sail 1
• Stealth 1
• War 2

Backgrounds

General

• Artifact 4 Noble Warstrider, Artifact tools, Jade daiklaive
• Artifact 3 Fire Lance (Warstrider), Flight system (3)
• Artifact 1 Jade Breastplate, Heartstone amulet
• Manse 3
• Resources 3
• Breeding 2
• Reputation 2 (Defector from the 7th Legion)
• Reputation 1 (Magitech wiz)
• Ally 1: Wife, daughter of Sikandi

Warstrider Fang

• Ally 3: 4-6 Dragonblooded pilots/mechanics from the house (4 of them assumed to have brought 3 dot heartstones to pilot warstriders)
• Artifact 3: 2 common warstriders
• Artifact 3: 1 scout warstrider, 1 common
• Retainer 2: Thaumaturge Mechanics

Common Pool

• Command 1
• Arsenal 1

Charms

Linguistics

• Wind-carried Words Technique

Lore

• 1st Lore
• Elemental Concentration Trance
• Elemental Empowerment Meditation

Occult

• 1st Occult
• Fivefold Resonance Sense
• Seeing the Maker's Hands

Craft

• 1st Craft
• Craft Reinforcement
• Flaw Finding Technique
• Repairing the Unbroken [custom]

Resistance

• Ox-Body Technique

Athletics

• Effortlessly Rising Flame
• Falling Star Maneuver
• Bellows Pumping Stride

Dodge

• 1st Dodge
• Safety among enemies

Melee

• 1st Melee
• Melee Reinforcement
• Portentous Comet Deflecting Mode
• Dragon Graced Weapon x2 (Fire and Water)

Presence

• 1st Presence
• Glowing Coal Radiance
• Aura of Invulnerability

Virtues

• Compassion 4
• Conviction 2
• Temperance 2
• Valor 4

Other traits

Essence 4

• Personal motes 14
• Peripheral motes 35
• Committed motes (peripheral) X

Willpower 8

Intimacies

• Peleps Taric Onais (as a father)
• Household Taric (loyalty)
• Warstriders (interest)
• Common people (care)

Artifacts and Panalopy

• Hunter of Red Resplendent Air - Noble class Warstrider, equipped with a highly advanced flight system and The Tounge of Hesiesh a fire lance of Shogunate make.
• Martyr of the Remote Lands, The Great Outcome of He Who Bows, Killer of Eiru's Child and Attack From The Unattentive Side - three common and one scout class warstriders.
• Blade of the Hounds of the Basin - A black jade daiklaive
• Evidence of Slugs - Red jade breastplate
• Regalement of the Revelations of Yu-Shan - Jade heartstone amulet

Background and such

The Five Questions

1. ) Why are you devoted to keeping this sub-House alive against all odds? House Taric accepted Korel with open arms when the Realm as a whole looked at him with scepticism. The warmth, the family and the sense of belonging is something he has never felt before, and something he will never give up. Besides, it's not like there's anywhere else he can go...
2. ) The Dynasty isn't all about family. What loyalties and causes compete with your loyalty to House Peleps Taric? If anything it is the plight of the people and careful words in Korel's ear could easily awaken a hero of the lower classes within him. So far that hero lies buried below the comfort of being a dynast and the belonging of his new family.
3. ) In what ways are you products of the Dynasty? He isn't. No matter how he may deny it, claim otherwise or try to fit in Korel is not truly a dynast. He is accepted, even popular, with the community, but he is still basically an outsider. He dreams of it, however, as he dreams of the Realm and its glories and how it could unite this fractured world into a new Shogunate.
4. ) What have you openly achieved in the past century that makes you a worthy subject for historians of the next Age to investigate thoroughly? The Man From Lookshy some would call him, the boy who turned away from the 7th Legion and in to the arms of the Realm. Fooled? Perhaps, but it became a spectacular event and many dramas would be based on this single event and its consequences. Apart from that at this point in time his career has but started, in a way he is the "third generation of adventure", following in the footsteps of Taric and Sikandi. Travelling the Threshold looking for trouble and riches is a great way of getting written into the story books. He has also been marked as one of the Realms foremost experts within Magitech lore and some consider him a vital person for the restoration (and complete reconstruction, perhaps!) for the First Age industry of the Realm. He has already managed to aquire and restore four functional warstriders with which he has equipped his personal fang. Further artifacts, many magitech, he has found and restored to functionality has earned him large amounts of money which he has invested in a prosperous weapons manufacture building large-scale weapons for use on ships and other warmachines.
5. ) What weaknesses do you possess that aren't just personal failings, but could be exploited by your enemies to cost you the Game of Thrones? What are the fields of engagement where you can't just apply Game Theory analysis, but instead will act against your own interests? Korel is an outsider, a traitor, a 7th Legionnaire and a slave. This is the heritage that he must carry with him, and no matter how open in his support of the Realm he may be people will still mistrust him. In the wake of the admiratious talk about his exploits in the salons of the dynasty there is aways the rumors. He turned on his country once, would he do it twice? Why does he never speak of his childhood? Is he actually a cleverly placed spy from Lookshy? These are but some of the least wild ideas that fly around behind his back. The issue of Lookshy itself is a complex one. He has almost consistently hated the Seventh Legion from the day he was born, yet deep within him something, something small and something he tries to ignore has awoken. A longing home. Perhaps it was only his unfortunate youth that caused him to be so resentful, perhaps he had been manipulated, perhaps the Seventh Legion isn't so bad. He pushes it back every time it rears its ugly head, yet for every injustice he is forced to witness within the Realm that tiny weight on his heart grows.

Korel on his family

• Alaric - I remember the accident. He did not run and hide from the consequences of his actions, but owned them instead, turned tragedy into something transformative. I respect that a great deal.

• Onias - The one out of Taric's children that I get along the best with. I always make time for him, and I feel like we understand each other in a way that some of the other childer of the Founder might not.

• Hayabusa - Unpredictable, but not in a bad way. Despite her checkered past, there is something about her. I am curious how she will take to entering our fold. With time, she could become a real asset to the House.

• Aisha - She has Taric's ambition, and is taking on the role of the spearhead of the House with great vigor and conviction. I don't feel confident in reading her motives though, and that worries me. She was always distant to me while Taric still lived. Perhaps this is an opportunity to start anew?

• Hinoko - Brave. Plays it straighter than her Father did before her. A path that is both easier and more difficult than the one Taric chose. I am afraid she resents me after what I did to her son, but I hope she understands. Hope and truth seldom see eye to eye, though.

• Grolush - Leased me the coatl I used to impress and finally unite the Vinthu and Gothal tribes. He gave me a good price and being able to skirt the skies back and forth between the barbarian warlords was crucial to tying their fealty to me. I am pleased by being able to seize this opportunity facilitated by my eccentric nephew!

• Sikandi - My wife. Our relations have never been anything but a formality and a duty to extend our lineage, but her lifestyle fits mine. I believe we are decent to each other, in what little interactions we share, and that is good enough for me. Lately though, she's been reminding me an awful lot of Tanic, and it casts me into melancholy spells.

• Taen - Cousin Taen... of all us "younglings" you are the most prominent. I wish to be your friend, but I feel that you keep me away and the good words you give me to your friends in politics just sound like... well... that... Politics.

• Taen - Irreverent and reckless to a fault. I never understood why Tanic was drawn to him. Some say I did what I did because of jealousy, and I won't deny them some truth to that. Having said that, I put the perseverance of our House above all, even envy.

• Korel - The latest power play of our House. It is important that we leverage any momentum we can gain from his presence without relying too much on him. The fact that he seems like a genuinely decent man cannot cloud our purpose.

• Medoina - Together with Ragara Noltis, she has what I sought to have with Tanic. She is a good girl, and I do not begrudge her having found love whereas I had nothing but fleeting moments of it. I feel quite the opposite actually, and I will look keep an eye on her and her husband, however vigilant an aging old poet can manage.