Dynasty & Decadence/Korel

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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.

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 (2), Jade breastplate, Short Jade daiklaive
• Artifact 3 Fire Lance (Warstrider), Flight system (3)
• Manse 3
• Resources 3
• Breeding 2

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]

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

Socialize

• 1st Socialize
• Warm-Faced Seduction Style

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)

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 - The old man is a mystery to me, I respect the calmness and his devotion, but he seems so... dull. I don't really know much about him, or Taric for that matter, but there was some bad blood between them. Not that I'm gonna poke around in a dead man's mess.

• Pranzha - The tales that man can tell! I can feel the passion of Taric as a young man within me when I read his writings. He knew him well and now that Taric is dead I must endeavour to learn more.

• Hayabusa - In the South and East the most deadly creatures are those who are the most beautiful. Given the stunning nature of madame Hayabusa she must be the most lethal woman on the whole isle. A woman of my taste.

• Aisha - Lady Aisha is if anyone the one who would understand my craft, but what I forge with hard work and metal into rigid structures she weaves together with a flick of the wrist into lucid raw power. She is wise and determined and I respect her immensly as the new head.

• Hinoko - Admiral Hinoko seems me the strong backbone of this whole family after Taric's death, I have served with her and I trust her as an Admiral, a relative and a friend. If she would give me orders I would follow. I fear she is too honest a good woman for politics though.

• Grolush - I have never gotten a good grip on this man, he seems grumpy and unsociable and I'm amased he could've earend all the treasure he has. There is something behind him that smells bad... and it is not the griffin shit in his stables.

• Sikandi - Sikandi is... an amazing woman. Her skill as a satrap is undoubtedly one of the best in the Realm, and to think she was once a wild adventurer like me! I must seem a fool to her when I constantly ask her of her adventures and if it is one person I must measure up to it is her.

• 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.

• Onais - The father I never had, without him I would never have been accepted so readily into the house and the Realm in its entirity. I know that he is hiding things from me though... So many thinks and so heavy things. Honestly, I don't want to know.

• Medoina - to come

History

Growing up an orphan can be harsh. It is even more harsh if where you grew up was Lookshy, was born to slaves and you lived in the gutters. The day I exalted everything changed. Now, I hardly believe my new family would understand my feelings at that point, and neither did the Seventh Legion, but for a poor boy who had been denied everything in life from day one becoming conscripted into the very legion that had been the oppressing boot pushing me down into the filth from day one was hardly the dream of my life. Yet they assumed I would be happy about it! Heck, even the small freedoms I had, being able to go where I wanted and meet who I wanted, were taken away from me. I was a soldier now, and would learn discipline and loyalty. I hated it.

Still, there was little to do, I had to grudgingly accept my lot in life, as I had had to earlier, and served under the yokel of the Legion for twenty full years. I said the words, I followed the orders and I obeyed my commanders. I was part of a machine. As I served I saw the possibilities of the legion, and how they were squandered. We had such power! And yet so much of it was never used, kept in reserve "just in case". Meanwhile around us the Realm gobbled up more and more of the world, bringing wealth and prosperity to the satrapies they protected. In retrospect my view of the Realm was... least said romanticised, but I never regretted my decision.

Throughout my service I turned out to be quite the craftsman, and eventually I managed to get assigned to one of the Warstrider fangs as second to the chief mechanic. Servicing the large machines I knew their every quirk and power. I even picked up the basics of piloting them for the purpose of maintenance and repairs. My plan to freedom was set, now I just waited for the call to action.

Eventually my fang was called out, we were to do recon in force near the border of an ally. A great beast of some sort had been sighted and they decided to break out the heavy artillery, us, to do the job. It took us five weeks to track down and kill the beast, a process that caused severe damage to two of the great machines, nonetheless our unit was feeling celebratory that night. When my companions had drunken themselves into a stupor I simply walked up to the finest of our five striders, loaded my best tools and hopped in and took off for the nearest Realm satrapy. Luckily our chief Shugan-Junai had fallen ill during a couple of weeks back during the hunt and I had been left in charge, something that had made me able to do some... modifications to the striders. I assume that they tried to follow me the next morning, but the fact that they never caught up to me probably means my changes worked as planned.

Three days later I arrived at the capital of the satrapy, marching up to the main square in my machine I found the largest and most splendid house at it and called out that I wished to see the satrap. I guess I was a bit foolish, as this would no doubt have looked quite hostile, but luckily the satrap was of the honorable kind, who faced me there and then instead of attacking outright. As soon as s/he showed up I made the metal beast kneel and announced that I was there to proclaim my loyalty to the realm.