Gestalt - Character Info

This page contains information you'd know. Not all of it, but some of it that you don't know you'd know.

Reputations

Each of the characters in GESTALT MOON POLITICS ADVENTURES is an experienced and high-level prodigy of their field, garnering special attention among the common folk and even greater renown in the circles of the high and mighty. As adventurers (part time, full-time or otherwise), you are even more likely to have heard some of the tales. Decide how much of the below your character might logically know, then talk to the other players to establish more intimate ties and knowledge.

Aludiana Vrockwing - (Dranz) - A travelling monk and tattoo artist, Aludiana is unmatched at both of her callings. As a ranking member of the Intrepid Band of Seekers, Aludiana is a successful explorer and treasure-hunter of many years, participating both in group expeditions and solo ventures. Her most famous tale to date regards the short Clock War of five years past, when the insane construct King Jeremias emerged from the ruins of the ancient northern port city of Fancata and swept down the coastline toward the Free States with an army of clockwork knights. During the decisive battle between Jeremias' troops and the warriors of Prelate Ton, Aludiana engaged Jeremias in solo combat and unleashed a powerful psionic curse, scattering the clockwork army and ending the Clock War in a single night. In recognition of her bravery, strength and the fact that they'd been responsible for the archeological work which had awoken Jeremias, the Intrepid Band awarded Aludiana with the title of Evictor and a high officer's wayfinder.

Aludiana is also generally regarded as one of the best tattoo artists on Edrador, although this comes up less often in bar-room tales than the 'scared off an entire army' thing. Although her prices vary, wealthy nobles have been known to pay hundreds, even thousands of gold for her services.

While reliable accounts of her battle prowess are difficult to come by, Aludiana is generally accounted a master martial artist, and her strikes are rumored to be 'fatal by the first blow'. She is also rumored to be somewhat insane, which has discouraged most of the would-be apprentices who seek roving aesetics.

Nerothos, the Deadman - (Phil) - Nerothos is a figure shrouded in some mystery to the inhabitants of the inner continent, and most of the common stories about him are fabrications. Cleric orders and scholars of magic across the face of Edrador know him as the face of the Obitu, an incredibly recent (and thus, exciting) development in necromancy, and he is generally regarded as an expert on the subject. Nerothos' extraordinary piety has earned him a reputation as a living saint, but the arcane nature of his accomplishments have left the entire northern hemisphere awash in tales of a fully-armored man who obliterates warrens of undeath with a wave of his hand rather than the liberator he would prefer to be seen as.

The one exception to this is the very common, popularly-derided tale of how a lowly priest of the Crag Scholars faced down a lich disciple of Kharlack and unmade him by force of holy conviction. While the Crag Scholars see this as a great milestone (it is known that King Craig has commissioned a high opera to commemorate it), the humans present it in the mileu of a puppet show. Nerothos' famous Torch of True Faith appears prominantly in the show, and is used to repeatedly beat the lich's phylactery (and head) until it explodes.

Nerothos' power and piety are legend, but the legend is not terribly specific. Accounts for his battle-prowess would likely only come from fighting alongside him.

Adjutant Seisen - (Rimblade) - A veteran knight and advisor to HRH Rimblade III, Seisen has served the King loyally for nearly fifteen years and is generally accounted his closest advisor on military matters. The Adjutant is not a popular figure, serving as a scapegoat for the public's wroth after unpopular military decisions. He is known to be a conservative force in Mist-top's politics, but is typically less remarked-upon than members of the king's Privy Council or the primarchs of the high noble estates. Paintings and woodcutting of HRH Rimblade's public addresses often depict Seisen standing behind the king, to the left, bearing a small brass orrey glowing with fire to illuminate the scene.

Seisen is reputed to be the best swordsman in Rimblade's realm- during the first year-and-a-half of his service, he bested all of the other officers of state in duels, and won the annual melee tournament without ever taking a hit. The next year, however, he surrendered the title peacefully to his first challenger and has refused all duels since, which has given his detractors ammunition to label him a coward.

Those who have fought Seisen or trained under him describe his fighting style as fast and decisive- he has been known to end duels before his opponent has taken a single step.

Nicole's Character - Character is an assassin of supreme ability and noiteriety both; and only one of those is a good thing. The papers and taverns in cities throughout the world are still often abuzz with her exploits - the strangulation and murder of nearly half the directors of the Fairwind Exchange. Wards intact, guards undisturbed, character slew the ancient plutocrats who dictate the trade of a world, while the long-derided Communityist Party suddenly began trumpeting the death of plutocracy and inequity in the streets. For any other target, character's assassinations might have remained mysterious, but the threat to the Exchange roused the entire city's guard, a dozen mercenary free companies and the skymages of the Corte Del Cielo. When character slipped into the bedroom of her next target, she found a multi-dimensional trap awaiting her, a dozen scrying sensors caught upon her and an entire battalion of elite lawmen charging her flanks. Thus revealed, character escaped with considerable difficulty and fled Fairwind, seeking refuge among the Exchange's oldest political enemies- the monarchy.

While character's theatrics are the most well-known and excitedly re-told of all, virtually nobody knows anything about her actual combat abilities.

Ari's Character