<strong>Name:</strong>Elias, the Forked Tongue<br/><strong>Caste:</strong>Fiend<br/><strong>Motivation:</strong>To Bed and Wed the Maidens<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Basic Bio + Loves and Hates</div><div class="spoiler_body">Trained in the art of diplomacy by interactions with such entities as the fey and ruthless trade barons, Elias never speaks the truth. He never speaks falsely either, but those who try to converse with him generally find it more trying to have a conversation with him than they'd like and relent. My hope for the character is that he finds himself challenged intellectually over the course of the campaign, and can use his words to warp others to his will.<br/><br/>I personally prefer regional quests with consistent NPCs to go to, but that doesn't mean you can't go wandering as long as we have some recurring characters. I love the different flavors of exalt and their differing motivations in the general sense. It's fun to see where people take their concepts from the basics of caste/patron to the individual character. I love the subtle twists that can mean everything, like "oh hey Lunar, your solar bond is now an abyssal/green sun prince. Deal with it." The only thing I don't like about exalted is sometimes one person can get all the glory. Like you focus too heavily on combat and your Dawns and your Twilights (if battle sorcery focused) get all the attention. Similarly, if you focus too much on social then the eclipse or the changing moon lunar steal the spotlight. Balance is needed and is precious difficult to find by and large in exalted.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ATTRIBUTES</span></strong></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Strength</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Charisma</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Perception</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Dexterity</strong></td><td><strong>•••</strong>••</td><td><strong>[•] Manipulation</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Intelligence</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>[•] Stamina</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Appearance</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td><strong>[•] Wits</strong></td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ABILITIES/SPECIALTIES</span></strong></div></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Dawn</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>Zenith</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>Twilight</strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Archery</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Integrity</td><td><strong>•••</strong>••</td><td>[•] Craft</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Martial Arts</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Performance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Investigation</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Melee</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Presence</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Lore</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Thrown</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Resistance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Medicine</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] War</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Survival</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Occult</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr><tr><td><strong>Night</strong></td><td></td><td><strong>Eclipse</strong></td><td></td><td><strong><em>Specialties</em></strong></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Athletics</td><td><strong>••</strong>•••</td><td>[•] Bureaucracy</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Presence (Seduction)</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Awareness</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Linguistics</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Specialty</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Dodge</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Ride</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Specialty</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Larceny</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Sail</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Specialty</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>[•] Stealth</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>[•] Socialize</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td><td>Specialty</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td><td>                                   </td><td>                         </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Languages:</strong> <br/>Riverspeak<br/>Old Realm<br/>High Realm<br/>Forest-Tongue<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">BACKGROUNDS</span></strong></div></td></tr><tr><td>Artifact: Soulsteel Power Bow - Essence Drinker</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Manse: Stone of Inhuman Beauty </td><td><strong>••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Infamy: Ebon Dragon Resurgence </td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Artifact: Soulsteel Chain Shirt - Night's Caress </td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Resources</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Cult</td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">VIRTUES</span></strong></div></td></tr><tr><td>Compassion</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Conviction</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Temperance</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Valor</td><td><strong>•••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Limit</strong></td><td>[••••• •••••]</td></tr><tr><td>Flaw:</td><td>Torment of the Ebon Dragon</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Essence:</strong> <strong>••••• •••••</strong><br/><strong>Personal Pool:</strong> 27/27<br/><strong>Peripheral Pool:</strong> 49/61 (Commited: 12m)<br/><strong>Overdrive:</strong> 0/10<br/><br/><strong>Willpower:</strong> <strong>••••• ••••</strong>•<br/><strong>Temp Willpower:</strong> 9/9<br/><strong>Intimacies</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">Positive</span> <br/><strong>The Ebon Dragon</strong> (Love, Servitude, Admiration)<br/><strong>The Maidens</strong> (Lust, Desire)<br/>The Cadre (Acceptance)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Negative</span><br/>His First Love (Love-Turned-Disdain)<br/>The Unconquered Sun (For TED's Imprisonment)<br/>"True Love" (Hate - Seeks to Corrupt)<br/>Lower Classes (Contempt)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">HEALTH LEVELS</span></strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>-0</td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr><tr><td>-1</td><td><strong>••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>-2</td><td><strong>••••••••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>-4</td><td><strong>•••</strong></td></tr><tr><td>INCAP</td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr><tr><td>DYING</td><td><strong>•</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">ATTACKS</span></strong><br/>Physical<br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>Weapon</td><td>Speed</td><td>Accuracy</td><td>Damage</td><td>Defense</td><td>Rate</td><td>Tags</td><td>Notes</td></tr><tr><td><em><strong>Long Powerbow</strong></em></td><td>6</td><td>+2</td><td>+3L</td><td>0</td><td>3</td><td>2, b</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">DEFENSES</span></strong><br/>Physical<br/>Soak:  6L/6B<br/>Hardness:  <br/>Dodge DV: 7<br/>Parry DV: 7<br/><br/>Social<br/>Dodge MDV: 9<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Charms</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>The Ebon Dragon</strong><br/>First Ebon Dragon Excellency<br/>Shadow Spite Curse<br/>Loom-Snarling Deception<br/>Eldritch Secrets Mastery<br/>Witness to Darkness<br/>Seeing is Blindness<br/>Life-Blighting Emptiness Attack<br/>Hollowing Echo Venom<br/>Life-Denying Hate x2<br/>Spite-Fed Wounding Nimbus<br/>Nemesis Self-Imagined Anew<br/>Soul Crack Exploitation<br/>Puissance Mimicry Intuition x3<br/>Black Mirror Shintai<br/>Cracked Cell Circumvention<br/>Fate-Rending Desperation<br/>Bloodless Murk Evasion<br/>Brooding Resentment Defense<br/>Ascendency Mantle of The Ebon Dragon<br/><br/><strong>Malfeas</strong><br/>Hardened Devil Body x2<br/><br/><strong>She Who Lives In Her Name</strong> <em>Favored</em><br/>First SWLIHN Excellency<br/>Second SWLIHN Excellency<br/>Factual Determination Analysis<br/>Essence-Dissecting Stare<br/>Mind-Hand Manipulation<br/>Tool-Transending Constructs x3<br/>Experimental Acceleration Mastery<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Background</div><div class="spoiler_body">Elias was a child of Lookshy, thankfully of a soldier rather than a slave, and from a young age appeared to have a bright mind. He was trained in the repair of equipment, and in the course of maintaining the equipment rose to the rank of Shonai. It was a fair life for a man of Lookshy, he had everything he truly needed in life, except the love of a good woman. He sought a match in the ranks of the citizenry, but found himself attracted to a helot. The young woman was beautiful, and her work as a clerk in one of the shops which did work for the military was exemplary. She had a pleasant and winning personality, combined with her other features it made her sought after by a great many men. Elias wrote poems for her, crafted jewelry as part of the courtship, and lavished her in clothing and other other gifts. This was all entirely fruitless however. She was playing him, as well as a number of other men. She was in a relationship with one of the sons of the Gens Karal, who in fact advised her to keep stringing the men along for these gifts. This infuriated Elias. He wouldn't strike her, he couldn't do such, nor could he strike a superior officer, but he could arrange a duel. So he did. Despite a lacking skill, the duel was fire wands which at least didn't put Elias at as deep a disadvantage. It wasn't enough. Elias shot first and his shot barely grazed the dragon-blood. The shot fired back at him burned his arm nearly to the bone. It was in the hospital recovering ward that the demon came to him. It offered him strength to defeat the dragon-blood and to steal back the woman, and there was no way that Elias wouldn't take the bargain. He didn't know the cost.<br/><br/>When he emerged from the cocoon, he hunted down his rival. There was almost no resemblance between the man who entered the cocoon and the man who emerged, so it was easily done. The lessons the demon taught let him get close, and then he just sapped the life right out of the exalt in secret. The woman wanted nothing to do with him, however. He was tainted, not that she could tell, but she did know that he had done something horrible. Her love was dead. Elias had ceased reporting to his duty with the military. Elias knew he could break her to his will, but found that he also knew she was no longer worth his time. He could kill with a touch. He could pit his own will against anything in creation and might even be able to win. Moreover, she was human, and what was worse a lowly helot. <br/><br/>He made his way to Malfeas, therein learning a great deal (not to mention enjoying the company of a number of Neomah), along the way acquiring knowledge. His aim, manipulated by the demon, was still to find a woman equal to himself. Of course given the fact he was now one of the chosen of the Ebon Dragon, who supported his desire for companionship, he had to raise his bar a little. At that insistence, he went over the line and decided to set his sights almost as high as possible. He'd heard tell of the Maidens, the ladies who reside in Yu-Shan and govern Fate. One among them was especially famed as a beauty, the lady Venus. Of course the other maidens are also potential, as it would be unwise to simply place all your hopes on one woman. Aside from just that, what if he could even manage to gain the favor of all of them?</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Pulp Stories</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Elias and Another Man's Property</strong> <em>Co-Starring Chorgath</em><br/>The pair met in Gem, shining city of the South, with goals intertwined. A first age artifact, a first class beauty, both would have what they could not steal alone. Will they succeed in taking from House Arbani its newest member and oldest treasure? Only the tale will tell.<br/><br/><strong>Elias and the Star-Crossed Lovers</strong> <em>Co-Starring Void Face Lover</em><br/>A pair of lovers, parted by circumstance, enlist the aid of Elias and Void Face Lover. Unbeknownst to either, as they try their best to thwart the young lovers' plans, they wind up acting to counteract each potentially fatal blow to their love. In a comedy of errors, it all winds up pushing the pair closer together, until someone just goes too far...</div></div>