Name:Theodore Von Garrett<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">appearence</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25100000/Sturm-Brightblade-sturm-brightblade-25158415-422-504.jpg) Actual age: 23<br/>Age at exaltation: 17<br/>Apparent age: 21<br/>Theodore sounds like Richard Sterban (bass singer of the Oak Ridge Boys).</div></div>Caste:Dawn caste Solar<br/><br/>Concept:Child Prodigy<br/>Motivation: To rid the world of all its corrupt governments<br/>Intimacies:Karal Fen Ardas, His followers, Yamamoto Family<br/>Anima:<br/><br/>Attributes<br/>----------<br/><br/>Physical:<br/>Strength 5<br/>Dexterity 3<br/>Stamina 4<br/><br/>Social:<br/>Charisma 3<br/>Manipulation 3<br/>Appearance 3<br/><br/>Mental:<br/>Perception 2<br/>Intelligence 3<br/>Wits 2<br/><br/>Abilities<br/>---------<br/><br/>Mark caste/favored with *<br/><br/>*Dawn:<br/>*Archery 2<br/>*Martial Arts 5<br/>*Melee 2<br/>*Thrown 0<br/>*War 3<br/><br/>Zenith:<br/>Integrity 3<br/>Performance 1<br/>*Presence 2<br/>*Resistance 3<br/>Survival<br/><br/>Twilight:<br/>Craft<br/>Investigation<br/>Lore 2<br/>Medicine 2<br/>Occult 3<br/><br/>Night:<br/>Athletics 2<br/>Awareness 2<br/>*Dodge 3<br/>Larceny 0<br/>Stealth 3<br/><br/>Eclipse:<br/>*Bureaucracy 2<br/>Linguistics  3<br/>Ride 1<br/>Sail<br/>*Socialize 3<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Specialities</span><br/>White Reaper Form Weapons Spears  3dots<br/>Moovign while encumbered 1 dot<br/><br/>Backgrounds<br/>-----------<br/>Resources 2,  Followers 1<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Languages</span><br/>Low Realm, Old Realm, Riverspeak, Forest-tongue<br/>Lookshy accent<br/><br/>Charms<br/>------<br/>Falling Scythe Slash, Revolving Crescent Defense, White Reaper Form, Ox Body Technique, Body Mending Meditation, Whirlwind Armor-Donning Prana, Hauberk-Lightening Gesture, Call the Blade, Summon the Loyal Steel, Spirit-Detecting Glance, Spirit Cutting Atack, First Medicine Excelency<br/><br/>Combos<br/>------<br/><br/><br/>Spells<br/>------<br/><br/>Virtues<br/>-------<br/><br/>Compassion 3<br/>Conviction 3<br/>Temperance 3<br/>Valor 3<br/><br/>Virtue Flaw: Heart of Flint.<br/><br/>Essence and Willpower<br/>---------------------<br/><br/>Essence 3<br/>Willpower 5<br/>Personal Essence 14/14<br/>Peripheral Essence 34/21<br/>Committed Essence 13<br/><br/>Merits<br/>------<br/>Past Life 5, Ambidexterity 1<br/>Flaws<br/>-----<br/>Throwback 3, Known Anathema 7, Enemy 3, Permanent Caste Mark 2<br/>Equipment<br/>---------<br/>Aegis-inset Amulets, Thunderbolt shield, Dire spear, Yoroi Rapid Response Armor<br/>(artifacts, weapons, armor etc here)<br/><br/>Property<br/>--------<br/>3 dot manse(stone of Resiliant bamboo)<br/>(manses and resource bought stuff here)<br/><br/>Combat Stats<br/>------------<br/><br/>Join Battle: 4<br/><br/>Move: 3 (3 without armor)<br/>Dash: 9 (9 without armor)<br/>Jump: x/x (x/x without armor)<br/><br/>Attacks:<br/><br/>Martial Arts (Clinch): Spd 6  Acc +8  Dmg +4B  Def -3  Rate 1<br/>Martial Arts (Kick): Spd 5  Acc +8  Dmg +7B  Def -3  Rate 2<br/>Martial Arts (Punch): Spd 5  Acc +9  Dmg +4B  Def +5  Rate 3<br/><br/><br/>Defenses:<br/><br/>Dodge DV: 05<br/>Dodge MDV: xx<br/><br/>Soak: 12L/9B/A xL/xB<br/>Hardness: 3L/3B<br/><br/>Health Levels: -0x1, -1x3, -2x4, -4, Incap.<br/><br/>Experience<br/>(list XP expenditure here)<br/>Archery +2 dots, Linguistics +1 dot, Lore +2 dots, Performance +1 dot, Ride +1 dot, Stealth +1 dots, Martial Arts +1 dot,  Occult +1 dot Valor+1 dot, Compassion +1 dot, Temperence +1 dot, Medicine +2dots, First Medicine Excellency, Bureaucracy+1 dot<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Backstory (beware the back story is long)</div><div class="spoiler_body">Excerpts from “The One True Ruler: The Return of the True Queen.” By Theodore Von Garrett:<br/><br/>   To truly understand who I have become, you first have to understand who I was. I was born in Lookshy as Yamamoto Tetsuya.  My mother and Father were raised in Lookshy, but our family goes all the way back to the Solar Queen Merela herself.  My parents were basic helots in Lookshyan society; they owned a small farm on the outskirts of society.  In the past several of the family had joined the Lookshy military, the recruiters seemed to come by the house often to see if one of us was ready to join. Mother always dreaded the day I would join the military…<br/><br/>   When I turned 13, I was coming home from the schooling my parents could afford and I saw something that I could not stand for. Later on I would learn that this moment would be a life changer, not the major life changer that happens later but I believe that this event lead to that one. I digress, on my way home I came across a neighbor of mine getting harassed by a Gunzosha.  The Gunzosha said that the farmer threatened him, but everybody knew the Gunzosha was just hiding the fact he was having a bad day.  My pre-exaltation life changed when I stepped up to the farmer’s defense.  “Everybody knows the farmer didn’t threaten you, No Helot in or around Lookshy would threaten a soldier, much less a member of the Gunzosha.” I told him.  Liar he called me, overstepping my bounds he said. In his defense, he was right I had overstepped my bounds. I could not let him keep stepping all over that farmer just because of something he did wrong. “Stop harassing him or ill stop you myself.” I told him.  I barely finished that sentence before the Farmer ran off as the Gunzosha charged me to “teach” me a lesson. Thinking back, I was lucky that he was unarmed; if he had been, I likely would not be alive to write this.  The Gunzosha quickly overpowered me and took me off my feet but was not able to inflict actual damage.  Thinking back on it, I am still not sure how he did not kill me immediately but His punches were not getting through.  After what seemed like an eternity to me, the farmer I had saved had run off to get some troops to stop the Gunzosha.  The troops, from Gens Karal, quickly came and broke up the fight. The Gens Karal troops sent me home and took him back to his house to have a discussion, but they took note of whom I was.  The Gens Karal Commander was impressed that I was not completely overwhelmed by the Gunzosha; they decided to have me watched for if I joined the military so they could put me forward as a Gunzosha.  That turned out to be a double-edged sword actually…<br/><br/>   Later that same year I decided to help my family out I would get a job, the only one I was good for was the military.  The Gens Karal soldier actually pushed me to join even though I was only 13.  I took well to Military life.  The training, in and out of combat, was good for me and I enjoyed it a lot.  I excelled in primarily the use of spear and shield as well as unarmed combat.  Even at my young age, I was still an exceptional fighter. I was able to overpower most people in one on one combat and I had a great grasp of tactics when it came to squad combat.    Even to this day, I do not know if they wanted to use me as something other then a basic grunt but that is all I would take.  I willingly started at the bottom of the ladder.  I wanted to work from the bottom.  My first year of military life was just training and not that significant. I trained my whole first year, mainly on my social skills on top of my social and physical skills.  At that point, in my life I had not fought with weapons much so it was here I picked a one-handed spear and shield.  I liked having the defensive capabilities of the shield, the offensive capabilities of the spear, and the ability to shield bash.  The strategy they taught us “Ashigaru” was the basic Phalanx.  The strategy was simple enough with a wall of shields and spears we would be able to handle ourselves even if we were attacked by exalted, even though that was not our job…<br/><br/><br/>   My second year in the military started with more training, but what made this year different from the last year is one of the new members of the squad.  Karal Fen Ardas was one of the new members of the squad I was in; we quickly became friends because we were both the same age. Fen and I were both quite young, being only 14 at this point.  The two of us quickly drove each other to new heights of our abilities.  During our trainings and during combat we were almost inseparable.  I learned a lot about him, I will not be going into his history in this book however. We spent two years together as ashigaru training and testing our abilities, we were not sent on many missions but we still were worked our way into the running for the Gunzosha.  After two years the time came, Karal Fen Ardas and I were brought up to the ranks of the Gunzosha…<br/><br/>    Fen and I were both raised to Gunzosha at the same time.  The surprise for me was the Gunzosha, from Gens Teresu, that attacked the farmer earlier was in the squad with Fen and I.  Boy was Teresu Zhu Dao mad that I was there, and he remembered me well.  Zhu Dao kept trying to hurt me or sabotage me in training.  Zhu wanted me to fail but he never did a good job of sabotage.  The Aegis inset amulets I did not really care for, I did not like the idea of aging faster then what was natural but the power that came from being able to use the artifact armors was nice. It was nice to go on missions as a Gunzosha since most if the time, as an ashigaru, we just trained and stayed near Lookshy proper.  As a Gunzosha, they trusted us to go farther out from the city.  The first mission I had was a simple raid against a realm patrol that was testing our defense.  The raid was simple enough, the realm forces was a small group of four exalts.   The entire squad came down on the four exalts and we quickly overwhelmed them.  The fight was over fast, and we quickly retreated to Lookshy so exalts of Lookshy could be ready for a possible counterattack by the realm.  My next mission was going to change my life forever…<br/><br/>   In Realm year 764, Descending Air, An order came down from our taimyo.  “Your squad is to participate in a patrol around the realm ally of Greyfalls.  Your mission will be to scout and test their defenses, as well as test the gunzosha’s ability to operate in swampy environments.”  Little did I know how that would change my life.  We got to the Greyfalls area around the beginning of Ascending Water. The squad was scheduled to be in the area three weeks.  The first two weeks were uneventful; the only thing that happened was we all agreed that swamps suck.  One night after the squad had broken camp for the night we saw a small Greyfall patrol.  The squad slowly followed the patrol, they were pulling back knowing they could not beat us.  My squad could not have guessed what the patrol was doing.    We chased the Greyfalls troops for 2 hours before they sprung their trap on us.<br/><br/>   The Greyfalls patrol was retreating to lure us into an ambush.  The ambush troops were a combination of Realm exalts and Greyfalls troops.   The ambush caught us completely by surprise, and quickly took out our commander before we were organized.  The squad could not get organized as the realm exalts had superior numbers and had the advantage of surprise. They had quickly rendered most of the squad either dead. It quickly became just Fen Ardas and I as the only living survivors of the squad.  Fen Ardas and I were fighting for our lives; we were pushed to our limits and beyond.  Remember when I said that I was descended from the Solar Queen Merela? Also that I wish that was as far as my relationship with her went? This is where that comes into play.  The ambush troops managed to get me and Fen separated and knocked him out.  They were all piled on to me and I was being overwhelmed quickly. It was at that point that two things happened nearly simultaneously. One I fell unconscious myself, and two I exalted.  Normally Exalting would not be a bad thing but in this case, I would beg to differ.  This is where my relationship with Merela changes, I acquired her exaltation.  Once I fell unconscious a caste mark started glowing on my forehead, and my body stood up and continued acting.  My body stood up, overpowering the exalts on top of me, and the first thing it did was speak, but not in my voice.  “The Queen has returned.”  Later on, I learned that, due to my family line, a sidereal was watching that ambush; one had been following me most of my life keeping their distance.  My sudden decree in a feminine voice had startled the sidereal and he went running, never did learn who it was. The power of her exaltation was immense it permanently burned the dawn caste mark onto my forehead.  The Golden aura the came over me was powerful and bright.  Merela in control of my body quickly jumped into action.  She jumped after the realms exalt captain impaling him through the chest with my spear.  Merela turned and attacked a second person that had attacked us from behind and killed him with an edge on shield strike. The rest of the realm soldiers fell quickly one by one.  The power of the Solar Queen was incredible, but a major problem came when, after one of the realm exalts had escaped, she saw that one exalt was still alive.  My spirit had revived inside my body but I was not in control at this point, her spirit was just too powerful.  Karal Fen Ardas was still unconscious when Merela set about to kill him, “He is my best friend. Solar queen or not I will not let you kill my friend, especially in my body.” I screamed into my own head.  “He will betray us and attempt to kill us.” She returned.  “I still will not allow you to kill him.”  My emotions were so powerful that I was able to wrest control back from her…<br/><br/>   After I wrested control images started to flood into my head.  It showed a small cave about five miles from my location. I also heard in my head “You should ditch the armor you are wearing. It symbolizes your past and now you are a solar exalt which are hunted if you memories are right. I doubt Lookshy will protect you as you are now Anathema. Besides, I have some weapons in armor in the location I showed you.  Be warned though this is not a freebie, you will have to earn whatever is there yourself.  Once we get to that manse and get rid of your friend we will more to talk about.” I heard in my head. After stripping my armor off and leaving it in the battlefield to help the Lookshyans think I was dead, I scoop up my friend and head off towards that manse I was shown.  The journey was quick, as I knew exactly where it was, it was as if I was reading a map…<br/><br/>   Upon finding the cave, I was looking for I left Fen Ardas in the entry cave to wake up, as I explored the manse.  The manse was simple, what I was able to see, and I quickly found the weapons and armor that Merela told me about.  I set about attuning my new weapons and armor to my Essence and then sat in the entry cave, waiting for Fen Ardas to wake up.  It took him an hour, after reaching the cave, to regain consciousness.  I explained to him what happened after he fell unconscious.  I even told him about my exaltation, though I did not tell him about me having the Solar Queen’s exaltation.  Fen Ardas took the story well overall even explaining that he had also exalted during the ambush.  I was happy for Fen Ardas, but that also led to the realization that the two of us would likely have to fight one day.  “You should have let me kill him when I had the chance.” Merela chimed in.  I still stand by my decision to stop you from killing him. We are still friends. I answered Merela in my head. “If you’re a Dragon-blood and I am a Solar, then for now it is best that you leave this cave and not return.  Lookshy has turned its back on me. For the sake of our friendship you should just tell the leaders what happened, and tell them I died in the ambush.  That will be best for all of us.  I have a lot to think about so I will stay here.” I told Fen Ardas.  It took him about two hours to recover enough to be able to leave… <br/><br/>   I spent the next 3 years willingly locked up in my manse. I had to get to know the spirit, with which I now shared my body.  The two of us came to an understanding about quite a few things.  One was that my life in Lookshy was over and that I needed to shed the identity that I had from Lookshy.  Theodore Von Garrett was the new name I would go by.  It was a shame, I truly cared for my family and hated that I had to “die” to protect them.  Everybody I knew in Lookshy believed me to be dead; essentially Yamamoto Tetsuya was dead.  Merela and I also decided that I cannot stay locked up in the manse forever.  Over those years, I worked with my new weapons to gain a good command on them.  I spent months practicing with them.  I gain the mastery with them I desired.  During the first year of my return form my self-imposed exile to my manse, a small group of mortals thought to get quick money and tried to capture me to turn over to the Realm. The mortals were quickly overpowered, though I chose not to kill them outright. That drew a loud protest from Merela. “why are you so soft? Do you wish to spare everybody who attacks you?” she said.  I have a better use for them then their deaths.  If I am going to survive here I will need followers.  They will either serve me or they will die. I told her back.  “I do not wish to harm you five, but you have left me no choice. I give you two options at this point.” I told them with my spear pointed at them. “You can serve me when I need you and I will spare you. Or you will die here and now.  Make your choice now.” I demanded.  They all chose to serve me, as they had witnessed my power first hand and realized that I was just defending myself.  Most other exalts would have killed them outright, I had given them a choice to live. “Your main job is to guard this cave and make sure nobody gets to here.  I will however train you to fight.  Your families would not like it if you got killed.” I spent most of the next two years training them and building a friendship with them and their families.  My kindness went a long way and they became loyal to me.    Eventually the five of them even moved into the area of my cave,  they provided me with supplies and I kept them safe.  The Five of them came along nicely in combat training and eventually named themselves “The Protectors of the Dawn”. They saw me as a new dawn among the exalts and chose to protect it as much as they could.<br/><br/>   Nearly six years after I exalted I decided that I had lived in solitude long enough.  I decided that I should leave my manse and reenter creation to see what good I could do.  That was my plan, but I wasn’t the only one with plans.  The Bronze faction sent an assassin to try to kill me in my manse.  “Chejop Kejak says you are to dangerous to let live.  We, The Bronze Faction, can not allow you to live.  The Solar Queen can never return.” and with that said the assassin attacked.  With my new found power I quickly overpowered the assassin.  I couldn’t not help but think that if the assassin had attacked me from stealth I would be dead, but I wasn’t going to complain.  I was able to save myself and my followers. The assassin had targeted me believing if I died then the followers would go home. I decided that Nexus would be a good spot to reemerge into the world.  All I had to do was hide my caste mark.  I told my followers that I decided to go to nexus to see what is going on in the world. With the return of the Scarlet Empress I needed to return. I could do a lot of good. My followers decided to a man that they would follow me. So we left for Nexus…</div></div>