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== Stalwart Wasteland Prince ==
<b>Name:</b> Mnemon Elan<br>
<b>Nature:</b> Explorer<br>
<b>Pseudo-Aspect:</b> Water<br>
<b>Celestial House:</b> Journeys<br>
<b>Faction:</b> 'Rogue'<br>
<b>Inheritance:</b> 0 (Lesser water elemental/human coupling)

<b>Attributes:</b><br>
Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina  4<br>
Charisma 4, Manipulation 3, Appearance 4<br>
Intelligence 3, Wits 2, Perception 2<br>

<b>Abilities:</b><br>
Awareness 2<br>
Bureaucracy 2<br>
Linguistics 2 (Native tongue High Realm; Old Realm, Rivertongue)<br>
Lore 3<br>
Martial Arts 3 [F] <br>
Occult 3 [F] <br>
Socialize 2<br>
Stealth 2 <br>
Athletics 2<br>
Endurance 2 [F]<br>
Survival 2 [F]<br>
Ride 2 [F]<br>
Craft 2 [F] <br>
Performance 4 [F]<br>
Investigation 2<br>
Medicine 2<br>
Thrown 3 [F] <br>

<b>Backgrounds:</b><br>
Salary 3<br>
Celestial Manse 3<br>
Savant 2<br>
Sifu 2<br>
Artifact 2 (Starmetal chain shirt; see CB:D)<br>
Connections - Bur. of Seasons - 2<br>
Connections - The Guild - 1<br>

<b>Merits / Flaws:</b><br>
Lucky - 3 (1pt. M)<br>
Unusual Appearance (2 pt.) - Eyes flooded with a deep blue/purple, and hair
in a constant and wild disarray in what appear to be something like
blue/purple and streaked with silver dreadlocks. His skin has a very slight
tint of blue to it, though far less noticeable than (and almost nonexistent
by comparison to) his hair and eyes.<br>
Secrets - 1 pt (Highly Embarassing; details at the end of background
descrip.)<br>


Compassion 4, Conviction 4, Temperance 2, Valor 2<br>
Perm Ess 3, Will 8, Pers. 14, Periph. 38<br>

Colleges: Gull 1, Ship's Wheel 3, Lovers 3<br>


<b>Charms:</b><br>
Secrets of Future Strife (x2 base init for round 1 of combat)<br>
Joy in Adversity Stance (regain essence from successful defense)<br>
Blinding the Boar (become incomprehensible; suxx's add to diff. of opponent
to attack/dodge/affect you in any way)<br>
Marvelous Inclusion of Details (sxx-buyer on Investigation rolls)<br>
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery<br>
Demon of the First Circle<br>
Pain Amplification Strategy (opponent's wound penalties become a TN modifier
on attacks; also, can channel compassion into attack. Thrown.)<br>
Mark of Exaltation (+1 sx on all social rolls in heaven)<br>
Harmony of Blows (extra action charm for melee/thrown/brawl/archery)<br>
Defense of Shining Joy (scene-long persistent dodge of dex+dodge or
dex+performance, whichever is higher)<br>
Perfection in Life (auto-sxx's on performance rolls, I think. I forget.)<br>
Optomistic Security Practice (Add Ess. to B[[/L/A]] soaks for scene; attackers
with Ess less than your compassion must spend WP on each attack or lose
their ability to attack.)

Son of Mnemon and one of her consorts, Elan was raised among her
offspring with al lthe expectations of Exaltation that accompany a child of
such marvelous breeding (and beginning to show signs of aspect from so early
on in his life; at the age of a few months, his nurses were already laughing
about how he sneezed seawater.)

He was raised with assassination attempt after attempt made on his life,
both by siblings that did not need another contender for - what they felt -
would eventually be /their/ seat on the Scarlet Throne, and by other Houses.
None succeeded, as he seemed to have the devil's own eyes for such things -
it's not that he /knew/ his peaches had been poisoned, after all, it was
simply that on /that/ day out of a thousand he tripped and knocked them to
the ground, and when he went to pick them up the palace dog stole one before
he could get to it, and up and died.  Everyone on the kitchen staff was
executed for their failure to protect the food. Just, blind luck, really.

It was in his time in school that the attempts grew less frequent, then
stopped completely, as the realization came about that Exaltation was not in
his future. His private tutors were no longer needed, and there was no more
pressure for his future - he was worthless, and an oddity at that.

He did attend secondary school at the Thousand Scales. He was destined for
some cushy and unimportant position in the imperial treasury; and so it was
a surprise when a passing Magistrate (a Sidereal, in fact) offered him a
position as archon - and Mnemon Elan took it.

They did not travel together very long before the Magistrate - Cathak
Vitirial (Unfaithful Glory, in heaven) - began to instruct him in things
beyond the ken of mere mortal archons; it was in their travels together that
Journeys tightened the webs of Fate around Elan, and Exalted him.

He has, since, come to take a position in heaven similar to the one he one
he held in Creation - he makes of himself a travelling auditor and
investigator. Most often he brings about the weeding out of corruption among
little gods and local City Mothers and Fathers, but he does what he can to
improve the lives of humans as he passes through their towns (when it's
convenient for him; after all, he has more pressing business.)

His current goal - if he can be said to have one - is to pacify the growing
chaos in the threshold states as the Realm, reborn Solars, and the Mask of
Winters all begin to clash. [If [[ToT]] occurs in your game, nothing short of
the breaking half of Creation would stop him from making his way to check
out Autochthon.]

-Secrets:<br>

He is actually - unknown to Elan himself- the child of a water
elemental and a captured lintha pirate (concieved only a few minutes before
the elemental finished drowning the lintha.)

Mnemon traded children with a lesser elemental dragon of water - a censor,
specificallly - for aid in her endeavors for the throne (believing that with
the appropriate celestial pressures, she might find it easier to win her way
to the throne.)

The dragon sent her the child of one of his court attendant's instead of one
of his own (as was the deal). This was and is unknown to Mnemon and the
Sidereals both; the former is powerful enough in Essence to remember her son
and still communicates with him - and the latter accord Elan certain
respects and latitudes that he would not otherwise have if he was not the
direct descendant of the Empress and possibly one day a contender for the
throne itself.

Neither party would kill Elan if they discovered his true heritage, but it
would cost him socially in Heaven, and his 'mother' would surely attempt to
use him to her advantage - or perhaps banish him from her house entirely.