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= Maheka Guvy =

Name: Maheka Guvy 
Concept: Sorcerer-engineer with a penchant for warstriders 
Aspect: Earth 
Nature: Architect 
Age: 28 

Maheka Guvy is as trim as most of the Lookshy residents and of average height. He keeps his blond hair very short and often wears a headscarf and goggles on his forehead. His uniform is usually dirty from all the grease and jade dust of the repair bay he spends much of his time in.

Attributes

Str 2, Dex 3, Sta 4 
Cha 3, Man 2, App 2 
Per 3, Int 4, Wits 3 

Abilities

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Archery 3 (Warstrider weaponry +1) (½ bonus points) 
Athletics 1 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Awareness 1 
Bureaucracy 2 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Craft (First Age Weapons) 5 (2 bonus points) (Working in haste +1, Tinkering +1) (1 bonus point) 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Endurance 2 
Investigation 2 
Linguistics 3 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Lore 4 (Shogunate-era designs +1) (1½ bonus points) 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Martial Arts 2 
Medicine 1 
Melee 3 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Occult 3 
Performance 1 
Presence 1 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Resistance 1 
Ride 2 
Stealth 1 

Backgrounds

Allies 1 (Yan Tu Lien, a sorcerer-technician Guvy went to the Academy with, also stationed on The Shogun) 
Arsenal 5 
Artifact 3 (Jade Hammer, a personal warstrider built from wreckage and spare parts) 
Backing (Seventh Legion) 2 (Sorcerer-Engineer) 
Breeding 1 (comes from a mortal family within Gens Maheka) (1 bonus point) 
Manse 3 (Gemstone of Perfect Passage, from a Manse owned by Gens Maheka (powers Jade Hammer)) 
Resources 3 (constructing and maintaining a personal warstrider isn't cheap) 
Retainers 1 (Mareseke Tsuraku, aide-de-camp and Maheka Idate, a mortal combat engineer trainee) 
Sorcery 2 (represents studies in the Academy) 

Charms

Wind-Carried Words Technique 
Elemental Bolt Attack 
Elemental Concentration Trance 
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery 
Flaw-Finding Examination 
Shaping Hand Style 
Ox-Body Technique 
Dragon-Graced Weapon 

Spells

Ritual of Elemental Empowerment 
Spirit of Might 

Virtues

Compassion 2 
Conviction 2 
Temperance 3 
Valor 2 

Willpower 5 
Essence 3 (10 bonus points) 
Personal Essence 9 
Peripheral Essence 24 
(Possible commitment costs: Warstrider 12, Horned Reaver 12, Smashfist + Elemental Lens 7, Ranging Eye 1)

Flaws:
Damaged Artifact (1 extra bonus point)

Personal Equipment:

Exceptional Short Sword (family heirloom) 
- Speed 8 Accuracy 8 Damage 6L Defense 7 Rate 3 
Small kit of artificer tools (diamond chisels, hammer, jade pliers) 
Grimy uniform 
Smashfist with an Elemental Lens (3 arsenal points) 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 6 Damage 7L Defense 8 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 9 Damage 1m/4L, max 4m=16L Range 60 
Dragonfly's Ranging Eye (1 artifact point) 

(when in field duty) 
Long Bow 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 7 Damage 4L / 2L,P Rate 3 Range 200 
Reinforced Buff Jacket 
- Soak 5L/6B (total 7L/10B, unarmored 2L/4B) 

Jade Hammer - Common Warstrider 
Soak 19L/19B (total 21L/23B) 
Hardness 10 
Str 12 
Mobility Penalty -7 
Fatigue Value 6 
(Lower soak and larger mobility penalty due to Damaged Artifact flaw. Guvy will try to fix these flaws (with xp) some day) 

Warstrider Gear:

Punch Blade (mundane, mounted in left arm) 
- Speed 8 Accuracy 6 Damage 18L Defense 5 Rate 3 
Shortbow (mundane, mounted in left arm) 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 8 Damage 16L / 14L,P Rate 1 Range 250 
(This is Guvy's modification of a Shogunate-era weapon - a shortbow that can be shifted into another attack mode, turning it into a punch blade [see pictures]. He hopes one day to design an artifact version of this)

Small Essence Cannon (2 arsenal points, mounted in right shoulder) 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 8 Damage 15B Rate 2 Range 75 (2m per shot) 
Dart Hailstorm (2 arsenal points, mounted in left shoulder) 
- Speed 6 Accuracy 13 Damage 7L Rate 1 (6) Range 200

Horned Reaver, a Grimcleaver (3 arsenal points, used against warstrider-size opponents) 
- Speed 19 Accuracy 7 Damage 25L Defense 8 Rate 3

Warstrider attunement cost: 12 (10 + 1½ from mounted Essence Cannon) + 12 (Horned Reaver, when used)

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