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Alabaster Sphere Guardian (level ?? Artifact)

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Originally designed as peacekeepers and protectors in cities and important First Age establishments such as libraries and museums, Alabaster Sphere Guardians were common law enforcers during the First Age. Numerous cities and settlements contain the ruined hulks of their vast white bodies. They default to the shape of great spheres of purest white, six feet in diameter. The Guardians can roll themselves across any solid surface at tremendous speed and with very little sound unless they are in terrible disrepair. They are able to roll up walls or columns, even those not actually able to support their weight. They can pause, clinging to surfaces without moving or even hurl themselves off the surface they are rolling upon to throw themselves at a target.

Sphere Guardians are able to affect enough repairs on themselves via internal tools and self-repair enchantments that they do not actually require anyone to keep themselves active though if they suffer extensive damage they do have difficulty repairing themselves without access to spare parts and materials.

Generally Sphere Guardians are assigned to protect and police a city, settlement or even a specific building. Such Guardians are given instructions at the time of their creation or assignment and carry these out unfailingly, with blind obedience. In rare cases, however, they were created to be the personal guards or servants of specific Exalted who can command them verbally. Reprogramming a Sphere Guardian is a difficult task that involves first disabling the Guardian, opening a hidden access panel to its innards and reworking many of its internal processes.

Guardians are fully intelligent, able to understand and interprit complicated orders and memorize vast amounts of legal or cultural information to enforce proper behaviour or act as proper guardians. They do, however, lack much in the way of initiative and drive. They are totally unoriginal, completely direct and unable to think outside the box at all. They are devoted to their orders and will under no circumstances deviate from them in the slightest. Sphere Guardians speak Old Realm and are both unable and uninterested in learning new languages.

When faced with those who are in violation of the rules they have been instructed to uphold, Sphere Guardians will relentlessly persue them and attempt to subdue them non-fatally unless they encounter resistence too heavy to overcome by non-fatal means. If they are able to subdue their targets then the Spheres generally report to whatever authority rules over them that they have done so and stand by their targets, awaiting further instruction or removal of the troublemakers.

Sphere Guardian Stats

AttributesArtifact/B>
Physical: Strength 5, Dexterity 10, Stamina 8
Social: Charisma 0, Manipulation 0, Appearance 3
Mental: Perception 5, Intelligence 3, Wits 5

<B>AbilitiesArtifact/B>
Brawl 4 (Trample 3), Endurance 3, Resistance 3, Crafts 2 (Repair 1), Melee 5 (Self-Defense 3), Dodge 5, Athletics 5, Bureaucracy 2 (Law 1), Larceny 2 (Theft Prevention 1), Survival 1 (Tracking +2)

<B>AdvantagesArtifact/B>
Virtues: *Artifact, never fails Valor rolls, never succeeds on anything else.
<B>EssenceArtifact/B> 2
<B>WillpowerArtifact/B>: 10

<B>HealthArtifact/B>: -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, -0, Incap
<B>Armor and SoakArtifact/B>: Armored Metal-Ceramic Shell
LethalArtifact/I>: 25 (5 armor)
<i>BashingArtifact/I>: 25 (5 armor)
<i>Hardness: 20

<B>AttacksArtifact/B>
TrampleArtifact/I>: Speed 18, Accuracy 20, Damage 15B, Defense 0, Rate 2
<I>Dodge PoolArtifact/I>: 15