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Ahn-Aru, Destiny's Queen

At over twelve hundred years of age, Ahr-Aru is currently the oldest Exalt surviving in the Age of Infinity. She is three hundred years older than the next-most senior member of the Bureau, her second-in-command Mellan Yumis of the Caste of Distances, and believes that she is at least a hundred years older than any surviving Lunars, as well as having centuries on those few Solars or Abyssals who survived the Threefold War.

Over the centuries, the leader of the Bureau of Destiny has moved a great distance from her life as Sad Ivory, the Bronze Faction inquisitor, and she often reflects on the irony that it is a member of the Division of Endings that currently serves as leader of the Sidereals. She privately feels that she is unsuited to the position, and had planned to retain it only until Yumis reaches one thousand years of age, at which point she intends to turn political power over to him and work primarily as an advisor. That time is still over fifty years away, however, and the return of the Void has left her wondering if there was a greater plan to her leadership.

As one of under thirty living survivors of the Second Age that she knows of - only three of whom she considers friends - Ahn-Aru is in a strange position, isolated by her knowledge and age, but well aware that she has millenia yet before her death. She takes refuge in the company of the gods, who at least remember the world as she lived it, instead of the strange new one that most take for granted. Where once she felt strongly that only the Sidereals had the ability to shape the course of the future, the near-destruction of Creation in the Threefold War, and the fact that the Solars were necessary to the defense of the world, has badly shaken her confidence. When the Celestials gradually rose, she did nothing to stop it, and in fact encouraged the end of the Bronze Faction in favour of a new policy of alliance that worked on the concept of bringing all Exalt groups together as equals - a task that was not difficult, as only one other member of the Bronze survived the Threefold War, and he was far younger than Ahr-Aru. When Markian's empire rose alongside the Scarlet Reach, Sad Ivory encouraged the growth of both nations, hoping that their careful diplomacy would prevent a single tyrant from taking hold of Creation. Here, she was supported by the Silver Sky, with whom the Bureau has worked out several careful treaties. She has made attempts to reclaim Markian's Sidereal servants, but none that could be construed as an attack by the Solar Emperor.

Recent events in the Wyldspan have shaken her to the core, however. In Markian's reign, Ahn-aru fears that she sees the early echoes of the madness of the Solar Deliberative, and she does not approve of Soren Naganis - nor does she know how his predecessor died. With the Void growing stronger simultaneously, and the Bureau still understaffed, Sad Ivory is beginning to fear that the Bronze was right, and that there is no way for the Solars to exist without casting Creation in jeapordy. To date, however, she has been unwilling to reinstitute hostilities, and the Bureau of Destiny follows strict guidelines of neutrality between the two nations.

At her heart, Sad Ivory remains someone who would prefer to be on the front lines, and she has done her best to remain able to take on problems directly, using her trademarked tendancy to combine front-line action with a degree of stealth that ensures that few of her foes realize she was present until it is too late.

Character Sheet

Caste: Endings
Motivation: Protect the population of Creation

Strength 5, Dexterity 6, Stamina 4, Charisma 3, Manipulation 5, Appearance 4, Perception 4, Intelligence 3, Wits 4

Distances: Integrity 2, Ride, Sail, Survival 2, Thrown
Serenity: Crafts (Fate) 4, Dodge, Linguistics 2, Performance 2, Socialize 6
Battles: Archery 6, Melee 3, Presence 2, Resistance 2, War 2
Secrets: Investigation 6, Larceny 2, Lore 2, Occult 2, Stealth 4
Endings: Athletics 4, Awareness 5, Bureaucracy 4, Martial Arts 7, Medicine 3

Virtues: Compassion 1, Conviction 4, Temperance 3, Valor 2
Willpower 8, Essence 6

Charms:

• First Excellencies: Archery, Athletics, Awareness, Bureaucracy, Crafts, Integrity, Investigation, Presence, Socialize, Stealth
• Essence Auspicious: Investigation, Socialize, Stealth
• Archery: 6
• Athletics: 4
• Awareness: 5
• Bureaucracy: 3
• Dodge: 2
• Integrity: 3
• Investigation: 4
• Martial Arts: Violet Bier Of Sorrows Style + First Ten Charms of Charcoal March of Spiders
• Melee: 4
• Medicine: 2
• Presence: 3
• Socialize: 4
• Stealth: 4

Combos: 3 3-Charm Combos

Colleges: 5/5/5/5/4 /3/2/2/2/2 /2

Backgrounds: Acquaintances 2, Artifact 5+, Backing 5, Connections [Bureau of Destiny] 5, [Scarlet Reach, Bureau of Humanity] 4 [Bureaus of Nature, Seasons, Abstract Ideas] 3, [New Imperium] 3, Manse 5, Salary 5, Savant 5

Note: At the moment, Ahn-Aru is one of approximately twenty users of Sidereal Martial Arts in all of Creation. To her chagrin, there are no surviving teachers of the Charcoal March, and she has had to rediscover the final Charms of the style for herself.