The Ghost/Autochthonian Terrestrials
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The Dragon Blooded of Autochthonia
When Autochthon went into exile he had no way of knowing who among the millions of people he snatched from creation happend to have a trace of the heritage of the Elemental Dragons. These unfortunate few sometimes had children that exalted as Dragon Blooded, and those children often came together in adulthood to have Dragon Blooded children of their own. So it went for hundreds of years, and with the Advent of the Alchemicals the Dragon Blooded became the legates and assistants to Autochthon's Chosen as they had been to the Solars before them. Over time however a change began to take place among the Dragon Blooded: children exalted who were not from any of the five known aspects but rather had elemental affinities based on the elements of their new home, Crystal, Lighting, Steam, Metal, Oil, and Smoke.
At first shunned by the 'normal' Dragon Blooded over time these 'freaks' came together and had their own children, who grew up straight and true to their parent's new bloodlines. Born to be heroes they refused to surrender to social isolation and ostracism and within a few centuries were considered part of the structure of Dragon Blooded society, though almost always kept to separate bloodlines by the 'old blood' families.
Today Gents of all eleven bloodlines of terrestrials serve the Alchemicals as their assistants and shock troops. thanks to the work of the Dragon Blooded the crisis of the Great Maker's body is much less than it might be, though a crisis it still is. The Dragon Blooded of the 'Old Blood' are all but gone from Autochthonia, but the six new types have risen up to take their place, and are going strong today.
The Six Types of Autochthonian Terrestrial
The Six Autochthonian Breeds of terrestrial are each similar to some of the old breeds of terrestrial, with one exception, that of Smoke, which takes on a small amount of the abilities of each other breed but is directly correlated to none. The Ability Packages and Anima Powers of Each breed are listed bellow.
Crystal
Crystal Aspects are mentally acute, being tied to the mind of the great maker. The most closely embody the secret and potent wisdom of the sleeping god and partake of his natural brilliance. As such their abilities are Integrity, Occult, Melee, Resistance, and Computers.
Anima of the Crystal aspect
Animas of the crystal aspect are jagged sharp edged affairs typically taking the form of massive spires of crystal or exomachina such as crystalline dragons or even projections of the divine ministers. They often are accompanied by the crackle of electricity or the hum and click of computers.
The Anima power of Crystal aspects is to interface with the gods of autochthonia. When their anima flares the crystal aspects may add (essence rating/2) dice to all rolls to interact or negotiate with any autchthonian sub god of less standing than a divine minster or the least god of any machine or artifact. (This bonus also explicitly applies to the pattern spiders that tend the Loom of Fate, should this ever become relevant.) Furthermore when their anima effect is in play Crystal aspects take on some of the durability of adamant and may soak lethal and aggravated damage with their full stamina, as well as adding their essence to their stamina for all other purposes.
Steam
Lightning
Lighing's powers are heat, celerity, energy, and power: they form the energy that powers the great maker and conducts his thoughts to all parts of Autochthonia. Lighting finds the shortest path and locates the missing link, while empowering the tools on which the Octet depend. As such the abilities of the Lightning Aspect are Lore, Firearms, Awareness, Presence, and Investigation.
The Anima of the Lighting Aspect
Ligning aspects animas are sizzling yellows and blues, clashing with the sound of thunder and smelling of ozone. In form they typically resemble lions or eagles or else are elaborate electrified mandalas.
Lightining Aspect's animas are raging coronas of energy: for a cost of five motes they can inflict (Essencex2) dice of bashing damage on anyone they touch or who touches them and force any person who takes at least one point of damage from the attack to save or be stunned at DC 3. This damage does nothing to the lightning aspect themselves or their possessions but can ignite flammable objects without sufficient resistance to electricity, such as cloth and paper, and will almost certainly fry any electronics it comes into contact with that are not protected by being in the possession of a lightning aspect.
Metal
Oil
Oil's powers are lubrication and potential: they are tied to the circulatory systems of the great maker and partake of the hallowed blood that flows through his veins. As such their aspect abilities are Sail, Socialize, Martial Arts, Performance, and Linguistics.
Anima of the Oil Aspect
The anima power of Oil is similar to that of the Wood Aspect, becoming immune to poison and their touch conveying poison, except that they become immune to all artificial poisons instead of plant based poisons. Neither are immune to animal poisons.
Smoke
The Anima power of smoke is to purge the body of disease. All diseases natural and artificial are purged from the body when their anima flares. However this comes at a price, the diseases so purged infect everyone within 1d yards at the time who is not immune to disease or another Smoke aspect.
Modern Times
It was among the 'Old Blood' of the terrestrials that the idea of Project Razor first occurred to the people of Autochthonia, some 5 years ago. The originator of the plan was an Earth Aspect of Yugash named Chanel of Esoteric Wisdom, an adjutant to Yugash's National Tripartite. She reasoned that the cache's of magical materials mined by the people of Yugash must be running out for a reason: and after consulting with many of the Alchemicals came to a shocking conclusion: Autochthon had planed to stay in the Void for thousands of years: but not almost Five Thousand. Parsing records and examining historical accounts she published a modest analytical paper on recurring resource shortages, which drew a simple but shocking conclusion: the great maker had prepared himself for an exile of only 4000 years. The paper made no judgements on the prudence of this choice, nor what was to be done about having remained in exile over 800 years too long, but the paper found willing ears among many of the more learned members of Autochthonian Society, including Fair Spoken Reshi, who saw to it that it was distributed among most of Autochthonia's other nations as well. Soon many national tripartites came to the same conclusions as Chanel of Esoteric Wisdom from examining their own records. Slowly but surely a new idea spread among the leadership of the Eight nations and the three great city states: "Project Razor", a charm to breach the seal of eight divinities and return to Creation. Subtly encouraging this from behind the scenes were 'old blood' terrestrials in every nation, who reasoned that if they had endured in Autochthonia then surely others of their bloodlines had endured in creation and could infuse new life into their flagging families, or provide them refuge in escaping from the World/God of Autochthon.
