Shantak/MahekaGuvy

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

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