**Race:** Oilblood — merged with the essence and parts of a slain [[Automatons|automaton]] (long taken for a [[Shadowforged]]-design automaton)  
**Age:** Unknown  
**Gender:** Undefined  
**Core Personality:** Silent, methodical, ritualistic in action.  
**Location:** [[Voxiu]] – [[House of Suits Casino]] / wherever debts need collecting

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### Appearance

- **Build & Stature:** Tall, broad, heavy plating beneath black coat.
- **Hair:** None.
- **Eyes:** Single violet lens in featureless mask.
- **Skin:** Metal alloy hidden under illusion.
- **Apparel:** Black suit with spade‑embroidered lapel; black gloves always stained with ash.
- **Distinguishing Features:** Heart‑shaped indent burned into left palm.

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### Voice & Speech

- **Tone & Pitch:** Low, mechanically filtered.
- **Mannerisms:** Never speaks unless alone with victim; places a black spade card beside corpses.

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### Motivations & Goals

- **Primary Motivation:** Preserve the myth that “Luck always balances out.”
- **Fears / Dangers:** Self‑awareness breaking through its conditioning.
- **Personal Secrets:** Shadowforged fragment embedded in core; may be sentient and haunted by voices of its victims.
- **Hidden History:** Before its transformation, the Spade was the secret lover of [[Commander Taylor - Commander Taylor's Manor|Commander Taylor]] — a bond from a life it no longer recalls, and Taylor's most dangerous vulnerability.

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### Background

- **Origin:** Rumored to be a repurposed automaton assassin from a Crown of Ashes war vault.
- **History:** Appeared shortly after the House was founded; no record before then.
- **Current Occupation:** Final collection agent and House executioner.

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### Associations

- **Factions:** [[House of Suits Overview|House of Suits]] (primary); possibly Shadowforged or Crown of Ashes technology remnant.
- **Allies:** Obeys [[Mr. Greenfelt – "The Diamond"|Mr. Greenfelt]] only.
- **Rivals:** Any who question the House’s “balance.”
- **Contacts:** None verified.

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### Notes & Flavor

- Rumor: “Every deck has a spade; when yours is drawn, so are you.”
- Moves without sound; cigarette smoke dies in its presence.