3.6 KiB
3.6 KiB
Details:
Name: Oils Race: Automatons — small, Archivist-Class leanings (an appraiser, not a fighter) Age: Unknown; well-worn. Gender: Presents and answers to masculine ("he"). Core personality: Earnest, generous to a fault, and quietly brave — an investigator who finishes the job even when the job turns out to be worse than promised. Location: Caford, Falduhir — lodging at The Pigskin.
Appearance:
- Build & Stature: Small and compact, easy to overlook — which has kept him alive.
- Plating: Scuffed and dented, freshly the worse for a hard trip into the mountains.
- Eyes: A single careful lens that lingers when he's reading something — a relic, a face, a lie.
- Distinguishing Features: Carries an observer's plate (it recorded the Ashfall Squad's route into the mountains) and a rare stone slate — a device that stores information and memories, and lets him appraise the arcane weight of an object.
Voice & Speech:
- Tone & Pitch: Soft, precise, a little tired; warms when he's being thanked and deflects it.
- Mannerisms: Draws close and drops his voice for anything important; studies an object with the slate before he'll say a word about it.
Motivations & Goals:
- Primary motivation: To be useful and to repay what he owes — he completed the task Janos set him even after it turned deadly, and lost a friend doing it.
- Fears / Dangers: The House of Suits Casino, whom he fled; being traced as the party's informant on Felix Tanner - Vault Singers' Church (a confidence he begged them to keep).
- Personal Quests or Secrets: No hidden agenda — a loyal, re-hireable ally. His slate and his eye for relics are his gift to the cause; he simply wants to help the people who helped him.
Background:
- Origin: A small Automatons investigator who fell in with the party's orbit after they aided his escape from the House of Suits Casino.
- History: Janos tasked him with tracking the fate of the Ashfall — Oils rode the observer's plate into the mountains, confirmed the squad entered through a cave mouth connected to the mines, and watched it be reported flooded the next day. He came back with the route, the "the The Collapsed Reach is an objective" insight, and a single name: Felix Tanner - Vault Singers' Church.
- Current Occupation: Investigator and relic-appraiser; presently resting at The Pigskin, coin all but given away, on a room from Karen - The Pigskin.
Associations:
- Allegiances & Factions: None — a free agent loyal to the party and to Karen - The Pigskin, who took him in.
- Allies & Friends: The party (especially Janos); Karen - The Pigskin; a lost friend from the mine expedition.
- Rivals & Enemies: The House of Suits Casino and the circle carving up the map at the Casino — a meeting where he placed a man matching Commander Taylor's Proposition and the Spade standing watch.
- Contacts & Networks: Read the party's Ring as bound to The Explorer, a renowned name in Faken history; knows the mountains and the flooded cave firsthand.
Notes & Flavor
- Studies everything with the stone slate before speaking — a beat of silence, then the truth.
- Gave most of his coin away and had to be talked into keeping the rest.
- The observer's plate and the slate make him a walking archive — the very thing the Vault Singers' Church exists to preserve.