Cruxis

Name:	Cruxis
Gender:	Male
Birthdate:	12 Ascending Fire 741
Height:	175 cm
Weight:	77 kg
Eye Color:	Green
Hair Color:	Blonde
Skin Color:	Tan
Caste:	Zenith
Nature:	Bureaucrat
Attributes
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Charisma:	●●●
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Manipulation:	●●●
Perception:	●●●
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Wits:	●●●●
Compassion:	●
Conviction:	●●●
Temperance:	●●●
Valor:	●●
Willpower:	●●●●● ●●●
Essence:	●●●●
Limit:	2
Abilities
Archery:	●●●
Athletics:	●
Bureaucracy:	●●●
Endurance:	●●●
Investigation:	●●
Larceny:	●●●●
Linguistics:	●●
Lore:	●●
Martial Arts:	●
Medicine:	●●
Melee:	●●●●●
Occult:	●●
Performance:	●●
Presence:	●●●●●
Resistance:
Ride:	●
Sail:	●
Socialize:	●●●●
Survival:	●●●●●
Languages:	High Realm, Riverspeak, Old Realm
Backgrounds
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Charms Deft Official's Way Ox-Body Technique Essence-Gathering Temper Willpower-Enhancing Spirit Armored Scout's Invigoration Ten Magistrate Eyes Body-Mending Meditation Grievous Injury Recovery Method Seasoned Criminal Method Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise Golden Essence Block Dipping Swallow Defense Bulwark Stance Fivefold Bulwark Stance Retrieve Fallen Weapon Call the Blade Summoning Loyal Steel Excellent Strike Hungry Tiger Technique Fire and Stones Strike Heavenly Guardian Defense Solar Counterattack Spirit-Detecting Glance Spirit-Cutting Attack Respect Commanding Attitude Harmonious Presence Meditation Hypnotic Tongue Technique Command Voice Listener-Swaying Argument Rose-Lipped Seduction Style Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit Element-Resisting Prana Wise-Eyed Courtier Method Mastery of Small Manners Infinite Possibility Slash

Cruxis is a solar exalted of the Eclipse caste in the Forgotten Suns campaign, played by Wordman.

Personality

Fun-loving, charming but occasionally a bit of a sleazebag. Willing to let others do the work. Very intolerant of the undead, but without knowing exactly why.

Appearance

Cruxis looks and speaks very much like Hugh Grant.

History

Torvis Ryal, who now calls himself Cruxis, spent most of his life in the Imperial City, studying to become a minister in the Thousand Scales. Blessed with charm and a gift for numbers, he was appointed to a minor post within the Imperial Treasury. He enjoyed his three years in the treasury, particularly the influence it gave him, but considered his off-hours more important. In spite of his wife and child, he spent a good deal of time carousing and having affairs as high up the social ladder as he could climb.

His crowning achievement to that end was to woo Nellens Marrianna, a well connected dragon-blooded magistrate. While in bed with her in her countryside cottage, he exalted, a memorable (and intensely pleasurable) experience for both of them.

Rather than flee in terror from this new anathema, Marrianna help conceal him. True to her house, Marrianna saw in him a unique opportunity, both long and short term. Knowing full well that he would need to run sooner or later, Marrianna suggested a plan: until he was discovered as anathema, Ryal would use his position in the treasury to embezzle funds for Marrianna and route funds to the (indirect) advantage of House Nellens. In return for the jade, Marrianna would keep silent and help conceal his new nature and illegal activities for as long as possible. Further, should he be exposed as an exalted, she vowed to help him escape the Realm. Though the plan was dangerous, Ryal had few options, so agreed.

After hiding in the cottage until his anima calmed, Ryal enacted the plan. Ever the bureaucrat, he was able to manipulate the system for eight months before being detected. While constantly fearing being exposed as anathema, he was actually caught first for embezzling and imprisoned.

True to her word, Marrianna manipulated her way into heading the investigation and had Ryal brought before her. During their meeting, she informed him that she had arranged an escape for him on the way from her offices back to his cell. Further, she had arranged a secret transport to the Scavenger Lands. He thanked and kissed her, then broke away from his guards as planned. Once free, however, he abandoned Marrianna’s plan and enacted his own.

Fearful that he may not be able to rely on Marrianna, Ryal had managed to stash away a fairly decent hoard for himself as well. While he had appeared over the previous eight months to be carousing as he always had, he was, in fact, arranging his own escape. He relied on an influential friend: Madras Ophiel, a former lover and mid-ranking member of the Guild. With her help, he managed to get to Lookshy without incident, leaving his wife and child far behind him.

Taking the name Cruxis, he spent the next two years visiting every city in the Scavenger Lands, storing his stolen funds to numerous banks and guild houses, as well as investing in various enterprises.

While in Great Forks, he began to feel the pull of the manse where he met the circle.

Psyche

Confident to a fault, Cruxis tends not to think too far ahead, trusting his charm and exalted nature to get him out of trouble. While he has a general concern for the well-being of mortals, he has a hard time mustering much consideration for individual humans he runs across. More often than not, he tends to consider mortals he meets as tools, particularly women.

Normally cool and collected, he tends to be enraged by the presence of undead or demons, with an urge to set them on fire. He does not understand this urge, which disturbs him.

While travelling, he took great pains to keep his exalted nature secret, and was never suspected. As a result, he hesitates to spend peripheral essence.

Goals

Cruxis misses his old life, where there were rules to follow and everything got done correctly. He has found a new set of rules in trade and finance, and wants to get better at these.

Experience

Improvement	Cost	Spent	Time	Instructor	Location
Archery to 1	3	3	144 hours	Adrios	Manse
Archery to 2	2	5	48 hours	Adrios	Manse
Archery to 3	4	9	96 hours	Adrios	Manse
Endurance to 3	3	12	0 hours	self	Manse
Larceny to 3	3	15	0 hours	self	Manse
Melee to 4	5	20	0 hours	self	Grey River
Dipping Swallow Defense	8	28	32 hours	self	Grey River
Retrieve Fallen Weapon	8	36	8 hours	self	Grey River
Call the Blade	8	44	32 hours	self	Grey River
Summoning Loyal Steel	8	52	48 hours	self	Grey River
Seasoned Criminal Method	8	60	48 hours	self	Nexus
Excellent Strike	8	68	16 hours	self	Achipelego of the Exiles
Socialize to 3	3	71	0 hours	self	Achipelego of the Exiles
Socialize to 4	5	76	0 hours	self	Achipelego of the Exiles
Hungry Tiger Technique	8	84	32 hours	self	Achipelego of the Exiles
Sail to 1	3	87	144 hours	Crew of Dawn's Edge	Western Ocean
Medicine to 2	2	89	96 hours	Crew of Dawn's Edge	Western Ocean
Essence to 3	16	105	0 hours	self	Western Ocean
Occult to 2	2	107	96 hours	Crew of Dawn's Edge	Western Ocean
Bulwark Stance	8	115	48 hours	self
Melee to 5	7	122	0 hours	self	Grey River
Fivefold Bulwark Stance	8	130	80 hours	self
Spirit-Detecting Glance	10	140	32 hours	self	The Lap
Grevious Injury Recovery Method	10	150	64 hours	self
Larceny to 4	5	155	0 hours	self
Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise	8	163	64 hours	self
Spirit-Cutting Attack	10	173	64 hours	self	Mine
Ox-Body Technique	8	181	24 hours	Gutts
Listener-Swaying Argument	8	189	48 hours	self	Mine
Mastery of Small Manners	8	197	32 hours	self	Mine
Rose-Lipped Seduction Style	8	205	48 hours	self	Yugash
Presence to 4	5	210	0 hours	self	Yugash
Presence to 5	7	217	0 hours	self	Yugash
Linguistics to 2	2	219	48 hours	????	Yugash
Hypnotic Tongue Technique	8	227	80 hours	self	Yugash
Command Voice	8	235	80 hours	self	Yugash
Lore to 1	3	238	144 hours	????	Yugash
Lore to 2	2	240	48 hours	????	Yugash
Willpower-Enhancing Spirit	8	248	48 hours	self	Yugash
Ten Magistrate Eyes	8	256	48 hours	self	Yugash
Heavenly Guardian Defense	8	264	64 hours	self	Yugash
Strength to 3	8	272	384 hours	???	Yugash
Fire and Stones Strike	8	280	48 hours	self	Yugash
Solar Counterattack	8	288	64 hours	self	Yugash
Infinite Possibility Slash	21	309	463 hours	self	Yugash
Survival to 3	3	312	0 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit	8	320	48 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Survival to 4	5	325	0 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Survival to 5	7	332	0 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Element-Resisting Prana	8	340	80 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Essence to 4	24	364	576 hours	self	Autochthonian Reaches
Ride to 1	3	367	288 hours	self	On the road. Finished in Autochthonian Reaches

Items of Note

• Articulated plate
• Dragon Figurines
• Incandescent Razor
• Shell Necklace
• Short powerbow
• Sikunare's Gift

Data

• Character sheet
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