Cirno's Characters

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Cirno

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System: Crucible (Excession), early version/variation of

---Potential---

---Keeper of the Akashic Records---



Prime Aspect: Potential


Titles & Epithets: Keeper of the Akashic Records


Typical Appearance: A stocky girl shuffling along in a silk shirt and overalls of a strange material, her skin a dark evening blue.


Other Favoured Forms: An ornate, black and blue porcelain urn, filled with the warm comfort of ennui under its domed lid. A pale and graceful male youth with deep blue eyes, wearing a flowing white tunic and strange cloak.


Tell: Wrapped or clothed in the space between the stars, she is always dimly outlined in the glow of long-dead heavenly bodies.


Personality: Potential never sleeps (except when her greatest power is used). She has a lot of time on her hands. When Potential has a face, it shows boredom. Beautiful things can catch her interest for a while, but they have to be exceptional to please her. While her expressions are subtle, the strength of her emotions is always plain in her realm. Potential tends to be a quiet observer. Her favourite past-time is to watch gathering tensions, be they internal or external, amongst mortal or fae. When the spring is sufficiently wound though, she no longer has interest.


Flaw: The end result doesn’t fascinate her as much as the process. She rarely monitors or personally completes anything to its final stages. Thus, finishing one of her projects is a common trade for a Touch of Inspiration.


Aspects: Potential 3, Depression 3, Super-Consciousness 2, Enlightenment 2


Relationships:


Weakness: Despair


Alliance: Mystery


Superiority: Inertia


Bonuses:


Blackhole of Courtiers: Many want her favour, seeking inspiration for everything from battle plans to artistic endeavours. Mortal Witches usually to want to keep her favour.


Touch of Inspiration: She can offer the briefest of glimpses at the records of all knowledge. Only sentient non-mortals can understand this burst of super-consciousness. Lesser creatures and mortals tend to become utterly depressed.


Answering Mortal Summons: Sought by mortals, they allow her to open temporary passages into their realm. These portals are one-way only. When Potential uses them, she cannot return to her own realm until she Sweeps Aside the Subconscious Curtain. Others who use them have to find their own means to return, if there are any.


Signature Powers:


Deep Blue Phase: Potential radiates this power when she finds nothing decent to observe. Any before her who have sense of sight are drained of motivation and energy until they are no longer near her. Even Fae below noble status succumb to depression and non-existence in her Deep Blue Phase.


Cost: 10 Gossamer, always committed


Sweeping Aside the Subconscious Curtain: When Potential touches a mortal with this great power, she grants his mind comprehensible access to the records of all knowledge; he is briefly Enlightened. Expressions of Enlightenment include mathematical formulas, philosophical texts, sublime paintings, displays of martial prowess, etc. Most go insane or catatonic if they are unable to fully express themselves before it fades. The gifted mortal gives Potential a bonus to Aether income.


Potential goes comatose or takes the form of an inanimate object for a duration after Sweeping Aside the Subconscious Curtain. Potential wakes in her own realm, regardless of where she used this power. (See also Aurora Stagnans under Realm Effects.)


Cost: all committed Gossamer revoked; any Gossamer exceeding storage is converted to Aether at the usual rate

---Eternal Twilight---
---Land of Languid Brilliance, Oasis of Ennui---



Realm Title: Eternal Twilight


Other Titles: Land of Languid Brilliance, Oasis of Ennui


Nature: Her vast realm is made entirely of crumpled paper wads and creased sheets. Peering into it from the vague borders, the paperscape resembles a winter taiga, with towering coniferous trees and fields of snow. It is easy to know when you are in Eternal Twilight due to its most prominent feature, the sky coloured by the missing sun.


Layout and Landmarks: The sun sits eternally below the horizon, the cloudy sky shifting with her moods. It is usually a dusky purple. Occasionally it becomes grey-blue, the false promise of dawn, when Potential strongly feels some emotion.


Her seat of power and court can be anywhere, manifesting as a pocket summer warmth that moves slowly across the realm. Within her court, the papers write themselves, words blossoming across the pages until they are completely black with ink. As one moves further away, the air turns cooler and the words move more lethargically. Further out, the words do not come and the ink comes free of the pages, drifting upwards to form the evening clouds.


Court: All are free to pass through both her white realm and her black court. Most who make it to the court are courtiers for other Fae Nobles or lucky mortals. Potential usually finds their interactions amusing, and rarely intervenes. She has no constant sentient companions, although a flock of silver peacock-pheasants likes to sleep in the cooler area surrounding the court. They feed on the fading ink of the white realm, snatching up the wriggling wisps before they reach the clouds. A quill made from one of their feathers never loses its glossy sheen or runs out of ink.


Realm Effects:


Whiteout: To stay overlong amid the blank white papers means eventually losing one's sense of self. Overlong would be a full segment, if one had a way to tell in Eternal Twilight. It is certain death for mortal beings. Non-mortals may regain their senses when the aurora flashes from Sweeping Aside the Subconscious Curtain, giving them a chance to escape.


Aurora Stagnans: Whenever Potential Sweeps Aside the Subconscious Curtain, a dazzling gold and red aurora dances through the sky for half a segment, heralding the whiteout about to descend upon the entirety of Eternal Twilight. Her black court vanishes as the aurora fades. This complete whiteout lasts as long as she is comatose.

---Shapings---


Aether: 7


Stored Gossamer: 3/30


Committed Gossamer:


Powers: 10 (Deep Blue Phase)


Realm: 30 (Realm, irrevocable); 0 (Realm Expansion) + 10 (Black Court) + 7 (Chairs)


Creatures: 0*


*Silver Peacock-Pheasants self-sustaining. Aspects of Potential 1 and Beauty 1