| origin = Steel
| titles = The Engine of Cycles<br />The Beginning-that-Ends<br />The Driver-Forth<br />The Propulsion Unending
| names = The Engineer, the ArchitectHephaestean, the TinkerModules
| aspects = {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|Winter}} {{Aspect|Heart}}
| arrival = c. 1800 .C.E.
=== Servants ===
* '''A Memory ==== The Engineer ==== {{Aspect|Forge|12}}{{Aspect|Moth|12}} Invention! Science! The future! The Engineer, Elizabeth von Marlenich when she was mortal, looks mostly human. Each part, however, has been painstakingly crafted or grown to replace the normal, awfully squishy human form, mirroring it in nothing but external appearance. Her clothes are riddled with endless pockets, strange inventions and little drones aplently which serve to make her a terrifying opponent, always with an appropriate invention at hand. She is inventor and iconoclast, the futurist and innovator of the Engine. She acts largely independently, and is perhaps the only Name of Creation'the Engine without a regiment, but with her more unusual sciences, harnessing the Glory and Nowhere, is easily as lethal. ==== Regiment 01001 'XIcion Division'====** Principles: Varies** ===== The Hephaestean, Maximilien Aulenmar ===== {{Aspect|Forge still holds within |12}}{{Aspect|Lantern|12}} The Engine first encountered the scourge of Nowhere when the [[Snake Tail with Appendages]] turned against it in the Fifth History. Maximilien Aulenmar, one of the cabal that first built the Engine in mind if none of the old organic body remained, took an interest in that problem. He formed Regiment 9 and became its director. He created a deepline of anti-Nowhere weaponry, abiding sorrow at what it did the first to experiment upon the Glory. Unlike the Engineer, however, he merely experimented upon Glory in its creatoraspect as possible armament. PerhapsKnowing the inimicality of Nowhere, he created also a light-bending cloak, if you tempt it allowing him to fade out of vision to ambush the creatures of Nowhere before they could respond. ===== Excision Unit ===== A series of different automaton refitted with sufficient Moth Glory-weapons particularly made to counter creatures of Nowhere. ==== Regiment 00110 'VItrification Unit' ==== ===== First Gunner Shimazu ===== {{Aspect|Forge|12}}{{Aspect|Edge|12}} The cheerfully psychotic experimentation upon little drones of Izumaki Shimazu turned out to be far more intense when transferred to ordinance. He enjoys very much huge explosions, which is why he converted all of his left arm, shoulder, and Winter ribcage into a giant artillery gun that meshed very nicely with the rest of his robotic body. Given that much of his main body has been given over to bring tears guns, he is very reliant upon drones for even mundane activities. ===== Vitrifiers ===== Earning their name when they turned the majority of an entire continent to its nonexistent eyesglass through their bombardments, the Vitrifiers are the artillery specialists of the Engine. Not merely content with regular explosives, it might show Vitrifiers specialize in exploding things that should not explode. When the air itself catches into a unquenchable blue fire and the ground beneath you a recording it took** Moth 10shudders, the Vitrifiers have come to bring ply their art. ==== Regiment 01010 'Xterminators' ==== ===== Alchemist-Superior Anastasia Avalov ===== Chemical weapons lady ===== Chemistry Team ===== Automata built to it memories deploy chemical and biological weaponry, they are rarely as impressive as the Vitrification Unit, but can wreak far more havoc. Being automata, the servants of the Engine have few easily disrupted organic processes that can be stopped through things as paltry as poison. And so they employ these with gleeful cheer, easily rendering entire swathes of terrain uninhabitable ==== Regiment 00001 'Ironclad'==== ===== Grand Protector Kashanji ===== Protector of its creator’s yearning for a better worldthe Great Observatory, Kashnaji found salvation in the Engine against the angry mob at his doors accusing him and Winter 2his charge of heresy. A competent if staid tactician, he is the only one of the Engine's servants to recall how those dreams were endedhave anything resembling military education. ===== Steel Legion ===== ** Welcoming Words: Before youHeavy automata, with static crackling designed to hold the line and slice down the rank and file and a sepia hissthe enemy. They are not flashy, appears nor will they conquer and crush before them at a brightlightning pace. But they are unsurpassed at grinding the enemy down with gatling-eyed young man with gun and implacable shield. ==== Regiment 00101, 'RaVening Skies' ==== ===== Skycutter, Belgutei Khan ===== Belgutei is not an airman, but aircraft. More accurately, the mind ruling a wide smileterrifyingly quick, terrifyingly well armed airplane. He isn’t quite physical… ratherOnce a horseman on the plains of the Fifth History, he found the liberty of the skies delightful, and continued to develop and develop and develop his access to it. ===== Terrors Above ===== Although Belgutei is himself a fighter, the Terrors Above, the heart of the RaVening Skies are despite their strong fighter contingent, bombers at heart.Cities, armies, even mountains themselves have been levelled before these competitors to the VItrifiers. “Hello! My studies told me something like this might happen** Forms*** He decays every 60s==== Regiment 00100, from 'IVocators' ==== ===== High Metatechnician Olympia Levasseur ===== Although a Bright-Eyed Young Man (because his name isn’t really John)creature of Forge and Heart and Winter, sometimes machinery requires more than merely that. Olympia rules this field, forging machines of Moth and Lantern and Edge and Grail and invoking these elements so unusual to a Sallow Manthe engine. ===== The Marvellous Mechanical Menagerie ===== Perhaps the most eclectic of the Engine's regiments, to the Menagerie is a Mad-Eyed Old Man*** Bright Eyed: He beams with an optimism unit of strange and joy nonstandard weapons and works with vigor automata. Madly shifting mech-assassins of Moth, ancient archaeotech History devices and lifeblazing Lantern radiance, all these are the provenance of the Menagerie. All ==== Regiment 01111, 'XVants' ==== ===== Referrer Wu Zhenwei ===== The XVants are the special operations teams of the Engine. Spies, logisticians, fortification-engineers, propogandists, strategists, many of the more tragicXVants may never see combat.The marvels he makes whirr Referrer is the head of these varied units, but also the coordinator and jump master strategist of the Engine's many forces, corralling them that they do not run wild but seek a single agenda and spindo it with optimal effectiveness. ==== Modules of the Reactor ==== ===== Humanoid Interaction ===== A vat grown cyborg, representing the Engine in Shesha. Equipped with a futuristic learning module, it was built to learn, to understand humans. Now, it is physically, almost reflecting harmless, with only a few weapons equipped within itself. But it has a friendly, approachable charm that conceals a mind that conspires and plots with the spirit best. ===== Cogitation ===== Built as a series of their creatorscattered drones, this Module was built to be the new Engine... Reactor's brain. (Heart 8Creative, adaptive, and brilliant, Forge 8)it also possesses an ego second to none ===== Conflict Prosecution ===== *** Terror-Eyed: His eyes now flicker from side to sideJust a giant automata, watching this is possibly the dimmest of the Engine's children. It compensates for persecutors that aren’t quite therethis with strength, that were devoured so long agostrength overwhelming. Strength designed to be pit against even an Hour... ===== Construction ===== Builds things, as he was… (Moth 10, Forge 10)deep within the Engine. === Marks ===* '''The EngineerNotion: Progress'''It has occurred to me that I could spur on a new golden age for man.** Principles'''Dedication: Forge 12Progress''' I will be the anathema and end of this world's stagnation, so I swear. The wonders and marvels of technologies that could be dance at the edge of my mind, and sometimes, Heart 12they dance with my hands. ** Temptations'''Ascension: Progress''' The Engineer is always busy. If she’s not maintaining heart of the great Array atop Engine, the Mansuslocus of its power, there’s always another machine I breathed in that needs an upgrade power and it lingers in me. It warms me, fills me with fervour and oh! Another great idea that could so easily be implemented! But she occasionally spirit. The fire within the heart, this I know is the Third Mark. * '''Ascension: Progress'''The Tinkerfire will not be contained, it spreads, but it does not devour, merely builds anew. I think differently than I ever have now, in mathematics and sciences and arts most brilliant. The fire has spread to my mind and this is the Fourth Mark '''** PrinciplesAscension: Forge 8Progress''' I burn now. My heart, my physical heart, is warm like the heat of a furnace. My limbs whirr and whistle like mechanisms, and my blood pools in strange blackness. The fire burns through my body, Moth 8this is the Fifth Mark ** Temptations'''Ascension: Progress''' All I see now is artifice and invention. I cannot look at a chunk of metal without imagining how it might be a steam-engine, cannot look at a mountain without seeing a great fortress-factory over it. Sometimes, what I see becomes real. The Tinker isn’t one. He fire has burned without now, and that is several thousandthe sixth mark. * '''Buzzing DroneThe Roar of Change'''** Principles: Edge 8Once I was human, but no human thinks so inhumanly, no human burns so warmly. I walked the path of those great forefathers who built a god, Heart 8** Temptations: The and the Engine doesn’t just loan its creations to anyone! But a substantial enough invocation smiled upon me for that. I passed into the heart of Forge the Engine, and some Heart to prove you can take care the flame of it its change burned away me, and reforged me, changed me. Now what I am is new, what I am blazes and it’ll lend you a particularly minor entity*** No rebellion** Opening Words:burns. Long live me! And of course... the Engine...
== Locations ==
=== The Histories ===
* '''The City of Barricades''': Change is not just invention, it is revolution. And revolution is not just industrial. It is political. Here, once, in the Sixth History, a revolutionary rose against the tyranny of Empress Matilda. The First Consortium
* '''The Prometheus Institute for Higher Education''': Backed by the notable engineer Maximillian Cherault, the Prometheus Institute for three decades recruited the best and brightest scientists, engineers, and mathematicians to its secretive campus in the Alps. The strange stories and esoteric theories coming from the Institute eventually led the Suppression Bureau to investigate. They found nothing. Not even people; Cherault was well-connected. Yet near nothing of the team returned. Perhaps you might try find out why…
** Generic mountain-thing
** “The workings of the Mansus and the Glory some say are incomprehensible. Immutable. Eternal! Not to my machines. Not me. Not me!” You wake up a day later, cradling in your arms… Something. It is warm to the touch. The book is gone. But something remains, lingering in your mind...
* '''Die Werkzeuge des Machens''': German. Requires a certain level of scholarship, slot in 1 cash, receive
** Elizabeth von MettersteinMarlenich, a minor German aristocrat and disciple of the still-pseudonymous ‘John Smith’ wrote at great length upon the inefficiencies in her master’s works, the whole time muttering arcane mechanical esoterica. She writes with a certain force, giving absolute instructions and orders to the reader, who certainly does feel like a hapless apprentice afterwards
** It’s hard to see Elizabeth as a protege rather than rival of ‘John’ after this. She constantly curses the crudeness with which his machines were constructed. In between the tirades, she makes remarks regarding how with certain tools, the appropriate tools, certain aspects of the Mansus can be twisted…
* '''Report 12-B ‘Damocles’''': Grants the Rite of Revolutions, dread, and Forge lore
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