| 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 of Creation'''** Principles: Varies==== The Engineer ==== {{Aspect|Forge|12}}{{Aspect|Moth|12}} ** Invention! Science! The future! The Forge still holds within it a deepEngineer, Elizabeth von Marlenich when she was mortal, looks mostly human. Each part, however, abiding sorrow at what it did has been painstakingly crafted or grown to its creator. Perhapsreplace the normal, awfully squishy human form, if you tempt mirroring it in nothing but external appearance. Her clothes are riddled with sufficient Moth endless pockets, strange inventions and Winter little drones aplently which serve to bring tears to its nonexistent eyesmake her a terrifying opponent, always with an appropriate invention at hand. She is inventor and iconoclast, it might show you a recording it took** Moth 10the futurist and innovator of the Engine. She acts largely independently, to bring to it memories and is perhaps the only Name of its creator’s yearning for the Engine without a better worldregiment, but with her more unusual sciences, harnessing the Glory and Winter 2Nowhere, to recall how those dreams were endedis easily as lethal. ==== Regiment 01001 'XIcion Division' ==== ** Welcoming Words: Before you===== The Hephaestean, Maximilien Aulenmar ===== {{Aspect|Forge|12}}{{Aspect|Lantern|12}} The Engine first encountered the scourge of Nowhere when the [[Snake Tail with static crackling 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 sepia hissline of anti-Nowhere weaponry, appears the first to experiment upon the Glory. Unlike the Engineer, however, he merely experimented upon Glory in its aspect as possible armament. Knowing the inimicality of Nowhere, he created also a brightlight-eyed young man bending cloak, 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 a wide smileGlory-weapons particularly made to counter creatures of Nowhere. He isn’t quite physical… rather... “Hello! My studies told me something like this might happen** Forms*** ==== 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 decays every 60senjoys very much huge explosions, from which is why he converted all of his left arm, shoulder, and ribcage into a Bright-Eyed Young Man (because 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 guns, he is very reliant upon drones for even mundane activities. ===== Vitrifiers ===== Earning their name isn’t really John)when they turned the majority of an entire continent to glass through their bombardments, to the Vitrifiers are the artillery specialists of the Engine. Not merely content with regular explosives, Vitrifiers specialize in exploding things that should not explode. When the air itself catches into a Sallow Manunquenchable blue fire and the ground beneath you shudders, the Vitrifiers have come to a Madply their art. ==== Regiment 01010 'Xterminators' ==== ===== Alchemist-Eyed Old ManSuperior Anastasia Avalov =====*** Bright Eyed: He beams Chemical weapons lady ===== Chemistry Team ===== Automata built to 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 an optimism gleeful cheer, easily rendering entire swathes of terrain uninhabitable ==== Regiment 00001 'Ironclad'==== ===== Grand Protector Kashanji ===== Protector of the Great Observatory, Kashnaji found salvation in the Engine against the angry mob at his doors accusing him and his charge of heresy. A competent if staid tactician, he is the only one of the Engine's servants to have anything resembling military education. ===== Steel Legion ===== Heavy automata, designed to hold the line and slice down the rank and file and joy the enemy. They are not flashy, nor will they conquer and works crush before them at a lightning pace. But they are unsurpassed at grinding the enemy down with vigor gatling-gun and lifeimplacable shield. All ==== Regiment 00101, 'RaVening Skies' ==== ===== Skycutter, Belgutei Khan ===== Belgutei is not an airman, but aircraft. More accurately, the more tragicmind ruling a terrifyingly quick, terrifyingly well armed airplane.The marvels Once a horseman on the plains of the Fifth History, he makes whirr found the liberty of the skies delightful, and jump continued to develop and spindevelop and develop his access to it. ===== Terrors Above ===== Although Belgutei is himself a fighter, the Terrors Above, almost reflecting the spirit heart of the RaVening Skies are despite their creatorstrong fighter contingent, bombers at heart. (Heart 8Cities, armies, even mountains themselves have been levelled before these competitors to the VItrifiers. ==== Regiment 00100, 'IVocators' ==== ===== High Metatechnician Olympia Levasseur ===== Although a creature of Forge 8)*** Terror-Eyed: His eyes now flicker from side to sideand Heart and Winter, watching for persecutors sometimes machinery requires more than merely that aren’t quite there. Olympia rules this field, that were devoured forging machines of Moth and Lantern and Edge and Grail and invoking these elements so long agounusual to the engine. ===== The Marvellous Mechanical Menagerie ===== Perhaps the most eclectic of the Engine's regiments, as he was… (the Menagerie is a unit of strange and nonstandard weapons and automata. Madly shifting mech-assassins of Moth 10, Forge 10)ancient archaeotech History devices and blazing Lantern radiance, all these are the provenance of the Menagerie. * '==== Regiment 01111, 'XVants'==== ===== Referrer Wu Zhenwei ===== The Engineer'''** Principles: Forge 12XVants are the special operations teams of the Engine. Spies, logisticians, fortification-engineers, propogandists, strategists, Heart 12** Temptations: many of the XVants may never see combat. The Engineer Referrer is always busythe head of these varied units, but also the coordinator and master strategist of the Engine's many forces, corralling them that they do not run wild but seek a single agenda and do it with optimal effectiveness. If she’s not maintaining ==== Modules of the great Array atop Reactor ==== ===== Humanoid Interaction ===== A vat grown cyborg, representing the MansusEngine in Shesha. Equipped with a futuristic learning module, there’s always another machine it was built to learn, to understand humans. Now, it is physically, almost harmless, with only a few weapons equipped within itself. But it has a friendly, approachable charm that conceals a mind that needs an upgrade conspires and oh! Another great idea that could so easily plots with the best. ===== Cogitation ===== Built as a series of scattered drones, this Module was built to be implemented! But she occasionally the new Engine... Reactor's brain. Creative, adaptive, and brilliant, it also possesses an ego second to none ===== Conflict Prosecution ===== * '''The Tinker''Just a giant automata, this is possibly the dimmest of the Engine's children. It compensates for this with strength, strength overwhelming. Strength designed to be pit against even an Hour... ===== Construction ===== ** Principles: Forge 8Builds things, Moth 8** Temptations: The Tinker isn’t one. He is several thousanddeep within the Engine.
=== Marks ===
=== 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