| 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 and a sepia hissAppendages]] 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, appears a bright-eyed young man with a wide smiletook an interest in that problem. He isn’t quite physical… ratherformed Regiment 9 and became its director.He created a line of anti-Nowhere weaponry, the first to experiment upon the Glory.Unlike the Engineer, however, he merely experimented upon Glory in its aspect as possible armament. “Hello! My studies told me something like this might happen** Forms*** He decays every 60sKnowing the inimicality of Nowhere, from he created also a Brightlight-Eyed Young Man (because his name isn’t really John)bending cloak, allowing him to a Sallow Man, fade out of vision to a Mad-Eyed Old Manambush the creatures of Nowhere before they could respond. ===== Excision Unit ===== *** Bright Eyed: He beams A series of different automaton refitted with an optimism and joy and works with vigor and lifeGlory-weapons particularly made to counter creatures of Nowhere. All the ==== 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 tragicintense when transferred to ordinance.The marvels He enjoys very much huge explosions, which is why he makes whirr converted all of his left arm, shoulder, and jump and spin, almost reflecting ribcage into a giant artillery gun that meshed very nicely with the spirit rest of their creatorhis robotic body. (Heart 8Given that much of his main body has been given over to guns, Forge 8)he is very reliant upon drones for even mundane activities. ===== Vitrifiers ===== Dakka. ==== Regiment 01010 'Xterminators' ==== *** Terror===== Alchemist-Eyed: His eyes now flicker from side Superior Anastasia Avalov ===== Chemical weapons lady ===== Chemistry Team ===== Automata built to side, watching for persecutors that aren’t quite there, that were devoured so long agodeploy chemical and biological weaponry, they are rarely as impressive as he was… (Moth 10the Vitrification Unit, Forge 10)but can wreak far more havoc * '''The Engineer'==== Regiment 00001 'Ironclad'==== ===== Grand Protector Kashanji ===== Defensive robot. Cabal member ===== Steel Legion =====** Principles: Forge 12, Heart 12** Temptations: The Engineer is always busyHeavy automata. 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 ===== * Just a giant automata, this is possibly the dimmest of the Engine'''The Tinker'''** Principles: Forge 8s children. It compensates for this with strength, Moth 8** Temptations: The Tinker isn’t onestrength overwhelming. Strength designed to be pit against even an Hour.. He is several thousand. ===== Construction ===== Builds things, deep 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
