Hephaestus

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	Member Information
Player:	Bear
Number:	2012100002
Domain:	Adelaide

	Hephaestus
Concept:	A Cantankerous Artificer
Path:	Obrimos
Order:	Mysterium •
Consilium:	Adelaide --
Legacy	(Forgemaster)
Cabal:	N/A
Player:	Bear Stephens
Storyteller:	Adelaide VST

Personal Information

INFORMATION HERE IS CONSIDERED OOC UNLESS OTHERWISE MARKED.

Appearance

Early 40’s, six foot flat, broad shouldered, the embodiment of ‘burly’, fat and muscle stacked in measure, and hairy to boot! Heavy English/European features, hard to place, and hands like hammers. A mane of wiry mostly-black hair, and a long beard like burnt steel wool, hints of both red and grey belying a complex heritage. Easily 130kg soaking wet, with rough, olive skin and brown, wild eyes; eyes haggard from many a late night before a hot fire and an early sun.

Hephaestus, in his mortal life, keeps it incredibly simple with grey short sleeve shirts, a leather apron if he’s working, cargo pants, and boots. Rarely does he wear a watch, sometimes a jacket. He may carry a black duffel bag of some of his equipment. Might sometimes wear a flat cap. Post-Awakening, Hephaestus has been looking more into his heritage, striking out in a kilt with the ubiquitous Royal Stewart (Red) tartan, a dirty-as-hell once-cream Jacobite shirt with the sleeves rolled up, possibly even furs, if not just a nice coat. Sometimes he’ll wear leggings or tall socks with his kilt, sometimes not. He always runs his kilt breeched – no point having your balls hang free. His kilt belt, with Pentacle buckle, sports many belt attachments, one for a fancy leather tome, one for a fancy leather hip flask, some kind of pouch here, a case there, one a sheath for a… Is that a hammer? Never mind the large, red claymore slung sheathed over his shoulder.

Nimbus

Long Term Nimbus: Symbolic Craftsmanship is emboldened, weak craftsmanship is destroyed; the good seems better, the bad seems worse.
Immediate Nimbus: Waves of heat and a full-body wreath of Supernal blue fire, like combusting mana.
Nimbus Tilt: TBA
Signature Nimbus: Supernal hammer marks on the Patterns of nearby objects, scorching and/or cleaner, sharper craftsmanship.

Personality

In Mortal Life, Hephaestus is fairly muted, with a light Scottish twang to his accent, but he otherwise keeps his lid on - the dangers of Mage life are too great to risk outbursts of any kind. He gives everyone space, and generally tries to get on by in the background. With regard to the Supernal, and occasionally when he can't hold his tongue with Mortals, Hephaestus is loud, brash, lightly insulting at all times, incredibly cynical and equally filled with bravado, with a fresh dab of that classic brand of Scottish Elitism - 'Everything's better when it's in/from/by/about/for Scottish.'
He's a fighter and a lover, but mostly a fighter; he'll defend his kin and clan, trusts like a dog, and bites when that trust is broken - real heart of gold amongst layers of a shitty life that was salvaged by Awakening.

Characteristics

Likes

Drinking
Fighting
Making Things
Bonnie Lasses
Simple, Effective answers to Complex Problems

Dislikes

Seers
Genuinely Rude People
Wasted Potential
People With Their Heads Up Their Asses
Fancy Talkers

Specialties

Fighting; He's not the strongest ever, or the best trained, but Hephaestus can take a hit over and over, and keep coming.
Crafting; All things, moving or not, with specific specialty in Smithing. You want a weapon or armour made? Hephaestus makes arms for the Gods.
Soon: Item Imbuing; Hephaestus is rapidly progressing toward a goal of being an Artificer, a creator of imbued and enhanced items.

Hobbies

Cooking
Cleaning
Workshop Maintenance
Inventing
Leatherworking
Drinking
Fighting
Fucking.

Mortal World

Sleeper Alias: Scott Watson
Sleeper Occupation: Fully featured masterwork provider of metalwork and engineering services.

Known Information

He might be Scottish, he's possibly an Obrimos, and he says he's Mysterium. He might also make things.

Timeline

1975-2012: Hephaestus' Mortal life in Scotland.
2013: Late in the year Hephaestus Awakened. He traveled to numerous locations of spiritual and pre-Christian religious significance in Scotland to 'see if they were real', and gain what insight he could. Up until now, his life had been a directionless mess, and his few good skills squandered utterly in their potential. What he experienced there changed him almost as much as Awakening did, and it spurred on his decision to seek the Supernal as his life's goals.
2014: Got into a loud fight with Seers, paradoxed a casting of Aetheric Winds, burnt them inside and out. Moved to Australia shortly after, on recommendation of a local Mysterium member. Was put in contact with No-One, joined the Mysterium not long after. Was sent through to Adelaide after No-One helped him set up the alias of Scott Watson, and a good house purchase in the Hills (Location TBA), well away from the City. He even set Hephaestus up with a Hallow. First learned about Supernal metals from the archives of the Mysterium. Adelaide's Consilium seems to have just collapsed, so Hephaestus goes into hiding; this puts a damper on his Supernal growth, but allowed him to focus on his forgework out of his shed, and establish a business presence in short order.
2015: Unfortunately, the Consilium didn't last, and appears gone. Hephaestus, fearing the Seers in the City without Mage support, digs in and fortifies his life to be utterly ignored by the world. He 'borrowed' stone and straight lumber with Invisibility and Control Sound, and, using careful casting of Shaping, interspaced with hand-built buttressing, created a hall-sized room under his house, fully stone, supported as though it was built before the house; there's no door, just a slab of steel over the staircase. In this hall, he sets up his proper forge and arcane workspace, almost like a Greek temple. He extends himself online, and quickly earns a reputation as one of the best smiths in Adelaide under his alias Scott Watson, capable of work of a many-man team, and even offering clandestine engineering services; secret doors and hidden caches to boot. His quality of work was quickly noticed, and his clientele base rose in rapid succession, eventually smithing swords for Regis' family - his first contact with an Adelaide Mage. Otherwise, he kept his head well down.
2016: Kept his head down as best as possible, but took a risky outing during the storms that were rocking Adelaide. He ventured out to vacant beachheads where Sleepers had long fled home, to cut swaths out of the storm's body with Forces magic, saving homes by lessening the adjacent stormy areas. He played it cautious, taking more risk upon himself to ensure an absence of sleepers, but accounting for both his injuries and the mana he spent on the spells, he burned through his entire accumulated supply of tass in one night.
2017: Kept his head the hell down, although it appears the Adelaide Consilium has finally regained some measure of stability. It might be time for Hephaestus to make a quiet appearance, and restart his studies.

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Quotes

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"What do you think of that, Mr. Pajama-Wearing, Basket-Face, Slipper-Wielding, Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stoochie, Cally-Breek-Tattie?" - Hephaestus, to a Stranger.
"CELTIC MAGIC!" - Hephaestus, when explaining something Supernal he probably didn't have the answer for.

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