Sheshan Sarn
Fighter, Rune Knight
Sheshan Sarn
Species
Tectonic Forged, Star-Sand Calibrated
Appearance
Obdurate-09 is assembled from chiseled black granite plates fitted over a dense bronze lattice. His joints are wound with narrow bronze coils that flex with a muted scrape, while an intense violet Star-Sand core glows behind thick lead-glass in his chest. The glass is not perfectly clear. Fine silver bubbles drift through it whenever he thinks deeply, making his chest seem filled with a slow purple storm. His movements are massive but unnervingly precise, each foot settling as softly as a dropped coin. The unexpected contradiction is his hands, broad enough to crush a lockbox, yet carefully polished and delicate from years spent handling coded seals. Within a minute of meeting him, people notice that his breathing sounds like a distant kiln drawing air, but when he is rattled, the breath stops completely and every nearby metal object gives a faint sympathetic tremor.
“His voice is a low, breathy resonance with a faint sibilant undertone, as if words pass through heated sand. Each sentence begins cleanly and ends with a soft metallic hiss.”
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Distinguishing Features
A violet Star-Sand core glows behind thick lead-glass in his chest, with silver bubbles drifting through it when he is distressed.
His bronze-wound joints make a faint dry scraping sound during ordinary movement, but his calibration can suppress it entirely.
He has polished granite fingertips designed for delicate lock and seal work.
When rattled, his breathing ceases and nearby metal objects vibrate in sympathy.
A three-knot Cinderwake cipher is engraved beneath his left shoulder plate, partially covered by later repairs.
Voice
“A restrained subterranean rumble, breathy at the edges and threaded with a dry sibilance. His voice feels more heard through the soles of the feet than through the ears.”
Clothing
A soot-dark vaultwarden's coat hangs from bronze shoulder brackets, reinforced with chain-lined panels and stitched with the Cinderwake Exchange's discreet three-knot cipher. He wears a narrow purple sash containing coded brass tags, a hooded heat-cloak for ash storms, and thick leather wraps around his wrists despite having no flesh beneath them.
Body Language
He stands with his feet planted like structural supports and turns his whole torso instead of merely his head. He lowers himself slightly when speaking to frightened people, but rises to full height around authority figures. When angered, his fingers close one at a time and his breathing vanishes, leaving only the low hum of the Star-Sand core.
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