Lo’c Thua

The Masutomaindo

Lo’c Thua is the winner of the first masutomaindo event. Black magic has warped him into a very large and grotesque creature, but still he works his forge dutifully deep within Kagayakashi where others aren’t so inclined to stare.  Lo’c Thua is exceptional gifted working the forge however, also proving himself capable of advanced designs and engineering. He won Masutomaindo by producing a new framework of bodies for the automatons that utilized engineering concepts instead of loose ‘lets add magic’. Making them more repairable and also easier to animate.

He has no apprentices, friends, or family as far as anyone can tell. He resides in the depths of Kagayakashi where the hottest forges are kept to work tirelessly. He seems to be able to withstand huge amounts of stress to both his body and fatigue, as a black mage he has no notable powers. Instead he has his incredibly durable physique and bloated form.

Whats worse then a swarm of all consuming insects? A swarm of metallic insects that can produce more of themselves the more metal they consume. They still can’t eat stone though. They can also now regurgitate what they don’t wish to consume, allowing the swarm to keep on tearing things apart just for the deconstructive nature of it. While the insects that he can’t store in his body eventually die, limiting how much he can store, they can replicate rapidly once let loose. So he can’t consume tons upon tons of metal to keep an apocalyptic swarm on permanent stand-by, but once he gets started in a major area he can single handedly bring cities down if no one can find a way to stop him. Finally, his swarm can return to him to increase his physical abilities for a short duration. Most importantly, most of Divya tek has a metal base. Dyaus Pita won’t be happy to learn about this.

Much of Kagayakashi was shocked when Locust received the blessings of a champion, given how unpopular he is.

Su Pinpua’s champion level powers give her a reputation among the old civilizations as some sort of necromancer the likes of Saldis. In truth her abilities don’t quite control or animate the dead, but she makes it very hard for those around her to die. Able to regenerate people from even the woodchipper-rule as long as their head stays intact (she needs them to have a brain to save them), she no longer needs to be touching someone to apply her abilities. She is limited in scope of how many people she can keep healing at once, and the more she focuses on the less potent her healing is. But a small phalanx line with her behind it doesn’t really need to bother with the shields.

Thandar’s powers as a champion have left behind his crude and primitive shockwave abilities, just as he left his Ofrior home. Now he’s just telekinetic, capable of refined control over his environment in a variety of ways. His strength with it is enough to lift a house, and his precision capable of catching arrow volleys in mid flight and redirecting them.

Andelko’s abilities haven’t really changed much, he is interested in arm wrestling hercules right now though.

Halveti
Saldis’ Experiment

Halveti was found surviving in the southern wild lands at what remains of Saldis’ lair. A patched together collection of corpses given life, he wields the power of two black mages. In one hand he holds pyrokinetic abilities, in the other control over any metal he touches. He has joined the Aetas in the wake of being recovered, slightly dazed due to serious amnesia as a result from Naberius “interrogating” him. He is loyal by pure merit of having nowhere else to go, he could not survive in any other nation and its nice to be around people instead of rotting bone golems. Thandar has currently deployed him to assist Song Yi, figuring his metal control that injured Kinzoku could help in the upcoming conflicts. Also wanting to keep the unstable and aggressive newbie far away from Eret for now. At least he fixed Kinzoku before he left so she is operable once again.

The Seven Paladins of Divus

While the last seven may have died horribly, Jehovah has found their replacements. The Divus Imperium seeks to always have seven paladins if it can. However, the new roster is vastly more powerful then its predecessors. Up until now all pantheons blessed their champions with weapons of extreme power and capability. Jehovah has broken this tradition and given up the illusion that this was all that could be done. He has bestowed each paladin with an aspect champion’s blessing. Jehovah’s aspect.

One of three new gods to sit on the black pantheon, an ascended avatar of Si Da. His domain isn’t particularly exciting but he is popular amongst the people as basically the patron deity of entertainment. For now he tries to avoid the pantheon’s politics, expressing more interest in continuing his pursuit of art and the way of civilian life.

Quy Ong is something of an enigma, no one knows exactly where he came from. Just one day he showed up and was clearly a god so he got a seat. Quy Ong was thought to be a chaos aspect were it not for the fact that his followers don’t create enough possibilities to harm Eret. So he has taken the title lord of change, since it isn’t quite chaos but definitely wherever he is involved things become different. Settling into the Pantheon he has refrained from taking a political side just yet, for now he merely watches and absorbs the ongoing affairs.