The Verum

BLUE = BOOK 3

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Alexander achieved—or rather, created— a living miracle with the Verum.

Alexander carved Mind runes over and over inside a large, egg-shaped ball entirely made from mithril. This ball was about the size of a human head and looked remarkably like a skull. Its inside was hollow, its outside solid, and there was one opening at the very top.

Alexander carved spatial runes and other runes at the top, turning it into spatial storage of sorts. By the time he was done, the ball could hold hundreds if not a thousand Mind runes. He crafted a large Mind rune on the back of the ball and then connected that into the network the smaller Mind runes were linked to, integrating them all into one large, loosely connected field.

He then filled this ball with smaller balls of mythril with Mind Runes. He kept doing this until the entire thing was filled with Mind balls, sealed the whole thing, and activated it.

It was at that moment Alexander realized he’d just made life.

All Verum:

• Ars

  • Male

  • Fast Learner Skill

  • Automaton Mage Class

  • Can manipulate things with their mind and their magic.

  • Has a body of mithril and orichalcum. He also wears a scarf made from the solid black fur of a creature called a nightstalker filled with enchantments. This scarf increases any stealth or deception skills enchanted into the fur.

    • The scarf is enchanted with self-repairing, self-cleaning, piercing-resistance, and spell-resistance enchantments. It also has two active enchantments he can use which are a Concealment field and a Disinterest field, giving him a measure of stealth that rivals invisibility by both hiding his form and discouraging anyone from noticing him in the first place.

    • His head has been placed in a heavily filled cavity inside his chest and there’s a gold core below it, a network of orichalcum veins holding it in place.

  • Full of life and curiosity

• Alice

  • Female

  • Automaton Mage Class

  • Straightforward, simple, and direct.

  • Can manipulate things with their mind and their magic.

  • A body just like Ars’ but more feminine.

    • Her scarf is red rather than black, and she had designed more offense-oriented enchantments to accompany it, such as a charge ability and a small battery that could be discharged to knock people away from her on command.

• Ardhan (Ardhanarishvara)

  • Does not identify with any gender.

  • The name, according to Alexander, comes from an androgynous form of the male deity Shiva and female deity Parvati.

  • Refuses to have a suit of armor made for themselves because they did not plan to ever fight anything.

  • Can manipulate things with their mind and their magic. They can also make themselves levitate and craft purely with their mind, since they didn’t really have an actual body.

  • Automaton Mage Class

  • Enchanter Class

  • Blacksmith Class