Normin Alviss
Normin Alviss is a male Halfling Promethean and the Information Officer of the Kairos crew.
Normin was born to Halfling Smiths Alf Alviss and Edda Alviss in the ruins of New Caledonia in 971 AB. Alf and Edda, along with their employer, an Artificer named Sindri, were fleeing Daimonic forces that had destroyed the Halfling colony of Shadycave in late 970 AB.
Normin's early life was plagued by frequent Daimon attacks, repelled by Alf and Sindri while Edda protected Normin. When the small family was safe, they traveled from settlement to settlement, selling whatever trinkets Sindri could artifice out of salvaged materials, searching for a safe way out of Daimonium. During this time, Normin once chewed several failed prototypes of a programmable arcane explosive Sindri had tried to create, accidentally triggering a successful detonation when throwing it away. It took five years before the quartet were able to escape into Fabrica.
The group exited Daimonium in Midgard, near the ruined town of Atalis. They explored the town, searching for any signs of life. they found fresh blood and the corpses of several Half-Elves, before hearing an explosion from one of the few intact three story structures. Normin raced toward the building, arriving just in time to be crushed by a two year old Human boy. The boy was bleeding profusely from his right side, where his arm had been severed above the elbow. When Alf searched the building, he found two more dead Half-Elves, a man and a woman.
The boy didn't speak for several days, but the family took him with them on their way to Atlantis, and after they had left Atalis, he started to call out "Al!", earning him the name Allen. Over the next few months he began to learn Common and befriended the older but smaller Normin.
They finally reached Atlantis in early 977 AB. Sindri was able to find work contracting for Able Manson, who invested in a workshop and commissioned twenty-four Atlantean Automatons. They were arcanomechanical vessels made to house El directly without a need for a mortal counterpart. The first batch were filled with spirits provided by Able, including Iota and Omega, who adopted Allen and designed an arcanobionic arm to replace the one he lost.
The makeshift family stayed together, and the workshop grew to become the premier artificing institution in Atlantis, taking on the fashionable name of One Iota. Normin and Allen were life-long friends, and when Eksu Skyrunner moved into Skyrunner Manor across the plaza from One Iota in 994 AB, he joined the two, making fast friends.
In 995 AB, Normin joined the Promethean Order and was chosen by Drabk, the Sharak of Okbra, the leader of the order, as his apprentice. Normin spent the next four years traveling across Fabrica training under Drabk in the ways of the Promethean. He learned to harness his mind to pry into others, and was recruited by Thoth in 998 AB to serve as the Information Officer of the Kairos.
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