Genesis-2612
(a.k.a. Genesis)
Genesis-2612 is a warforged bard/artificer originating from the Town of Dafidev.
In the Two Terrors campaign, Genesis is one of the Dragon Slayers, alongside its traveling companions: its sibling, the cleric Revelation-129; the half-elf rogue, Varis; the tiefling paladin, Senix Rose; and the winged kobold, Dehal, until he became the caretaker of Lani.
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Personal history
Genesis was created in 5156 AW by the artificer Moses Ingolion using the Flame of Creation, following the death of his wife Zipporah and biological daughter Miriam. Within a year or two of its creation, Genesis was stolen (kidnapped?) by the half-elf rogue Varis, then a student of the College of Illusion at the Dafidev School of Wizardry, as part of a hazing ritual gone wrong. Varis fled Dafidev in shame soon after, bringing Genesis along with him.
After discovering its disappearance, Moses fell into further madness. Thinking Genesis left willfully, he concluded that giving it free will was his fatal mistake. Vowing to right his perceived error, Moses developed and completed Revelation-129 no more than a year after Genesis' theft. By not giving Revelations the Flame of Creation, it could only follow orders given by Moses and could not make independent decisions.
Upon Genesis' return to Dafidev in The Silver Scale, it was met by the... revelation... of the existence of its "sibling", Revelation-129, who greeted Genesis-2612 by name upon their meeting at the front gate of Dafidev's New Town. Revelations informed Genesis that they had come to return it to their shared creator, to which Genesis tacitly agreed. The Dragon Slayers, accompanied for the first time by Revelations, were ambushed by wights shortly after entering the town, and amidst the calamity a large building collapsed into the center of the plaza they'd been in; while combat had subsided, Revelations had been trapped by the rubble of the falling building, with Genesis promptly making the decision to rescue them (for which Revelations would surely have been grateful, if it were yet capable of such emotions).
Moving onwards, the other Dragon Slayers decided to let Genesis and Revelations to head to Moses' abode on their own, as the others kept forward to their quest's destination, the Eternal Archive. Genesis met with Moses for the first time since their departure, and it was able to reconcile with him over their disagreements and over his negligence as a father. As a way to make amends, Moses revealed that Revelations' lacked free will because they were never imbued with the Flame of Creation like Genesis had been. He then revealed to Genesis that the original Flame was still burning, and that it was located under the College of Artifice of the Dafidev School of Wizardry.
Reconvening with the other Dragon Slayers at the Eternal Archive, they launched a mission to steal Revelations some free will. And it worked! The boy had feelings now. He killed a vampire just to prove it.
As part of their mission to end the Haunting of Dafidev, the Party concocted a plan to go to The Seven Hells and stop malicious souls being sent to possess anymore of the town's dead. Genesis used their connection to the Music of Creation to perform the spell Legend Lore, which gave them the information that a) a white half-dragon had made a deal with a devil to send undead to assault the town, and b) that devil was the Archdevil of the Circle of Greed, Titivilus.
Dragon Slayers travel through Hell, Genesis was able to resist temptaion in the Circle of Lust, yet it faltered in the Circle of Gluttony, enticing itself with waters that increased the intensity with which their Flame flickered (+charisma) while also making their fragile porcelain exterior ever more brittle (-constitution).
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