K’Vekri of the Telling Hands
A tall, serpentine Vishkanya with smooth, slate-gray skin and a voice like a silk-wrapped knife. Their eyes shift color slowly with their mood — green for curiosity, violet for calculation, red for danger. K’Vekri wears layered desert-woven wraps stitched with mirrored beads and whisper-thread, shimmering faintly when light or secrets touch them. Their movements are fluid, precise, and unsettlingly quiet, like a predator that doesn’t want to eat you… yet.
They often stand in shadowed thresholds or beneath listening arches, one hand on the hilt of a ceremonial blade, the other never still — tracing old codes into the air. A ring of memory-keys hangs from their belt, each tied to a story they stole or preserved. The air around them smells faintly of myrrh and ink.
Spymaster, infiltrator, and keeper of dangerous truths, K’Vekri is the Loom’s hidden thread — they connect, constrict, and sever as needed.
Physical Description
- Skin is smooth and slate-gray, with an almost metallic luster in moonlight.
- Their long black hair is braided with whisper-beads and thin veils that rustle like turning pages.
- Robes are layered and asymmetric, designed for concealment and comfort, stitched with subtle silver glyphs that seem to vanish when stared at.
- Their eyes never rest in one color for long, shifting as their thoughts do.
Mirrorlace Hood
A hood or cowl lined with shimmering thread that catches reflections from nearby thoughts and surfaces.
- The Mirrorlace Hood allows K’Vekri to subtly read emotional states and surface thoughts from those within close proximity. This insight is not exact, but enough to anticipate reactions or redirect conversations with uncanny precision.
- When pulled over the head, the hood creates a magical veil of suggestion that alters how others perceive K’Vekri’s voice, posture, and facial features, blending them with ambient impressions and expectations.
- Once per day, K’Vekri may trigger the hood’s mirror-drop, casting an illusory afterimage of themself that mimics their last several movements or phrases. This decoy lingers for a few seconds — enough to mislead a pursuer, distract a guard, or escape a conversation unscathed.
Virtues & Perks
- Believes that information is a kind of sanctuary — that knowing the truth can protect or destroy entire cultures.
- Known to plant false narratives as gently as sowing seeds, waiting for them to bloom into influence.
- Trains the Loom’s Needle Eyes and whisper agents in the art of silent intervention.
Religious Beliefs
K’Vekri privately venerates the Veiled Archivist — not a god of murder, but of discretion, silence, and dangerous knowledge.
Mannerisms
- Silent Circling: Often walks in slow arcs during conversation, never staying directly in front of someone for long.
- Finger-Trace Rituals: Traces old dialects in the air while thinking — especially regional scripts thought extinct.
- Stilled Breath: In tense situations, they seem to stop breathing entirely, becoming unnervingly still.
Speech
- Speaks in a soft, measured tone, with a slight hissing cadence — every word feels chosen, every pause strategic.
- Their stories are brief but layered — never just answers, always implications.
- Known for ending debates with a single whispered word that feels heavier than a shout.
Class: Rogue (Mastermind Archetype)
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