Chosen Of Secrets

 

Life is a mystery. A person may spend his entire existence trying to unlock the secrets and mysteries of life. The answer to this mystery lies ultimately in one’s destiny and how one attains it. The Primordials created the Maiden of Secrets to watch over this most elusive facet of fate and Creation. All that which is hidden and guarded over are hers to know and to influence. Now, this stewardship falls to the Chosen of Secrets, who must uncover and keep safe the most dangerous and the most mundane of mysteries as they carry out the secret dictates of fate.

In the First Age, the Chosen of Secrets were given the twin tasks of overseeing the great libraries of the Solar Empire and managing the Bureau of Magistrates who investigated crime and treason. Under the Chosen of Secrets, the lore of all Creation was carefully collected and catalogued, while all secret deeds were uncovered and punished. It was the Chosen of Secrets who orchestrated the overthrow of the Solars, and it was they who cloaked their fellow conspirators from discovery. When the surviving Solars fled, it was the Chosen of Secrets who uncovered their secret lairs, and when the last of the Solars had fallen, it was the Chosen of Secrets who used their secret magics to chain the Solars’ Exalted souls.

In the wake of the Great Contagion, the Chosen of Secrets worked to gather and preserve all that they could of the wisdom and lore of the First Age. Once collected, these secrets were carefully doled out to those whose power and success would best benefit the Chosen of Fate and their plans for the world. In addition, the Chosen of Secrets uncovered the last vestiges of the Fair Folk’s once powerful armies and of the Great Contagion and saw to it that this information found its way into the hands of those Dragon-Blooded and Lunars best able to destroy them.

The Bronze Faction Chosen of Secrets act as the leaders of that sect. They oversee the development of the Realm and attempt to guide it toward the fate they prophesied during the First Age. To further this goal, the Chosen of Secrets act as advisors to the Great Houses of the Scarlet Dynasty, oversee the instruction of future generations of Dragon-Blooded and act as the secret masters of the All-Seeing Eye. Gold Faction Chosen of Secrets are the least numerous caste within that faction. Those that follow the Gold Faction are the most involved in attempting to sway Bronze Faction and independent Sidereals to their side. They are also the most successful at locating and mentoring young Solars and guiding the champions of the Unconquered Sun toward a destiny the Gold Faction finds pleasing. Independent Chosen of Secrets are the most mysterious of their ilk. They undertake schemes that are complex even by Sidereal standards, and some are even believed to deal with the Deathlords and the Yozis in order to advance their arcane agendas.

The Chosen of Secrets are always born among those steeped in secrets and hidden lore. They are born to families of librarians, historians and heretics, as well as those of crime lords, spy masters and witches. As secretive as they are, the Chosen of Secrets rarely seek to dwell among mortals. Instead, they are often more comfortable in private libraries and Manses, as well as among the halls of Yu-Shan.

Caste Markings: The eyes of every Chosen of Secrets have green irises, and their pupils appear to be filled with minute green flecks, causing them to resemble a star-filled night sky. During powerful expenditures of Peripheral Essence, the Sign of Secrets appears upon the Chosen’s forehead, formed of bright green light.

Anima Effect: The Chosen of the Maiden of Secrets can make the Lesser Sign of Jupiter at a cost of 10 motes. This sign causes the Chosen’s anima to extend out as a brilliant green aura that laps around all those under the anima’s effect. For the rest of the scene, the Chosen of Secrets and all of her allies within (the Sidereal’s Essence x 10) yards cannot be subjected to magical mind control or have their thoughts read. The effect of the anima dissipates if a recipient moves out of range of the Exalt employing it.

Auspicious Abilities: Chosen of Secrets are influenced by those celestial constellations that serve as part of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy. They are the Guardians, the Key, the Mask, the Sorcerer and the Treasure Trove, and they grant the Chosen of Secrets a natural affinity for the Abilities of Investigation, Larceny, Lore, Occult and Stealth.

Common Natures: Architect, Bureaucrat, Conniver, Critic, Explorer, Judge, Paragon, Savant, Survivor, Visionary

Associations: The color green, the element and season of water, the astrological house of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy

Sobriquets: Heaven’s Eyes, Oracles

Concepts: Deep-cover agent of the Gold Faction, director of the Wyld Hunt, demon-hunter, the most devious crime lord in all Creation, spy master of the All-Seeing Eye, power behind several thrones, Realm historian, mentor to newly Exalted Solar

 

 

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