Vulcan

Name: Vulcan File no.: MN02 Operator Class: Defender Branch: Juggernaut Faction: Minos Position: Melee Trait: Cannot be healed by allies Gender: Female Experience: 2 Years Place of Birth: Minos Date of Birth: April 30th Race: Forte Height: 170 cm Infection Status: Shows physical signs of Oripathy, infection confirmed by medical examination. Strength: Excellent Mobility: Standard Endurance: Excellent Tactical Acumen: Standard Combat Skill: Standard Originium Arts Assimilation: Normal

Story: Vulcan is a Forte blacksmith from Minos who came to Rhodes Island after contracting Oripathy. She reached an agreement with the organization that allowed her to receive treatment while working as its resident smith. Vulcan maintains and modifies weapons for other Operators and also joins field missions when her strength is needed. Her workshop became both her workplace and living space. It contains highly advanced machinery alongside a traditional forge and anvil that she still uses by hand. Vulcan believes craftsmen must adapt to changing technology without abandoning the principles that give their work meaning.

Vulcan later encountered Ceobe after the wandering Perro was brought to Rhodes Island. She examined Ceobe’s unusual axe and recognized Minoan craftsmanship in the weapon. Vulcan read the name engraved on it and gave Ceobe the nickname Kay before agreeing to sponsor her application to Rhodes Island. She became a guardian figure for Ceobe and helped her adjust to life aboard the landship. Vulcan also continued repairing equipment for Operators such as Matterhorn and taught younger engineers that a weapon must reflect the needs of the person who carries it rather than the preferences of its maker.

Appearance: Vulcan has very fair ivory skin and a tall slim athletic build. Her eyes are vivid red. Her ash gray hair is cut around jaw length with blunt bangs. Two large black horns curve upward from the sides of her white hood.

She wears a white hooded inner coat beneath an oversized black jacket with broad lapels and metallic snaps. A black cropped top shows beneath the neckline. A narrow black choker with a cyan geometric detail circles her neck. Short black bottoms sit beneath the coat with a utility belt and small cylindrical canisters at the waist.

One leg is exposed above a black knee high stocking and dark strapped shoe. Her other leg is a black mechanical prosthetic with exposed joints and small gold components beneath angular shin armor. She carries a massive charcoal shield with reinforced panels and a large white angular stripe across the center. An axe head is mounted along one side. Her other weapon is a compact heavy hammer with a dark angular head and straight metal handle.

Personality: Vulcan is quiet and intensely focused on her craft. She has little interest in subjects unrelated to weapons and can appear distant when approached without a practical reason. Her reserved manner does not mean she lacks concern for other people. Vulcan pays close attention to how Operators use their equipment and understands that many of them form strong personal attachments to their weapons. She treats repair work as a responsibility to the person carrying the weapon rather than a simple technical task. Her belief in modernization is balanced by a deep respect for traditional smithing.

Ceobe has one of the strongest personal bonds with Vulcan. Vulcan recognized that Ceobe needed stability and patiently helped her understand what joining Rhodes Island would mean. She agreed to become her sponsor and later took on a protective role in her life. Ceobe trusts Vulcan deeply and regards her as one of the most reliable people around her. Vulcan also has an easy working relationship with Matterhorn and regularly handles repairs to his shield. Her interactions with Rhodes Island’s engineering staff show another side of her personality as she quietly teaches them how to understand both their craft and the people who depend on it.

Combat Overview: Vulcan is a heavily built frontline fighter who relies on exceptional endurance and raw striking power. She can hold several enemies at once and naturally resists Arts damage. Unlike most defenders she cannot rely on direct healing from allies. Instead she sustains herself through her own abilities. When she enters Guardian Mode her defenses rise and her body steadily regenerates while she becomes harder to overwhelm in close combat.

Combat Mode shifts her focus toward offense. Her attacks become much stronger and can strike several nearby enemies at once while restoring part of her health with every successful hit. The tradeoff is slower attacks and less ability to hold back multiple enemies at the same time. At her strongest she can also evade some melee attacks through instinctive defensive movement.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.