Race: Ascended hairworm, satellite being.
Age: Not applicable
Gender: Asexual, appears neuter
Eye color: Grey
Overbeing/Faction: Myrkul's Vein
Birthplace: Genesis.
Religion: Apatheist
Identifying characteristics: 2.5 meter tall burly biped bearing pale cyan armor all over its body except for the red-colored eye that signifies a Jinhai inhabits. Its surface is covered in plates of psi-armor of various sizes and densities. The Wen has two smaller claws at its midsection for manipulating objects and interacting with mankind.
Physical Condition: Newly furnished, wholly immune to the environmental problems other Ascended Hairworms experience in conventional space.
Languages: Common, English, Draconic, Dethek. A native Wen's language capabilities are extremely poor.
Current residence: Itinerant
Occupation: Inkwell
Personality: A largely docile animalistic intelligence that does not speak but protective of mankind and suspicious of nonhumans. If the Wen has a Jinhai inhabiting it the creature has a sapient intellect even if the Jinhai is not written into an independent body. Should the Jinhai leave the Wen returns to a largely docile animalistic intelligence that speaks rarely. It otherwise shares many of an Ascended Hairworm's curt characteristics but exhibits a great deal more interest in the well being of mankind around it.
Background: Wen are created for the defense of mankind as they can be inhabited by more sapient ascended hairworms or psionic humans to armor them far better against powerful threats. This Wen was created in Genesis in response to a Jinhai returning to request reinforcement of man to demonic threat. As they represent an allegory to mechanized infantry in conventional armies they are equipped with psi-plate capable of regenerating battle damage.
Equipment: Carries cognizance core to use for marshaling its power. It's otherwise equipped with several manifestation slots for psi-blades suitable for human use against demonic or psionic threats causing damage to the attacker. It also has its own larger ferroplasm gladius suitable for close combat with demons. Thick ferroplasm shields are also often used.
Limitations: Wen have a limited mobility compared to Jinhai. They have no worm form and thus cannot fly. They also cannot disincorporate due to the psi-plate and have concerns of accessibility than their more corporeal human counterparts would have. Its central diamond-shaped eye has a very high acuity and through psionics have a much more volumetric sense of the area which would otherwise make their sight monocular. Due to the psi-plate covering its body Wen has a much smaller field of vision and must turn to look at things.
Powers:
- Throne of Mind - One may control the seat of the Wen but other hairworms can fit inside. A Wen can eject the one that inhabits it if required though losing a great deal of its sapience. It nonetheless will not permit a being to enter if a Jinhai does not allow it. This partly dematerializes the being inhabited into self-bonded psimass if not a hairworm. Punctures to the Wen that do not incapacitate it or cause explosions in its interior do not pose a significant direct threat to the occupant. If the occupant breathes the Wen must have access to oxygen or use its own reserves of power to manifest a breathable atmosphere. Punctures are less important if that occupant is a Jinhai that has no integrity of organs maintaining dematerialization. A human that inhabits the Wen has full use of their own powers as their latent self-image directs the use of their abilities. Psionics will find the Wen a prodigious fount as the cognizance core of the Wen supports their mind with its pale wellspring of power. Wen are poorly suited to emotional bases of power and will be sluggish to such efforts. Wen must first be breached psionically before the inhabitant on the throne is exposed. While within the throne the dematerialized inhabitant does not need to engage in physical needs if it has to as biological needs are sustained by the Wen's exceedingly tolerant consumption of organics to feed the dematerialized body.
- The Throne's Eye - As Wen sight is partly psionic, in the same arc as the eye's visual range, that makes it preternaturally aware of psionic energies in its vicinity. Camouflage or technological cloaking may hide from the inhabitant however depending on its own capacities employed through venue of the throne's eye. The inhabitant will have monoclular vision and volumetric psionic awareness at least.
- Psi Armor - Unmarred psi-armor's natural affinity prevents demonic presences from ethereally reaching into its confines to touch the inhabitant on the throne. The armor is strong though predominantly built to resist demonic powers than physical attacks. It is regenerated using eaten metals and its own energy and composed of ferroplasm with a psi-stone scale on its outer layer to resist the passage of metaphysical energies. The Wen must commune with the throne to repair at any speed and in any case mutes its defensive powers to repair and re-weave the armor. The armor can be worn in the absence of pressure or at fairly high pressures but the inhabitant would be wise to bring any protection it needs if it intends to leave the throne.
- Hand of the Throne - At the end of its arms are two projectors of the inhabitant's psionic or magical energies. A Jinhai's disintegration beam or other self-destructive powers do not cause the occupant nearly as much damage when projected through a Wen. The projectors can turn to large four fingered hands for use with the ferroplasm gladius and conduct energies through the weapon to those capable. The two smaller three fingered claws on long arms can be controlled by the inhabitant of the throne and are generally used to interact with humans and their constructs at that height.
- All-consuming - Wen can eat nearly anything with its large toothed mouth and uses that material to repair its armor.
- (Jinhai inhabitant only) Call of the Throne - When it carries a Jinhai upon the throne a Wen can reassemble an instance of mankind at range as long as enough intact parts exist nearby and the head is undamaged. This leaves the person vulnerable but resurrected as their mind must fully inhabit the new parts to employ them with any strength. Often even the memories or psionic power from the bodies used comes with them. It's frequent that those raised by the touch of a Wen have a hodgepodge of memories from the differing parts used. Wen cannot allow a a person it raised to inhabit as that will dismantle its efforts until the person has fully manifested into their body.