Celestial Constructs

Species with inherent celestial or popular powers, made by other mortal species.

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Storgean

Beings constructed from familial love.

• Lifespan: 100 years
• Diet: Love
• Habitat: Anywhere
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Storgeans resemble the species of the family who created them. Storgeans are beings created when families have such a deep and abiding love that one of them births a child without conception, creating a being that is entirely made of love. They must be intentionally made.

Storgeans, being love made flesh, are immune to emotional magic. They can sense when loved ones are in danger, no matter the distance, and know when someone in their family is near death. They are protectors and healers, and they have various powers that resemble the species of their family, but altered to protect or heal.

Storgeans can exist in any non-infernal family, blood or found, and their culture will resemble that of the family. If the family is abusive in any way, the storgean will protect the abused.

PRO 10 ATH 9 STR 10 AWA 9 WIL 9 PRS 9 STH 8

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Tongyi

Beings constructed by workers to fight oppression.

• Lifespan: 80 years

• Diet: Metal, stone, wood, or fabric

• Habitat: Urban areas

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Tongyi are beings constructed from the liberated labor of working class people, formed as protectors and vessels of resistance. Liberated labor in this instance does not mean that the workers are free of exploitation, but that they built the tongyi without being exploited for the labor they used to create it. In other words, in their free time and without being coerced into it. The originals were made by oppressed workers using spare parts to create a machine to fight the boss's gun-goons. The secret of making them was shared among workers, until there were enough of them to propagate themselves. They usually appear to be machine-people, but if the workers are in other production jobs, they may take other forms, such as carved wooden or living structures.

Empowered by the collective labor of their creators, they gain life from being constructed of free will and non-exploited labor. If they engage in any form of exploitation or oppression of others, they will be rendered powerless. They may still live, but they will not have any of the powers they gain from being the focus of collective, liberated labor.

A tongyi will have the skills of those who created them. If they were created by other tongyi, they will have half the skills of each parent. All tongyi have resistance against imperial or infernal magicks of control, exploitation, or disconnection unless a magical contract is involved. They are more easily bound to contracts of any kind. They also have the power to share skills or abilities with other tongyi by touching them, and they can communicate with the workers who created them without speaking so long as they are within 500'.

Tongyi either reflect the culture of the union of workers who created them, living in secret or fighting for them openly, or in hidden communes. Those in the imperial lands are either new creations among the workers, indentured servants, or slaves there, or they are refugees from places they were driven from, living in secret.

Stats vary by what they are made of.

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Yantraya

Constructs built to meet the needs of a community.

• Lifespan : 100 years

• Diet: Basic materials

• Habitat: Anywhere

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Yantraya are constructs made with the needs and necessities of a community in mind. They were originally made by inventors seeking to craft a being that could do anything the community needed, but this proved impractical. What resulted was a being that met a very specific need of a community, but the magic needed to create them required the being have free will. Thus, they could not be slaves or servants, but instead, had to be made as an integral and welcomed part of the community with the right to free themselves if needed.

Yantraya's appearance varies by community, but most are made of basic materials, constructed into a vaguely hominid shape. Small bits of metal and wood form a frame around some kind of stone core, with fabric for "skin". Form follows function, usually. Their function varies by community, but it is often some kind of crafting or building work. In less technological communities, they are dyers, stitchers, and builders; in more technological ones, they are weavers, machinists, smiths, masons, millers, etc. Thus, they often have bodily features that are defined by their work.

If they have a specific function, they will have the relevant skills. They will also have powers that allow them to rebuild themselves if they have the materials, innovate new features of themselves to meet needs of the community, and the ability to sense the overall needs of any community they live with for more than a week.

In the imperial lands, most yantraya are built either by native communities, refugees, or groups of oppressed people who must keep them secret.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 9 AWA 10 WIL 8 PRS 7 STH 7