Bran Weylin

Basic Information

Name: Bran Weylin
AKA: The Raven
Type: Dragon-Blooded Exalt
Player: NPC
Aspect: Wood
Concept: Member of the Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders
Motivation: To fully understand and transcend death.
Political Affiliation: The Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders
Anima: Plants and animals going through the process of death. The organisms start small and as his essence expenditure increases, larger oranisms appear.
Likes: Watching Things Die, Liquor On The Rocks, Technical Precision.
Dislikes: Traditional Moral Qualms, Beer, Wasting a Death.

Background

Bran was born and raised in Sijan to parents that were morticians. He was an excellent student, but as his education continued, Bran showed a strong interest in the living. He changed the course of his studies in order to study medicine. His parents, while not thrilled, accepted his decision as long as he used his studies in service of Sijan. While studying to be a doctor, Bran exalted as a wood aspected terrestrial. There was no known exalted blood in his family. His parents were thrilled and honored; Bran was nervous. His exaltation strengthened feelings and lines of thought that did no go well in Sijan. While finishing medical school, Bran tended to the garden of his mind, pulling the weeds interested in the other parts of the cycle of life and nurturing his interest in death. He over did it. Bran become obsessed with mastering a theoretical and practical understanding of the event called death. Bran specialized in assisting in suicide and helping those close to death so that he would have an excuse to be near them as they died. In less than two decades, he felt he knew everything Sijan could teach him about the spiritual, physical, and ceremonial act of dying. Deciding that Sijan would not let him experiment in ways that would expand his understanding, he decided to leave. His decision would be dishonorable and devastating to his family, but he did not sneak off in the night. He packed his things, approached his parents, informed them flatly, and left before they could say or do anything.

Bran traveled south to Nexus and set himself up as a doctor for wealthy clients. Bran was quite successful and managed to make enough money to subsidize a clinic for extremely poor residents of Nexus. For the most part, Bran's charity work was legitimate, but the clinic's real purpose was to be a cover for his research. Bran would take the poor and forgotten and experiment with effects that could delay or quicken death, effects that could harm or protect isolated parts of people, and effects that showed promise for reversing death. Bran began dabbling in necromancy but did not put all of his eggs in that basket. Necromancy could reanimate a corpse, but did nothing in the realm of reversing death. Bran's studies went on for over a decade, and he built a huge library of journals exploring every tedious detail of death. It was this library that some hapless burgler stumbled upon and ruined everything.

To be Continued...