Lord of the Ashen Cloud
Basic Information
Name: Lord of the Ashen Cloud
AKA: Ash, Exodus
Type: Dragon-Blooded Exalt
Player: Tony
Aspect: Fire
Concept: Member of the Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders
Motivation: Separate himself completely from the strands of destiny and societies expectations.
Political Affiliation: The Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders
Anima: When Ash's anima first flares it is little more than a orange flecked gust of swirling wind, as he spends more essence the flecks of light and the gusting winds both grow in quantity and intensity until they erupt into a swirling fire storm engulfing his surroundings.
Likes: Fine women, fine wine, fine tobacco. Things that fly. Things that go BOOM.
Dislikes: Society's expectations and norms. Dull or tacky people or things.
Lord of the Ashen Cloud: Character Sheet
Background
Ash was born to the name Exodus, he grew up as a part of a noble Dragon-Blooded House in Cherek, though his life was not so grand as other Princes of Creation. His father was the elder of the House, proud northerner and Air Caste; his mother was a Fire Aspected lost eff who his father fancied and treated her as little more than a concubine. Needless to say he was only ever considered a half part of the House, even after he exalted he was a disappointment to his father by following in his mother's Fire Aspected footsteps. Despite the somewhat outcast youth he was too potentially helpful to disgrace completely so he was raised as a glorified servant like his mother.
Ash was well behave, but deceitful growing up, natural charisma and a knack for getting his way kept him in relative favor with the House. He was a servant for many House elders who were not used to having an exalted servant who could accomplish their work for them as competently as they could, or cared to at least. As a result he was given more responsibility and access then was ever intended.
A particularly lazy accountant gave him access to the House's seal vault, tasked with making a mundane report of what was left in it. So Ash was given the boring task of counting the Jade talons in the vault, a number that was found to be surprisingly low. The lack of work, and Jade, gave him time to explore what else was locked away in the vault. It was here he discovered the ancient flying vessel in disrepair, Geronimo... The ship had been forgotten about for a generation. The elder before his father told few for fear someone would steal it if it was discovered, in keeping it secret he failed to get it repaired properly. It hadn't been out of the vault since the Shogunate.
Ash graduated secondary school at 17 years old, he seemed to be distancing himself from his duties as a servant and begun having success in the real estate market. A tremendous knack, or luck, finding Greenfields in the typically icy fields of the north. His charm, appearance, and fire aspected nature gave people comfort when buying from him. He took a short sabbatical to the south soon after graduation, returning in only a few months. Secretly he brought with him an artisan from the south. Someone to work in the House/s vault and fix Geronimo for a portion of Ash's discovered real estate fortune. Three short months later the ship was flight ready. Ash took it on it's grand return voyage into the skies. The public display and Ash's actions are the stuff of legend, but it left his now former House in shambles. (A story called Blood Runs Too Deep.)
Ash never returned to Cherek, though his reputation never left, he made his way south and east in his newly repaired ship. He set out compiling a carefully hand-picked crew, each crewman was a former prize slave of his or her master. Ash systematically assassinated the slave masters and claimed their prize slaves; buying their loyalty with freedom and fair pay to work as a crewman aboard Geronimo. The systematic, extreme, and wide spread nature of the assassinations drew the attention of the Grass Spiders who asked him to join after his historic assassination of a performer in a crowed opera house in Nexus.
His exit from Cherek, which earned him fame and notoriety, also earned him his new found title which was given to him by Tiamat upon his initiation into The Hallowed Order of the Grass Spiders.