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Name: Aurélien Lemoine (although he almost never use it)

Epic Name: NullBlade

Apearance:  he is almost two meters tall has Makabaki skin colour and topaz yellow eyes, fit. He is 35

Guild: TUBA

Personality: 

He is relatively cold with people he doesn't know and has remorse about not settling down with his wife when they still could

As a result of having lived with people with powers far beyond his for years, and marrying one, he doesn’t fear the powerful people.

Concept: A grieving swordman haunted by his dead wife’s past

Merits: Major: Accomplished Swordman

Normal: A decently powerful ensemble of fighting equipment including an aluminium chainmail, an unboundable Shardblade, an aluminium longsword and an aluminium handgun

He is an aluminium savant, making him immune to all types of investiture and Epic powers directly applied to him. This include Fortune or Connection effects like A-Atium and F-Duralumin. Additionally, Shardblades cuts his flesh instead of his soul. Portal-type teleportation’s like Alleytravel and Elscalling works on him but not the others don’t.

Minor: Know how to use his gun, though his not good at it.

Unranked: an Epic power making it easier for him to attain Savantism, which is the reason he managed to become an aluminium savant in the first place

Weakness:

He rarely checks whether he is immune to the investiture of his opponent or not, except for the obvious ones like energy beams, though this have the advantage that his opponent may not know if he is immune either. He is a bit paranoid about opponents -or “allies”- tricking him into believing they don’t have any negated power just to use mind control power or the like as soon as he stops burning aluminium. There are powers you would actually prefer not being immune to, typically A-blendalloy or regrowth, especially while unconscious for the latter.

Becoming an Savant made his passive resistance to Investiture really low when he’s not burning aluminium, though not as low that a modern day Soother could control him. This allows some entity not normally supposed to be able to interact with people like Sprens in Shadesmare or his late wife’s projections to touch him if they want

His shardblade don’t have the gemstone needed to bound it, meaning if it leaves his hands someone else can steal it

More of a limitation than a weakness but his clothes under his chainmail are not immune to investiture and a dulled blade still kills

Due to the way his team died, he reacts really badly to body horror

NPCs (Eg. Family and Friends): Has a friendly relationship with Cassandra Adama, a complicated relationship with his sister Marie and a differently complicated relationship with her spren Polaris (whose also basically his uncle).

While his wife PerfectProphecy is dead, she was an Epic able to send projections of her mind to the future while she lived. These projections were normally unable to interact with things present but due to NullBlade’s weakness she’s able to touch him while he’s not burning aluminium (note: this won’t be relevant beyond the fact that this is very unhelpful to the process of letting go)

Home Planet:  Reckoners’ other Earth (the one with Invocation instead of Calamity)

Current residence: TUBA guild carter

Backstory:

Aurélien Lemoine started relatively normally, except for the fact that his mother’s spren helped his parent raised him and that they had took him a few times on a trip through Shadesmar to the Alleyverse. A lot of thing changed when he turned 10: his mother gave birth to his little sister, Invocation flared in the sky making his parent far more open with their powers and he snapped to aluminium allomancy.

Up from that point he started dreaming of becoming an epic to fight as one of the now real-life superheroes. His parent told him he didn’t need to wait for that to happened and decided to train him in the usage of the longsword and the shardblade, to encourage him to become an savant and that if he still wanted to be an super hero once adults, they’d give him his father’s shardblade.

At the age of 22, he then joined a newly formed team of epic under the name of NullBlade, compared to the other member of the team, he was very weak, but was appreciated by his comrades for his ability to take down mind-control and hallucination epics and by the ones who feared epics for his ability to stop his comrades, should it be needed.

The leader of this team was PerfectProphecy, an epic with powers of future sight and reality manipulation who later became his wife when they when 28, she was the only member of the team to whom he told the real nature of his powers and of the multiverse. They were considering leaving the team and founding a family in the Alleycity, which NullBlade believed still to be in the fifteen years peace.

The whole team was recently died during a fight where and enemy epic made his wife lost control of her powers, the reality distortion that ensued caused the building to become full of more or less recognizable bodies, every person in the building had at least three distorted corpse of themselves in the pile of bodies -NullBlade too, all heavily distorted.

He was declared dead in the accident and decided to leave to the place he had so much wanted to show his wife, the Alleyverse.

Lose ends: The fact almost everyone he loved is dead, he is unsure whether he’d want to stay a savant if he had the option to stop being one

Name:  Marie Lemoine

Description:  25 years old. Tall from her father’s Terris and mother Rosharan origins, Makabaki skin colour (dark), yellow eyes.

She wears a pendent made of an imperfect amethyst embedded in shardblade metal

Guild: None currently

Personality:  Brash. Alternates between blaming her brother and herself for the death of their parents

Concept: Radiant with a spren making her issues worse

Motivation: Proving her worth to the world and to herself, rebuilding her life.

Merits: Major: 1^st oath Willshaper

Normal: Skilled swordfighter, decent with a dagger. Decent stone carver even when not using her surges

Minor: An aluminium longsword and dagger, a few perfect gemstones

Weakness: Hot headed, almost a blood knight. Has an inferiority and superiority complex, the inferiority part is particularly strong toward NullBlade.

Unable to return from Shadesmar without a perpendicularity (and is aware of how hard it would be to find one in the Alleyverse).

NPCs (Eg. Family and Friends): A complicated relationship with his brother NullBlade and a tense relationship with her spren/uncle Polaris.

Home Planet:  Reckoners’ other Earth (the one with Invocation instead of Calamity)

Current residence: A rented flat in the Alleyverse

Backstory: Marie was born on Invocation earth the same day it first rose into the sky. Growing up she always felt like she was lagging behind every other member of her family, especially her brother who was her mother’s squire at the time.

She became her mother square at the age of twelve, when her brother stop being a squire and left to join an Epic team. The timing was a coincidence, -her parents just thought she was too young before that, and still had doubts at the time but Polaris insisted- but it didn’t feel like one.

A few weeks after NullBlade left for the Alleyverse, the same group who had killed his team came to exert vengeance on him by killing her parent and attempting to kill her, she escaped them and fled to the only place where they would never find her, the Allyverse.

Lose ends: The fact almost everyone he loved is dead, her dysfunctional relationship with her Spren. Would like to take revenge on the people who killed her parents, though they currently live on another world.

Name:  Folorian

Appearance:  Folorian is a Terris of average build and size. He is 25 years old; his skin has a colour similar close of the Alethi one, he’s bald and his eyes are brown.

He wears a traditional Terris tinningdar with V of gold, copper and silver colour. His use the sleeves to hide the important quantities of cooperminds he bears. He also has a silver plated pathian earng on the right hear and a gold-plated imitation on the left one.

Guild: Scholar guild

Personality:  He easily gets excited by new knowledge and experiences but has no patience for people who try to explain him things he feels like he already knows, he also loves sharing his knowledge. While he is hesitant with initiating a personal relationship with others he easily accepts when someone else initiate one with him. He tends to overestimate his knowledge and almost never changes his ideas about something until he is proved wrong, even if everyone he knows as an opposite opinion.

Concept: Disabled Scholar, also Friend of someone for whom closeness is a curse (Alanis)

Motivation (Short & long term goal): rebuilding the relationship he had with Alanis and Kerr during the Forgery, gaining more knowledge.

Merits: Major: 2^nd oath Lightweaver (1^st truth : my best friend's mind broke by my fault)

Normal: Quite intelligent, between his copperminds and his own memories he has a wide knowledge on investiture and the magic of the different Earths, skilled enough at drawing to copy images stored in coppermind without major distortions

Minor: F-copper, a F-copper medallion

Flaws: Bad at social interactions

His old magic bane force him to focus on only one thing at a time, which means the conscious part of his brain ignore the sensory impulse coming from the rest of the world as well as hunger and the perception of time. For example, if he was reading a book, he wouldn’t hear or see anything but the world on the book and the sound of the pages turning. If he tried to store a memory, it would not store see anything he was not consciously feeling.

As his senses are not turned off but simply ignored, it is possible to make him temporarily snap out of it, making him able to use his senses normally for a few seconds, before he start focusing on only one thing again. The amount of sense stimulation needed to make him snap out will increase with how focus he is on his task but will never be lower than “enough to wake up someone sleeping”.

The “thing” he’s focusing on can be a physical object or something more abstract like a task or a discussion, the more the “thing” is wide, the less he will perceive the details, for example the faces of the people in a discussion will get blurrier as more people get in it and their voices more distorted, putting an effective limit to the number of people he can speak with at once to three.

His focus is the memories in his copermind, this combined with his bane means that any complexe illusion (like changeing his appearence) will effectively consume the stored memories.

A side effect of this is that he cannot control how much he peers in the CR while he’s Soulcasting, meaning he risk slipping into the CR every time he attempts to Soulcast something which in turns mean he almost never Soulcasts (and that I’ll roll a dice to see if he slips or not when he does)

He shares his bane with his Spren Kerr but each of them can focus on a different thing and communication via the Nahel bound is not impeded by the bane.

NPCs (Eg. Family and Friends): Close friend of Alanis Sheneth, is bounded to a Cryptic name Kerr, on generally good term with the members of the Scholar guild (at least the one who know about his bane and know that he is not in fact rudely ignoring them). His parents are still alive on Scadrial though he hasn’t talked with them in years, his (very) former friend Aliece is still out there somewhere in the Cosmere.

Home Planet:  Scadrial

Backstory: Folorian was born in a small community of Terris Worldbringers in the south of Northern Scadrial. After discovering his ferruchemical power when he was eight, adults of the community then started training him intensely because he was the first cooper ferring to be born in two generation and therefore the only one able to use their library without southern medallion. He then passed the next three years doing almost nothing but Archivist training until the elders were sure he’d not destroy the stored information’s when he’d read them when he was 10, he snuck in the copermind reserve with his only friend Aliece because she wanted him to show her some of the memories, at some point she suggested to go in the part with the classified minds, there they found the recording of the experimentations on non-lethal hemalurgy. As a punishment for destroying an original recording by watching it, they were kept apart until she became his assigned connector. Unable to cope with the memories of the event, he sealed them in a coppermind.

After he had finished his archivist training, he passed 10 years copying cooperminds in order to learn as much as possible about other civilisations, their investitures and developed a fascination for shadesmar.

Around the end of these ten years the knowledge on the cooperminds he read seemed to loop and he had more and more trouble finding new knowledge. He asked the elder for the authorisation to go on a journey to find new knowledge, they agreed and assigned Aliece, now a connector, as his translator. Together they went to Roshar in order to learn more about Knights Radiants, a subject about which their library was particularly lacking. But as it was before the Everstrom and the rediscovery of Urithiru, most Radiants were still hiding and they wandered for a long time across Roshar without ever spotting one. One day Folorian realised they were close to the Nightwatcher and, pretexting he wanted to study old magic, he asked her to see wonders he had never heard, and she send him to the Alleycity, close to the scholar guild’s building.

During the Forgery he recovered the memories of the incident and managed to speak his first truth (My best friend's mind broke by my fault)

The forgery had the relatively unusual effect of not only rewriting his life but also adding years to his life, years that disappeared with it.

Lose ends (What is unfinished in their life?): he is still processing some of the memories he had sealed and the fact four years of his life just disappeared

Until Row this was my opinion, especially since Dalinar killed more than these two combined. Then he killed Teft and was only sorry about the fact he was felling something about having killed Teft so now it's more an issue of "he doesn't want a redemption arc"

And to answer the question in your title, it's because godmetals are named after the Vessel and not the Shard, which is also why it's Atium and not Ruinium