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Aurora
She is the daughter of Iron Mother Directrix, and strives for ascension into a clockwork body - a goal her mother is reluctant to grant her so far. ((Forces Of Warmachine : Convergence Of Cyriss. 2014. PP.)
The young warcaster has known no life outside the faith, as she was born to the woman who would become Directrix and raised in a strictly controlled environment within the Convergence. Her mother transcended to a clockwork vessel when Aurora was only three, but the child's ordered life changed little. Finding no peers among the sect's children, Aurora looked to priests of Cyriss as friends and tutors. She exhibited an early intuitive understanding of engineering and voltaic field technology and mastered the control of vectors soon after manifesting her warcaster talent at age nine.
Directrix showed no hesitation in risking her daughter on the battlefield, although she sent Axis to fight alongside her and ensure her safe return. By sixteen Aurora was testing her abilities alongside the older warcaster, whose straightforward goals and unpredictable tactics contrasted her own efficient precision. She constantly analyzed every aspect of these battles, and after every mission she retreated to her rooms for days, producing endless notes and schematics of potential improvements to the arms and armor they employed.
The arcane displacement field held a particular fascination for the young warcaster. In examining the modifications Syntherion had made to negate the mass of heavy vectors, she became obsessed with creating a variant to enable true flight. Aurora was twenty when she developed her groundbreaking field generator, miniaturized yet capable of emitting remarkably strong pulses of controlled kinetic energy. Within a year she designed the mechanikal bodies of the clockwork angels as well as her own warcaster armor. She had done more than develop a new clockwork prototype: She had changed the way the armies of the Maiden of Gears conducted war.
Axis
Axis was a devoted and overly violent novice in a satellite cult of Cyriss. When she was in living form, Directrix was sent to exterminate him, lest he draws too much attention upon the Convergence's plans. She stayed her hands upon seeing Axis' dedication toward their goddess, and instead found way to forge a weapon out of him. (Forces Of Warmachine; Convergence Of Cyriss, 2014. PP.)
None among the Convergence have embraced the conflict of the Phase of Alignment as fervently as Axis. His dedication to crushing any who oppose the Great Work is matched only by his devotion to the goddess herself.
A former member of a sect of radical Cyriss worshipers, the young Axis was engaged in violent action that threatened the Convergence by drawing too much unwanted attention. The living priestess who would become Directrix was sent to exterminate the cult but spared Axis, seeing his devotion and raw talents as qualities she could forge into a weapon. Axis saw Directrix as the chosen of the goddess and gladly served as her enforcer and lieutenant. She sent him forth to quash enemies of the faith, a task he committed to with unswerving enthusiasm. His deep loyalty to Directrix has only intensified over the decades, along with the troubles that plague his fractured mind.
Axis is not entirely sane - he is prone to racing, incoherent thoughts, violent impulses, and visions that impose the formulas of the goddess across everything he sees. He displays a wild-eyed zeal that unnerves other members of the Convergence. He sometimes lapses mid-sentence into recitation of the Nine Harmonics and often forgets to eat, bathe, or even extract himself from his powerful armor for days at a time. His peers believe his mind has cracked beneath the weight of the gifts Cyriss has given him.
Having long prided himself on his powerful physique, he fears mortality; age has recently begun to take its toll, and he knows his imperfect mind may preclude him from transference to a clockwork vessel. To deny these thoughts, he applies his energy to destroying whatever foe he is sent against, finding satisfaction in the one service he can provide to the goddess better than any other.
Directrix
After her transfer into a clockwork vessel, the woman born Viana took the name Directrix and quickly achieved the rank of fluxion, gaining access to the sect's deepest mysteries. She was placed in charge of Foundry of Repudiation, a vital vector assembly workshop. In the following decades she continued to lead forces against the sect's enemies while also exploiting her relationships with other fluxions to gain a broader perspective on the state of the Convergence armories. She was assembling data for a detailed critique of the Great Work. Her battles abroad had convinced Directrix that their military might was sufficient to enter the Phase of Alignment sooner than even the most optimistic predictions. She knew there was no one better suited then herself to lead them to victory.
In 605 AR, she judged the timing right to present her critism of the faith's progress to the Constellation and Father Lucant, following with a detailed and extremely aggressive battle plan to complete their work across Immoren. So persuasive was she that within a year the Constellation named her Iron Mother, recognizing her right to lead the Convergence into this vial phase of the Great Work. Her strategy takes into account every astronometric nexus on the continent, and she has anticipated how to control, connect and activate the nexus lattice in spite of the heavy enemy resistance expected. Further, she intendeds to position Convergence clergy in western Immoren so that they can play a leadership role in the transformation of Caen.
Lucant
When he was young and before ascending into a clockwork body in 360 AR, his full name was Ghil Lucant. He developed a relationship with Forge Master Lucidia (who later became Mortenebra), and was spared during her assault, as he sympathized with her. Also during the former Forge Master's raid on the Foundry of Enumeration, his soul was transferred into a clockwork vessel, becoming the second one to survive the transference, after Fluxion Helicratus.
- He was the one who completed the path to ascension, and was the Iron father of convergence.
- He also contributed to the Cipher Engine, a machine which enables the convergence to communicate with their goddess, Maiden Of Gears.
- He is now the eldest person in the Convergence (Forces Of Warmachine; Convergence Of Cyriss, 2014. PP.)
In life, Lucant was a brilliant mathematical prodigy and astronomer, qualities that drew the attention of the early cult of Cyriss. It was while Lucant worked at the Cygnaran Royal Observatory, that he was initiated into her priesthood and soon thereafter discovered the planet that bears his name. This achievement was a crucial moment for Lucant, who saw his faith vindicated in the orbits of the planets and the purity of mathematics. It also drew the attention of the inner circle of the faith, who initiated him into its higher secrets, bringing his mind unprecedented clarity and answering many long-held questions.
Lucant's destiny was forever changed when he was invited to join the cult's greatest minds at the secret Foundy of Enumeration. He quickly absorbed all he was taught, mastering the control of vectors as a warcaster as well as showing talent at analyzing the output of the Cipher Engine, a device allowing the goddess to communicate through encoded messages. He was at the center of the pivotal events that led to the destruction of the Foundry of Enumeration, was fatally wounded during Lucidias raid, surviving only because his soul was hasty transferred into one of the first clockwork vessels. Previously, a process which had been attempted and studied at length by the Convergence, but only bore fruit after Lucidia secretly shared her results of Cryxian necromancy research with Lucant, who refined and perfected the transference process, also eliminating the "Cryxian taint".
His new machine state lifted a veil from Lucant's eyes, and the incomprehensible output of the Cipher Engine became clear: at Cyriss' direction, they would transform Caen itself into a tremendous machine by which the goddess would manifest. Lucant dedicated himself to this divine imperative, first as the original Iron Father and later as Divinity Architect, a role he created in order to steer their larger efforts toward the manifestation of Cyriss.
Over the years Lucant has continued to study and decipher the messages of Cyriss in order to advise the faith in the Great Work. In recent years, his calculations indicated the time had come for the Phase of Alignment, when the Convergence must commit to war to acquire vital geomantic nodes held by rival groups. This decision was not made lightly, as launching their armies commits the sect to a perilous course.
Lucant knows the time for doubts has passed and proves his commitment by leading the Convergence's armies personally. Those who follow him in battle know they walk beside the greatness and receive the orders of a mind with singular insight into the will of their goddess. It is Lucant they expect to see beside them when the Manifestation is completed and Cyriss stands among them at last.
Syntherion
Every member of the Convergence is devoted to the completion of the Great Work, but Forge Master Syntherion applies his piety to everything created in his forges, seeing the fractal perfection of the part as it will extend to the whole. In his eyes, each machine built is a communion with his goddess, a sacrament that reaffirms his connection with the Maiden of Gears.
Syntherion is perhaps closer to absolute synergy with the machine than any other Convergence leader. His life before his transformation is but the barest glimmer in his vast mind, and he has long since surrendered nearly all human emotions. Constantly processing and as a remote as the disembodied members of the Constellation, his mind is occupied with complex equations, energy schematics, and the application of engineering principles. He is so at one with his work that he can loose himself in it for days on end without any awareness whatsoever of time passing.
Rather than overseeing a single facility, Syntherion goes where he is needed, tasked by Father Lucant and Iron Mother Directrix both to improve the machinery of the temples and to lead Convergence forces deep into enemy territory. With his army, the forge master claims the key territories required to further the Great Work. He efficiently clears out any opposition he encounters before rapidly constructing the transformative machinery required to realign geomantic energies. This work completed, he moves on to the next vital task. To him, even the most difficult battle is little more than an inconvenient distraction.
Even among his fellows, Syntherion's innate comprehension of engineering borders on the sublime. He understand machines on a purely harmonic level, with a flawless and instinctual grasp of both form and function. Syntherion's technical ability is greatly admired among the Convergence and his grasp of the machine is so far advanced few outside the sect can even begin to undersand his innovations. Likewise, he can replicate - if not improve - new technology after only a glance. To his peers, his thought process is alien and unfathomable.
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