About Nover Romux
Nover is a Graceful Glaive who Fights with Panache
Source of Power: Intentional or Accidental immersion or treatment with ancient chemicals or radiation. Numenera imbued tea with rigorous martial arts and meditation altered Nover's body over the course of his training.
Glaive Connection: Your master wrote a book on the martial arts. Sometimes other warriors seek you out to ask about it's stranger passages.
Stats
Might 12 | Edge 1
Speed 15 | Edge 1
Intellect 9 | Edge 0
XP 0
Effort 1
Damage Track: None
Recovery Rolls: 1d6+1: None
Equipment Owned
Broadsword
Jeweled Shield
Adventuring Items
50ft of rope, 3 days of rations, 3 spikes, hammer, warm clothes, sturdy boots, 3 torchees, 2 minor glowglobes.
Food and Mundane Items
Clothing 1
Light Armor (I don't wear it) 1
Numenera
Cypher Limit 2
Oddities
Egg-shaped metallic bauble that occasionally spins and speaks in a language no one knows.
Abilities Known
Trained without Armor Enabler
Danger Sense (1 Speed Point)
Focus Abilities
Flourish
Skills Known
Might
Physical Performing Arts T
Speed
Balance, careful movement T
Balancing T (Maybe S)
Speed Defense Tasks T (S when not wearing armor)
A few Scenes
A large chamber, filled with vats of bubbling liquids, only small amounts are allowed to fill various burettes that filter into one more small burette. This one drips into a test tube labeled "tea" and is whisked away by an older man who pours it into a cup of tea that he hands to his apprentice. The man does warn the young man and offers one final chance to turn back which the young man turns down.
Nover nimbly dodges and blocks various rocks and debris being thrown at him. His master sitting behind what is basically a Numenera powered pitching machine.
"Good, now see if you can dodge this."
And his master hurls and hits Nover with a pie.
The small monastery was home to a rather small library. Master Swall was digging around underneath a floorboard and pulls up an ancient scroll. As he opens the scroll to explain forbidden techniques to his student. When he opens it up, he begins to glow with a bright light and vanishes.
Background
Nover Romux is one of the few remaining students and practitioners of the Dervish Turtle fighting school. A martial arts form based around quick movement akin to a dance, combined with the use of a shield. The fighting form makes the practitioners very hard to hit. The style also has a darker secret, most of the practitioners have their bodies infused with nanites through a sacred tea ceremony that rebuilds the body from the ground up. Increased metabolism, faster reflexes, and a strange precognitive sense that seems to fire up the body in case of danger.
When his master disappeared, Nover found a small device that spouts gibberish every once in a while. It said the word "Aian" or at least that's what Nover thought he heard, so he packed his stuff up, locked up the school, and left on a journey. This also included the schools jeweled shield, which looks like a turtle shell, but several of the patches have strange gems embedded in it.
He has met a few other people along the way of course.
Appearance
Average in height, somewhat lanky though. Nover keeps his black hair short or at least tied in the back to prevent people from grabbing it. He has blue eyes but when people look away they seem to change to silver in the corners of people eyes, but when you look back they are still blue. Nover wears simple clothes in the colors of his school. The clothes themselves are blue, but Nover always sews in some kind of silver line pattern.
