Dr. Orris Atlee

Dr. Orris Atlee is a surgeon experimenting with elevating humanity by giving individuals innate void powers. While he is technically a member of the Ebony Pervasion, Dr. Atlee's relationship with the Pervasion seems to be tenuous.

### Appearance

Dr. Atlee looks extraordinarily old. He has deep wrinkles carved into his face and slicked back, thinning grey hair. His eyes are solid black, with no pupil or iris. This is a side effect of his experimentation with Voidrite and allows him to see much more clearly than most people.

### Personality and Skills

Dr. Atlee is cold, calculating, and transactional. His experiments come before all else in his mind, including who he works for and what he compromises to achieve success. He has a proud, almost fatherly way of interacting with his Voidwalker experiments.

Atlee is capable of combining a body and a mind from two different people to create a Voidwalker, a being capable of naturally traveling to the Void. Atlee is also capable of numerous other innovations, including making the Jade Music Box to steal Void powers and upgrading people with various Void-related abilities.

### Notable Events

Dr. Atlee was once a part of the University Cult operating near Old Lamprow in Gristol.

Anton Blackburn was created by Dr. Atlee when Atlee combined the mind of one man with the body of another. Anton’s past mind was from Anton Niski, the apprentice to the famous painter Nikolai Graves. His body’s name was Josh Blackburn, who Anton believes was Morleyan.

Atlee also created The Broker, though Wren cited him as an example of Dr. Atlee's failures since he is seemingly insane.

Atlee is one of the three founders of the Soulspring Resort, which he uses as a place to conduct his experiments. Wren told the Chain Gang Atlee had one of the Voidrite spikes, spurring on the party's mission there. When the party arrived, Atlee had converted the resort's residents into mindless Squatters using the Promotional Voidphine distributed throughout the resort. The party fought their way up through the resort's multiple levels and found Atlee's lab, where he tried to convince them to turn off the radio jammer Kitner Tasselaini had turned on to stop him from relaying messages. While the party did disable the jammer, they subsequently stopped Atlee's heart using an Overseer music box long enough to capture him.

While onboard the Ivory Respite, Atlee told Anton a considerable amount more about his origins and about the Voidwalker program, Atlee's attempt to elevate people by giving them innate Void powers. Atlee revealed that Anton was his fourth test subject in these experiments, that the Broker was an earlier, failed experiment, and that Lord Erimany Talvon was the fifth and, presumably, the most recent Voidwalker. Atlee also briefly considered upgrading Hyzel Cohen in a similar capacity, though this plan never came to fruition.

In Episode 44, Hyzel Cohen threatened Dr. Atlee’s life to convince Lord Erimany Talvon to stop his assault on the Ivory Respite. When he refused, she cut Atlee's throat and threw him off a cliff in the Void, seemingly killing him. Demas later revealed that Atlee was still alive, but in a coma and unable to wake up.

#### Notable Creations

* The Broker (deceased)
* Anton Blackburn
* Lord Erimany Talvon
* Face Creature
* Squatters
* Sableaster Spire (deceased)