Visi-Archon Vosiorth

*"Faith is the strength by which this shattered world shall emerge into the light. To the darkness I bring fire. To the ignorant I bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may live, but I will visit naught but death and eternal damnation on those who refuse them"* - Visi-Archon Vosiorth

**Kroniger Vosiorth**, the Hero of Polvitzka, is the Visi-Archon and High Reclusiarch of the Vox Machina Hegemony, a sept of the SSP. Vosiorth is also a noted veteran of the First and Second Chemical War. During the Battle for the Capitol Polvitzka, Vosiorth led the defence of the Temple, which had stood as both his training ground, spiritual home and place of abandonment. It had even stood long before Atlan's current colonisation efforts. The battle became so heated that the building itself collapsed around the combatants. It was believed that all had perished in the building until Vosiorth, bloody but unbroken, climbed out of the rubble bearing three of the temple's artifacts -- the sculpted hands from the leaning statue of Atlas, the Banner of Atlan Victorious, and a burning fig from the Tree of Elucidation. Those Secstatz Apothecaries who examined him later were amazed that the formerly unaugmented Vosiorth had survived, much less found the strength to climb from the ruins. When the war ended, the citizens of the Capital honoured him with the title of "Hero of Polvitzka' and bowed before his passing, the Machine God himself supposedly granting his blessings.

No battle is so bleak that Vosiorth's appearance cannot turn the tide and rekindle the fire in his acolyte' hearts. Then, an enemy who thought the battle won will find himself beset once more, smashed asunder by a tide of zealots whose arms have been lent fresh strength, Vosiorth at their head carving another victory for his Machine God.

## History

Visi-Archon Vosiorth is a veteran of a score of successful SSP wars. His rise through the ranks of the military was meteoric, for he once stood as the youngest Praetor in the force's brief history. He was soon raised from his Commander's Praetor Brethren and granted the indulgent title of the Reclusiarch, passing a test they would call the Reclusiam after the Battle of Fire and Blood. The young warrior received vision upon vision from his Machine God and eventually, his scepticisms peeled away, as did his flesh, the god was impressed by the faith and devotion displayed, for he had the makings of a powerful pawn. As a Reclusiarch-in-waiting, he learned under the venerable and stern High Commander Arcos Lorn. The young warrior taking his vows of loyalty before the core of Rasputin, his believed aspect of the Machine God aboard the SSP Invictus and soon justified the High Commander's faith in him by zealously leading the warriors of the Rusvol Traditionalists in battle. Many times, he suffered grievous wounds in the thickest of the fighting, but always steadfastly refused to succumb.

Unlike many of his former brothers, Vosiorth preferred to inspire his men through deeds rather than through rhetoric. On those rare occasions when Vosiorth spoke, his voice commanded the attention of all around, the rarity of his speech ensuring not a single word went unheard. Vosiorth's oratory cut straight through his acolytes' warrior-spirits and it was no surprise that, upon the Lorn's death, the High Commander named Vosiorth his successor with his final breath. Of course, over time the man would eventually splinter and lose interest in upholding the role, the gentle pull of his faith drawing him to both a quieter and more secretive life, inducting countless acolytes to the service of the Machine God. It was his wish, after all, to spread the faith and purge the non-believers, the zealous man eventually falling into a secretive civil war against the Rusvol Traditionalists, legends saying that his armies though small and outnumbered bore a great death upon countless foes their size.

### The Making of a Hero

After two decades of surface the First Chemical War broke out and it saw fit that the SSP was besieged by a countless horde, a horde that threatened to topple over the capital like the barbarians to the Romans. Vosiorth was aided in the defence of the city by 41st Secstatz Death Korps Legion and the vast 17th Battle Autonoma Legion. Soon Polvitzka found itself besieged by millions of Atlanian soldiers who swarmed the capital from a vast fleet of subterranean miners launched from the harsh surface above. One of the main bastions of resistance was centred upon the Temple, a vast basilica that had stood on Atlan since the earliest days of human colonisation. A great horde of above-worlders attacked the temple and, for nearly two solar months, the defenders held this horde at bay before they finally penetrated the temple precincts, looting and destroying priceless holy relics in equal measure. The capital militias and Korps fled, but the fledgling Vox Machina Hegemony would not yield, as Vosiorth bellowed defiantly, "I have dug my grave in this place and I will either triumph or I will die!". Many of the guided autonoma of the city fell and to those that suffered such a loss, he demanded that they did not fall, rousing their AI cores up to fight.

Such heroism hardened the hearts of the fleeing defenders and they turned and fell upon the above-worlders. The battle degenerated into a bloody melee in the heart of the building that was only ended when the entire structure collapsed in a maelstrom of rubble and fire. All were feared lost, but a day later the bloody, but unbowed, form of Reclusiarch Vosiorth crawled from the ruins, bearing the last holy relics of the temple and vowing that all would remember the lives that had been lost in the defence of Polvitzka. It was just by barely surviving these wounds that he lived to see another day, to devoted to his god to die. He would later go on to train the soldiers that fought in the Second Chemical War, the man by this time having suffered such grievous injuries from countless attacks and fights that he was encased within a suit. His sheer refusal to die saw most humans considering him immortal, his will and devotion to the Machine God pushing him on.

## Wargear

The particular augmentations undergone by Vosiorth are both severe and extreme, retaining only his brain and in his skull and spinal column, the life-sustaining viscera and nervous system as the basis of the articulated and armoured robotic frame which encompasses him. This is due in part to the severe damages he faced over more than a century of fighting.

* '**Prophet' Inquisitorii shell** - 'Prophet' Inquisitorii shell which encases the main organs, nervous system and cerebrum of Vosiorth also replaces his lacking limbs and skeleton with an entirely mechanic system powered by a 'Godson' reactor. extremely adaptable and highly durable. This shell provided great strength and durability on top of what he had already gained, incorporating the distortion tech of his later disciples. It was permanently surgically bonded to the body of the Vosiorth. And it used biosynthesis technology to create advanced armatures to replace the primary limbs, these are much akin to high-end war cybernetics.

* **'Godson' fission reactor** - A high-energy compact reactor system (whose emanations could not be endured by a less augmented organic system), allows Vosiorth extremely potent portable weaponry to be utilised and arcane implanted sensory apparatus operating outside the usual realm of organic perception.
* **Djinn-Sight** - The sinister blank-sockets of the Inquisitor conceal an often regular human face but in the case of Vosiorth he wields the Djinn Sight, an array of inhuman sensory apparatus through which he experiences the battlefield as a raging storm of electromagnetic turmoil, blood-heat and seismic percussion. However, for his organic brain to handle this hurricane of data, it was surgically mutilated, removing the mere human senses such as sight and hearing and returning a far more superior method to see and listen.

Unfortunately for Vosiorth the agony of this process along with the replacement of his traditional human sensory apparatus proved to be traumatic enough to facilitate the need for surgical incisions of the pain and emotion centres. Even with all the risks traumatic and psychotic breakdowns that grow ever stronger with each passing year, it has kept him alive for over a century and still does to this day. Due to the difficulty of the procuring of such resources to build this enhanced version of the Inquisitorii, the direct effects it has on the sanity of the victim and the genuine requirement of a strong will to survive the process, only Vosiorth has passed.