Towering Craft

**Towering Craft**, sometimes known as **The Great Builder**, is an Eldest scion of Ourselves and is an important figure in vestren culture, seen as the father of modern architecture, forging, and free thinking. He is a lesser god in the vestren pantheon, his portfolio consisting of carpentry and forging. Towering Craft was originally created alongside his siblings, Ample Reaper and Fair Maiden, to teach the vestren how to thrive in their new kingdom of Theirhome. He was designed by Ourselves to be the builder of the new kingdom of the vestren, one who would create beautiful and defensible cities, fit for a great kingdom of potent people. His symbol is a hammer and pick.

## Description

Towering Craft was said to look like an important vestren figure, clad in armor and with a grand toolbelt, but he lacked any sense of nobility or pride like that of the Opal King. He looked average, but always had a thinking face upon him, as if he was lost in contemplation. Due to his position as Ourselves' scion, he is immortal, despite taking on the appearance and biology of a mortal vestren.

## Personality

Towering Craft kept to his own machinations, usually found planning out the architecture of Opalsky and other great cities with the Opal King, and he even engaged in a lot of discussion, usually philosophical, with the eternal king. This gained him the free thought portfolio, as he represented a good ideal of thinking for oneself instead of entirely relying on the collective unconscious that Ourselves had blessed the vestren with. He would often spend hours in silence, only to say "alright," and then get back to work.

## Abilities

He was a prolific architect and blacksmith, seen as the best there ever was in those fields. Architects from Spokenword even envy his visions and design, and his weapons were on par with Klarthzalv's quality. He was certainly a visionary, earning his title as the god of craft. In addition, Towering Craft was the first philosopher of vestren, due to the nature of his work and the magnitude of decision-making it took to design a city. He never taught anyone these skills, but he thought aloud often enough that others picked up on his skills and his hobby of free thinking.

## Realm & Possessions

Being a scion, Towering Craft does not have the power needed to claim his own realm. He currently resides in Beyond The Stars' Reach, the realm of Ourselves, since his work on Elegy had been completed long ago.

He wields two light hammers, Brick and Mortar, and has been known to bludgeoning cloakers to death with them. Of course, only when necessary or if they interrupted his thought.

## Activities

When he first arrived in Elegy, he helped build civilization in Theirhome by working with the Opal King in creating the great cities of the kingdom, including the beautiful Opalsky. All the time, he practiced his free thinking and spread it amongst the vestren. After doing so, he and rest of Ourselves' scions, save for the Opal King, returned to Beyond The Stars' Reach in order to assist their creator. Currently, he grants spells based around forge and knowledge to his followers, so that one day someone may surpass in both quality of craft and depth of thought. It is said that Towering Craft also spends some time in Beyond The Stars' Reach fixing all the stuff Ourselves accidentally destroys with their stars.

## Relationships

He is the scion of Ourselves, and his siblings consist of the Opal King, Fateful Sword, Arcane Star, Ample Reaper, and Fair Maiden. Towering Craft does not interact with other scions and is not considered important enough to be aware of the agendas between the other inheritors of the Eldest.