House Scorpio

**House Scorpio** is the 8th of 12 Houses that reside in the Zodiac.

It is a Fixed House that represents the element of Water, and its signature colour is Black.

## Geography

### Planetary System

House Scorpio has one planet, Sconcion. Orbited by two moons, Sconcion’s surface is eighty percent water with a sprinkling of landmasses spaced throughout the planet. Some of these landmasses are used as spaceports, but most are designated testing zones for Scorps’ latest inventions and experiments.

Scorps live and make their homes in underwater cities. There are a dozen waterworlds on Sconcion, each is its own sovereign territory. Half are located in waters shallow enough for the city-tops to break the ocean’s surface, while the other half are buried in waters so deep that only House Scorpio’s special deep-sea watercrafts can endure the pressure.

## Citizens

### Scorp Traits

#### Physical Features

Scorps are typically thin and wiry and have long faces. Their most distinctive trait is the way they add strange pieces of technology to their clothing that are often their own inventions.

#### Personality

House Scorpio represents Innovation. Its people are inventive, inquisitive problem solvers who can also be obsessive, greedy, secretive, dark, and moody. As represented by their symbol of the Scorpion, Scorps are most often likely to sting first and ask questions later. They can spend their lives exploring rabbit holes so deep that others would drown in their darkness. Yet Scorps dive eagerly into every depth, determined to discover the secrets of tomorrow before even the stars do.

### Notable Scorps

#### Chieftan Sophia Scorpio

The Original Guardian of House Scorpio, Chieftan Sophia Scorpio perfectly embodied her House's inventive and inquisitive nature. She has four children, two with Lord Lucian Libra, two with Guardian Salvador Sagittarius.

#### Scarlet Scorpio

The daughter of Lord Lucian and Chieftan Sophia, [TBD].

#### Scorpius Scorpio

The son of Chieftan Sophia and Guardian Salvador, [TBD].

## Technological Achievements

### Major Technology

#### Paintbrush

As they are always in some stage of creativity, Scorps use a fingertip device called a Paintbrush to design holographic blueprints of their latest innovations. The device can also be used to record, review and send information.

#### Scarab

Stridents (Scorp Zodai) fight with the Scarab: a black bangle that clamps onto the wrist that, when triggered, will fire tiny darts toward its intended target. A long-held Scorp secret, the paralyzing poison in the darts is so effective that it can render any electronic devices on the target’s person completely useless. The poison is fatal unless its antidote is administered within 24 hours; this gives Stridents a window of time to evaluate a violent situation before determining their enemy’s fate. Due to the small, elegant nature of the weapon, most targets don’t even know they’ve been stung until it’s too late. If anyone attempts to wear another Strident’s Scarab, it will not work; instead, it will turn against the impostor and inject its poison into them instead.

## The Government

Scorpio’s waterworlds are sovereign territories, so each is run differently and independently from the others. Though the Chieftan (Scorp Guardian) is the spiritual leader of all Scorps, no one authority wields House-wide power. Instead, the Guardian rotates from one waterworld to the next, spending six months in each, acting as advisor to the government and mentor for budding inventors.