Adli, Aldebaran Maia

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Celestial Champion (Legendary)
Other magic affected by a Curse

### Episodes

Season 3; E08, E19, E28, E48, E52, E63, E64, E71, E78, E97, E98, E106, E120, E135

**Aldebaran Maia** "The nuclear reactor with feelings."

Adli is a 3 foot tall abnormally dense (in more ways than one) fey looking creature.

Aldebaran prefers the name Adli in this form, as it does not feel right using aer normal "Designation" except formally.

Adli consistently introduces aemself as 'Addled' on accident.

For most purposes Adli is humanoid with skin that occasionally has a night sky pattern that crosses it, downward floppy ears, and one meteor shard like horn that curves up off the right side of aer head.

On aer back there are two petrified (like petrified stony) metal and stone wings and a tail that looks something like that between a deer and fox. Dotted with a star pattern throughout.

## Plot Threads

### The Spirit of Fiction, the Cosmic Liar

Season 3 Episode 63

During a mission Adli headed in order to return the library in Yolk to normal, the group released the Spirit of Fiction. Also known as the Cosmic Liar, the spirit used a curse that Adli because of breaking a contract with Holt. The curse allowed Fiction to pass out of the book she was trapped in into the real world. Releasing the spirit currently means that it is free to turn folktales in fiction in the world into real history.

During a mission to gather treasure for an upcoming political function with Obcitian, Adli also used Smite and failed, getting a literal piece of fiction stuck in aer brain.

### Stitchcrafter, The Awlchemists

Adli unknowingly has had a few run ins with the Awlchemists. Though ae know very little about the group aside from they have a penchant for cutting holes in reality and using them for travel, or to other ends. The most destructive thusfar being tearing a hole that led to Sal from Dyad becoming the Salamander King and destroying the city.

Unfortunately Adli is not very good at Stitchcraft as ae have had little practice, and while aer true aim is to learn to sort through reality in a much less damaging way, Adli currently has made several mistakes while attempting to use aer Stitchcrafter abilities (Season 3 Episode 135). While not an Awlchemist, aer abilities are similar.

### Cursed, Hunted

After finding and failing to return an item from the city of Gibbet, someone there made a deal with a doctor from Sonnerie named Dr Myers. The Doctor created an almost indestructible creature that is still hunting Adli.

## Personal History

Adli's original form was a star in the Reflection Nebula. When the worlds collided and that collapsed ae fell to Liminal right before it was shielded from the collapse. The fall and possible merging of other parts of aer home caused permanent personality changes. Including a whole new physical body. Previously only used to navigation via magic and speech via light Adli has had a hard time acclimating to both the Thimble and new world around it. As such Adli still refers to aerself as Aldebaran Maia, two stars whose light patterns ae share.

There's little to nothing known about Adli's home plane (a partially removed space in space) which resembled an Otherworld where stars and celestial bodies occasionally existed as living creatures, or creatures at least made from energy and light, shapeshifting to resemble constellations and fairy tale beings. Adli still retains a fusion core surrounded by a partially viscous liquid body with varying degrees of rigidity. Shards of meteor and rock still cling to part of aer form. Due to the magical nature of the plane Adli is from aer current form is based on a shapeshifted projection the old them used to use.

Within the crew Adli is closest with Quet, Vatna, and Osiria. Though after a near death experience Quet and Adli communicate rarely. Midnight and Adli are consistent sparring partners, along with Cash who is quickly becoming a fast friend.

Due to being stuck in the same book in the library in Yolk Adli became close friends with Osiria. Though due to a magical cloak that makes Adli Little Red Riding Hood while in Folksong and Osiria being the current Big Bad Wolf, the friendship is a little ironic.

Adli has worked repeatedly and is growing closer with Isaac, Flynn, and Seth. Though Seth's robbing the Hymnal museum, especially so soon after the destruction of Dyad, brought up memories of the crew's accidental destruction of aer home.

## Wandercrew History

Originally working in Navigations (specifically with astronomy and star charting), Adli switched to Mysticians when the need to see if aer home still existed caused aem to start searching for new magic to find it. As such Adli's magic, due to a lot of reasons, is currently in flux.

After Adli's first mission, in which ae turned a tower in Dyad into a massive plant, Adli has continued to have a chaotic effect on missions. During Adli's second mission to gather information in the plains north of the Silver Thimble the team Adli was a part of, Quet, Zacna, and Clovis, all fought poachers from Gibbet. All the poachers were killed and the crews "Mob squad" (led by Nichol) cleaned up and hid the bodies. The poachers were hunting revered creatures who's bodies were invisible unless under starlight. It is agreed upon on the Seasonal side not to hunt these creatures. During the fight Adli helped save a giant boar covered in constellations in those plains, a moment ae never forgot, and something that cemented a fear of Gibbet's mana batteries and null metal in aer mind.

During aer third mission ae helped restore a polluted lake north of Holt for the otters. However during that mission ae lost mail meant for a crew member Pim W. Tinger, breaking a contract with Holt. Ae were cursed as an 'oathbreaker' temporarily hunted by an anomalous group called Starlight (a group that had existed before this part of the multiverse collapsed). In order to get out of being arrested Adli retrieved a book called the Awlchemists Creed for Theo, a dragon bureaomancer. He turned out to be a traitor to DLC, the bureaomancer academy in Yolk (and one of the only other surviving locations from Liminal). Theo also did not remove or help with the contract after the return of the book, like he originally promised.

This eventually led to making a deal with the Spirit of Fiction (the Cosmic Liar) to remove the curse in exchange for her/his help getting out of a book that Adli's team was trapped in. That however also let the spirit free and it's location is currently unknown by the crew, though notes from a book kept by the salamander NPC Bonnie point to a few places, including Alkali.

Adli miss-packed and subsequently did not return (stole) a powerful item from Gibbet right after the Dreamwyrm incident. Since it was not returned, Adli has been marked by a creature. The monster was made by Dr. Myers at the request of Gibbet in order to retrieve the item Adli stole. Despite Gibbets current turn to a more peaceful means of survival Adli remains afraid of Gibbet's former use of null metal and the creation of the mana batteries.

The item, a converter that converted damage and electricity into pure magic, was then subsequently severely damaged when summoned by Vatna in order to protect Nichol and Lio on a mission. Adli previous promised to share the item with the officer after he helped Adli test the item after ae finally decided to bring it out after hiding it because ae were ashamed to have kept it, and still too afraid to return it.

Most recently Adli's magic has been gravitating toward Stitchcrafter, which ae are only slightly aware of. This change didn't happen until after spending some time working with Officer Vatna Stein+, considering the reality eating moth's history and also as one of the only other crew members with those abilities.

### Physiology

Adli was the personification and nuclear being related to the star Aldebaran, but with parts of another star that collapsed the same time ae fell to Liminal. As such ae are made of an unknown metal surrounding a nuclear fusion core. The metal is surrounded by a thick leathery skin as well as other physical traits leftover from the forced transformation ae underwent when Liminal affected aer magic. As such Adli resembles a fairy-like creature that you would find in a fairy tale but is in fact mimicking a form ae used to take when dealing with outsiders that fell into the magical plane of existence that was aer home. The metal throughout aer body changes in fluidity depending on how heated it is, with the wings and tail being the coolest and hardest areas to move due to the distance from the core within aer torso.

In aer true form Adli is a being made of light and energy surrounding the same nuclear core. The stony wings are solar flares and the tail is the train of light running down from aer hair. In this form Adli floats and is mainly held together by aer own gravity from the spinning core. Originally in aer home this form would also be held together by magic, but due to the nature of magic being the product of spirits in this place ae do not know how this form is fully powered or held together. It is also only a temporary transformation, and can not last throughout the day in most cases.

### Special Abilities

**Adli's True Form, Aldebaran Maia**

While protecting aer team on the way back from Bonemeal (Season 3 Ep78), the magic and lightning from Fulgarlight allowed Adli to transform back in something very close to aer original body. This gained them the ability Celestial Champion.

In this form Adli usually prefers the name(s) Aldebaran Maia.

**Celestial Champion, 4AP**

Adli transforms into a extremely tall humanoid, a visible and slightly floating magical form with access to spells. The transformation is a powerful and awe-inspiring event, with aer body emanating a surge of magical energy.
In aer magical form, Adli takes on the appearance of a majestic and otherworldly being. Ae stand tall and proud, with a regal bearing that commands respect (ironically different than aer normal personality). Aer body glows with a soft, ethereal light, and they seem to be surrounded by a shimmering aura of magic that produces solar flare-like wings and a comets tail behind aem.

This enhances aer abilities. This presents in one of two ways:

Celestial Amplification (1 AP), which doubles the effectiveness of an ability,
or
Starlight Ascension (2 AP), which raises the player's roll by one level, turning failure into tough choices or success into triumphs.

This is not the same as aer Shapeshift abilities, and while ae lose access to anything that is directly “worn,” ae still have access to any held items or wielded weapons.

### Certifications and Training

Forklift Certification

Adli is one of the crew members that is Forklift certified to operate a mech on the crew. Ae worked with Flynn and Lore in order to learn to use it.

## Relationships

Officer Quet
Quet was the first person who realized Adli had other voices (what Quet calls Dialogues) in aer head. The reason for this is unknown but it is supposed that the source of the voices was some type of magical merging before falling to Liminal. Since then Adli has seen Quet as a close friend and was even willing to kill to protect him, though Adli was partially out of aer mind when that happened. Currently, due to a traumatic event where Quet was encased in an Obsidian coffin for a month, Adli finds it very hard to talk to them. Because of Adli staying in her hospital room for a week (until kicked out by nurses) and Quet being able to hear aer conversations (both with aemself and others), Adli's voice brings back bad memories. Due to this, even with Quet being one of Adli's superior officers in the Mysticians, neither of them have talked to each other much.

Osiria
Osiria and Adli first met on a mission to help Holt with a pollution problem. During that mission Adli helped Osiria fight 3 massive mutated animals that were being affected by a broken mana battery. Nearly dying in the process. This was the first time ae were severely injured and realized just how different aer new body was. Osiria since then has been on several other missions with Adli, including the one to fix the library in Folksong, which starter her down to path to being the Big Bad Wolf. Adli still feels guilty over that and blames aemself for the book affecting Osiria even if Osiria's curse to be the Big Bad Wolf and the book are not related. Since then Adli has spent a lot of time in the greenhouse. In part because aer pet Glitter likes to live in forests and it resembles their natural habit, but also to spend time talking with the forest spirit as she is one of the only other long lived members of the crew. Adli feels particularly close to her though can't quite describe the relationship as ae do not have the normal social understandings most people at the Thimble do.

Officer Vatna Stein+
Adli had very little interactions with Vatna initially. Though ae tried to talk to him a few times due to the moths reputation for bending reality. After Vatna's gift of a Quantum locked balloon on Sea Devil's Day Adli has been drawn much closer to the officer's strange magic. After The Masquerade in Obcitian, during which time Adli participated in a ballroom dance competition with him, ae have grown particularly fond of the moth. Even going so far as to ask a favor of Vatna maintaining Adli's core in the event that ae die. Ae also have agreed that in exchange for learning magic akin to Stitchcrafting ae offered to show Vatna any part of aer home that ae could find, no matter how small. Adli also agreed that in return for the officer helping aem test the converter ae stole from Gibbet, he could summon the item should he need it. This has led to the item getting broken though, and it's current state of use is unknown. Regardless of those events Adli is still particularly fond of Vatna's company and takes time away from other things in order to talk to and dance with the reality bending moth.

Midnight
Midnight was on Adli's first ever mission for the crew. He actually saved aer when ae overdid it with a spell and turned Sal's entire tower in Dyad into a plant (prior to Sal becoming the Salamander King). Since then Adli has always worked in tandem with Midnight on missions and always trusted him fully. As a fighting companion and friend Adli wants to become a better fighter if only to show ae can be just as useful in a physical altercation than just a magical one. Similar to the reason Adli visits Caram's gym, ae also train with Midnight trying to mix magic with physical combat. Adli also faced off against Midnight as the opposite goalie during Gibbet's Webball tournament.

Seth Richards
Adli first met Seth in the church in the Thimble. Ae have had a particularly hard time with the shift in aer physiology and not knowing where aer magic comes from anymore. Seth was reassuring of aer faith in the stars and that ae can blaze a new path. Currently this relationship is a little strained due to the robbing of the Hymnal museum so soon after the fall of Dyad.

Isaac Wicklaw
Isaac and Adli have repeatedly seen each other around the library and Mysticians lab and have been on a few missions together. Adli looks up to Isaac as a reliable friend and consistently wants to impress the librarian, despite not really knowing how to do so. Adli has had to rely on Isaac's help on a few missions to pull aem out of trouble. Isaac being the one to tell Adli that Theo wasn't to be trusted and when all of them got lost in some space Isaac shot the Forgotten so Adli didn't have to restrain it from getting to Osiria. Since then Adli consistently goes to Isaac for advice with both magic study references and confusing social interactions.

Flynn Flam
Flynn and Adli first met during smaller Adventurer's Guild assignments and went on aer first mission together to help Seth guide some of the bee people from the Comb in Gaia's Garden back to acceptance of Beezus. More recently they have bonded over the destruction of both of their homes after the whole crews hell hallucination where B+ sold the crew's trauma of her killing members of the crew to hell. Flynn helped Adli practice for the robot fighting games in aer mech and both helped use their mechs to transport the Salamander King's finger back to the Silver Thimble.

## Companions

Several members of the crew have pets or companions. Adli has two current companion creatures.

### Glitter

Glitter is a playful Luminwisp with a glowing aura, creating a trail of gentle light as it flits around. It's known for its fascination with shiny objects and its ability to lead adventurers through dark forests.

Glitter was a pet to one of the former residents in Dyad and was rescued when the city fell. They started to follow Adli around after they were drawn to aer Legendary Form, in which ae become a giant figure made of starlight. Glitter has so far traveled with Adli to Plumb Bob and Dendroid, though frequently acts as an emotional support critter when ae are stressed. Glitter aided in cleaning the shiny shards of glass out of the greenhouse, giving them to Pim's pet Justin, who eats glass. Glitter consistently resides in the greenhouse with Osiria her pet Maple, due to it's natural habitat being forests, but does stay with Adli in the Observatory or at work.

### Goliath

Goliath is a type of creature called a Haggis from Sonnerie.
Haggis is a stoic guardian constructed of cemetery stones in Sonnerie. It protects the resting souls from any disturbances or threats to their eternal rest.

Adli does not know that the reason ae have been tripping over so many rocks in Folksong is due to the little Haggis. Only recently have ae become aware of the creature and started calling it Goliath.

## Trivia and Other Facts

Adli's original form is a being made of light with the core of a star.

Ae let the Cosmic Liar (Spirit of Fiction) free from the library in Yolk.

Adli also aided in the retrieval of the Foxfire gauntlet, an item from folktales that in the hands of Obcitian has become a powerful war weapon.

Quet was Adli's first close friend on the crew.

Vatna was the first person to formally teach Adli to dance, and Adli owes him 2 favors.

Adli is known as Little Red Riding Hood in Folksong and by people from there as long as ae are wearing the red cloak from the book ae got trapped in.

## Gallery

Character Reference Sheet by Migs-InkArt by Aldi's playerArt by WanderpusArt by WanderpusArt by Flynn Flam's playerArt of Osiria the Big Bad Wolf and Adli as Little Red Riding Hood by Aldi's playerArt by Aldi's playerArt by Migs-InkArt of the creature that killed Big Red by Flynn Flam's player