Garden of Mu/Character Creation

Garden of MuMembersCharacter Creation
The Garden of Mu is a martial, academic, and spiritual order local to Muara, but with rapidly growing influence in the Phero Ecumene and beyond. This page is intended to assist with the creation of Gardeners and characters who were once associated with them.

New and low-ranking Gardeners can be made without asking for permission, but higher-ranking and veteran Gardeners will require permission from Parazrael.

## Background

Gardeners are either recruited from adjacent and predecessor organizations, or directly from Muaran youth and adults who show psionic potential or are looking to become rangers, historians, or clerics. Due to the Garden's currently middling integration into Muaran—or Ecumene, for that matter—institutions, its ability to reach younger recruits as the Order of Lessos does is largely limited to family of existing Gardeners.

### Direct recruitment

The most recent generation of Gardeners is made up largely of direct recruits. These neophytes join it at age 13 or older, in compliance with Muaran regulations governing registered Ecdysi and Instari organizations, though aspiring warriors may begin training with the blade or bow from an earlier age via public practice halls, whether operated by the Garden or other groups.

### Adjacent organizations

The middling and older cohorts of Gardeners, by contrast, are dominated by indirect recruits. These are Gardeners who began their psionic, combat, or academic training elsewhere, extending into their adult lives, but later changed allegiances to the growing Garden.

Among older Instari, the bulk are either former Muaran Rangers or Instari from around Muara; most of the latter having been trained to wield a reflex bow from a very young age as generational reserve archer. Among the Ecdysi, mosts are members and associates of the Roqirelle, Kehran, and Actias families, as well as some of the small orders which were integrated into the Garden, such as the Orders of Erethyl and Sinar. A handful of both groups are also former members of the Ecumene Military. Support personnel are even more myriad, coming from many schools and religious organizations.

In all cases, the new recruit's experience and capabilities are assessed to place them in the Chapter and role that best follows from those.

## Expectations

Members of the Garden are an eclectic but nonetheless skilled group of psionic warriors, scholars, and militiafolk who follow a mixture of knightly code and cultural norms shared by its preceding organizations. The Garden expects members to follow Muaran virtues of tolerance, compassion, justice, craftiness, and respect, and to follow its chain of command.

Members of the Garden are taught how to hold themselves in the presence of others, especially others of rank and stature, and most have been trained to defend themselves and others prior to or since joining the Garden. All Gardeners are considered to be representing it at all times, and dishonoring the Garden may lead to disciplinary action or expulsion.

## Member races of the Garden

1. Human
2. Aoshanti
3. Qoen
4. Tvolii
5. Ophai
6. Rare
	1. Volydin
	2. Saviki
	3. Lieschi (roles which are non-psionic only)
	4. Ecumene android (roles which are non-psionic only)

## Archetypes

### Ecdysi

The **Ecdysi** comprise the knightly and psionic warriors of the Garden, who in large-scale battles are led by a speeder-mounted elite. Having had just over two decades to train young and aspiring knights, the current Ecdysi are a mix of family and Ecumene-trained masters, presiding over a generation and a half of their trainees.

 **Loadout*** Helmet
* Full-Body Armor
* Reach Weapon/Shield
* Psionic or Non-Psionic
* Short Sword, Longsword, or Handgun as secondary weapon
* Gauntlets
* Battle Harness

 **Loadout*** Helmet or Light Helmet
* Chest Armor
* Reach Weapon, Longsword, or Finesse Weapon
* Psionic
* Small Melee Weapon as secondary weapon
* Gauntlets
* Battle Harness

### Instari

The **Instari** are the sharpshooters and rangers of the Garden. Most of them are generational militiafolk, trained on reflex bows and arbalests as a reserve force Muara could call upon for its defense. In the Garden, they serve to supplement the relatively small Ecdysi core with a vast population of well-trained archers.

 **Loadout*** Helmet or Light Helmet
* Chest Armor or Hauberk
* Crossbow
* Psionic (Exigent preferred) or Non-Psionic
* Short Sword, Handgun, or Small Melee Weapon as secondary weapon
* Gauntlets

 **Loadout*** Light Helmet
* Chest Armor
* Bow, Rifle, or Carbine
* Psionic (Exigent preferred) or Non-Psionic
* Short Sword, Handgun, or Small Melee Weapon as secondary weapon
* Gauntlets

### Athesi

The **Athesi** are the support and civilian personnel of the Garden. They are its clerics, archivists, and pilots, some of them armed and others not.

 **Loadout*** Helmet (optional)
* Chest Armor
* Rifle, Carbine, or Staff
* Psionic or Non-Psionic
* Short Sword or Longsword as secondary weapon (optional)
* Gauntlets
* Advanced Medical Knowledge
* Ability to evacuate wounded characters (if available)
* Medical Supplies

 **Loadout*** Helmet (optional)
* Chest Armor
* Rifle, Carbine, or Staff
* Psionic or Non-Psionic
* Short Sword or Small Melee Weapon as secondary weapon (optional)
* Gauntlets
* Advanced Lore and Linguistics knowledge

## Armory

*See also: Weapons*
The following is a list of weapons which may be used by Gardeners. The default weapons of each class represent most of the common weapons Gardeners wield, but there is some variety.

* MELEE PRIMARY
* MELEE SECONDARY
* RANGED PRIMARY
* RANGED SECONDARY