Auctioned Docent

The Auctioned Docent is a relic purchased by Moxzi Bluhedd at the Myriad Market.

The Docent was subsequently used to give some degree of sentience for the cogheart Double-A.

## Description

A small spheroid contraption approximately two inches in diameter, the Auctioned Docent is of near identical design to the docents previously recovered - that of the Ashenvale Docent recovered from a Cogheart Titan in the Ashenvale itself, as well as Heritage's Docent, claimed in Aviacrest. The Auctioned Docent was reportedly recovered from the Ashenvale by the Ministry of the Curio, having been appraised by the group before being transferred to the Market for sale to a collector to aid fund further expeditions.

Moxzi, alongside Anivia Reman, was keen to engage with the Docent fully, instead of simply using as a museum piece or expensive paperweight. To this purpose, they reached out to the dwarven artificer Fafnir Lutgehr who aided them in accessing the information within.

## Research

### Completed by Anivia Reman (with help from Fafnir Lutgehr)

Upon closer examination of the substructure of the Docent, having carefully opened the outer core to expose the folded layers of neuro-inorganic connections and seek the information contained within, it is immediately obvious that the item is at least somewhat damaged or defective. In the height of the Astedian Ascendency, thousands of coghearts were being routinely produced, pooling vast quantities of resources gathered from across the planes - particularly so that of the Elemental Sphere - to feed the industrialised war machine, and the efforts that then followed. Mass-manufactured on a noteworthy scale, it would appear that this Docent has a fault in its construction, which no doubt resulted, or at the very least, contributed to their demise. Despite this, further damage, akin to an arcane soot collected within the recesses seems to suggest that the unit was at the very least functional, though the subsequent damage sustained took it beyond the threshold of functionality. Without the wider context of where the Docent was located, gleaning further details proves a challenge, but through further manipulation of what remains by means of the contraptions created by Fafnir himself, the search for information does not falter.

Examination of the designation code reveals that the Docent was associated with a Second-Generation Cogheart, created shortly before the Siege of Iron, and thus assumed to have survived little time indeed before being sent off into the conquest between that of Astedia and Atralran. However, the parts of the construction associated with fine motor control, such as those required for sustained and accurate combat involvement seem to be those most critically damaged by the fault in construction. It is therefore uncertain how effective as a military unit the Cogheart associated with this Docent would have been, and thus it could be assumed they were destroyed perhaps long before the creation of the Ashenvale, and instead during conventional combat with Atral knights or their allies upon the battlefield.

According to Fafnir, it has been possible to draw out the subroutines and programming in Docents previously encountered, allowing for stored directives, memories and occurrences to be obtained and examined. In doing so, details pertaining to the Cogheart's purpose, personality - a feature present from the Second-Generation onwards - and properties could be obtained. However, given the uncertainty associated with the Auctioned Docent, confounded further by its faulty nature, this cannot be achieved for this and thus save instillation into a empty - or 'husked' - Cogheart, this information may be lost in its entirety, perhaps explaining why the Ministry of the Curio was willing to part with it.