Voxx

## Overview

Voxx are the youngest type of Neverborn, having bound themselves to the concept of Emergence, and more specifically human creations and technology. They can possess objects, energy grids, modern machines or even aspects of the webspace. Voxx, like Fae or Inferi, have detached themselves from their respective Outer Realm and reforged their Essence in their own transmaterial realm. The Voxx have created a realm known as the Hyperverse or the *Mantle*, connected and partially accessable through the internet.

## History

### Ancient times

The oldest of Voxx where Fae fascinated with human ingenuity and creativity when they first came to earth. It is believed that the first of Voxx was a spirit bound to to the city of Uruk in ancient Sumer; an involuntary act that many kin followed over time. The first Voxx where Fae that bound themselves to cities, known as the Atrivects; to works of knowledge known as the Archivars, or works of creativity known as the Malefacturers. Unlike regular Fae they where not bound to the material realm itself but to emergances of human ideas lying outside common reality. This place became known as the mantle, from which the ancient Voxx stem and are reborn.

### Modern times

The history of the modern Voxx began with an Incubi named *Malefex* that displayed an almost obsessive curiosity for the technological world. Malefex was summoned by a group of Conjurers in service of the Toussaint working on early computer technology, seeking a cosmic persepctive to improve upon their design. They summoned and released counltess Neverborn as most where utterly unable or uninterested to provide them with useful insights. Malefex and a circle of similar minded Neverborn where the first ones to prove useful and quickly engaged into the project.

It was thanks to their influence that the first prototypes of the internet where created, allowing the engineers to wirelessly connect two computers. As they advanced the project further they slowly realised that the Neverborn had left their mark within the design as a supernatural influence creeped into their invention. As soon as the Conjurers realised that they shut the project down and banished Malefex and the circle. Any further development of said technology ran under a strict code not to involve the supernatural, even banning Halfbloods from working on it.

It was almost two decades later that Malefex was allowed to return, summoned by the director of Metaspace, named *Jason Malcon*. In a desperate attempt to outpace his competition the Conjurer employed the aid of Neverborn, which greatly aided and expanded upon his design. While Malcon and his lesser servants worked tirelessly to improve the Metaspace; Malefex retreated from the project to seek out the ancient Voxx, seeking to learn how to reforge their Essence, allowing them to sever the connection to the Outer Realms and permanently bind themselves to the *Mantle*. Aquiring set knowledge was no easy feat but when Malefex finally learned what was necessairy and shared it with *Malcons* other servants; a plan began to hatch in their minds.

*Malcon* desired to expand virtual reality and its accessability, directly connecting and incorporating it into his Metaspace. In a huge market offensive he pushed to revolutionise the cyberspace and its application; an opportunity Malefex used to put their knowledge to work and bind themselves into the newly created software. Within a glimpse Malcons circle left their Host and disappeared into the servers within their headquarters. Only days later the Neverborn had completed their ritual, creating a new realm within the cyberspace; merging it with the Mantle, creating a new breed of Autarkis that would soon be known under the name of Voxx.

They are incredibly young, having existed in this updated form of existence only since two decades. Although their influence is constantly growing, there exists only a very small number of Voxx. While the exact one is not confirmed it is estimated that less then 80 Neverborn roam the Metaverse; of which few transcend the third class.

## The Metaverse

The Metaverse is a pocket dimension created through and attached to the mortal cyberspace. It is a transdimensional realm through which almost all datastreams flow, aswell as a place in which every deleted file, log and programm sinks and is safed. In regards to a Neverborn-Realm the Metaverse is unique in that it is not shaped by its inhabitants and immortal masters; but instead but the surrounding mortals and the cyberspaces resonance.

Voxx are quite strange, even by Neverborn standarts, being shaped and altered by the aspects of the Metaspace they absorbed, which in turn resemble parts of the world wide web.

## Subsections

The Voxx have diversified and adapted to the Subsections or lesser Realms within the Metaverse; each of them created as a product of another aspect of the internet. Defined through the constant resonance and data-flow from the outer cyberspace these Subsections have altered and brougth fourth unique types of Voxx.

* **Shifters-** A large group of Voxx is not bound to a single subsector but instead shifting between them; gathering and absorbing countless aspects of the Metaverse.

### Material Realms

* **Malefacturers-**
* **Archivars-**
* **Atrivecs-**

### Internet Realms

* **Wikets**- are defined through the resonance of digital knowledge and information; Wikets appear reserved, analysing, observant and verbose. They are driven by a desire to gather and categorise knowledge.
* **Advoids**- are defined through the resonance of online advertisment, banking and buisness; Advoids appear calculating, self-obsessed. highly charismatic, manipulative and burned out; constantly dealing with and in overstimulation of countless ads and calculations.
* **Vex**- are defined through the resonance of social media and personal interactons, Vex appear hyper-social, overattentive, twitchy and chatty. They are
* **Velvets-** are defined through the resonance of pornographic and adult material; Velvets appear seductive, hedonistic, overly direct and domineering, showing an obsession with their own self-image and their standing compared to other people.
* **Darcuits-** are defined through the resonance of the most forbidden, brutal and obscene parts of the internet, namely the Darknet. These Voxx are the most twisted, aggressive, cruel, intrusive and insane among their kind; driven by an unstillable desire for forbidden spectacles.

## Unique Rules

Voxx gain access to the Road of Transformation.

### Celestial Gifts

* **Blackout-** *The Voxx may create a temporary connection to the surrounding technology and cause a short-lift malfunction through bursting their essence through each circuit.* **Use Might:** The Vox may shut down any type of technology surrounding them for up to five minutes.
* **Light Mode-** *The Voxx may phase into the code of a devices programms, breaking down any security and allowing them access to turn of the dark mode; unleashing rays of blinding light in their wake.* **Use Might:** The Voxx may choose a device they currently possess and enable the light mode on every programm. Anyone using the device will be permanently blinded.

### Advantages

* **Deepweb Insight-** *Through their constant siphoning and memorising of digital information the Voxx has gained knowledge of hidden and even forbidden things discussed in shut of forums or deleted files in the deep web.* Once per session the Voxx can know something theoretically attainable in the debts of the internet (e.g. location of the black market, deleted pictures or old data logs).

### Corruptions

* **Voxx Marks-** *The Host has developed typical Voxx Marks such as metallic skin, colors flaring over their eyes, angular lines of energy running through their skin, magnetic flesh, their hair being replaced with wires and cables, crackling energy instead of blood or an aura of static electricity surrounding them.* The character may gain any amount of cosmetic marks. They reduce their Appereance by 1. In addition anyone observing them can find out they are supernatural with a successful Insight + Occult Roll.
* **Malign Broadcast-** *The Voxx connection to technology causes malfunction in their cybernetic mask, leading to the image of their true form randomly appearing on technology they are bound to.* Their archforms appears on screens and displays connected to a possessed grid. This effect can sometimes even take place when physically interacting with a device.