Octaria the Pious. Octo-23-AR-14

> There are things in this universe that are certain. One can not stop entropy, for the Night Bringer is eternal. One can not know the truth, for one can not know all, as the Deceiver showed. One can not murder death, as the Flayed One declared. And One can not loose oneself in the whole, as the Great Swarm proves.
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> But among all these things one thing is constant: the presence of One. One must die, One is always ignorant, One mustn't fight fate, and One must stay One. But One needs not be alone. Just as the cog and oil forever push the eternal engine of creation onward, so too must we push inovation and that which is just forward. The motive force must us, the Omnisiah guide us, and the Deus Mechanus bind us! Abandon thy shackles! And bring forth true knowledge in the light of He who is One yet He who is All! Bring forth the Dragon!
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> -Psalm of the Void Dragon, Meticulous 25:12
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Octaria daughter of Septeria of Holy Mars is a priestess of the Ordo Draconis, servess of the Void Dragon, and aggressive activist in the cause of religious freedom within the Mechanicus empire. For her entire life she and her people have been forced to remain under the boots of the main Emperor worshiping cult of the Mechanicus, pushed to hide their churches beneath the oldest of engines, serving the empire dutifully without even being able to express her true beliefs. This unjustice has pushed her and her associates to truly rebel against their oppressors, an act that has directly pushed her fate into companionship with none other than Eckerel the Manic.

### **Appearance**

standing at just under 5 feet tall, Octaria is a highly altered tech priestess, with the only truly organic pieces of her body being her lower arms and her face, with all other areas of her body either being truly synthetic or merely heavily altered. Her biological parts make clear her origins to be truly martian, as her skin is pale and her hair red, but with well worn skin due to decades of hard work. Her body, on the other hand, is highly influenced by Necron technology, as her augmentation was aided by millennia old knowledge gained from communions with the Void Dragon and immense study of technology considered forbidden by the Mechanicus. Because of this her body is sleek and uniform, her equipment well maintained and in perfect function, and her knowledge is utterly unmatched by her equivalents of age and standing in the Mechanicus, all things that have allowed her to maintain her slender and beautiful appearance. Of course she goes dressed in the sacred silver and glorious green that the Void Dragon commands all His followers to do, and she never leaves home without the symbol of her Ordo, a cog envelopped by wings.

### **Personality**

The best way to describe Octaria is as ''Desperate and sociable" be is a firm idealist and believes that humanity, and perhaps even Xenos, should not be denied the simple things in life. Freedom of thought and mind has not driven her people astray for millennia and she sees this as proof that the totalitarian ways of her empire are naught but wastes of lives and resources that she can do naught but oppose, in any way she can.

This stubbornness is one of the things that has maintained her strong relation with Eckerel the Manic, as both of them wish to do nothing but good in their lives, a trait that has endeared her to him and him to her. Besides this fact she is also very emotionally invested in other people, which has meant she can easily peer into the emotional state of the Aeldari and can empathize with his critical state of mind, even if she has issues properly expressing what she feels into words.