Vatreece

## Warden Vatreece

**Warden Vatreece** was the former leader of the Watch, and was the only documented case of a person wearing an official platinum plate, within the story. She was also by far the most powerful Mentalist in the world.

## Appearance

Warden Vatreece had an unassuming appearance: She was tiny with a crinkled face and wore a simple white shirt and plain brown pants.

## History

She once fought Potentate Fecht to a standstill, but the cracks in the fabric of reality took years to heal. Until shortly before her death, there had been a sort of armistice between the two powerful rulers. Vatreece never had children.

Vatreece had extensive knowledge of the world, having done invasions of many minds, including scholars. She had conducted a long crusade against rivalling Mentalists. She had specifically dealt with all Mentalists capable of performing direct memory extraction. In her long reign as the Watch's Warden, she tried rooting out any corruption within the Watch herself, but stated that as an institution, the Watch is also capable of becoming corrupted.

After the DKE occupied Fel Sadanis in 3060, Vatreece was outraged. Citizen Magabor was sent to her as a liaison, and had to suffer the worst of her wrath, although she released him back to the DKE after the affair was done.

Vatreece (officially) rarely leaves Vigilance, but she was simply *not seen* when she was in Jarro to observe Fel Sadanis and take control of Lavarro, imprinting her. She then left via Jarro's teleportation installation, likely returning to Vigilance. Her plan to permanently imprint Lavarro on Vigilance has apparently succeeded, as Lavarro (under her control) conducted raids against the Empire to disturb the imperial supply chain.

She pursued plans for Fel Sadanis, taking advantage of the barrier that Rain unlocked: She would turn it into a city that rivals Xiugaaraa, if given the chance to do so. However, Fecht's war against her ruined those plans. She knows that this war seemed like Fecht's last act to achieve dominance over the world and its system, and deduces that he has only very limited time left.

When Rain had Mattem notify her of his arrival in Barstone, Warden Vatreece immediately took off to the southeastern coast of the DKE *(likely via the teleportation network)* and prevented a fight between Citizen Barstone and Rain and Ameliah in seemingly the last second. How long she had been there already, remains unknown, but she hadn't had time to read any of the minds of the people present, when she announced herself.

Vatreece left many parting "presents" or advice to the people of Ascension she spoke with:

* Rain got a mental barrier, a mind-shredding trap for the case that the barrier would ever be breached, and a mental construct that was designed to teach him how to improve his soul in order to increase his mental defenses in turn and eventually to test those defenses.
* Velika got "one or two" surprises, one of those was having her accolades taken by the Warden. The other surprise may be something to keep her in line as Rain's pet project.
* Ameliah got told the location of Lerith Singer
* Sana was told to join Ascension if possible, and Vatreece also wanted Sana to teach Rain how to Read.
* Nails was given Mentalist advice, but warned away from ever...?
* Halgrave was shown how his daughter perceived him, which motivated him to join Ascension.
* Tallheart was told a method lost to cervidians in how they can benefit from the death of higher-level elders.
* Dust got an assessment by Vatreece as well, and she likely taught him a few things as well

As she herself was dying (her own estimation has her dead by the end of the year 2063, as her regenerating stats have stopped functioning), Vatreece's plan to leave a legacy was taking control over as many assets forcibly to turn the Empire-DKE war into a success for the DKE: Via the unprotected link of the Citizen Mantle from Velika, she took control of all Citizens in the DKE, in order to make them work in unison instead of being mostly counterproductive in their cooperation. This mental collective under Vatreece's control then proceeded to challenge Fecht somewhere in the northeast of the Empire, creating the Maelstrom. This resulted in her death.

Vatreece's designated successor is Guardian Nem.

## Build and Powers

Vatreece was, as the Warden, able to make fully use of all the tools that the Watch has at its disposal. This included using the Mindcaster installations of the various Watch outposts.

She was the greatest known Mentalist ever since the fall of the Majistraal, and able to take full advantage of mindcasters, reading and processing vast amounts of memories in short time, and even taking over others via *Imprint*, effectively making puppets out of them, under the control of a copy of the original Warden's mind. Those imprints decay over time, and with a high-level individual like Lavarro, the Warden expected the effect to last only several weeks, but also planned to bring Lavarro's body to Vigilance to eliminate the mind of the lunatic criminal while keeping the imprint functional.

This ability to take over full muscle control of others, and to read and even edit minds and memories, is one of the closest-guarded secrets of the Watch, as the reputation of abusing such a power would be detrimental to its mission: Warden Vatreece **did** invade the privacy of people she questioned in a way that everything is laid bare to her; but she didn't "*care about their weird sex secrets, and I wish they’d just stop freaking out about it so I can get on with my day*." Vatreece restricted herself of imprinting anyone who is not guilty of severe crimes, like Lavarro, devoted not to violate her principles.

Her known Skills included Imprint (as mentioned above), Memory Wipe, Command and Thought Shell. Besides those, Vatreece could do free form mind-editing, but to make such altered memories stable, she had to know her targets better than they know themselves. She was also able to talk to many people simultaneously within mind projected illusions.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 205
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chapter 206
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 93
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 208
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 106
6. ↑ Chapter 193
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 108
8. ↑ Chapter 249
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 207
10. ↑ Chapter 213
11. ↑ Chapter 221
12. ↑ Chapter 222
13. ↑ Chapter 104