Bibliolalia

"How Quaint"

Bibliolalia is a simple commoner who has been gifted with a spark and a delusion of grandeur. Not content with letting her "destiny" slip by, she has taken up the adventuring life to speed up the process. Proudly proclaiming her title as a reincarnated Nascent Demon Lord, many are off-put by this. Despite their reactions though, she is determined to claim her "birthright" and shed her "curse" that is her mortal coil.

## History

### Early Life

Born to a poor yet loving family in the city of Babel, Bibliolalia (then known as "Babel") was always known to be very handy. While her parents toiled to make ends meet she would often busy herself with tending to the house and creating contraptions from spare parts she received from the various artisans in the city. A penchant for clockwork creations, she eventually went as far as to create her own clockwork familiar. Such a feat is typically reserved for those already disciplined in the trades of crafting magical items, and yet Babel accomplished this at only ten. However, bright as she was, her parents could not afford to send her off to further her educational prowess. It did not help that their naming convention for her coupled with Babel's strange obsession with all things clockwork turned off the other citizens. Oftentimes she would be told off about her name and how confused it made others, and that her eerie obsession with constructs was unnatural for a young lady.

Nevertheless, one day around the age of ten Babel's talent would be noticed by someone who could do something about it. An adept mage in the city on business witnessed her walking about with her clockwork familiar. After inquiring about it, Babel revealed that she made it herself. Without assistance no less! This shocked the Adept and they wondered about her educational prospects. Her negative response coupled with her ragged clothes and unkempt appearance told the mage everything they needed to know. Offering to ask Babel's parents if they would allow her to attend the University of Mirrandrar in Siacros, she quickly told him that she was an orphan and had no home to return to. While her relationship with her parents was one of reciprocal love, Babel was far more fascinated by the prospect of escaping their poverty and finding her place in the world. Not digging further Babel, now Bibliolalia as she assumed a new name to cover her tracks, was gone from the city the very next night.

### University of Mirrandrar

During the journey to Siacros, Bibliolalia took on an oath of secrecy in order to conceal her identity. Upon arriving she received the fresh start she was searching for through this oath and was marveled at the contrast between her childhood home. Her mage guide agreed to wipe his memory of her name and face, allowing her to truly start over. Now eleven, Bibliolalia was still too young to enroll in the University proper, however, there were more than enough places for her to further her education in the mageocracy. Taken in by a noble family, while not afforded the luxuries or money that comes with it, Bibliolalia did receive a place of consistent work, a dry place to sleep, and a web of solid connections. She kept up with her crafting, constructing herself a personal assistant in the form of a poppet in order to carry her belongings. While it doubled as a bodyguard, such protections were largely unneeded in the kingdom. Dubbing it "Little Sister" Bibliolalia became a micro celebrity at her school for her early development in the ways of arcane crafts.

On the magic front, things were not as great. Unlike many in Mirrandrar Bibliolalia's latent magical talent was never non-existent, yet compared to her peers she was a street-level magician. Still, this did not deter her. Instead of focusing on becoming an Archmage or master of a school of magic, Bibliolalia decided to focus on the discipline of the Mystic Theurge. For crafters, knowing a wide array of spells was an invaluable boon. And, while slinging spells was neat, being able to craft permanent items that could be passed down through history (that also happened to sling the same spells) appealed to her sensibilities. Alongside her clockwork pieces, she became obsessed with studying beings not native to the material plane. Their languages, culture, ambitions, nature, all of it interested the bookworm. Of particular interest were the fiends of the lower plains due to some of them being wholly and yet fully predictable. Many of her colleagues just as the villagers before found her obsession odd, yet this time just as if not many more encouraged her ravenous consumption of knowledge.

This continued for the next fourteen years. Entering the University when she came of age, her studies and crafts presumed as planned. Due to her origins she had very little money to her name for personal experiments. It took all she could do for scholarships and working jobs to make ends meet. Oftentimes she'd find her time occupied by making animated objects for the wealthy students to assist with chores and duties, or for their various schemes and pranks. At this point Bibliolalia was 24 and nearing her promotion to apprentice status. Due to her subdued magical talent compared to others at the prestigious institution it had taken her far longer than was normal, but once she moved on to focused studies she expected to excel in the artifice track. That was until, her revelation.

### Awakening

One fateful night, Bibliolalia received a profane nightmare from Haagenti The Whispers Within; Demon lord of Alchemy and Change. He informed her that his arch-rival Yamasoth the Qlippoth Lord had slain and cursed her in a past life, containing her reincarnation within a mortal coil. He told her that now that she knows of her origins, not that of a poor city girl but one of a Nascent Demon Lord robbed of her birthright, Yamasoth would become more active in keeping her down. As the nightmare faded, Haagenti offered a helping hand in exchange for worship until she could ascend, but warned of the risks his boons carried.

Waking in a start, Bibliolalia was elated. While she always thought she was destined for greatness, she could never in her wildest dreams have imagined the level of which it could be. With the same swiftness that she left home with, she swore many oaths in Haagenti's name and received power and curses in return. This affirmed and redoubled her belief that she truly was a cursed demon lord, and with that knowledge there was only one thing to do. Over the next year Bibliolalia began preparing to set off to chase her suppressed powers as an adventurer. After becoming an official apprentice of Mirrandrar and bidding farewell to her colleagues, she returned to Etera for the first time in fourteen years. Ready and willing to do anything to claim her birth right. There was just one issue.

### The Prophecy was Bullshit

Unbeknownst to Bibliolalia, Haagenti had fabricated a majority of the prophecy. Sure she was special, as like many other adventurers she contained the ever-so-coveted spark. However Bibliolalia is far from a reincarnated demon lord. Now a pawn in a demon lord's sick game, she goes about proclaiming to others her "true origins." Still, if there is one thing about sparked individuals on Chronus, it's that anyone can become powerful.

And Bibliolalia might just become powerful enough to manifest her false fate.

## The Bibliolalicon

With the many adventures Bibliolalia shall embark on, this section contains short summaries of each. Expanded versions are noted within the title of each entry for your reading pleasure.

### Daemons over Ashfall

Upon returning to Etera, Bibliolalia took various small-scale monster clean-up jobs. While reflecting on her new occupation she revived a job offer that would take her to the the small town of Ashfall. A party of four renown-less adventurers were assembled to investigate the dissaperance of their fruit pickers. The job took the group to a pack of wolves, with one leading them to their lair. After clearing what turned out to be an abandoned wizard's hideout and slaying the resident Nixudaemon, they retrieved the bodies and souls of the villagers and returned them to the village. They received healing fruits and their payment. From within they each looted a flask shard alongside some pearls. Bibliolalia also took home a book regarding evil outsiders dubbed "The Maleficarum Daemonica." She keeps it up-to-date as much as possible, allowing her to gleam more than your average reader.

### A Witchy Party

Wandering the streets of Babel after a job well done at Ashfall, Bibliolalia encountered the Witch Errend who marveled at her clockwork creations. While at first the two may have become fast friends, Bibliolalia instead took delight in prying into the witch's past of Devil worship and enraged the woman who claimed to have turned over a new leaf. While nothing violent resulted, Errend surely hates the Demon Lord. Before sparks flew however, Bibliolalia attended the Witch's party and met Moff, leader of the Sentries and a powerful adventurer on Chronus. Unlike Errend, the two did not have any major issues, though Moff seemingly has seen through Bibliolalia's delusion.

### Beach Landing

This quest took Bibliolalia to the continent of Vrozai to establish a foothold on the continent. Soon after landing, her party was beset upon by a massive injure Kaiju that had been defeated by a flying, Draconic-esc Kaiju. Employing her new summoning abilities alongside her ability to enhance weapons, the party and crew of the Skyward Voyager were able to fell the beast. Using it's corpse as a deterrent, a foothold was established on the dangerous continent. Bibliolalia was also able to harvest the Kaiju's soul and body for materials.

### Beach Bum Kaiju

After felling the Kaiju, Bibliolalia ran into one of the adventurers on the squad. While the overgrown fox seemed to take issue with the demoness, Bibliolalia looked at her as more of a pet and muse than a serious threat or adventurer. After getting the drawings she wanted and exchanging some words, she provided the Kaiju to be with "Pets and Grooming" through her summons before departing.

### A Deal among Demon Worshipers

Bibliolalia ran into an insane scion of Lamashtu in the backstreets of Babel. At first she had a hard time communicating with the madman known as Crow however she was eventually able to strike a deal with him. In her quest for souls, particularly the souls of powerful outsiders, she figured that she would need others to help. Seeing how demon worshipers weren't generally hung up on soul capturing, she provided him a wand of cacodaemon summoning in order to harvest them efficiently and sealed the agreement.

### An Unlikely Partner

Bibliolalia has begun making a point of interacting with various adventurers in order to expand her network of soul collectors. Recently Axel, a man she encountered on her first proper job, came into the fold on a conditional basis of only really harvesting Kaiju souls in exchange for her crafting services on the cheap.

### The Sentries' Cyberdruid

Meeting in the forest outside of Babel, Bibliolalia came into contact with two druids, one crotchety and the other a Cyberdruid affiliated with the Sentries. While Greyblood the middle aged fromp eventually left, Bibliolalia hit if off with Fay the technological artisan despite their ideologies being opposed. While she didn't try to entice her with any deals, she now has another contact within the hero organization

### Soul Traders: The Setlaar Merc

Continuing with her pursuit of amassing souls, this time the Demoness enlisted the assistance of "Nocturnal" the mercenary. While her true name eludes Bibliolalia, she has no doubts about her willingness to carry out dirty jobs. With a deal struck, she looks forward to a steady influx of souls.

### The Vampire Extermination

A job in Magmoria brought the demoness to the grand magitech city on Vrozai. There she and the other party members were tasked with defeating the "Singer of Storms" a vampire pirate alongside her crew. With the ability to control the Kaiju, they were a danger to the city and travelers alike. While the demoness ruffled the feathers of the sheriff, she was nevertheless effective in helping to defeate the vampire pirate.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Bibliolalia is never seen without her doll-mask. Crafted on the journey to Mirrandrar, while it's seen maintenance and small upgrades, it still serves it's main purpose as a means to conceal her face. It's visage is an idealized version of her younger face in doll form. Many see it from afar coupled with her piercing blue eyes and golden blonde hair and remark at her striking features only to be unnerved by the lifelessness of the mask.

Her outfit is a very sleek and heavily modified set of white form-fitting traveler's clothes, as well as a clockwork-style headband accent. While she carries a crossbow and dagger, she hardly uses it save for deterrence or harvesting parts. The vast majority of her gear is attended by her clockwork poppet "Little Sister," her second creation after her clockwork familiar, it serves as a faithful pack mule and bodyguard. The steam it emits as well as it flying Bibliolalia around in a folding chair receives many stares at it's absurdity, though it leaves the demoness plenty of time to read while traveling.

#### Mythic Accention

After awakening into her mythic powers, Bibliolalia's appearance shifted fairly significantly. Growing two extra arms, a demon horn, and a demonic eye, she truly began developing into what she believes she is. In reality it's simply her spark reacting to her delusions, however to her it's her "demonic awakening"

Over time, Bibliolalia has manifested demonic claws and wings to compliment her other physical changes. Her aura has also become incredibly evil akin to that of an evil cleric. While not an outsider, she possesses the evil subtype like the demon she's been led to believe she is.

### Personality

Bibliolalia is incredibly decisive, able to quickly make life-altering decisions in the blink of an eye. While many may call her impulsive and without foresight, she is moreso assured in what actions should be taken to further her goals. To that end, like many unscrupulous adventurers, Bibliolalia cares not for morals and ethics when it comes to getting what she desires. Despite her supposed demonic heritage however, she cares little for their desire for absolute chaos either. Of the three typical fiendish varieties she considers devils too strict and daemons to hateful. Bibliolalia still believes that all of them have their merits, however, and has adopted a bit of each into her own mannerisms. Similar to a Devil's contract she upholds a strict honor code and keeps her word (but is very slow to give it), like Daemons she takes delight in harvesting souls but instead to fuel her creations (which in a way can be more extreme, as souls can be permanently lost save for divine intervention this way), and like Demons she hates to be shackled by society yet moreso in a class sense than a structure sense. One might consider her more neutral than evil, however her harvesting of sentient creatures for magic item parts in both body and soul typically cements most individuals minds on her alignment.

Even with her false fate, Bibliolalia still has a penchant for devils and daemons, eager to deal and trade with them when given the opportunity. Given this she typically remains neutral in regards to conflicts and seeks negotiation before applying force. Typically, however, she perverts the definition of a fair deal and as long as she comes out on top she is content. It helps that while cruel she is incredibly well-spoken and tends to only add her input when she has something insightful to say, allowing her to gently and subtly guide conversations.

## Abilities

Bibliolalia is an excellent artisan despite her inexperience. With her main area of expertise being clockwork crafting, she has managed to extract the process down to a science and with esoteric methods and knowledge can make just about anything using the skill, magical items included. She is incredibly efficient both in regards to time and price, able to leverage magical capital and save on materials without sacrificing quality. Her powers of creation even extend to moment-to-moment activities, able to temporarily imbue and enhance mundane and magical items at will. While she is limited by her experience, her artifice grows by the day.

Save for this however, while she is an apprentice theurge her combat abilities are sorely lacking. Her life of poverty early on in her life led to stunted growth and late development, resulting in very little muscle development. Luckily though her oracle powers she has circumnavigated much of the drawbacks defense-wise and even studies necromantic methods of reinforcing her physical energies. However in all other regards she focuses on supporting those around her.

Bibliolalia also bears a number of curses, in her mind put in place by Yamasoth. Cursed to always uphold her word and speak no lies, Cursed to never know the pleasures of the flesh as some demons and evil beings crave, Cursed to carry her delusion set upon her by Haagenti. In exchange for the curses she bears she has a breadth of knowledge many could never hope to attain.

### Mythic Ascension

Upon slaying a Nixudaemon on a quest Bibliolalia began to nurture her spark, awakening new and mystical powers in the process. During her time on the continent she had already begun activities as an adventurer however after only her first primary gig she had begun "unlocking" her demonic origins. Of course, the spark only reacted to her desires and shaped the power just so.

Upon Acceding, she gained the ability to summon monsters with incredible speed and proficiency. Her crafting abilities have also seen a tremendous boost, allowing her to craft magical items at blinding speeds. Alongside all this, she gives off an aura of power and forced pacifism, disallowing weak willed creatures from committing acts of violence near her. While it hasn't been put to the test, she is also able to reside in the abyss without issue.

While seemingly minor, Bibliolalia's physical changes also came with the ability to mimic sounds and voices alongside added mobility and resistances. She enjoys using other's voices when first meeting them to unnerve them and when possible uses the voices of loved ones or deities in order to eek out responses from the individual.

As she continues to develop, she has manifested wings and claws, alongside gaining the infernal hardiness of the abyss letting her ignore damage from weapons not aligned with good or made of cold iron. While she isn't the most graceful flier and her claws are not a threat to any trained fighter, she has nonetheless edged closer to the abyss.

### Way of the Essence Smith

Alongside awakening her mythic abilities, Bibliolalia began to dip her toes in the world of sphere casting. While only a novice (and likely to stay that way), she gained the ability to teleport short distances as well as in response to an attack, and more ways to enhance equipment on the fly. She also began gaining mastery over her body and the way of the shield, learning to quickly protect herself in exchange for the ability to take advantage of a withdrawing opponent, as well as dodge blows unarmored rather than rely on bulky armor. She also finally discovered the secrets to crafting wondrous items, something most construct makers must learn to do as a prerequisite.

### Weird Science

As she gained experience, Bibliolalia learned to make Weird Science devices. These allow here to mimic the effects of various spells simultaneously, however overuse of these devices can have them break down permanently, requiring her to make them anew. Still, with her growing expertise these items will be of great use in the future.

### Soul Harvest

Just before setting off for her seccond quest, Bibliolalia cracked the secrets to crafting and casting with souls. After making a wand to summon Cacodaemons for efficient soul harvesting, her very first soul was that of a Kaiju. Great, profane crafts await her in the future no doubt.

### Glimpsing the Akashic

As she has gone on more and more quests and adventures, Bibliolalia unlocked a minor secret of the Akashic. The veil, Hands of Creation, allows her even greater speed and proficiency with her item creation to levels approaching that of the other great adventurers on Chronus. By this point, she has also picked up every magical crafting method known. Technology is her new event horizon, and with the meeting of the Tech-Druid Steel Talon Bibliolalia is well on her way to learning those craft secrets as well.