Artificer Ceulfan

Secret-keepers, propaganda specialists and internal police for the Vardket, the Forshu ensured that the God-Killing Army had no dissenters nor rebels in its ranks. Ceulfan was one of the few who was specially selected from birth by his alien masters for technological advancements beyond anyone's ken. The moment he was born, they surgically removed his limbs and replaced them with metallic prosthetics that allowed him to interface with their devices far more easily. Yet this was not enough, for he underwent numerous indoctrination sessions under intense scrutiny all his life. The Vardket expected the God-Killing Army to stay true to their convictions no matter what the cost could be, and Ceulfan was to ensure that it stayed that way. But something seemed amiss, and one day several Vardket hurriedly held a meeting with the young man and his retinue. The armies of their ancient enemies had been detected within Orebus's star system, far sooner than their initial projections had shown. The six faction-families were to stay on Orebus and prepare for the inevitable assault that would come in order to buy time for the Vardket to complete the first stage of their evacuation. The hours of silence following their departure, however, began to gnaw on Ceulfan's resolve. Only the news of the conflict between the other family-factions had broken his reverie, and in the wake of the first civil war on Orebus, Ceulfan reached out to the commander of the Greherd. He reassured him that all was not yet lost, for their final test had begun...