Kendril Phan - Blades in the Dark / Scum and Villainy OC

Character Background:

Kendril Phan

A 5'11" human male with blackened scleras and green eyes. His dull green hair cut into curtained shaggy locks. He wears sheer black silkened robes. He has tattooed strands down the backs of his fingers, and cult face makeup reminiscent of a red spider.

Homeworld

Kendril never knew his legacy. He was born in the woven nexus of the shell of Uršargidgiri (ur-shar-gid-ji-ri) - an ancient world that developed in the shadow of a system gate. It's inhabitants, the Ur-Gumo (or Spider Cult) developed a great aptitude for precursor Ur tech, and a deep innate connection with The Way. The only problem is that Kendril is human.

Ruled over by the eight Arch-Ur-mancers - immortals (the likes of which the Vignerons would envy, the Church of the Stellar Flame would want eradicated, and the Guild of Engineers and Cult of the Seekers would want under their control) - the Ur-Gumo experienced a techno-religious golden age, one independent of the scientific process and rationalism. They forged themselves in the image of the precursors to rule over the Ur-Gumo. Anybody outside of the cult were unworthy. Not worthy of fighting, nor subjugating. Gods among worms.

In the early days of Hegemony expansion, they met with the already ancient immortals. The Hegemony hoped for alliance - one that would thrust their technological development forward aeons. When the talks failed, the Hegemony settled for total control and oppression.

Hegemonic forces were mobilised en-masse through the gate, and just as quickly, they were dispatched. "The Eight-Leg Insurrection" was bloody on both sides. Space marines vs. Space Witches.

The account of the final day of the Eight Leg Insurrection varies depending on the source:

- The Hegenomy says that the mythic battle was fraught, but the Eight Legs would not stop until they achieved totasl destruction of the Hegemony. In one final push, the Hegemony's victory over them was absolute, shattering their empire. A shining example of Hegemony might.

- Some say the Eight-Legs were too crafty, and skulked away to some dark sector of space, laying in wait for to snare any unfortunate who crosses their path - a ghost story to scare young unruly spacers.

- Some say the Hegemony is saving face, and the Eight-Leg threat was never truly quashed. Rebuilding in the dark to exact their revenge.

Nobody knows the real truth anymore. That was generations ago. All they know is that they can't find the web planet gate on any star map.

Growing Up

Kendril would never know the glory of Uršargidgiri at its height. He would never know the comfortable life of a child in the Hegemony either. Or what it truly means to be human.

Kendril grew up in the aftermath of the Eight Leg Insurrection. The lengths the Hegemony would go to in order to win. The sector was a sprawling cataclysmic horizon of the crumbled fragments of Uršargidgiri, and the gate that gave it life. The final act came unannounced. The Hegemonic forces had no call to retreat. No directive, and no way home. They had to broker an uneasy peace with the Ur-Gumo to ensure their survival on their own terms. And it would not be an easy one.

Kendril was a child of the peace. And unlike his gentile ancestors who brokered the peace, he became so much more. He became one with The Way.
Not quite human, definitely not Ur-Gumo. He fit in neither world. But he had talent. Talent the Ur-Gumo could use.

In the years since the cataclysm, the remnants of Uršargidgiri had been respun into something new. A network of Ur-tech nodules fused with rock. A dark web of lost history, and new discoveries. Without their immortals, for the first time, the Ur-Gumo were directionless. They had no path to travel. Only the faint memories of godhood, and a lust for invention. This web harmonised with The Way, and the web needed fresh blood.

It wasn't exactly a formal apprenticeship, but Kendril was learning much. He wasn't treated well, but with his mystic friend Sil by his side, it wasn't so bad.

The Artefact

Pieced together from Ur-Tech, a practice that was once considered heresy, Kendril assembled something incredible. A wrought ring of Ur-metals, and crystal the size of a room. A Void Gate.

Sil was the first to attune with it. Little did he know the consequences that would befall him. The Void Gate fused with his very being. The two, now inseperable. He was one with The Way, and The Way coursed through him.

This was the single biggest piece of Ur-Tech now in the Ur-Gumo's possession. Kendril, fearing the fate that would befall his friend, took one of the retrofitted antique Hegemony crafts and took off into the endless night. Leaping into the unknown, their future, their own. That's when the Void Gate activated, and Kendril has been hiding Sil ever since.