Faction: Freecaster Collective
Origin: The Shattervaults, Veiled Redoubt, Ymeris
Tags: #Orc #Wizard #GraveTech #ThresholdMage #Freecaster
🔥 Backstory
Tersa Lightshatter was born beneath the shattered moons of Ymeris, among the ruins of a forbidden site known only as the Shattervaults—a place where dimensional breaches bleed between realities and discarded technologies rot alongside fractured memory-caches. Her tribe, the Ashbarrow Kin, lived by scavenging cryptic devices and broken relics, often referred to as “grave tech.” But while others saw junk, Tersa saw echoes.
As a child, she learned to listen to the static voices emanating from decayed machines and fractured AI cores. These whispers guided her to build her first spell-engine—a rattling cobble of cables and memory shards that let her discard thoughts to gain clarity. The tribe feared her, but the Freecaster Collective saw value—and offered her sanctuary and secrets in exchange for allegiance.
⚡ Magic & Abilities
Tersa is a Gravethread Mage, a rare kind of orc-wizard who manipulates both memory and entropy. She wields spells through Lightshatter Channels, amplifying residual energy from decayed artifacts. Her signature move involves overloading discarded spell-cores to draw bursts of raw arcane data.
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Lightshatter Surge – Discards corrupted spell data, siphoning stable knowledge in return.
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Gravecycle Protocol – With enough residual code (7+ spells/data fragments in memory banks), she can randomly recompile and cast exiled scripts.
🧠 Personality
Sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and unafraid of chaos. She thrives on unpredictability and loathes static order. Her philosophy is simple: “We are what we forget—and what we resurrect.”
🛠️ Equipment
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Cradleflare Cloak – Woven from phase-stabilized heat fibers; glows when memory density increases nearby.
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Shattercore Bandolier – Each orb holds a defunct spell or corrupted algorithm, ready to be slung into battle.
🧩 Role in Singularity
Tersa acts as a mobile relic-breaker and rogue agent for the Freecasters, often hired to crack into buried Vault tech or disable deep-security AI. Her connection to forgotten code makes her a wildcard ally—or a volatile enemy. She’s especially drawn to Vault 23, believing it may house the source code that seeded her abilities.